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Chapter 4
4.2 Project settings
In this menu ‘Project settings’ you make the settings for your
current or next project. This affects, for example, the project
name, image size, and audio settings.
Your HD/AVCHD projects can be optimized for the resolution
of your camera or the output medium you have selected. The
settings of a project come after you have clicked on the For-
mat button. You can define the properties of your project here.
Note: You can only set the format for new or completely empty
projects.
It is now possible to create HD projects in the following resolu-
tions: 1920x1080, 1440x1080 and 1280x720. In addition to the
resolution, the aspect ratio can also be set. You can choose
between 4:3 and 16:9. If you have installed the Cinemascope
product, you can also opt for 21:9.
Once you close the settings by clicking on OK, they will be
displayed as text, to the right of the Format button.
The table on the next page contains an overview of common
resolution and aspect ratio combinations, and when they are
used. You should try to adapt the resolution of a project to the
camera you use the most.
Selection (hard disk): The ‘Selection’ button enables you to
switch to projects on a different hard disk. This function can
only be used if you have the paid add-on product ‘Store ‘n’
Share’. The function of this menu is explained there. The hard
disk partition used for this can have the following form: ext2
ext3 and ext4 as well as NTFS.
Name:
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On the top edge (of the ‘Hard-drive’ section) you
see the ‘Name’ button. Clicking on the name-field brings up
the on-screen keyboard with which you can enter the de-
sired name for the hard drive. You can also see (on a suitable
system) which hard drive is currently in the system . This is
otherwise not possible because the label on the hard drive
is not visible when the hard drive has been inserted into the
machine .
‘Used capacity’: gives information on the space used on the
hard drive (in dark), and on the total remaining time (in light). A
display for individual projects is not possible because this dis-
play refers to the entire hard drive. Audio and video are pooled
together here. They ‘dynamically’ divide the area among
themselves.
The percentage value also takes into account the usage in the
Media manager and vice-versa. For example, when you export
a storyboard to the movie archive, the used capacity will in-
crease. In order to be able to use this capacity again, you must
erase the exported movie in the Media Manager (and empty its
trashcan).
Select (Project): Clicking on the ‘Select’ button brings up the
Select Project menu, in which you can select several different
projects. If some projects already contain scenes, the corre-
sponding projects are marked to the right of the project name
(with a little dot).
After you click on ‘OK’, the project you have selected is
displayed next to the selection button (e.g. ‘P 1’). If you want
to rename the project, click on ‘P 1’ (or ‘P 2’, etc .). The on-
screen keyboard appears so that you can enter another project
name. The chosen project name is also displayed in the edit
screen above the scene bin.
Only the currently active project can be edited. Exchanging
video data between different projects is possible using the
Clipboard feature in the Edit screen (Please refer to Chapter
4.7, item (20)).
Image size Pixels Aspect ratio When used
HDV
1920x1080
2,073,600 16:9 This resolution is commonly used by AVCHD cameras and is compliant with the HDTV
standard
HDV
1440x1080
1,555,200 16:9 Is usually i=interlaced, and is the standard resolution of HDV cameras. Many cameras
can also be switched to p=progressive.
HDV
1280x720
921,600 16:9 There are a few cameras that support only this resolution and that mostly record in
p=progressive
SD PAL
720x576
414,720 4:3, 16:9 Analog and DV quality of imported PAL footage
SD NTSC
720x480
345,600 4:3, 16:9 Analog and DV quality of imported NTSC footage
i: Interlaced, this means that the image has been recorded or is being displayed with half images
p: Progressive, this means that the image has been recorded or is being displayed with full (complete) images
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