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3. Click OK.
Your Avid editing application creates the drive group, and it appears in the
Target Drive menu.
When you capture, any clip that exceeds the capacity of a drive (whether that drive is
empty or already contains media files) continues capturing onto another drive in
the group.
Selecting a Custom Preroll
The Custom Preroll option and menu in the Capture tool lets you select how many seconds
the tape rolls before the capturing starts. This option overrides the global preroll setting in
the Deck Settings dialog box.
Preparing to Capture Audio
Your Avid editing application provides you with a wide range of options for audio input:
capturing audio with video from tape, capturing audio from a digital or analog deck,
capturing through a microphone, or capturing through an external audio device such as an
Mbox device, and in various formats and at various sample rates.
The topics in this section describe preparations you might need to take before capturing
audio.
Audio Project Settings for Capture
You can use the Audio Project Settings dialog box to choose various input and output
options and check the current configuration of your audio hardware. You need to set the
following audio project settings for capture:
Setting For more information, see
Audio sample rate “Selecting the Audio Sample Rate and Controlling Audio
Sample Rate Conversion” on page 170.