User Manual

Vertical Blanking Information
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Your Avid editing application does not interpret the vertical blanking information (the encoded
data). It treats the coded values simply as pixels in the video frame. If you want to read the
vertical blanking information during editing, you must connect an external vertical blanking
information reader to the Avid system.
To display vertical blanking information and preserve it for a digital cut:
1. Select Tools > Video Output Tool.
The Video Output tool opens.
VBI menu in the Video Output tool
2. Click the VBI menu and select Preserve.
If you select Blank, your Avid editing application fills the vertical blanking interval with
video black (R=G=B=16).
3. Close the Video Output tool.
Any VBI information that is present in your clips or sequences will now be displayed. If you
perform a digital cut, any VBI information that is in your sequence will be output.
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The VBI value resets to Blank each time you launch your Avid editing application. If you
want to preserve VBI information on output, set the value before you perform a digital cut.