360 Systems Short/cut 2000 Audio Editor Manuale utente

2000

OWNER'S MANUAL

For use with software version 5.0

March, 2001

Version Key Features

1.0 Initial release

2.0 Support of external re ovable edia

3.0 Short/cut’99 edit features and file translation

4.0 Speed increases in edit features, file copy, i port and export

5.0 IDE Internal Drive with optional SCSI adapter card

P R O F E S S I O N A L D I G I T A L A U D I O

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SERIAL NUMBER: ____________

FCC NOTICE

WARNING: This equipment has been tested and found to omply with the limits for a Class A

digital devi e pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide

reasonable prote tion against harmful interferen e when the equipment is operated in a

ommer ial environment. This equipment generates, uses and an radiate radio frequen y

energy and, if not installed and used in a ordan e with the instru tion manual, may ause

interferen e to radio ommuni ations. Operation of this equipment in a residential area is

likely to ause interferen e in whi h ase the user will be required to orre t the interferen e at

his own expense.

The user is autioned that hanges made to the equipment without the approval of the

manufa turer ould void the user's authority to operate this equipment.

It is suggested that only shielded and grounded ables be used to ensure omplian e with FCC

Rules.

Short/ ut Owner’s Manual

Edition 5.0, Mar h 2001

Covers features in Software Version 5.0

Printed in the United States of Ameri a

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PRODUCT IMPROVEMENTS AND UPGRADES

360 Systems reserves the right to make hanges and/or improvements to its produ ts,

without in urring any obligation to in orporate su h hanges or improvements in units

previously sold or shipped.

360 Systems may issue Te hni al Support Bulletins from time to time, advising owners

of re ord of produ t enhan ements that be ome available.

TRADEMARKS AND PATENTS

360 Systems Instant Replay®, DigiCart®, Short ut, Personal Audio Editor, and 360

Systems® are registered trademarks of 360 Systems. Zip® and Jaz® are trademarks of Iomega.

Dolby® is a trademark of Dolby Laboratories Li ensing Corporation.

Software ontained in this produ t is opyrighted by 360 Systems, Dolby Laboratories,

In and Mi roware Systems Corp. Designs in orporated in this produ t are the subje t of

urrent or pending U.S. and foreign patents.

LIMITED WARRANTY

360 Systems' Short ut audio editor is warranted against defe ts in material and

workmanship for a period of one year from date of original pur hase. This warranty in ludes

parts and labor. This warranty ex ludes units that have been modified, repaired by

unauthorized personnel, or damaged by abuse, improper operation, dirt, or stati ele tri ity.

360 SYSTEMS ASSUMES NO LIABILITY WHATSOEVER FOR REAL OR CON-

SEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOSS OF PROFITS, INCONVENIENCE OR ANY

OTHER LOSSES DUE TO NON-OPERATION OF ANY OF ITS PRODUCTS.

360 Systems' sole liability under this limited warranty shall be the repair or repla ement

of defe tive produ ts or omponents. Produ ts being returned under warranty shall be sent to

360 Systems, freight prepaid, in the original or equivalent pa kaging.

SHIPPING ADDRESS

Please call 360 Systems before shipping any parts or mer handise to re eive a Return

Authorization Number. Freight and mail may be sent to 360 Systems at the following address:

360 Systems

5321 Sterling Center Drive

Westlake Village, California 91361

U.S.A.

360 Systems' telephone number is (818) 991-0360. Faxes may be sent to (818)

991-1360. Business hours are from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM weekdays, Pa ifi Time.

Visit 360 Syste s on the World Wide Web at .360systems.com.

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Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION ____________________________________ 1

CHAPTER I ________________________________________ 3

CONTROLS AND DISPLAYS

Front Panel of the Short ut Editor, illustration 3

The Display 4

LCD Display, illustration 4

Zoom In and Zoom Out 4

TRANSPORT CONTROLS............................................................................................................ 4

Re ord 4

Stop 4

Play 4

Fast Forward 5

Rewind 5

Loop 5

Pause 5

Bleep 5

Hot Keys 5

EDIT KEYS..................................................................................................................................... 6

Mark (Lo ating Marks) and Zero Mark 6

Go-To Keys 6

Arm Keys 6

Edit In 6

Edit Out 7

Cut 7

Copy 7

Insert 7

Gain Editing 7

Erase 8

Nudge Arrows 8

Undo 8

Soft Keys 8

FILE MANAGEMENT KEYS ....................................................................................................... 9

DIR (Dire tory Sele t) 9

Dire tory Listing, illustration 9

FILES (File Sele t) 9

Files Menu, illustration 9

Save and Save As 10

Exit 11

Find A File 11

Alphanumeri Keyboard 11

AUDIO CONTROLS .................................................................................................................... 12

Input Levels 12

LED Level Indi ators 12

Headphone and Speaker Volume 12

Speakers 12

Solo 12

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CHAPTER II ______________________________________ 13

REAR PANEL FEATURES

Rear Panel, illustration 13

Analog Audio Inputs and Outputs 13

Digital Audio Inputs 13

Digital Audio Outputs 13

D-NET File Transfer Ports 13

Power Supply 14

Power Swit h 14

Headphone Ja k 14

Display Viewing Angle (Contrast Control) 14

Serial Number 14

G.P.I. Inputs and Tally Outputs 14

G.P.I. Conne tor Pin-Outs 14

Setting LED Current 15

GPI Input Assignment Options 15

Conne ting to Telephone Control Systems 16

Using External Sample Rate Syn hronization 17

Parallel Conne tor, SCSI Option and External Disk Drive Support 18

CHAPTER III ______________________________________ 21

RECORDING

Sample Rate 21

Re ord Mode (Basi ) 22

Setting The Re ord Monitor 22

Setting The Re ording Threshold 22

Re ord Pause 23

Re ording Multiple Takes 23

Insert Re ording 23

Basi Insert Re ording 24

Repla ement Insert Re ording 24

CHAPTER IV______________________________________ 25

EDITING

EDIT OPERATIONS.....................................................................................................................25

Waveform Display with Callouts, illustration 25

Lo ation Marks 26

Waveform Display, Showing Marks, illustration 26

The Zero Mark 26

Pla ing Lo ation Marks During Re ording 27

Edit Marks 27

Edit In Mark at Cursor,illustration 28

Edit In/Out Marks set,illustration 28

Play Sele ted Audio 28

Cut a Sele ted Segment 28

Cut to Hot Key 29

The Copy Command 29

Copy a Sele ted Segment of Audio 29

Copy a Sele ted Portion of a File to a Hot Key 29

Copy an Entire File From Disk to a Hot Key (Assign a Hot-Key) 29

Insert a Cut Or Copy Segment 29

Basi Insert 29

Insert Repla e 30

Crossfade Edits 30

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Cut with Crossfade 31

Performing a Crossfade Only Cut 32

Insert with Crossfade 32

Gain Editing 33

Gain Edit Menu - illustration 33

Adjust Level 34

Set Gain Value 35

Fade In and Fade Out 37

Relative Fade 37

Erase 39

Erasing a Highlighted Segment Within a File While Editing 39

Erasing a Hot Key Assignment in the Files Display 39

Erasing an Entire File in the Files Display 39

Erasing an Entire Dire tory in the Dire tory Display 39

Saving an Edited File 39

Saving With a New File Name (Save As) 39

Exit 39

Abandoning Edit Operations 40

Bleep File Segment 40

To Bleep a File in Edit Mode 40

To Set the Bleep Output Level 40

To Bleep a File in the Play or Re ord Mode 40

Undo an Edit Operation 41

To Undo the Last Editing Operation 41

To Undo the Last Transport Operation 41

Solo Buttons 41

Single Tra k Editing 41

CHAPTER V ______________________________________ 43

MISCELLANEOUS OPERATIONS

DIRECTORY AND FILE ORGANIZATION .............................................................................. 43

Dire tories 43

Display S reen Showing Dire tory Listing, illustration 43

Files 44

Display S reen Showing File Listing, illustration 44

USING HOT KEYS ...................................................................................................................... 44

Copy A Sele ted Segment To A Hot Key 44

Cut A Sele ted Segment To A Hot Key 45

Assign a File To a Hot Key 45

Determining a Hot Key Assignment 45

Performing an Insert From a Hot Key 45

Playing Audio From A Hot Key 45

Using Hot Keys To Compare Audio Versions 46

Programming A Hot Key To Play Clipboard Contents 46

THE FIND COMMAND............................................................................................................... 46

Finding A File By Title 46

Finding A Time Lo ation 47

Bleep A File Segment 48

Insert Bleep in A File While Stopped 48

To Bleep A File In The Play Or Re ord Mode 48

To Bleep In The Idle Mode 48

Undo A Bleeped Region Of Audio 48

Passwords 48

Horizontal Waveform Magnifi ation 49

Verti al Waveform Magnifi ation 49

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Display Blanking 49

Power Down 49

Re overing Hard Disk Spa e 50

Using Virtual Files To Save Disk Spa e 50

Formatting the Hard Drive 50

CHAPTER VI______________________________________ 51

Using Menus

DIRECTORY MENUS..................................................................................................................52

Qui k Referen e 52

Setup Menu 52

Erase Dire tory 52

Rename Dire tory 53

FILE MENUS ................................................................................................................................ 53

Setup Menu 53

Qui k Referen e 53

Rename File 53

Erase File 54

Dire tory Preferen es 54

EFAULT

ITLE

IME

ISPLAY

LEEP

OURCE

LEEP

EVEL

HANGE

ASSWORD

Copy File or Dire tory 56

Export Files to DigiCart/II Plus or Instant Replay 57

Import and Export of Foreign Files 58

D-NET File Transmission 63

EDITOR MENUS..........................................................................................................................65

Qui k Referen e 65

Setup Menu 65

Display Waveforms 66

Waveform Display, split, Illustration 66

Waveform Display, ombined, Illustration 66

Output Level 66

Installing Soft ode 66

CHAPTER VII _____________________________________ 68

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

MENU APPENDIX__________________________________ 70

QUICK REFERENCE TO MACHINE FUNCTIONS

Dire tory Display 70

Files Display 71

Editor 72

Keyboard Fun tions Using A

Key 74

INDEX ___________________________________________ 75

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INTRODUCTION

Thank you for pur hasing 360 Systems’ new Short/ ut™ Audio Editor. This unique

produ t provides an unusual mix of apabilities: it serves as a stereo audio re order, as a high-

speed editor, and as a rapid way to a ess stored audio lips. You will find that Short ut offers

a aster way to re ord and edit audio, while being easier to use than earlier workstations. Key

features of Short ut in lude:

• Intuitive operation similar to tape re orders

• S rub editing wheel a urately lo ates edit points

• Stereo waveform display visually identifies edit points

• Intuitive Cut-Copy-Paste style operation

• Real File names for identifi ation and re all

• Built-in speakers

• True 16-bit linear audio, with analog and digital I/O

• Compa t size, ideal for field re ording and remote tru ks

This manual is divided into hapters, with greater detail in later hapters. If you are in a

hurry, look over the first hapters des ribing the front and rear panels, followed by the hapters

on spe ifi operations. Come ba k to the Menu hapter at a later time, when you have a

spe ifi task to perform.

The Table of Contents will help you lo ate most operational des riptions. There is also

an Index at the ba k to assist in lo ating operations by their name.

This book uses S

MALL

APS

to denote the name of a front panel key and other physi al

features, or the name of a menu item. Values in menu items are shown in ALL CAPS.

Short ut has three different operational modes: Re ord, Edit and Playba k. Ea h mode

has its own operational hara teristi s and display messages.

THE RECORD MODE

Audio is re orded into Short ut in mu h the same way as a tape re order. A spe ial

feature is the ability to begin re ording with a single key press at any time. This an be done

during edit operations, with work-in-progress left undisturbed. A number of spe ial kinds of

re ording are offered by Short ut.

• Insert Re ording

• Repla ement Insert Re ording

• Re ording initiated by an external GPI ommand

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THE EDIT MODE

Most operations will be performed in the Edit mode, also referred to as “the Editor”. The

display shows an audio waveform, a File name and the time lo ation of the Cursor. As with

word pro essors, sele ted portions of audio an appear in a highlighted area. A weighted

CRUB

HEEL

and waveform display assist with a urate lo ation of edit points. Edit marks

appear on the display to learly show beginning and end points. Basi editing operations

in lude:

• Cut To a lipboard, or to a Hot Key & File

• Copy To a lipboard, or to a Hot Key & File

• Insert From a lipboard, a File or a Hot Key

• Erase A sele ted region

• Play A sele ted region

• Single or two-tra k editing

THE PLAYBACK MODES

Sin e the Short ut editor is intended for rapid on-air use, a number of different playba k

options are provided:

• Play a re ording sele ted in the Files Display

• Play a re ording while editing it

• Play a re ording stored on one of the 10 Hot Keys.

EXTERNAL STORAGE MEDIA

Short ut provides a P

ARALLEL

port and an optional SCSI-based E

XPANSION

port allowing

the use of removable media drives to in rease storage time and data transport flexibility. Also,

material an be Imported to and Exported from DOS or HFS formatted Zip or Jaz disks in a

variety of file formats. We re ommend the following Iomega

produ ts for use with Short ut:

• Zip

™

250 disks store over 17 minutes of stereo audio in a ompa t and

inexpensive disk. Short ut an also Export audio to 360 Systems’ DigiCart/II

Plus (100 Mb) and Instant Replay 2.0 format disks for playba k.

• Jaz

™

2 Gigabyte disks store over 2 hours of stereo audio for full-length

programs, ba kup and ar hiving. (Requires optional SCSI adapter board.)

Zip

™

250 Parallel, Zip 100 MB Parallel and Zip

™

100 Plus drives are dire tly ompatible;

Zip

™

SCSI and Jaz

™

2 Gigabyte require the optional Short/ ut SCSI adapter board. Zip

™

USB

is not ompatible. Performan e of Jaz

™

1 Gigabyte drives or the use of 1 Gigabyte artridges

in 2 Gigabyte drives has not been verified by 360 Systems. Iomega produ ts are available from

most omputer supply outlets.

A Zip 100 disk an store 7 minutes of audio at the 48KHz sampling rate. It is possible to use

100 MB disks in 250 MB drives. Note that 250 MB disks are not supported by DigiCart/II

Plus, however material an be Exported to 100 MB DigiCart/II Plus format Zip disks using a

250 MB drive.

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