Using an HDCAM SR, you can capture material from specially formatted double-speed and stereoscopic tapes.

Double-speed tapes allows you to capture material twice as fast. Stereoscopic tapes essentially stores in an interlaced timing two progressive clips; a 60i (50i) “clip” contains two 30p(25p) clips.

This feature does have the following limitations:

• To use this feature, you must use specially formatted tapes. If you insert a regular tape in the HDCAM SR and try to capture it as double-speed or stereoscopic material, the capture fails.
• Audio monitoring is not available during capture.
• When capturing stereo tapes, only audio channels 1 through 8 are available.

To capture material recorded at double-speed:

1. Ensure that the HDCAM SR is connected to the AJA card using a dual-link.
2. Set the HDCAM SR VTR to DBL 422.
3. From the Device Name box, select the HDCAM SR VTR.
4. From the Tape Type box, select 2x-DOUBLE.

   
   

   In the Input Clip menu, the clip is displayed with a strong yellow bias. This is normal; the captured clip will not have this yellow bias.

5. Capture the clip. See Capturing Single Clips.

To capture material recorded on stereoscopic tapes:

1. Ensure that the HDCAM SR is connected to the AJA card using a dual-link.
2. Set the HDCAM SR VTR to 2X 422.
3. From the Device Name box, select the HDCAM SR VTR.
4. From the Tape Type box, select 2x-STEREO.

   
   

   In the Input Clip menu, the clip is displayed with a strong yellow bias. This is normal; the captured clip will not have this yellow bias.

5. Capture the clip. See Capturing Single Clips.

   The stereoscopic material is captured as two clips and named according to the Clip Name field. But to differentiate the clips, one has the A suffix, and the other has the B suffix.