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Consequently if the editor later decides to import the original
T1–T8 tracks, the MC will kill the mix tracks he has been
using from day one! Thanks to PolyRotate, the original mix-
down tracks (T7T8) rotated to T1T2, will replace the 16-bit
poly mixdown with the 24-bit originals, while the native
iso tracks (T1–T6), pushed to T3–T8, will gracefully fall into
place.
• PolyRotate1 performs the same operation as PolyRotate2
but pushes the tracks by one rank only: T1–T7 go to T2–T8
while T8 (the Xb mixdown) is sent back to T1.
05 MxDwn Trtmt
MonoNative PolyNative Poly16Trunc Poly16Dith
Only applicable if T7T8 appears in BACKUP.03. This treat-
ment can perform the reduction from 24-bit to 16-bit, convert
the T7T8 mono file pairs into poly files and finally store them
in an .AAX folder.
• MonoNative (16&24) - changes nothing relative to the
original 16-bit or 24-bit files.
• PolyNative(16&24): interleaves T7T8 at native bit-depth.
• Poly16Trunc: interleaves T7T8,
and truncates 24-bit to 16-bit.
• Poly16Dith: interleaves T7T8,
and dithers 24-bit to 16-bit.
note1: dithering offers a slightly better quality than plain
truncation but the process requires twice as much time.
note2: 'treatments' automatically convert 96kHz to 48kHz.
note3: 'treatments' (04 & 05) and track selection (03) are
recalled from one recording session to the next; they are lost
as soon as the (03) menu bottom row is opened.
06 Media Type
CD±R 700MB Ext.HDD DVD-RAM
DVD±R 4.7GB DVD+R 8.5GB
It can take more than twenty seconds for a DVD or DVD-
RAM media to be checked before its 'one-platter' icon
appears in the right circular screen, be patient.
Cantar handles both FAT32 and UDF1.5 formatted DVD-
RAM. For MAC/PC compatibility, see SESSION.04 'Disk
Format' (p.36), and Tutorial 2, Drives & Media (p.43).
07 Burn Mode
Burn Only Burn+Check (Check Only)
Checking a DVD takes just as much time as burning it.
08 FilesToCopy
Unarchived All
Select 'Unarchived' before starting a CD/DVD mid-day
copy, this causes the software to look at the 'Archived' flag
on the files. Previously copied/archived files flagged as
such will not be copied again. 'All' is used to make a sec-
ond batch of DVDs with all files, previously saved or not.
09 File Name
FiletagOnly With Sc/Tk
FileTag only: BA1234_1.wav.
With Sc/Tk: BA1234==123A 12R w14==_1.wav,
this brings the scene and take to the editor's desktop.
• Backup on CD/DVD, select 'With Sc/Tk' since long
names are supported by ISO and UDF1.5 formats.
• Backup on ext. HDD, filenames are forced to 'FiletagOnly';
long names are not supported by the basic FAT32 format.
note: Majax extracts Sc/Tk IDs from the metadata con-
tained in the iXML and can add them to the files en route
to Post on FAT32 formatted HDDs.
10 Media Label
CD 1 of 2
The number of disks needed for the backup is displayed.
Press [ok], select the one to burn. [shift] [eye] displays the
Media Label created for the disk. CD_MXD_2/5 means:
CD-R – Mixdown (Xa
.
Xb) – Disk #2 in a 5 disk group. The
remaining data volume to be burned is displayed.
The large file case
The length of a take can make it impossible to copy it
entirely onto one CD. For instance if a 200MB long file
comes in with its five brothers (a six-track take), a 1.2GB
CD is required. In this case, Cantar separates the take into
its individual tracks while minimizing the number of CDs (or
DVDs). The label becomes CD_2_D072, where [CD] is the
media; [_2] the track #; and [D072] the last four characters
of the filename.
Example of a CD/DVD label
An ISO volume label is limited to 31 characters
Cantar# Project Date Archiv Tag type 1 or 2
099 AAAAAAAA YYYYMMDD
*
CD_T1-6_001
BACKUP 2, TREATMENTS
BACKUP 05
T7T8 Trtmt
Poly16 Dith
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