Dolby Laboratories DP569 - Manual (Page 32)

Model DP569 User’s Manual Front-Panel Menus
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4.2 Setup Menu
Options in the top menu level are:
• Operating Mode
• Metadata Control
• Metadata Params
• User Presets
• I/O Control
• System Settings
4.2.1 Operating Mode
In this menu you control whether the DP569 is encoding, and whether it is being
controlled by timecode.
The submenus are:
• Encoder Control
• TC Start Time
• TC Stop Time
Encoder Control
The DP569 encode can be controlled in two ways. The simplest is using the Encode
or Stop options in the Encoder control menu.
The second method is using Timecode Ctrl. This mode enables and disables the
encoding process based on the TC Start Time and TC Stop Time values. This is
used to create encoded streams of a specific length and position in time for DVD
authoring.
The start and stop times are specified in the format HH:MM:SS:FF:ssss, where:
• HH = hours (00 to 23)
• MM = minutes (00 to 59)
• SS = seconds (00 to 59)
• FF = frames (00 to 29)
• ssss = samples (0000 to 1536)
The first sample of the first encoded frame will correspond to the sample specified by
the start time. The last sample of the last encoded frame cannot be specified because
encoding must end at a Dolby Digital frame boundary. For this reason, the samples
field of TC Stop Time is not user-adjustable. Encoding will actually end at the
completion of the first Dolby Digital frame following the specified stop time. At the