MacroSystem Bogart SE Ver.4 User manual - Manual (Page 5)

5 Bogart SE 4 User manual
Chapter 1: Introduction
1.1 Congratulations!
Congratulations on the purchase of the software Bogart SE!
We thank you for the confidence and trust you have shown us,
and we hope that it will meet your expectations . If you are new
to video editing, you will quickly and easily become acquainted
with Bogart SE and will soon enjoy the new creative realms it
will open up for you . If you have prior experience with other
systems, for example with linear (analog) equipment or digital
computer systems, you will have to make some adjustments .
However, these will be easy to make and you will be rewarded
with the almost limitless possibilities offered by Bogart SE .
This manual will help you with installing and operating
Bogart SE . Feel free to contact us to ask further questions or
to give us suggestions . Please contact us at the following ad-
dress . Whenever you contact us, please have your customer
number or the serial number of your device at hand so that we
can help you more quickly .
Address
MacroSystem Digital Video AG
Industriestraße 11
96317 Kronach
Germany
MacroSystem US
5541 Central Ave., Suite 135
Boulder, Colorado
USA 80301
Phone
+49 (0) 9261 / 99200
(Germany)
303-440-5311 (North America)
E-mail
info@macrosystem .de
(Germany
info@macrosystem .us (North America)
Fax
+49 (0) 9261 / 992049
(Germany)
303-440-5396 (North America)
Up-to-date information on MacroSystem products and our
sales department can be found on the Internet .
Please visit our website:
http://www .macrosystem .de (Germany)
http://www .macrosystem .us (North America)
Phone support
If you have special technical questions, you can call our tech-
nical support hotline:
(North America)
Monday - Friday 9 a .m . - 5 p .m . (Mountain Standard Time)
303-801-1010
When calling, please have the serial number of your device at hand .
Outside of these times, please e-mail us . Messages received in
this way are handled during business hours .
E-mail support
helpdesk@macrosystem .de (Germany)
BogartSupport@macrosystem .us
(North America)
1.2 What is Bogart SE?
The software is a non-linear editor . All video and audio data
is stored on the system hard drive and can then be sepa-
rated into individual scenes . These scenes can be trimmed as
desired and added to a storyboard . It is possible to add many
different transitions between the scenes . You can mix up to six
stereo tracks, mixing original sound, various pieces of music,
and commentary . A large selection of fonts and effects makes
our titler powerful, yet easy to use .
All of this is meant for the user who is not familiar with comput-
ers . Its goal is simplicity of use, even though the power and
versatility of the system makes for almost endless creative
possibilities . Also, Bogart SE is not affected by limitations in
recording duration that typically apply to computers .
1.3 HDV video footage
To create films in high resolution (HD), you require a high-reso-
lution HDV or AVCHD camera . Such a camera can also record
in HD . The high-definition format is stored in a more effective
compression format such as MPEG-2 or MPEG-4/AVC .
Note: We would like to point out the necessity of using HDV
tapes when recording footage to the HDV Recorder and/or
Bogart SE editing software (which allows HDV editing). The
special surface coating of these tapes considerably reduces
the drop-out rate. Drop-outs lead to evidently more problems
in MPEG method in HDV recordings than during standard DV
filming. Unlike the DV method, HDV recordings may lose an
entire Group of Pictures (GOP) due to a drop-out. This results
clearly in more significant picture faults and problems during
transfer and editing of such flawed footage.