Playing Out to a VTR

Use the Playout tool to play out frames from Lustre so that they can be recorded to an external device.

In the majority of cases, you will play out rendered frames to a VTR. See Rendering Shots. There are exceptions:

• The creation of real-time deliverables using source material. See Creating Real-Time Deliverables from the Timeline or Rendered Material.
• GPU playout from the timeline. See Playout from Timeline with GPU Acceleration.

There are three modes for playing out to a VTR:

• In Insert mode, you record video only, audio only, or a combination of both, to a tape that already contains material (either pre-striped with black or actual video material with a valid control track).
• In Assemble mode, you can add video to the end of previously-recorded material.
• In Record mode, you can play out video to a blank tape or a tape that contains existing material. Everything on the tape is overwritten when recording.

For some video formats, you can add 3:2 pulldown during the playout operation. See About 3:2 Pulldown.