Similarly, to make two tapes of the same film, simply attach another VTR to port 2, make it a recorder, give it an In point and press Perform.
So far we have spoken about the transport windows that pop up when you select each transport. These are fine for normal work. In addition to these windows, there is a window on the Platinum system called Edit with switches for more advanced editing features.
There is a grey letter S in the Edit window. This stands for Slave, and is an extremely useful function. Imagine the edit mentioned above with a film roll and two VTRs involved. If the film roll gets to the end with no problems, then all well and good. If, however, you come across a problem, and have to stop the transfer, you have two options. 1: Restart the edit from the start of the film roll or 2: manually find a sync point on the telecine and both VTRs and mark new In Points. The Slave S allows you to set up a fixed relationship between the film position and the VTRs timecode at the start of a film roll. Now if you need to stop during a transfer to fix something, in order to carry on, find a suitable In Point (camera flash etc) on ANY of the decks, then press ALL followed by IN. Now the Pogle will work out the different counter and timecode numbers for all the decks, based on their relationship at the start of the roll, and calculate the correct In Point for all the Slaved transports. How does it work? At the start of the film roll when you set up the initial edit, turn on the S on each transport that is taking part in the edit. Once you have selected the correct In Points, press the TRANSPORT button followed by ENTER This establishes a fixed relationship between all the transports that Pogle will then use to do all the maths for you. More about transport lock.
So far we have mentioned typing in timecodes for vtr In Points and parking the Telecine on the correct film frame. Either method will work for either type of transport. What happens is if the Pogle sees some numbers in the numeric entry area, it will assume that this is a timecode and try to use this for the In Point. If there are no numbers, then Pogle will take the decks current position as the In.