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Getting the best out of your VCR by manually determining its delay characteristics can be a very time consuming job. Using GDoc, and creating a calibration project is something you normally only have to do once, but you can easily find yourself going over and over the calculations as you make repetitive calibration movies on your VCR. The Glitch Doctor Assistant is an Excel Workbook (group of spreadsheets) that takes all the hassle out of this part of the process. You just enter the set of corrections you read from your VCR, together with the delay values you used, and Zap! all the hard work is done for you. The assistant will check your results for obvious errors and problems, calculate new VCR delays, assess the quality of your VCR and camcorder seek performance, then help you assess your soundcard's behaviour. If you thought spreadsheets were boring rows and columns of numbers you may be surprised at the way The Assistant works. Although the delay results are numerical, the assessment information is compiled and presented to you in real live text. The Assistant performs all the calculations and equipment assessments detailed in the GDoc User Guide, so you have a good idea of what it is doing for you but, using the power of the Excel statistical functions, the analysis is more thorough. It handles both the basic Sound Glitch procedure and the more advanced Transition (Freeze Frame) adjustment. Even if you have never used Excel, or a spreadsheet before, the process is simplicity itself. If you can use a mouse, you can use the Assistant. When you are happy with the results, you can print out a copy of them for reference. |
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The Excel Workbook contains two spreadsheets and two text sheets (introduction and help)
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