User manual
Table Of Contents
- About this manual
- What’s included
- Safety information
- Support information
- Hardware I/O
- Basic operation
- User Interface
- General notes about the user interface
- Main user interface (recording)
- Record start [record]
- Record stop [stop]
- Wired remote record start/stop [start][stop]
- Slate display [slate] Not currently enabled.
- Safe Frame Display [safe]
- Grid Display [grid]
- 100% Display [100%]
- Edge detection display [edge]
- Image Analysis [analysis]
- Highlight Clipping [clipping]
- Full Screen display [fullscreen]
- Full screen mode in main user interface [fullscreen]
- Full screen mode in main user interface [fullscreen]
- Full screen mode in playback interface. [fullscreen]
- Setup Menu Tabs [setup]
- Playback user interface [play]
- Playback user interface [play]
- Playback file manager [play]:[open]
- Touch screen lock [lock]
- Time Code Reset [TC reset]
- Settings and Status displays
- Playback user interface
- Setup Menu Tabs [setup]
- Input preferences tab [setup]:[input]
- Input preferences tab [setup]:[input]
- Signal input settings [setup]:[input] or {input status display}
- Valid input selections
- Application restart on settings change
- Application restart on settings change
- Input resolution
- Input frame rate
- Input pixel format
- Input video source
- Input audio source
- Input preview options
- Input codec, quality, and file format (wrapper) options
- Input preferences tab [setup]:[input]
- Folder manager tab [setup]:[files]
- Time code Preferences Tab [setup][TC]
- Time code Preferences Tab [setup][TC]
- Internally generated time code [gen]
- Save time code at end of session. [save TC]
- Generated drop frame time code [drop]
- Embedded SDI time code [SDI]
- Embedded SDI time code auto-record, generic [generic]
- Embedded SDI time code auto-record, VITC [future]
- ExSync hardware timecode module [ExSync]
- Hardware timecode module not found
- Time code offsets [offset +][offset -]
- Time code offsets [offset +][offset -]
- Time code display modes
- Show UTC or Local timecode [show UTC][show local]
- Time code Preferences Tab [setup][TC]
- Convert preferences tab [setup][convert]
- Update preferences tab [setup][update]
- General preferences tab [setup][prefs]
- Input preferences tab [setup]:[input]
- Appendices:
- Field Operating System Restore (“Factory Reset”) Instructions:
- Cinedeck Operating System Field Restore Disk Update instructions
- Cinedeck Bootable BIOS Update Disk Creation Instructions
- Breakout cable connections
- Cinedeck I/O Pin Definitions: Serial numbers 500 and higher.
- Setting up the docking station for use with the Cinedeck Extreme
- Care and feeding of SSD media
- Setting the battery meter COM port
- Codec installation on the MAC and PC
- Average data rates

Support information
First line troubleshooting, hardware.
First line troubleshooting, software.
Support Hours:
Support office hours are 9am-6pm EST, but we generally answer email from 8am to
midnight EST, 7 days a week, and at odd hours of the night.
The direct support email address is: support@cinedeck.com
and we do answer
email within minutes.
Phone support can be reached at +1-646-642-6985. If you do not reach us,
please
do leave a message
, as we endeavor to return calls within a few minutes within the
expanded hours noted above.
Please Note!
It is generally both helpful and essential to have as much information as possible
about the nature of the problem and the setup involved, including all equipment
being used, camera settings, Cinedeck settings, etc.
For instance, if you are using an esoteric piece of equipment in the signal chain, it
is critical that we know so we can make a correct diagnosis.
Is it plugged in?
Often the simplest things can make life difficult...always check the basics!
Is the power supply plugged in? battery charged? camera turned on? camera set-
tings correct?
Have you matched your camera settings?
Often the simplest things can make life difficult...always check the basics!
Is the camera set to P and the Cinedeck to PSF? Is the camera actually a 24p sig-
nal, or 59i masquerading as 24p via pulldown?