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
Contents
About this manual ............................................................................................................................ 2
Copyright and Trademark Notice.................................................................................................... 2
What’s included ................................................................................................................. 7
Safety information ............................................................................................................ 8
Support information ......................................................................................................... 9
First line troubleshooting, hardware. ..........................................................................................................9
First line troubleshooting, software. ............................................................................................................ 9
Hardware I/O ................................................................................................................... 10
Loading the SSD media ................................................................................................................................. 11
Cinedeck certified Batteries ......................................................................................................................... 11
Basic operation ................................................................................................................ 11
Powering up the Cinedeck ........................................................................................................................... 12
Hotswap of power input ............................................................................................................................... 12
User Interface .................................................................................................................. 13
General notes about the user interface ........................................................................................ 13
Main user interface (recording) ....................................................................................................13
Record start [record] ....................................................................................................................................... 14
Record stop [stop] ........................................................................................................................................... 14
Wired remote record start/stop [start][stop] ........................................................................................ 14
Slate display [slate]
Not currently enabled. .......................................................................................... 15
Safe Frame Display [safe] .............................................................................................................................. 16
Safe frame on-off toggle [safe] .......................................................................................................... 16
Safe frame preferences [setup]:[prefs]:[grid] .................................................................... 16
Letterbox Safe Frame Display [safe]+ [setup][input][letterbox] ............................................ 17
Letterbox preview [letterbox] .............................................................................................................. 17
Grid Display [grid] ............................................................................................................................................ 18
Grid opacity and brightness [setup]:[preferences]:[grid] ......................................................... 18
100% Display [100%] ...................................................................................................................................... 19
Edge detection display [edge] ................................................................................................................. 20
Image Analysis [analysis] .............................................................................................................................. 21
Image analysis, full window mode [overlay] ..................................................................... 21
Waveform [waveform] ........................................................................................................................... 22
Overlay inset mode [overlay] .................................................................................................. 22
Display channel selection [Y] [R] [G] [B] [RGB] ................................................................. 22
0-255 scale [255] ......................................................................................................................... 23
100% scale [100%] ...................................................................................................................... 23
IRE scale [IRE] ................................................................................................................................ 23
Historgram [histogram] ......................................................................................................................... 24
Historgram, overlay mode [overlay] .................................................................................... 24
Vectorscope [scope] ............................................................................................................................... 25
Vectorscope 100% view [scope]:[100%] ............................................................................. 25
Vectorscope, overlay mode [overlay] .................................................................................. 25
Highlight Clipping [clipping] ....................................................................................................................... 26