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

SDI
Phones
play setup
fullscreen
clipping
analysis
edge
100%
grid
safe
slate
stop
record
lock reset
manhattan_aerial
next: reel_2_031
1080p YUV10
23.98
CineForm 1.1MB/frame 27.3MB/s
128GB
73GB
46 min
Frame
Fps
Codec
Media
Free
Remain
00:12:06:21
long
lat
alt
temp
-74.0715
40.416
51.166
72
Battery
last take
44%
3:22
SDI
Phones
play setup
fullscreen
clipping
analysis
edge
100%
grid
safe
slate
stop
record
lock reset
manhattan_aerial
next: reel_2_031
1080p YUV10
23.98
CineForm 1.1MB/frame 27.3MB/s
128GB
73GB
46 min
Frame
Fps
Codec
Media
Free
Remain
00:12:06:21
long
lat
alt
temp
-74.0715
40.416
51.166
72
Battery
last take
44%
3:22
SDI
Phones
play setup
fullscreen
clipping
analysis
edge
100%
grid
safe
slate
stop
record
lock reset
manhattan_aerial
next: reel_2_031
1080p YUV10
23.98
CineForm 1.1MB/frame 27.3MB/s
128GB
73GB
46 min
Frame
Fps
Codec
Media
Free
Remain
00:12:06:21
long
lat
alt
temp
-74.0715
40.416
51.166
72
Battery
last take
44%
3:22
Filename display.
Time Code Status display
Audio input status display.
While recording is paused, displays project
name and scene name with the next record
take increment.
ie. PROJECT and scene_increment.mov
During record, displays project name and
current take increment.
Touching the file names display will open the
relevant preferences tab, [files]
While not recording, displays the current time
code in freerun modes, and the end time
code from the last take in record run modes.
While recording, displays the current time
code value in all modes.
The display may be in SMPTE time code
UTC time, or local time. When recording to
CineForm, both SMPTE and UTC are written
as metadata to the file. In other codecs, cur-
rently only SMPTE timecode is written.
Touching the time code display will open the
relevant preferences tab, [tc]
Shows current input setting for audio source:
OFF (no levels meter display)
Two channel SDI [SDI2]
Eight channel SDI [SDI8]
Two channel balanced line level [Bal]
Two channel AES [AES2]
Four channel AES [AES4]
In the playback menu, this shows the output
source as the currently queued file. [file]
Main user interface, cont.
SDI
00:00:00:00
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