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

MXF
1080i
NTSC
PAL
720p
inputfiles convert prefsinput
input
source fps format video audio options codec quality wrapper
mov
60
50 4:2:2 YUV8 SDI preview
composite
Off proxyCineForm
Balanced HQProres
4:2:2 YUV10 HDMI flip previewSDI 2 chan LQUNCOMP
AES 2chan 4444
4:4:4 RGB10 component letterboxSDI 8 chan normalDNxHD
59.941080i
back
MXF
1080i
NTSC
PAL
720p
inputfiles convert prefsinput
input
source fps format video audio options codec quality wrapper
mov
60
50 4:2:2 YUV8 SDI preview
composite
Off proxyCineForm
Balanced HQProres
4:2:2 YUV10 HDMI flip previewSDI 2 chan LQUNCOMP
AES 2chan 4444
4:4:4 RGB10 component letterboxSDI 8 chan normalDNxHD
59.941080i
back
Input preferences tab [setup]:[input]
Input preferences tab [setup]:[input]
Signal input settings [setup]:[input] or {input status display}
Valid input selections
The input tab is where frame size, frame rate,
color space, video source, audio source as
well as codec, quality setting and file type
are selected.
There is a green indicator light that shows
when signal has been successfully synced to
the input source.
There are also options related to the signal
input preview.
As selections are made for resolution, frame
rate, color space, input, audio, codec and
quality settings, and wrapper type, they in-
fluence the availability of other settings.
When DNx is selected, both MXF and MOV
are valid selections, whereas when ProRes,
CineForm or Uncompressed are selected,
only the MOV wrapper type is available.
The user preferences tabs are where prefer-
ences and settings for input, output, time
code and general settings are selected.
The setup button will take the user to the last
selected preferences tab.
If accessing the preferences tabs using the
info display shortcuts, the selected tab will be
that relevant to the info display.
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
input
input
setup