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

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1080i
NTSC
PAL
720p
inputfiles convert prefsinput
input
source fps format video audio options codec quality wrapper
mov
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50 4:2:2 YUV8 SDI preview
composite
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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
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 frame rate
Input video source
Input pixel format
Not all frame rates are available in all codecs.
If a codec or quality setting is not available
based on the input frame rate, there will be
no setting available in the codec or quality-
columns.
Valid input frame rates are:
23.98p 50i
25p 5994i
29.97p 60i
50p
5994p
60p
Variable rates are not supported at this time.
Video source selections are:
3G HD SDI
Dual Link HD SDI
SD SDI
HDMI
Component
Composite (Y input on breakout)
Pixel format selections are:
YCbCr or YUV, 8bit, 4:2:2
YCbCr or YUV, 10bit, 4:2:2
RGB 10 bit, 4:4:4
Input preferences tab, cont. [setup]:[input]
input video
input format
input fps