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
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 preview options
Input codec, quality, and file format (wrapper) options
Input preview options are:
Preview on/off
Turns off live preview window
Flip preview
For use when the Cinedeck is mounted up-
side down for some reason.
Letterbox
Provides black letterbox mask for composi-
tion with non-16x9 aspect ratios.
Compressed codec selections are:
CineForm, all quality settings, .MOV
DNxHD: all bit rates, .MXF and .MOV
ProRes, all quality settings, (.MOV)
Uncompressed codec selections are:
CineForm Uncompressed RGB10 (.MOV)
Uncompressed RGB10 (MOV)
Switching between uncompressed and
compressed formats requires an application
restart
Input audio source
Audio source selections are:
Off
SDI embedded audio, 2 channels
SDI embedded audio, 4 channels
AES digital audio, 2 channels
AES digital audio, 4 channels
Balanced line level
(XLR input 1 & 2 on breakout cable)
Switching audio source selection requires an
application restart.
Input preferences tab [setup]:[input]
input audio
input
options
input codec quality wrapper