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
The update tab opens the software update [up-
date] and feature license key entry [keys] menus.
To update the Cinedeck software:
1) download the zip archive from the FTP
2) ensure that the download software doesn’t au-
tomatically unzip the zip file or that any anti-virus
software doesn’t quarantine any files.
3) copy the zip file to a thumb drive.
4) remove any usb or media drive from the
cinedeck.
5) power up the cinedeck
6) Once the Cinedeck software has loaded, insert
the USB thumb drive with the update zip file on it
into a USB port and wait for the drive to appear
in the Media status display.
7) Open the update menu by going to
[setup]:[update]
8) Press the update button.
The software will exit to Windows while the
update runs, then automatically return to the
Cinedeck application.
FTP download info:
ftp://ftp.dbox.com
username: cinedeckupdate
password: update123
folder: Cinedeck Program Update
If the error message, “no update found” ap-
pears:
1) ensure that the download application did
not automatically unzip the update file, this
often occurs in the Mac OS.
2) check to see that the zip file on the USB
thumb drive is a valid archive (not corrupt)
3) ensure that the thumb drive is visible in
the media status display.
Troubleshooting the update process
Update preferences tab [setup]:[update]
Update preferences tab [setup][update]
update
update
back
input files TC conv prefs
update
keys
update
Insert USB key and press update
SDI
Phones
play setup
fullscreen
clipping
analysis
edge
100%
grid
safe
slate
stop
record
lock reset
manhattan_aerial
next: reel3_015.mov
1080p YUV10
23.98
CineForm 1.1MB/frame 27.3MB/s
3GB
3GB
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
No update found
tap to dismiss
SDI
Phones
play setup
fullscreen
clipping
analysis
edge
100%
grid
safe
slate
stop
record
lock reset
manhattan_aerial
next: reel3_015.mov
1080p YUV10
23.98
CineForm
3GB
3GB
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