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
[rec/stop] .................................................................................................................................................... 59
[3Gb/s out] ................................................................................................................................................. 59
[Disable safe] ............................................................................................................................................. 59
[drop stop] ................................................................................................................................................. 59
[thumbs] ...................................................................................................................................................... 59
[mouse exit] ............................................................................................................................................... 59
[peak vu] ..................................................................................................................................................... 59
[P not PsF] .................................................................................................................................................. 59
[fan ctrl] ....................................................................................................................................................... 60
[low] .................................................................................................................................................. 60
[medium] ........................................................................................................................................ 60
[high] ................................................................................................................................................ 60
[auto] ................................................................................................................................................ 60
[battery mon] ............................................................................................................................................ 60
[Anton Bauer] ............................................................................................................................... 60
[Digi View] ...................................................................................................................................... 60
[restart app] ............................................................................................................................................... 60
[exit app] ..................................................................................................................................................... 60
[reset prefs] ................................................................................................................................................ 60
[save prefs] ................................................................................................................................................. 60
[load prefs] ................................................................................................................................................. 60
Appendices: ..................................................................................................................... 61
Field Operating System Restore (“Factory Reset”) Instructions: ..............................................61
Restoring the Cinedeck to factory settings: .......................................................................................... 61
Cinedeck Operating System Field Restore Disk Update instructions ........................................62
Updating the restore disk ............................................................................................................................. 62
Cinedeck Bootable BIOS Update Disk Creation Instructions .....................................................63
Making the BIOS update USB thumb drive: ........................................................................................ 63
Breakout cable connections ........................................................................................................... 64
Cinedeck I/O Pin Definitions: Serial numbers 500 and higher................................................... 65
Setting up the docking station for use with the Cinedeck Extreme .........................................66
Care and feeding of SSD media ..................................................................................................... 67
Restoring SSD media to “factory new” performance ................................................................ 67
Special note regarding PhotoFast RAID media ............................................................................ 67
Setting up new SSD media for use with the Cinedeck Extreme ............................................ 68
Using the Patriot trim utility for Patriot Torqx SSD media ....................................................... 70
Using the OCZ trim/garbage collection utility ......................................................................... 71
OCZ Vertex2 Secure Erase process for restoring SSD performance .................................... 72
Setting the battery meter COM port ............................................................................................ 73
Codec installation on the MAC and PC .........................................................................................75
ProRes................................................................................................................................................................... 75
DNxHD (Quicktime) ........................................................................................................................................ 75
DNxHD (MXF) .................................................................................................................................................... 75
CineForm ............................................................................................................................................................. 75
Uncompressed .................................................................................................................................................. 75