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

SSD media purchased from any other vendor must be prepared before use with the Cinedeck EXTREME to disable write caching on
the device and to format it using the correct file system. All data on the SSD will be lost in preparation for use with the Cinedeck
EXTREME. Perform these functions on the Cinedeck EXTREME itself, rather than attempting to perform them on a computer; this is
necessary to ensure proper functionality.
NOTE: A USB mouse can be connected to the Cinedeck EXTREME to perform these functions without using the touchscreen and is
recommended for ease of operation.
Boot up the Cinedeck EXTREME, quit to the OS by tapping
exit
in the main PREFERENCES page. [setup][prefs][exit app] Insert the new
SSD to be prepared, and follow the instructions below. In order to context-click using the touchscreen, hold down on one spot for
2-3 seconds. (This is equivalent to right-clicking with a mouse.)
Follow these steps to prepare a new SSD:
Setting up new SSD media for use with the Cinedeck Extreme
WARNING: Failure to follow these proce-
dures will result in improper operation and
may cause future data loss in operation.
1. Click start. 2. Click My Computer. 3. On the window that appears, click the
large button labeled Folders.
4. In the window below, context-click
(by holding in place on the touchscreen
or right clicking with an attached
mouse) on My Computer.
5. In the context menu that appears,
click Manage.
6. In the window that appears, click
Disk Management.
7. In the pane that appears, context-
click on Disk 1 (NOT Disk 0), your new
SSD. Confirm
that size of the device to make sure it
is the SSD and not the onboard unit
storage.
8. In the context menu that appears,
click Properties.
9. In the window that appears, click the
Hardware tab.
10. At the bottom of the Hardware tab,
click Properties.