MF Digital eventCD 5200 Live Series EventCD Operator’s Guide
MF Digital eventCD Table of Contents WELCOME TO THE 5200 SERIES CD RECORDER/DUPLICATOR ............................................................... 3 COPYRIGHT NOTICE.................................................................................................................................................... 3 RECORDABLE DRIVE WARRANTY POLICY .................................................................................................................. 3 PIRACY .................................
Welcome to the 5200 Series CD Recorder/Duplicator Copyright Notice Copyright ©2003 – 2014 by MF DIGITAL. All rights reserved. This manual and the accompanying illustrations may not be copied, reproduced, electronically transmitted, or translated into another language, in whole, or in part, without the written consent of MF DIGITAL. MFDIGITAL, 5200 series, Director, Director PRO, Scribe, Scribe SA, and Scribe PC are trademarks of MFDIGITAL.
End User License Agreement You have acquired a device (“5200 Series CD-R/RW duplicator”) that includes software licensed by MF DIGITAL from Microsoft Licensing Inc. or its affiliates (“MS”). Those installed software products of MS origin, as well as associated media, printed materials, and “online” or electronic documentation (“SOFTWARE”) are protected by international intellectual property laws and treaties. The SOFTWARE is licensed, not sold. All rights reserved.
About MF DIGITAL Thank you for purchasing MF DIGITAL’s 5200 Series Copier Module duplicator. MF DIGITAL manufactures a wide variety of CD / DVD duplication equipment, including manual and fully automated CD / DVD duplicators and printers. We hope you will consider us for all of your duplication needs. What To Expect From Your MF DIGITAL Product Your MF DIGITAL 5200 Series copier module duplicator is professionally designed and manufactured to give you years of trouble free operation.
Getting Started Carefully remove the 5200 Series duplicator from the shipping container. Inspect the contents, and verify them against the packing slip. Report any errors in shipping as soon as possible. What’s In The Box Your new 5200 Series duplicator includes: 5200 Series duplicator Power cord Firmware CD Manual CD Stereo Audio Cable - 3.
Location Of 5200 Series Components Connect a Keyboard, Monitor and Mouse (not supplied) To the corresponding connections below.
DVD±R/±RW Legend 1) Disc Tray - Discs are loaded and removed from this tray. Clicking the eject button will open the tray when the power to the 5200 Series is switched on. 2) Headphone Jack – Connect headphones here. 3) Volume Control Knob – This controls the volume level of the headphones. 4) Disc Indicator – Light indicates presence of disc in drive. 5) Ventilation Hole – Do not block. 6) Ventilation Hole – Do not block. 7) Eject Button – This button is used to manually open the disc tray.
System Startup Before operation can begin it is necessary to review a few details. Plug one end of the supplied power cord into the upper receptacle at the rear of the unit. Next, verify that the voltage selector switch is set correctly. It is located between the two power receptacles. The 5200 Series supports both 115 VAC and 230 VAC at 50 ~ 60 Hz. Please confirm that the appropriate voltage (115 VAC for North America) has been selected.
Loading A Disc After the 5200 Series’ power has been switched on, click the eject button on the front of the recorder to open its disc tray. Load by carefully placing the disc (label side up) into the recessed area of the disc tray, so that the disc lays flat. Click the eject button on the front of the recorder to close the disc tray. Removing A Disc While the 5200 Series’ power is still switched on, click the eject button on the front of the recorder to open the disc tray.
CAUTION Your 5200 uses Microsoft Windows XP Operating System. While this may appear to be a conventional PC, XP Embedded is specially designed for embedded applications. Do not install any non MF Digital supported software. Any damage as a result of this will not be covered under warranty.
Using the 5200 Live Recording Connect the desired input to the analog IN Using your mouse, click on the AUDIO TAB and the following screen should be displayed: Click on RECORD to bring up the RECORDER dialog 12
Using your mouse, select the desired input from the Audio Capture Device pulldown. Click on browse to select location and a filename to save the recording to. Keep in mind that CD-DA quality recording consumes about 10 MB/min Click on the RECORD button to start recording. During recording, the following screen is displayed: Browse: Selects the desired folder and filename. You will be prompted to overwrite existing files. Preview: Check this box to preview the audio as it is being recorded.
Editing your recording and Adding tracks The AUDIO TAB is where you create your CD projects. WAV files and MP3 files may be dragged and dropped into your project and represent a single track. WAV files must be 44.1 kHz, 16-Bit, and stereo. The CD-DA standard does not allow for mono CDs. A mono CD is simply one where the left and right channels are the same. Adding Tracks By default, each WAV, or MP3 file represents a single track.
protection), and the ability to split a track into multiple tracks. This is extremely handy on long recordings where several tracks are desired. Note this is non destructive and does not effect the source file in anyway but merely sets the a START ID, or track mark, at the location inserted. To edit a track, right click on the desired track and select EDIT.
Once you are satisfied, click on the SET IN POINT button Set Out Point: Out Point sets the end of the track. If you are making a disc from a single WAV file, you may want to use SPLIT TRACK (See below) to set all track START IDs and use SET OUT POINT only to trim the end of the last track if desired. Adjust using the slider above OUT POINT digital display. Use the up and down arrow keys for fine adjustments, or click on the green LCD digital OUT POINT time display for direct entry as above.
digital time display in the top left corner for direct entry. You will see the following: Once you are satisfied, click on the SPLIT TRACK button. A handy trick to delete undesired content is to create a track out of the content you do not wish to include then delete the track. The source .WAV will remain unaffected but the resulting CD will not contain the content removed. Disc Spanning There are times when your recording will not fit on a single disc.
Select “Create New Disc”. You will notice the disc number in the left most column increment along with all tracks below. If a third disc is desired, left click on the track you wish to be the first track of the next disc, right click and select “Create New Disc” once again. Once you are happy with the disc set, click on SAVE and you will be prompted to save one .ISC file for each disc created. .ISC files, or image scripts, are images from which you can create discs.
Click on the BROWSE button and select an image file to use (.ISC, .ISO, or .IMG). Likely this will be the .ISC file made in the previous step. Leave LABEL blank as the 5200 does not support in-line direct to disc printing so you need not enter anything here. Consider the MF Digital 3000 Series for automating duplication and printing if desired. Select the desired job options: COPY: If you would like to write the disc, check this option.
Click on the START NEWJOB button Use the default JOB ID or enter your own. This is a handy way to identify your job making it easy to recognize what job is running. In the box under TOTAL, enter the desired quantity of discs Click on the BROWSE IMAGE button and select an image file to use (.ISC, .ISO, or .IMG). Likely this will be the .ISC file made in the previous step.
Leave LABEL blank as the 5200 does not support in-line direct to disc printing so you need not enter anything here. Consider the MF Digital 9000 Series for automating duplication and printing if desired. Select the desired job options: COPY: If you would like to write the disc, check this option. Typically this will always be checked VERIFY: If you would like to verify the disc, select this option. This will perform a bit-for-bit verify of the disc.
