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9.5 Phantom CineMag Operational Modes

Phantom cameras that support a Phantom CineMag can operate in one of two operational mode,

including:

Loop

When the camera is in the Loop Mode, the Phantom camera stores the recorded image data into

the camera's DRAM buffer. In this mode, the Phantom CineMag operates like any other Flash

card, after a cine file, (image data), is recorded into the camera's DRAM frame buffer, the end-

user manually saves the image data it into the Phantom CineMag by initiating the Save to Flash

command window, which can be accessed via the Cine Pull-down Menu.

NOTE

This mode supports recording up to the maximum Sample rate.

R/S (Run/Stop)

In Run/Stop Mode the image data is recorded directly into the Phantom CineMag. For example, a

Phantom HD will store the image data at a rate up to 450fps at the HD resolution of 2048 x 1080.

9.6 Phantom File Naming Convention

Even a relatively short movie result in a very large number of image files that later ought to be

individually retrievable; naming these files by hand is impractical. The unique file naming in the

Phantom camera is automatic. In order to provide this function in the Phantom software it was

necessary for Vision Research to develop a small "language" for specifying file names using a few

special characters that are legal for filenames but seldom used. The Phantom software recognizes

these characters and substitutes them with different counters from the software.

Insert the Cine File Number into the Path and/or File Name(s)

Description

Used to insert the cine file number to the path and/or file names. The single digit number

specifies the number of digit places appended to the root file name.

The @ character can be used within both path names and file names. The cine number

counter is initialized to zero each time the software is started and incremented by 1 each time

a cine is saved to a drive.

Syntax

@ followed by a single digit

Single Digit Range

1 through 8