Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product Samurai Blade Atomos
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Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 1 Notice Copyright © 2013 A TOMOS Global Pty Ltd (‘referr ed to as A TOMOS’). All rights reserved.
Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 2 Thank you for choosing the Atomos Samurai Blade: your 10-bit HD-SDI Recorder/Monitor/Player . It’ s the most compact portable recor der available, with extremely long battery life, a high-resolution screen, waveform monitor and vectorscope.
Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 3 W e try to pr ovide you with as complete a package as possible: you don’ t have to add anything except 2.
Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 4 Spinning Disk Drives (HDD) These are the raw storage medium for Samurai Blade. Y ou can use either traditional “spinning” disks, or the new solid state ones.
Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 5 2. What you also need HD-SDI cables (not included) HD-SDI cables are r obust physically and electrically: you should rarely have problems with signal transmission unless your cables ar e either damaged or too long.
Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 6 Mounting drives in the Master Caddy This is simplicity itself. Just insert the disk into the caddy , and secure with four screws. The caddy is light and the disk just needs to be held securely .
Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 7 Battery The Samurai Blade is a battery powered device, and has a special feature to ensur e that you never have to interrupt a recording to change a battery . W e will come to this shortly . Like all batteries, you will need to take care of them.
Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 8 T urning ON power to the Samurai Blade The start button is located on the right hand side of the unit (as you look at the screen). Momentarily pr ess the circular button on the right side of the Samurai Blade as you look at the screen to power up the unit.
Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 9 Master Caddy Slot On the left hand side of the unit (as you face the screen) is a slot for Samurai Blade Master Disk Caddies.
Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 10 Headphone Line Out V olume Cut and T ag Favorite/Reject Monitor Assist Functions W aveform Monitoring Audio Channels and Levels Rec / Play .
Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 11 Home Screen and Menu Functions Rec (Record) This is the icon you touch to begin a recor ding.
Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 12 File Naming Allows you to select the scene and shot number that will be recor ded next. T o select press scene or shot at the top and the number you wish to use from the list below (up to 999).
Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 13 Battery Indicator Shows whether you’ve got one or two batteries connected. If ther e is no battery connected a number will not be displayed in the appropriate slot.
Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 14 Audio In Located in the bottom left corner of the main screen you can see the Audio Monitoring Levels, with access to Audio in . Y ou can see 12 digital channels (via SDI input) and 2 analogue audio channels (via the Stereo Line in).
Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 15 Connect to input As soon as you connect a supported input to the Samurai Blade’ s HD- SDI input and have inserted a formatted drive: • .
Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 16 SmartControl SmartControl is a versatile set of functions used to contr ol the starting and stopping of recor ding by automatic or exter nal means. This section outlines the differ ent methods to start and stop recording.
Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 17 W aveform Monitoring Overview W aveform Monitoring Luma Overlay RGB Parade Display V ectorscope V ectorscope Zoom What is W aveform Monitoring? W aveform Monitoring is used for measuring the brightness, luminance or chroma values fr om a video input signal.
Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 18 W aveform Monitor T ypes Inside the W aveform Monitoring menu, two types of Waveform Monitors are available for use: Luma Parade, RGB Parad.
Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 19 Monitor Assist Overview Monitor Assist Focus Assist Zebra Pattern False Colour Blue Only Exposure Using the Samurai Blade as a field monitor and viewfinder With its 5” high-resolution color 1280x720pixel screen, the Samurai Blade makes a great eld monitor .
Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 20 Focus Assist T ypes Inside the Focus Assist menu, four types of focusing tools are available for use: Focus Assist, False Colour , Zebra Pattern and Blue Only Exposure are enabled simply by touching the corresponding icon in the menu.
Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 21 Blue Only Exposure Displays a black-and-white image that is based on the blue channel of the input signal. Used to observe the noise content of a video image and the judge the overall exposure quality .
Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 22 SmartLog SmartLog gives you the ability to tag your clips during recor ding (or playback, more on this later). By the pressing the Favourite and Reject icons you can assign a “good clip” or “bad clip”.
Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 23 Y our final stage is to Export the XML flag: • Enter Play or Media Information • On the bottom right hand side there is an icon Expor.
Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 24 Organising material on the disk Samurai Blade uses a unitname, scene, shot and take naming convention: BLADE_S001_S001_T001 This was recor ded on a Samurai Blade unit called BLADE , the scene selected was 1, the shot selected was 1 and it was take 1.
Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 25 Atomos Anti-Shock T echnology Spinning disks are very r eliable in a controlled environment wher e movement and vibration are minimal and within the capabilities of the devices.
Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 26 9. Timecode Using Timecode T ouching the timecode display on the home screen, just abouve the three main coloured contr ols, will take you .
Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 27 What is Pulldown? Many professional and consumer cameras available today do not send true 1080p24, 1080p23.98, 1080p25, 1080p29.97 or 1080p30 signals down their SDI or HDMI outputs. Instead they send 1080i59.
Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 28 Using the Playback and Playout features The Samurai Blade has a powerful playback function that allows you to playback pristine Apple ProRe.
Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 29 11. Playback & Playout cont. Once a file has been selected for playback, you will see the following options: Scrub Bar This is the thick blue line along the bottom of the playback screen.
Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 30 Loop Mode The Samurai Blade has the ability to play back a single clip in loop mode via the HD-SDI output. This can performed with captured clips at full broadcast quality or the nal edited clips fr om your hard drive.
Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 31 12. Connecting and Editing Connect T o access and edit your recorded material, connect the Master Caddy Docking Station to a Mac ® or Windows ® editing workstation via USB 2.0 or USB 3.0. Eject the Master Caddy from your Samurai Blade and insert it into the Docking Station.
Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 32 12. Connecting and Editing cont. Importing Final Cut Pro (version 7), Final Cut X , Adobe CS5 (with 5.51 update), EDIUS 6, Sony V egas 10, Lightworks and Avid Media Composer 6 support imported files from your Samurai Blade disk.
Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 33 SmartLog with FCP X Prior to importing the XML files into FCP X, ensure that: • Y ou have exported XML whilst the drive is in your Samur.
Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 34 13. Using Samurai Blade with external power supplies 14. Using Samurai Blade with Atomos Connect Converters AC Adaptor (included) This connects on the battery slot on the back of the Samurai Blade.
Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 35 15. Softwar e updates Updating AtomOS (Firmware) From time to time we will issue softwar e updates for your Samurai Blade. T o update the rmware (that’ s the software that runs inside your Samurai Blade), there is a simple pr ocedure you have to follow .
Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 36 Construction note: Y our Samurai Blade is designed to operate in ambient temperatures up to 40°C/105°F . It featur es a fanless design which dissipates inter nal heat through the aluminium chassis.
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