User manual

Rec (Record)
This is the icon you touch to begin a recording. Touch it again to stop a
recording. While recording the Rec icon changes to a Stop icon. Once
your recording has started you have the option to touch the Mon icon to
view the signal you are recording.
STANDBY
RECORDING
The Rec icon is dimmed and disabled if there
is no valid video input OR if the disk is full. The
buttons is dimmed because you cannot record.
NO INPUT
Play
Touch this icon to play previously recorded clips. When you press the
green
Play button you will be taken to the navigation screen.
STANDBY
NAVIGATION
Samurai uses a unit name, scene, shot and take
convention to name the clips. Select the clip you want to play by touching
the file name and this will start to playback.
The Play button will be dimmed and disabled if
there is no disk or the disk is not formatted.
NO DISK
Mon (Monitor)
Pressing this icon connects the incoming video signal to the screen, so
that you can use the Samurai as a field monitor. More about monitoring in
the next section, Monitoring and Recording.
STANDBY
The Mon icon is dimmed and unselectable if there
is no valid video input.
NO INPUT
Menu
Pressing this takes you into a number of options which will
explained next.
STANDBY
MENU
9. Using the Samurai cont.
Atomos Samurai. User Manual V1.01 14