User manual

Atomos Samurai. User Manual V1.01 16
Battery Indicator
Shows whether you’ve got one or two batteries connected. If there is no
battery connected a number will not be displayed in the appropriate slot.
Touching the Battery Indicator takes you to the Batteries
screen where you can closely monitor the status of the Batteries.
When a battery is running low its icon will flash.
Batteries Screen
The Battery screen indicator is made up of two Battery icons, the active
battery is shown in orange and the level of each battery is shaded in 1/4
increments with a voltage level shown on top.
In the picture above we see Battery 1 is full and active and
Battery 2 is currently inactive and 1/4 depleted. If no battery
is present it will show an X in the picture and will be Black in
colour as pictured right.
Warning: If both of the batteries are fully depleted, the unit will
turn itself off. The Samurai will switch to the battery screen for the
last 5 seconds of available power before shutting down, alerting you
that shutdown is about to occur.
Auto Switching/Manual Switching
The Samurai will automatically switch to a new battery when the current
battery is depleted. You may also switch between batteries at any
time by pressing on that battery icon. The new active battery will then
turn orange. You may need to use this if you have for example 3 hours
recording but only 2.5 hours of battery in one battery, in which case you
would change to a freshly charged one.
Unit Name
The unit name serves two main purposes:
• HDD Naming: Naming the unit names the drive if the drive is
formatted after the unit name has been set
• File Naming: File name is the current unit name as the start of the
recorded clip name;
SAMURAI_S001_S002_T003
To access the unit name screen simply touch the blue arrow to the
right of the unit name. Creating your own unit name is simple. Pressing OK
will allocate the new unit name and return you to the menu screen.
Storage Capacity Indicator
Located in the bottom right of the screen. When a disk is inserted, the
Storage Capacity Indicator will show the recording
capacity of the drive in hours minutes and seconds, based on the
currently selected video compression, which of course, will determine the
recording bitrate.
Touching on the
Storage Capacity Indicator will take you
to the Media information and format screen. The Media Information
indicates the drive you have present, in this case a Hitachi 500GB
spinning disk.
Touching
Format HDD/SSD will format the drive inside the Samurai.
A confirmation screen will give you the choice to continue or cancel the
process.
The Samurai file system is exFAT. We recommend that you format
each disk with the Samurai and not your computer.
Timecode Record Trigger
A new feature of Samurai is the ability to trigger record via rolling HD-SDI
timecode. To allow you to use this feature you need to set the Timecode
source to HD-SDI (for more information refer to Section 7. Timecode).
OFF DISABLED ENABLED
Once timecode is set, the ‘disabled’ icon will appear. This works as a
toggle on/off button, when it is blue it is disabled, when it is orange, it is
enabled. When you press REC/start on the camera the Samurai will also
start recording.
You can still use LANC to control start/stop of the Samurai as well.
For LANC to work you must have a LANC capable camera connected
to the Samurai. LANC does not work with a LANC controller only.
9. Using the Samurai cont.