User manual

Atomos Samurai – User Manual Edition 2: November 2012 25

11. Playback & Playout

Scrub Bar

This is the thick blue line along the bottom of the playback screen. A

vertical white “now” line shows the current playback position. You can

think of the scrub bar as representing the length of the clip. If you touch

the scrub bar, playback will start from that position.

Simply by running your ﬁnger along the scrub bar, you can move

forwards or backwards through any clip - even if it is eight hours long - at

any speed.

Play/Pause

This is the master playback start/stop control and is found to the right

of the scrub bar. It toggles between play and stop.

The remaining play controls have two modes depending on whether the

Samurai is in Play or Pause.

Play mode

PLAY MODE

Fast Forward/Fast Reverse

Plays the clip at 8x normal speed

Fast Fast Forward/Fast Fast Reverse

Plays the clip at 64x normal speed

Pause mode

PAUSE MODE

Frame Forward/ Frame Reverse

Moves the clip forward/backward by a single frame

Go to start/Go to end

Goes directly to the beginning/end of the current clip

Note that you can jump between any of the controls while in playback:

you do not have to press Stop ﬁrst.