User manual

Atomos Samurai – User Manual Edition 2: November 2012 2
Thank you for choosing the Atomos Samurai: your 10-bit HD-SDI
Recorder/Monitor/Player. It’s the most compact portable recorder
available, with extremely long battery life, a high-resolution screen,
uncompressed-quality playout and real-time pulldown removal.
Samurai preserves the pristine uncompressed video quality from your
camera’s sensor by directly encoding it into Apple ProRes
®
or (optionally)
Avid DNxHD
®
as it records to HDD/SSD, making it instantly compatible
with your NLE timeline. The Samurai’s revolutionary ‘Sensor-to-NLE’
workflow is the fastest and best quality available today!
With the plummeting price of hard disk storage, the 2½” disks used by
the Samurai are very cheap; the cost of storage is no longer an issue.
Buying a disk for the Samurai is just like buying a tape – except that with
a disk you will have instant “non-linear” access to your video.
The Samurai’s one-touch TFT-LCD interface is intuitive and simple to use.
There are no complicated menus or difficult to find functions – everything
you need is instantly accessible from the home screen. Refer to ‘Using
your Samurai’ for more information.
Software updates for your Samurai will be issued regularly. Registering
your Samurai now will ensure you are kept abreast of any updates.
Software updates and information will also be available at:
www.atomos.com/samurai
We hope you enjoy your Samurai!
Your Samurai comes with a standard 1 year warranty on all parts and
accessories. You can upgrade to a 3 year warranty on the main
Samurai Unit alone (excluding TFT/LCD) by registering your Samurai
online at http://www.atomos.com/registration.xml. This will enable
us to let you know about updates to the product and other important
information surrounding your purchase.
Introduction