Atomos Ninja Blade - Manual (Page 4)

Atomos Ninja Blade – User Manual Edition 1: Feb 2014 2
Thank you for choosing the Atomos Ninja Blade: your 10-bit HDMI
Recorder/Monitor/Player. It’s the most compact portable recorder
available, with extremely long battery life, a high-resolution screen,
waveform monitor and vectorscope.
Ninja Blade 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 Ninja Blade’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 Ninja Blade are very cheap; the cost of storage is no longer an issue.
Buying a disk for the Ninja Blade is just like buying a tape – except that
with a disk you will have instant “non-linear” access to your video.
The Ninja Blade’s one-touch IPS ‘SuperAtom’ screen 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 Ninja Blade’ for more information.
Software updates for your Ninja Blade will be issued regularly. Registering
your Ninja Blade now will ensure you are kept abreast of any updates.
Software updates and information will also be available at:
www.atomos.com/support
We hope you enjoy your Ninja Blade!
Your Ninja Blade comes with a standard 1 year warranty on all parts and
accessories. You can upgrade to a 3 year warranty on the main Ninja
Blade Unit alone (excluding IPS screen) by registering your Ninja Blade
online at www.atomos.com/registration
This will enable us to let you know about updates to the product and other
important information surrounding your purchase.
Special thanks to Atomos user Dave Newton for kindly giving us
permission to use his footage for the screenshots.
Introduction