Atomos Samurai Blade - Manual (Page 15)

Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 13
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 Batteries 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 Blade 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 Blade 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.
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.
FORMATTING HDD/SSD
Touching the
Storage Capacity Indicator
on the home
screen will take you to the Media Information and Format screen. 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
Blade. A confirmation screen will give you the choice to continue or
cancel the process.
If you do not see your hard drive information, there may be a problem
with your connection. Try ejecting the drive and trying again.
Also check the drive compatibility list: http://atomos.activehosted.
com/kb/article/what-drives-do-we-recommend
The Samurai Blade file system is exFAT. We recommend that you
format each disk with the Samurai Blade and not your computer.
Unit Name
To access the unit name click on Menu, then File Naming or on the
Media icon on the home screen.
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;
BLADE_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.
7. Using the Samurai Blade
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