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Atomos Anti-Shock Technology
Spinning disks are very reliable in a controlled environment where
movement and vibration are minimal and within the capabilities of the
devices. They are ideal for low-cost recording, but will suffer reduced
performance if they are jolted or receive a sudden impact.
Should one of these events occur, the Samurai Blade will sense the
hard disk slowdown. If there is a break in the recording it will detect the
number of frames involved and will then continue to record when it is
safe to do so.
This means that even if you suffer a momentary break in your recording, the
video capture will continue without any intervention from you, the user.
It is obviously important for you to know that you have suffered from an
interrupted recording and the user interface will display a warning (in the
form of a Kangaroo sign) clearly above the disk-capacity display on the
main screen.
If you find you are working on a very active project where you are seeing
a lot of
“Skippys” then you probably need to switch to SSDs, and only
use spinning disks for gentler environments.
To remove “Skippy” warning, simply touch the icon
and it will disappear.
File Recovery
The Samurai Blade saves the file every 8 seconds while in recording
mode, so if the recording is stopped suddenly, without closing the file
properly, you will only ever lose 8 seconds of material.
In the event of an interrupted recording, when you restart the Samurai
Blade, or enter playback mode, you will be presented with a menu that
gives you the option to recover immediately, or recover it later.
If you recover later, every time you put the disk in, or start up the
Samurai Blade, the same menu will appear to prompt you to recover the
file that did not close properly.
If the drive is broken, or has become corrupted, then we will
not be able to recover the file and we recommend that you try
third-party hard disk recovery software.
“Skippy”
warning
8. Monitoring and Recording
cont.