Atomos Samurai Blade - Manual (Page 30)

Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 28
Using the Playback and Playout features
The Samurai Blade has a powerful playback function that allows you
to playback pristine Apple ProRes or (optionally) DNxHD recordings in
real-time with controls to navigate quickly to any part of a clip, the ability
to play recorded content faster than normal playback speed or step
through the clip frame-by-frame to check your footage very accurately.
Playback makes the Samurai Blade a fully-functional portable HD Deck
with quality visually identical to uncompressed!
Whenever a clip plays on the Samurai Blade’s screen, it will also be
presented as an HD-SDI signal through the Samurai Blade’s HD-SDI
output. You can view this on an SDI monitor, or, using an optional
Atomos S2H Connect Converter, on an HDMI monitor.
To play back a clip, first touch the green Play control on the home
screen. There will be a short pause while clips are made available for
playback. You will then be taken to the Play Navigation screen.
exFAT Disks
If the disk has been formatted on Samurai Blade it will use the ExFat
file system. The Play navigation screen will display a list of files that
have been recorded. The naming convention used includes the unit’s
name, Scene number, shot number and take number, e.g.
BLADE_S001_S001_T001.mov
This list is ordered in the same order it was recorded in. To navigate
the list use the up and down arrows to scroll through. If you edit the
XML in playback this will put the file to the top of the list. To play the
item touch the file you want to play and this will start the playback.
FAT32 Disks
If the disk has been formatted on a Mac/PC as FAT32, it will use the
FAT32 file system.
As a general rule, we do not recommend FAT32 for recording video.
The Play navigation screen will display the
Scene
and
Shot
folder
structure.
The first screen will show you all the
Scene
folders. In the picture
below we can see
Scene001
) within the
Scene
Folder are any
Shot
folders. In the picture below you will see the 5 different shot
folders. Within each
Shot
folder will be the list of
takes
.
Fat 32 has a file size limitation of approx 4GB, when you recorded
on the Samurai Blade it would generate a new take each time the
recording exceeded this limit.
You will notice the
take
has a different icon, this indicates the file can
be played back.
You can navigate the files and folders using the blue up and down
arrows. Once you see the
take
you would like to playback, touch the
take
icon you want to play and this will start the playback.
11. Playback & Playout