Atomos Samurai Blade - Manual (Page 4)

Atomos Samurai Blade – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 2
Thank you for choosing the Atomos Samurai Blade: 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, waveform monitor and vectorscope.
Samurai 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 Samurai 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 Samurai Blade are very cheap; the cost of storage is no longer an
issue. Buying a disk for the Samurai Blade is just like buying a tape –
except that with a disk you will have instant “non-linear” access to your
video.
The Samurai 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 Samurai Blade’ for more information.
Software updates for your Samurai Blade will be issued regularly.
Registering your Samurai 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 Samurai Blade!
Your Samurai Blade comes with a standard 1 year warranty on all parts
and accessories.
You can upgrade to a 3 year warranty on the main
Samurai Blade Unit alone (excluding IPS screen) by registering your
Samurai 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