Atomos Ronin - Manual (Page 23)

Atomos Ronin – User Manual Edition 1: June 2013 21
8. Monitoring and Recording
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 Ronin 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. This can also caused by
fragmented drives, drives with not much space.
Format drives at start of each shoot.
To remove “Skippy” warning, simply touch the icon and it will
disappear.
File Recovery
The Ronin is continuosly writing to disk when recording. However if
the recording is stopped suddenly due to sudden power failure or disk
removal the file will be broken. A file recovery feature has been included
in the device that can recover almost all of the footage and rebuild the
video file.
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