Grass Valley Turbo iDDR v.2.3 - Manual (Page 3)

Turbo iDDR User Guide
Contents
Finding Information ........................................................................................... 9
Getting more information ......................................................................................... 10
Grass Valley Product Support ................................................................................. 11
Safety Summaries .............................................................................................. 13
Chapter 1 Product Introduction
Product overview and key features ......................................................................... 20
Functional description ............................................................................................. 23
About E-to-E mode ............................................................................................. 23
E-to-E considerations ......................................................................................... 24
Media disk space: How media is stored ............................................................. 24
Front panel controls and indicators ......................................................................... 25
Rear panel connectors ............................................................................................ 26
Turbo iDDR control modes ...................................................................................... 27
Power-on and shutting down ................................................................................... 29
Accessing the Windows operating system .............................................................. 31
To access the Windows desktop: ....................................................................... 31
Chapter 2 Configuration: Turbo iDDR
Using the configuration manager ........................................................................... 34
Accessing Turbo iDDR configuration ................................................................. 34
Saving and restoring your settings .................................................................... 34
Restoring default settings .................................................................................. 35
About video scaling settings ................................................................................... 36
About aspect ratio conversion modes ............................................................... 36
Video scaling considerations .............................................................................. 37
Video output connector compatibility ...................................................................... 38
Guidelines for selecting video data rate ................................................................. 38
Configuring your Turbo iDDR .................................................................................. 39
Modifying system settings ................................................................................. 39
Modifying recorder channel (R1) settings .......................................................... 39
Modifying player channel (P1 and P2) settings ................................................. 41
Black Level .................................................................................................... 42
Modifying the front panel setup ......................................................................... 43
Setting GPI input triggers .................................................................................. 43
Setting GPI output triggers ................................................................................ 45
Adjusting video output timing ................................................................................. 45
Using the video reference input.......................................................................... 45
Video timing principles........................................................................................ 47
To adjust video output timing.............................................................................. 47
Chapter 3 Operation: Front Panel Control
Guide to using the front panel ................................................................................. 50
Enabling front panel control mode...................................................................... 50
Locking the front panel ....................................................................................... 50
Using the front panel controls............................................................................. 51
Conventions used in the front panel display ....................................................... 55
Recording clips ........................................................................................................ 57
About recording clips .......................................................................................... 58
About loop record mode ..................................................................................... 58
Guide to using the front panel Recorder display ................................................ 60
Before you record: Recorder settings checklist .................................................. 62
Features in the Recorder context menu ............................................................. 64
To record a clip................................................................................................... 65
Using IEEE 1394 Record mode.......................................................................... 66
Previewing a clip that is recording ...................................................................... 67