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Normal Record
Standard and default record mode. When REC
is triggered, DR-DV5000 begins standard
recording. A single press of a STOP trigger
will put DR-DV5000 into REC PAUSE mode.
A second press puts DR-DV5000 into STOP
mode.
Retro Disk Record Mode
RETRODISK Record Constantly buffers
video in a loop to a determined amount of
space on the HDD so that when record is
triggered, a retro time period can be added to
the beginning of any clip.
RETRO DISK has the following characteristic.
Pressing a REC TRIGGER when in RETRO
DISK mode puts DR-DV5000 into a RETRO
DISK state (DR-DV5000’s tallylight will flash
as if in PAUSE state). DR-DV5000 is actually
recording in this state, but until the RECORD
TRIGGER is pressed a second time, the video
recorded will record over itself in a continuous
loop. RETRO DISK always keeps at least the
amount of time that is selected by the end user
in a series of one minute clips. For instance,
if the user sets the RETRO DISK value to 3
minutes, they will always have 3 minutes
(made up of three, one (1) minute clips) of
video saved to disk. As the recording goes
past the 3 minute point, a fourth clip is
created. Once that clip reaches
one minute, the oldest of the previous 3 clips
is deleted. Another fourth clip is then created.
If a user selects a RETRO session that is 60
minutes or greater, instead of one minute
clips, DR-DV5000 creates 9 minute, 13
second clips (2GB clips on disk). The
characteristics of RETRO DISK remains the
same. The larger file size prevents DR-
DV5000 reaching its 999 track limitation for
very long RETRO records. Due to the larger
files sizes, the maximum amount of drive
space available is decreased in order to
accommodate the last recording in a session.
For instance, if a user has 90 minutes of disk
space remaining, after the user sets RETRO
record to greater than 60 minutes, the
available space changes to 88 minutes of
available disk space. If the user sets RETRO
time to 88 minutes, the recording will be
made up of about nine and a half 9 minute,
13 second clips. There must be space available
in this situation in order to record the final
clip which eventually will right over clip 1.
This ensures that at any given time, at least
88 minutes of video exists after a compete
RETRO DISK record loop.
NOTE: DR-DV5000 must always have at
least one minute of disk space (under 60
minutes) or 9 minutes, 13 seconds of disk
space (when RETRO DISK value is set to
greater than 60 minutes) remaining in addition
to the RETRO DISK value that has been set,
in order to function correctly. For instance, it
is not possible to set a RETRO DISK value
of one minute if only one minute of disk
space remains.
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