FOCUS Enhancements FS-2/2E manual Retro Cache

FS-2/2E FUNCTIONS

Hold the button for more than 3 seconds to allow numbers to increase by 10 times.

Press EXIT to return to the RECORD

Press the REC key when in RETRO DISK mode to put the FS-2/2E into a RETRO DISK state (the FS- 2/2E's REC button flashes as if in PAUSE state). The FS-2/2E is actually recording in this state, but until you press the REC key a second time, the video records over itself in a continuous loop. RETRO DISK always keeps at least the selected amount of time in a series of one minute clips. For instance, if you set the RETRO DISK value to 3 minutes, the FS-2 always has 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 you select a RETRO session that is 60 minutes or greater, instead of one minute clips, the FS-2/2E creates 9 minute, 13 second clips (2GB clips on disk). The functioning of RETRO DISK remains the same. The larger file size prevents the FS-2/2E from reaching its 999 track limitation for very long RETRO records.

Due to larger files sizes, the maximum amount of drive space available is decreased to accommodate the last recording in a session. For instance, if you have 90 minutes of disk space remaining, after you set RETRO record to less than 60 minutes, the available space changes to 88 minutes of available disk space.

If you set 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 write over clip 1. This ensures that at any given time, at least 88 minutes of video exists after a complete RETRO DISK record loop.

NOTE: The FS-2/2E must always have at least one minute of disk space (under 60 minutes) or 9 minutes, 13 seconds of disk space (when the RETRO DISK value is set to greater than 60 minutes) remaining in addition to the RETRO DISK value, 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.

Once RETRO DISK time is set, you can exit the Menus and return to the Main Screen. An “L” will now appear next to the record symbol on the FS-2/2E's display. Press the REC key once to put the FS-2/2E immediately into RETRO DISK RECORD. Clips are being recorded to disk for X number of minutes in one or nine minute increments (each as a separate track).

The REC button flashes (as when the unit is in pause). When you press the REC key, the FS-2/2E leaves RETRO DISK mode and goes into standard record.

All one minute tracks in the recorded loop sequence appear and are saved as their own tracks on disk (for example, 1-001, 1-002, 1-003, and so on) except for the recording that was in progress, which takes on the characteristics of a standard track. At this stage, the FS-2/2E is essentially in standard record mode (the “L” on the display disappears). No frames are lost across tracks during the record session.

Once paused, the unit returns to RETRO DISK record mode again (the “L” reappears in the LCD and viewfinder) for further RETRO recordings or until it is disabled in the RETRO DISK screen.

RETRO DISK can be used in LOCAL and SYNCRO SLAVE record control modes.

WARNING: Make sure FS-2/2E is in STOP mode before removing the disk drive from the system. Do not attempt to remove it when the FS-2/2E is in REC or REC-PAUSE mode.

Retro Cache

RETRO CACHE Record constantly caches your video in a loop up to a 10 second data buffer. In this way, when the record is begun, a retro time period is added to the beginning of any clip.

RETRO CACHE

CACHE: 10 sec

EXIT

FS-2 and FS-2E Studio DTE Disk Recorders User Guide

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Part Number: MANL-0927-03