FOCUS Enhancements FS-2E manual Minimum Disk Space Requirements

FS-2/2E Functions

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.

Minimum Disk Space Requirements

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 appears 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 in standard record mode and 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 (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 certain that the FS-2/2E is in STOP mode before removing the disk drive from the system.

Do Not Attempt to Remove the drive when the FS-2/2E is in REC or REC-PAUSEmode.

FS-2/2E Studio DTE Disk Recorder User Guide

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