FOCUS Enhancements FS-2E manual Retro Cache

FS-2/2E Functions

2.5.4.3Retro Cache

RETRO CACHE

CACHE: 10 sec

EXIT

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.

Pressing the REC key when in RETRO CACHE mode puts the FS- 2/2E into a RETRO CACHE state (the tally light on the FS-2/2E 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. It is much the same as RETRO DISK recording, except that it utilizes a data buffer separate to the disk drive to cache video.

RETRO CACHE is also accurate down to the frame instead of the 1 minute clips used in RETRO DISK. Once a RETRO CACHE value is set, pressing the REC key once puts the FS-2/2E immediately into RETRO CACHE Record. A C now appears next to the record symbol on the FS-2/2E's display.

Video is being recorded to the FS-2/2E cache. The REC button flashes (as if the unit is in pause). When you press the REC key, the FS-2/2E exits the RETRO CACHE Record mode and goes into standard record (the C on the display disappears).

Any clip recorded in this mode has the contents of the cache added to the beginning of the clip.

Once paused, the unit returns to the RETRO CACHE record mode again (the C reappears in the LCD) for further RETRO CACHE recordings or until it is disabled in the RETRO CACHE by setting the RETRO CACHE time to zero seconds.

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

2.5.4.4Loop Record

When LOOP RECORD is selected after recording has begun, video is recorded to available disk space. Clips are recorded to disk continuously in one-minute clips (up to 60 minutes), or 9 minute clips (for loops over 60 minutes, 2GB files).

FS-2/2E Studio DTE Disk Recorder User Guide 36