FOCUS Enhancements FS-3 manual Infrared Sensor Settings, GPI Settings, Clip Preview Settings

FireStore FS-3 User Guide

Infrared Sensor Settings LCD Backlight Settings

This menu allows the user to ENABLE or DISABLE the IR sensor on FS-3. User simply selects the Menu Item. Highlighted mode is current mode after exit.

Pressing EXIT will exit back to the menu screen.

GPI Settings

This menu allows the user to enable or disable the FS-3 LCD back-light. Highlighted state is current after exit. Pressing EXIT will exit back to the menu screen.

The ON setting will keep the back-light on permanently while the OFF setting will keep the back-light off permanently. AUTO OFF will turn off the back light after one minute. Pressing any keypad button on FS-3 will turn the back-light back on in AUTO OFF state. This setting is advisable in high temperature environments and also to reduce power consumption.

Clip Preview Settings

This menu allows the user to change the setting of the GPI port. User simply selects the Mode. Highlighted mode is current mode after exit. Pressing EXIT will exit back to the menu screen.

DISABLE allows user to connect the supplied 3.5mm to DB9 cable to the GPI port and control FS-3 via RS232C from an external device.

The remaining three items allow functions to occur from a simple contact closure. Modes are PAUSE/UNPAUSE (allows control of pause and unpause during a record or playback session), INDEX (NEW FILE) (allows a new file to be created during a record session without losing any frames) and REC SNAPSHOT (allows a single frame of video to be recorded to a file. Each sequential trigger in this mode will add another frame to the same file until stopped).

This menu allows the user to select CLIP PREVIEW ON or OFF. When CLIP PREVIEW is ON, the camcorder is in VTR mode and the user scrolls from one clip to the next on FS-3 using the buttons, the first frame of each clip will be generated and showed via DV output after one second if the user pauses on

that clip.

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