Abekas A60 User manual

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Cop yri ght Ja nuary 1988
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digital disk recorder A60
A60
Operations
Manual

Abekas A60 DIGITAL DISK RECORDER
Operation Manual
Installation Guide
(REV 1.2)
copyright March 1988
Abekas Video Systems, Inc.
101 Galveston Drive
Redwood City
California 94063
[phone]

Table of Contents
Section 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1
1.1 Description ....................••................ 1.1
1.2 Physical Description ..........•.••................ 1.2
1.2.1 Control Panel ....................... 1.2
1.2.2 Main Electronics Chassis .............. 1.2
1.2.3 Additional Disk Drive Chassis (optional) .. 1.2
Section 2: SYSTEM SET-UP 2.1
2.1 Initial System Connections ......................... 2.1
2.2 Configuring the Analog Outputs ............•........ 2.2
2.3 Power-Up Procedure .............................. 2.2
2.4 Power-Down Procedure .............•.......•...•.. 2.4
2.5 System Timing ................................... 2.5
Section 3: FAMILIARIZATION 3.1
3.1 Controls and the Display ........................... 3.1
3.2 Description of Keys ............................... 3.1
3.2.1 FUNCTION KEYS ................... 3.1
3.2.2 TRANSPORT KEYS ................. 3.3
3.2.3 SEGMENT AND LOOP KEYS .......... 3.3
3.2.4 NUMERIC KEYPAD .................. 3.4
3.3 Menu Monitor .................................... 3.5
3.3.1 THE HOME MENU .................. 3.6
3.3.2 HOME MENU LINES ................. 3.7
3.3.3 SETUP MENU ...................... 3.9
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3.3.4 SETUP MENU LINES ................ 3.9
3.3.5 MACROS MENU
.................... 3.11
3.3.6 MACROS MENU LINES
.............. 3.11
3.3.7 REMOTE MENU
.................... 3.13
3.3.8 REMOTE MENU LINES
............... 3.13
3.3.9 DIAGNOSTICS MENU
................ 3.15
3.3.10 DIAGNOSTICS MENU LINES ......... 3.15
3.3.11 GPI MENU
........................ 3.17
3.3.12 GPI MENU LINES
.................. 3.17
3.3.13 RECORD LOCKOUT MENU
.......... 3.18
3.3.14 RECORD LOCKOUT MENU LINES
.... 3.18
3.3.15 MISCELLANEOUS MENU
............ 3.19
3.3.16 MISC MENU LINES
................. 3.19
3.3.17 SEGMENTS PLAYMENU
............ 3.21
3.3.18 Segs Play Menu Lines ............... 3.21
3.4 The Tlmecode and Frame Numbers •••.•....•..•..... 3.23
3.4.1 The Control
Panel Display ............ 3.23
3.4.2 The
Menu Monitor Display ............ 3.23
3.4.3 The Preview Monitor Display
........... 3.23
Section 4: OPERATION 4.1
4.1 Playback Functions ••••.•••••.••.••••.•••...••...• 4.1
4.1.1 OUTPUTMONITORING .............. 4.1
4.1.2 FIELD OR FRAME OUTPUT ........... 4.1
4.1.3 INTERPOLATOR MODES ............ 4.2
4.1.4 PLAY MODES
...................... 4.2
4.1.5 THE VAR PLAY
KEy ................ 4.3
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4.1.6 THE JOG KEYS .................... 4.3
4.1.7 THE GOTO KEY
.................... 4.3
4.1.8 THE LOOP KEY
.................... 4.3
4.1.9 TRIMMING LOOPS
.................. 4.4
4.2
Recording Functions ........•................•.•.. 4.6
4.2.1 VIDEO INPUT SELECTION
........... 4.6
4.2.2 SIMPLE RECORDING
............... 4.6
4.2.3 FIELD AND FRAME RECORD LENGTHS 4.6
4.2.4 CALCULATE RECORD LENGTH
MODE. 4.7
4.3 RECORD LOCKOUT
Mode •.•.•.••.•..••.......•... 4.8
4.3.1 RECORD LOCKOUT SEGMENTS
...... 4.8
4.3.2 CREATING A LOCKOUTSEGMENT
.... 4.9
4.3.3 DELETING A LOCKOUT SEGMENT
.... 4.9
4.4 SEGMENT PLAY
Mode ....•....•....•.•........... 4.10
4.4.1 SEGMENT LIMITS ................... 4.10
4.4.2 DEFINING.SEGMENTS .............. 4.10
4.4.3 THE SEGMENTS PLAY MENU ........ 4.10
4.4.4 THE GOTO KEY AND SEGMENTS ..... 4.11
4.4.5 LOOPING SEGMENTS .............. 4.11
4.4.6 USING THE SEGMENTS PLAYMENU .. 4.11
4.4.7 SEGMENT EXAMPLES ............... 4.13
4.4.8 DELETING AND MOVING SEGMENTS
.. 4.13
4.4.9 COPYING SEGMENTS
............... 4.14
4.4.10 SEGMENTSPEED ................. 4.14
4.4.11 SEGMENT PAUSE
................. 4.14
4.4.12TRIMMING A SEGMENT
............ 4.15
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4.5 MACROS •.........•.••.••..•.•.••••.•.•••.•••... 4.16
4.5.1 MACROS MENU LINES
.............. 4.16
4.5.2 CREATING A
MACRO ................ 4.17
4.5.3 FRAME RECORD MACRO EXAMPLE
... 4.18
4.5.4 RUNNING A MACRO
................ 4.18
Section 5: REMOTE OPERATION
5.1
5.1 REMOTE MENU SELECTIONS ••.•.•.•.•••..••....•.• 5.1
5.2 SERIAL REMOTE CONTROL .•.•.•.•.••••.•.•.••.... 5.4
5.3 ETHERNET
•.....•...••••.....•.•....•....•.•..•• 5.5
5.4 COMPUTER 232
CONTROL .......•....••.....•..... 5.7
5.5 THE TIMECODE TRIGGER MODE •.•.•.•.....•....•.. 5.8
5.6 GPI
CONTROL ....•....•.•........••.............. 5.9
Section 7: INDEX
7.1
Section 8: INSTALLATION GUIDE 8.1
8.1 Physical Mounting ....•.•.•.•.....•....••.•••..... 8.1
8.2 System Interconnects ..•...•..••.•.•..•..•••....... 8.1
8.2.1 Signal System to DiskDrive Connections .
8.1
8.2.2 RIBBON CABLE CONNECTION TABLE .. 8.1
8.2.3 Control Panel to Signal System Connection8.3
8.2.4 Control Panelto Menu MonitorConnection 8.3
8.3 Video Connections ..........•.........•........... 8.4
8.3.1 Reference
......................... 8.4
8.3.2 Video Inputs
........................ 8.4
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8.3.3 Video Outputs ...................... 8.4
8.3.4 Analog SyncOutputs
................. 8.4
8.3.5 Early Output Syncs
.................. 8.4
8.4 Detailed Pin-Out
Information ........................ 8.5
8.4.1 Keyboard Interconnections
............ 8.5
8.4.2 KEYBOARD CABLE PIN LISTING
...... 8.5
8.4.3 The SMPTE and AUX RS422 Connections 8.6
8.4.4 SMPTE CONNECTOR PIN-OUT
........ 8.6
8.4.5 The RS232 Connections
.............. 8.7
8.4.6 RS232 PIN LISTING
................. 8.7
8.5
Editor Interfacing ................................. 8.8
8.5.1 CMX Editors/RS232 .................. 8.8
8.5.2 CMX Editors/RS422
.................. 8.8
8.5.3 SMPTE Editors/RS422
............... 8.9
8.6 A53D
Interfacing .................................. 8.10
8.7 GPI Connections .................................. 8.11
8.7.1 GPIINPUTS
........................ 8.11
8.7.1.1 The "Dry" Method .................. 8.11
8.7.1.2 The External Voltage Method ......... 8.12
8.7.2GPIOUTPUTS ...................... 8.13
8.8 ANALOG OUTPUT CONFIGURATION
............•... 8.14
8.8.1 INTRODUCTION
.................... 8.14
8.8.2 Y,R-Y,B-YWITH SYNC
ON Y .......... 8.15
8.8.3 Y,R-Y,B-YWITH NO
SyNC ............ 8.17
8.8.4 R,G,B WITH SYNC ON GREEN
........ 8.19
8.8.5 R,G,B WITH NO SYNC
............... 8.22
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Section 1: INTRODUCTION
1.1 Description The
A60 is areal-time component digital recotding device, providing real-time playback in
forward orreverse, variable playback speeds and random access to recorded material.
The
A60 conforms to the 4:2:2 component digital standard and provides CCIR 601 input and
output ports for interface to other CClR 601 equipment, making it ideal to use in various
graphics environments.
Functionally,
the A60 will perform like a playback or a record VTR, configured in one of
two capacities; the standard configuration ofeither 25 seconds for the 525 version or 30
seconds for the 625 version, and the optional configuration of 50 seconds for the 525 ver-
sion or 60 seconds for the 625 version.
The
A60 has two CCIR 601 video inputports, eitherone may be selectedfor recordingpur-
poses. The Abekas A20 digital video encoder should be used if the input is to be originat-
ing
from an analog component source, such as an RGB camera or a component VTR.
The A60 has several video output configurations present. Theprogram output is available
both in
the digital CCIR 601 format, and as an analog signal that is either RGB or Y, R- Y,
B- Y. Sync is available as a seperate output and may be added to the G or Y output. The
preview output is available in either of the analog formats, and will only differ from the
program output by the presence of the time code and frame positioninfonnationplacedover
it.
The A60 may also have digital video transfer and remote machine control acomplished by
using eitherthe Ethernet orthe SCSI ports. The Ethernetport follows the TCP/IP standard,
and supports remote log in,
FrP and TELNET. The SCSI port is used typically for offline
storage of
video using standard 9-track magnetic streamertape.
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