Avid Technology AirSpeed 5000 User manual

1. Connections
A picture of the back of the recorder chassis is shown below with connection points.
Video/SDI
Input
Video/SDI
Output
VGA
Output
USB Mouse
and Keyboard
Connectors
AC
Power
The Video input/SDI BNC should be connected to the output of the syste that is to be recorded fro .
The Video output/SDI BNC should be connected to a onitor for test purposes.
2. Boot the Recorder
If the recorder does not power up after plugging in the power cords then switch on the power by
pushing the power switch as shown below.
The syste should take few inutes to boot up into Windows 7.

3. Unzip the customer diagnostic tool Airspeed5000Test.zip
After unzipping the zip file go to the folder that that it was unzipped too and run the
Airspeed5000Test.exe.
Airspeed Customer Dia nostic tool

4. iagnostic Test Page
The following page should appear.

5. Select Video Format

6. Set Video Format
Notice that SD_NTSC_485 has been selected as the video for at for both play and capture.
After selecting the Start Video button color base should appear on the SDI output BNC. This sets
the Video IO to standard definition or SMPTE 259M.
Select Start Video

Next select the stop video button.

7. Select the Record Tool
Use the scroll bar and scroll down to “SDI Raw Rec/Play” icon as shown below:

Select the “SDI Raw Rec/Play” icon and the following screen should appear:

Select ““Rec/Play pass-thru”
Select “Rec/Play pass-thru” as shown in the above pulldown and the following screen should
appear:

At this point select the start button and the output of the recorder should show what is connected
to the input of the recorder, this is to confir that the syste is receiving a valid video/SDI input
signal and able to loop it through to the output.
The next step is to stop the video/SDI loop through by selecting the “Stop SDI” button as shown
below:

If the loop through was successful the syste is now ready to capture unco pressed video/audio.
The next step is select “Record to file” ode as shown below:

After selecting the “Start” button the following pop up will appear:

Type in a file na e for the unco pressed capture/record of video and audio.
Select the “E:” drive to store the data to.
Select “Save” to start the unco pressed capture of video and audio.

At this point the video effect sequence can be done on the video/audio switcher. After the effect
has co pleted the capture/record can be stopped by selecting the “Stop SDI” button as shown
below:

8. Verify Captured ata File
After perfor ing a data capture, the file can be played back by selecting “Play fro file” as shown
below:
The following pop up should appear:

Select Drive E:
Select file
Select Open
Select the “E:” drive as the source of the file.
Select the file to be played.
Select “Open”.
At this point the recorded video/audio will play out at the output of the recorder as an SDI strea .