Fastec Imaging TS3 User manual

Fastec Imaging TS3 / TS4 Quick Start Guide
Equipment
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1. USB OTG (Micro A/B connector)
2. SDHC (SD-Card slot)
3. GigE Port (RJ45 connector)
4. Sync I/O, Trigger (Lemo connector)
5. HDMI Port (Type A connector)
6. DC Power In (Lemo connector)
1. Power LED
2. Network Acvity LED
3. Storage Acvity LED
4. Camera Status LED
5. Sync Acvity LED
6. Baery Status LED
7. Power ON/OFF Buon
8. Arm Buon
9. Display Buon
10. Menu Buon
11. D-Pad
Figure 1: Camera Views
Unpack the camera and assemble the following equipment:
1. TS3 or TS4 camera
2. Camera power adapter with AC power cord, or charged baery inserted in the camera. (Baery is fully
charged when the TS3 is shipped from the factory.)
3. Lens
1. Trigger Buon
2. Power Buon
3. USB port
4. Top Mount 1/4 -20
5. Camera Strap Aachment
6. 1/4-20 Tripod Mount
7. Hand Strap Aachment Point
8. Baery Door
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Controls and Buons
1. On/O Buon. This buon powers the camera on and o. If the baery is installed and the power adapter is aached, the
baery charging dialog will appear (see the secon on Power, below).
2. Display Buon. The Display Buon controls the LCD display on the back of the camera. Pressing the buon toggles the Display
through several modes: Display on, Display on with Histogram, and Display o. When reviewing clips, it also turns playback
controls and per frame metadata on and o.
3. Menu Buon. The Menu Buon toggles the on screen menus on and o. While navigang menus, the Menu Buon is used to go
backward through levels of the menu. (When touch-enabled the icon in the upper le of the screen has the same funcon.)
4. Direconal Pad (D-Pad) . The D-Pad has 5 actuaon points consisng of 4 arrows for navigang the menu and an OK Buon in
the center to select.
5. Arm Buon. When the Arm Buon is pressed the camera locks in its conguraon sengs and begins to store pre-trigger
images in internal memory. (If Low Light has been selected for live viewing, the camera will now revert to its selected exposure.)
6. Trigger Buon. When the camera has been armed and is recording, pushing the Trigger Buon prompts the camera to record
the Trigger frame (frame 0) and any post-trigger frames to complete the recording and stop.
7. Touch Control. With touch enabled you can move through the menus and dialog boxes simply by touching the display. If Touch
is not enabled, navigate to the System menu and down to “Touchscreen” using the D-Pad. Click on the “Disabled” buon. The
display will go blank except for a small icon in the upper le corner. Touch that icon to display the menus.
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Power
• Turn the camera on by pressing the Power Buon.
• If the DC power adapter is aached and the baery is installed, the baery charge dialog will appear on the screen. By default,
the camera will begin charging the baery if it is not already fully charged.
• From the charging dialog, the user must select “Camera On” to boot the camera.
• When the camera boots up it will use the same sengs it had when it was last powered down “politely.” If the camera was
powered down by removing power or by holding down the power buon, the sengs are not saved.
• The camera baery does not charge while the camera is in use. With the camera powered on and aached to the DC power
adapter, press the Power Buon once to open the Camera charging dialog. While the camera is charging, the Baery LED will
blink. When the baery is completely charged the camera will fully power down. This may take up to 5 hours.
Record
1. Navigate to the Record Sengs Sub-Menu and set the resoluon and speed desired.
2. Navigate to the Record Shuer Speed Sub-Menu and set the desired exposure.
3. Navigate to the Control Menu, Trigger Posion Sub-Menu and set the desired Trigger point. Seng the trigger point divides the
internal memory into two secons: 1) a circular buer reserved for pre-trigger frames; 2) a second buer for post-trigger frames.
The images recorded before the trigger are given negave frame numbers (oldest is most negave, the newest is -1), the image
taken at the me of the trigger is “frame 0,” and all frames taken aer the trigger are given posive numbers. Note that with an
“End” trigger, all frames will have negave numbers except for frame 0, which will be the last frame. With a “Start Trigger” the
recording will begin at frame “0” and all subsequent frames will have posive numbers.
4. Press the Arm Buon to begin recording pre-trigger frames. The camera sengs will be locked in. If you wish to abort the
recording to change sengs, press the Arm Buon again. Note the camera may remain Armed for an indenite period of me
because it is overwring its circular buer, it never runs out of space, but only retains the newest images.
5. Trigger the camera via the Trigger Buon or a Trigger Signal to the Sync I/O port to complete the recording. The TS3 will now
enter Review Mode, unless it is set to AutoSave, in which case the camera will download the recording, then revert to Armed
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Saving Video from Image Memory
1. Select the Save Icon from the playback controls. This will bring up a dialog that allows selecon of the following:
• Start and Stop points of the clip (these points can also be changed using Cut In/Out buons on the playback controls).
• Desnaon—where the movie clip is to be saved. Choices include the built-in SSD, (an opon), an SD card or a USB drive.
• The le Format desired—CAP (proprietary raw format), AVI video, or DNG, BMP, JPEG, or TIFF stack.
• File name prex, which may oponally include the camera name or user-dened tag..
2. When the movie clip is set up as desired, press the Save icon on the Save dialog. A new dialog will open with the heading Copy in
Progress. This dialog indicates the status of the le save operaon.
3. When the le save is complete, the dialog will display a message indicang Copy completed successfully. Press the OK icon to set
the camera back into Review Mode. Click on the Live buon to put the camera back into Live Mode.
There a several methods available to permanently save images:
• Load FasMoon soware on a computer (PC or MAC). FasMoon has ulies for saving images from camera memory to any
camera media or to any media connected to the PC. This is the fastest method of operaon. Please refer to the TS3 User Manual
for details.
• Download images from the image memory to an SD card installed in the SD port in the camera. View or transfer the images using
an SD card reader or by inserng the SD card into a built-in SD port in the desired PC.
Save Images to a Host PC
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Contact Information
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Review a Video on the Camera Display
Use the playback icons to play forward, backward, or jump to points of interest in the movie. Use the Cut In and Cut Out icons to
select a poron of the movie to review or save.
Skip Back Pause Skip Fwd
Cut In Cut Out Save
Beginning Play Bkwd Play End TriggerLive
The TS4 may be used in its “basic” mode, in which it is recording
relavely short clips into its internal high-speed memory, or in
“Long Recording Mode,” in which it is recording potenally much
longer clips directly into its built-in SSD.
To Select Long Recording Mode:
1. Open “User Preferences” in the “Conguraon” menu
under “System.”
2. Click on the check box to select Long Recording Mode.
3. Click OK.
The camera will now restart in Long Recording Mode.
To Exit Long Recording Mode:
1. Return to “User Preferences.”
2. De-select Long Recording Mode. Note: in order to have access to the SSD aer returning from Long Recording mode, the drive
must be formaed.
Long Record Selecon for TS4