Datavideo HDR-60, Instruction Manual

Page 1: ...HDR 60 HD SD DIGITAL VIDEO RECORDER Instruction Manual ...

Page 2: ...EXPLAINED 12 MENU OVERVIEW AND MENU NAVIGATION 13 RECORD SETUP 14 SET HD ENCODE FORMAT 14 SET SD ENCODE FORMAT 15 SET SD ASPECT RATIO 15 BEFORE RECORDING 16 TRANSFER OLD CLIPS FROM THE MEDIA 16 FORMAT MEDIA 16 SET REC FILE TYPE 16 SET THE ENCODE FORMAT 16 SELECT THE AUDIO SOURCE 16 SELECT YOUR TIME CODE SOURCE 16 TURN RECORD MODE ON 16 RECORDING 17 SELECT AN EMPTY BIN IN WHICH TO RECORD 17 RECORDI...

Page 3: ...CONTROL 28 SENSE REQUEST 28 TRANSPORT CONTROL 29 DIMENSIONS WEIGHT 34 SPECIFICATIONS 35 SERVICE SUPPORT 36 Disclaimer of Product Services The information offered in this instruction manual is intended as a guide only At all times Datavideo Technologies will try to give correct complete and suitable information However Datavideo Technologies cannot exclude that some information in this manual from ...

Page 4: ...o not locate this unit where the power cord will be walked on rolled over or otherwise stressed 9 If an extension cord must be used with this unit make sure that the total of the ampere ratings on the products plugged into the extension cord do not exceed the extension cord rating 10 Make sure that the total amperes of all the units that are plugged into a single wall outlet do not exceed 15 amper...

Page 5: ...llations which are not required by our computer systems are not covered under warranty All mail or transportation costs including insurance are at the expense of the owner All other claims of any nature are not covered All accessories including headphones cables batteries metal parts housing cable reel and consumable parts are not covered under warranty Warranty only valid in the country or region...

Page 6: ...l help to conserve natural resources and ensure that it is recycled in a manner that protects human health and the environment For more information about where you can drop off your waste equipment for recycling please contact your local city office your household waste disposal service or the shop where you purchased the product CE Marking is the symbol as shown on the left of this page The lette...

Page 7: ... session is finished simply eject the removable drive enclosure The drive enclosure can then be connected via a USB 2 0 port to a PC or Mac based HD Non Linear Editing system You then copy the required video as files across to your HD NLE media drive As USB 2 0 provides power to the drive enclosure no extra power supply is required so it is also perfect for laptop use in the field The recorder can...

Page 8: ...13 Kingston HyperX 128GB SSD SSD 14 SANDISK 120GB SSD Extreme II SSD 15 SANDISK 240GB SSD Extreme II SSD 16 SAMSUNG 840 PRO 128G SSD SSD 17 INTEL 520SERIES 120G SSD 18 SANDISK X110 OEM SSD 19 Kingston HYPER X 240G SSD 20 Crucial MX220 250G SSD 21 Samsung 850PRO 256GB SSD 22 SANDISK X300s 512GB SSD 23 Samsung 840EVO 1TB SSD 24 UD info 256GB SSD 25 SANDISK X400 128G 256G 512G SSD 26 SANDISK ULTRA II...

Page 9: ...ted into the enclosure 4 Re secure the back plate of the enclosure using the two screws removed earlier 5 Push the removable HE 3 enclosure into recorder as shown Now move the locking lever from right to left side to secure the HE 3 in place 6 You are now ready to switch the unit on 7 New drives will be formatted within the recorder upon first use The LCD Clip Status display is shown once the reco...

Page 10: ...n is on back lit Record Button To start recording press the Record and Play buttons together N B Unit will not record if no video signal is present Play Pause Button Starts playback of a bin or pauses playback of video the status will be displayed on the LCD Panel Fwd Rew Buttons In playback mode these buttons will operate as Fast Forward and Rewind Buttons Stop Button Stops playback or record fun...

Page 11: ...l when supplying an external Time Code source to this input port HDMI Out Port Port for connecting to HDMI external devices HD SDI input output and loop through connectors 4 2 2 SDI Video data supports SMPTE 292M standard at 1 5Gbps SDI transfers professional level video signals and can connect to long distance transmission systems DC In Socket Connect the supplied 12V PSU to this socket The conne...

Page 12: ... Power button Places the unit in standby mode or soft starts the unit Formatting a drive before first use New HE 3 drive enclosures as described on page 8 will need to be formatted in the recorder before first use The recorder s LCD panel will display options as follows 1 The drive is checked by the unit 2 Choose the FORMAT option 3 Confirm the FORMAT option 4 The drive is now being made ready for...

Page 13: ...the current firmware detail SETUP RECORD SETUP See page 14 for further details PLAY SETUP See page 19 for further details SYSTEM SETUP See page 20 for further details SAVE SETUP RECALL SETUP STATUS LCD displays current recording bit rate and video format The following front panel buttons are used to navigate the displayed menus and to change settings Menu Button This calls up the Menu Display whic...

Page 14: ... available are MAIN MENU SUB MENU 1 SUB MENU 2 OPTION CHOICE TOOL SETUP STATUS RECORD SETUP PLAY SETUP SET HD ENCODE FORMAT SYSTEM SETUP SET SD ENCODE FORMAT HD LONG GOP SAVE SETUP SET REC FILE TYPE HD I FRAME ONLY RECALL SETUP SET SD ASPECT RATIO TIME LAPSE SET UP PWR ON AUTO RECORD Records at HD LONG GOP options are 4 2 0 10M LONG GOP 10 Mbps 4 2 0 25M LONG GOP 25 Mbps 4 2 2 35M LONG GOP 35 Mbps...

Page 15: ...5 Mbps Selected setting confirmed 4 2 2 30M LONG GOP 30 Mbps with an asterisk 4 2 2 50M LONG GOP 50 Mbps SD I FRAME ONLY options are 4 2 2 25M I ONLY 25 Mbps 4 2 2 50M I ONLY 50 Mbps Note The HDR 60 can only record PAL or NTSC SDI input video formats SET SD ASPECT RATIO This option is used to set the aspect ratio of the recorded SD video Use the LCD menu path MENU SETUP RECORD SETUP SET SD ASPECT ...

Page 16: ...rd Definition SD or High Definition HD video It also offers a choice of LONG GOP or I FRAME ONLY recording at various bit rates Use the LCD menu path MENU SETUP RECORD SETUP SET HD SD ENCODE FORMAT to confirm your choice See pages 14 and 15 for the available choices Select the AUDIO SOURCE The HDR 60 can record digital audio already in the SDI or HD SDI video Or it can record analogue audio using ...

Page 17: ...Using the Remote Serial interface See the command protocol at the rear of this manual 3 Simple contact closure circuit using a switch contact or button wired to the GPI port on the recorders rear panel See page 22 for more information Note If power is interrupted while recording up to two seconds of the current video CLIP may be lost Record Pause There are several ways of pausing a record session ...

Page 18: ... selected press MENU to exit this setting SET TIME LAPSE CYCLE This setting defines the amount cycle of time elapsed between video being captured This can be any time value between 1 second and 59 minutes 59 seconds Once the required value is selected press MENU to exit this setting Example If SET TIMELAPSE FRAME is set to 2 frames and SET TIMELAPSE CYCLE is set to 15 seconds then the HDR 60 will ...

Page 19: ...n in playback mode the keys FREV and FFWD will change the playback shuttle speed to 3x 6x 9x or 12x fast reverse and fast forward Repeatedly pressing a soft key will cause the playback to go faster in the chosen direction up to 12x speed A speed other than 1x is displayed in the bottom line of the LCD panel To return to normal play press the Play Play Pause button Playback in BIN or CLIP centric m...

Page 20: ...th MENU SETUP SYSTEM SETUP SET AUDIO MONITOR There are four stereo pair monitoring options AUDIO CHANNEL 1 2 or AUDIO CHANNEL 3 4 or AUDIO CHANNEL 5 6 or AUDIO CHANNEL 7 8 The current selection will be marked with an asterisk The default setting is AUDIO CHANNEL 1 2 LCD Audio Peak meter Whilst recording or playing back a CLIP the front panel RECORD button can be pressed This changes the LCD panel ...

Page 21: ... which are already embedded in the SDI HD SDI video input The recorder can alternatively accept analogue audio from the rear panel Balanced mini XLR audio inputs If SDI HD SDI embedded audio is selected the audio channels recorded will match the SDI input If Analogue mini XLR audio is selected this audio will be recorded into AUDIO CHANNEL 1 2 only ...

Page 22: ...cess starts again Each time the recorder starts recording a new clip will be added to the bin Max 99 CLIPS per BIN Press the stop button on the front panel of the recorder to end the recording process The contact closure button may be working in the opposite way to the type of action you want to perform A mechanical change to the GPI contact closure trigger should fix this Example when pressed dow...

Page 23: ...g Each file will be named BxxCnn where xx represents the BIN number nn represents the CLIP number ranging from 01 to 99 Mounting the HE 3 drive enclosure to a Computer Move the drive lock lever to the right to unlock the HE 3 drive from the recorder Push the HE 3 into the unit and when released it will pop out a few centimetres Gently pull the drive enclosure clear of the recorder You may feel som...

Page 24: ...e HE 3 drive do not immediately disconnect the USB 2 0 cable straight away Instead use your Computer s drive dis mounting process first and then physically remove the HE 3 drive after this process has been completed Windows 7 Apple Mac OSX Windows computers have a Safely Remove Hardware process seen in the System Tray area and Apple Mac computers have an Eject Drive Hardware process in the Devices...

Page 25: ...upgrade procedure If your CODEC version number starts with 130 simply follow the procedure below to update the firmware 2 Follow the link below to download firmware from Datavideo s official website www datavideo com Products Recorders HDR 60 Downloads Latest Firmware After unzipping the downloaded file you should be able to see two bin files in the Disk Update folder If CODEC version is NOT D10B ...

Page 26: ... Time Setup Use the LCD menu path MENU SET UP SYSTEM SET UP DATE TIME SET UP Date and Time meta data can be added to recorded files when this menu option is used FFWD moves the cursor to the next Date or Time field FREV moves the cursor to the previous Date or Time field PLAY PAUSE increases the value of the current field RECORD decreases the value of the current field Once complete use MENU to ex...

Page 27: ... the command group The least significant nibble represents the number of Data bytes to follow the CMD2 byte Command Protocol CMD1 CMD2 Data bytes Checksum byte Response ACK 10h 01h 11h Other than the sense command the unit will respond to all commands affirmatively by sending a three byte acknowledgement ACK if the Checksum is valid If the Checksum is not valid the Recorder will ignore the command...

Page 28: ...sponds with 4 bytes indicating the present time code in Binary Coded Decimal The first byte holds the frame number the second byte holds the seconds the third the minutes and the fourth the hour In the play state the time code returned is the time associated with the current frame being played in the record state the time code returned represents the elapsed time recorded in the present bin Comman...

Page 29: ...ected source onto the current Bin This command may be issued only from the idle state 20h 10h 30h Fast Forward A play state where video is played at the highest speed of 32x in the forward direction 20h 20h 40h Fast Rewind A play state where video is played at the highest speed of 32x in the reverse direction NOTE When receiving one of the following commands JOG VARIABLE or SHUTTLE the unit will p...

Page 30: ... 05h xx csum HD Rec Format I only LGOP 10h 01h 11h 02h F3h 05h 00h FAh HD Long GOP 10h 01h 11h 02h F3h 05h 01h FBh HD I frame only 10h 01h 11h 02h F3h 06h xx csum Bit Rate Select HD 10h 01h 11h LGOP 10 25 35 50 65 120 10h 01h 11h I only 100 125 10h 01h 11h 02h F3h 07h xx csum Bit Rate Select SD 10h 01h 11h LGOP 8 15 30 50 10h 01h 11h I only 25 50 10h 01h 11h 02h F3h 09h xx csum SD Aspect 4x3 or 16...

Page 31: ...communication error is detected or an undefined COMMAND is received the DEVICE returns this command as not acknowledgment Bit 7 to Bit 0 of Data byte will be set in accordance with the contents Data byte Bit 7 Bit 6 Bit 5 Bit 4 Bit 3 Bit 2 Bit 1 Bit 0 0 0 0 Parity Error INHIBIT CHECKSUM ERROR 0 UNDEFINED COMMAND 12h 11h DEVICE TYPE 12h 11h Device byte1 Device byte2 csum The 00h 11h 11h DEVICE TYPE...

Page 32: ...e 5 0x00 Byte 6 0x00 Firmware Revision Sense Codec Byte 0 Codec Bootloader Major Byte 1 Codec Bootloader Minor Byte 2 Codec Host Major Byte 3 Codec Host Minor Byte 4 Codec Major Byte 5 Codec Minor Byte 6 0x00 7 Status Sense Control Command Response Bytes Status Byte Bit 7 Bit 6 Bit 5 Bit 4 Bit 3 Bit 2 Bit 1 Bit 0 0 Busy 0 Cartridge Out 0 0 0 0 Local enable 1 0 0 Stop 0 Rewind Fast Forward Record P...

Page 33: ... FL2 FL2 FL2 FL2 FL2 14 Length Byte 3 FL3 FL3 FL3 FL3 FL3 FL3 FL3 Revision History Revision 00 30 01 10 2014 1 Add HD long GOP 50Mb 2 Add Trick play command 3 Add select clip command 4 Busy bit will be set at change status 5 Add Parity error bit Revision 00 28 10 31 2013 Revision 00 27 10 29 2013 Revision 00 02 08 25 2013 Revised on 11 14 2012 ...

Page 34: ...ions Weight Unit mm Depth Front to Rear 288 4mm Width 481mm Standard 19 with rack ears Height 49mm Standard 1RU without feet 211mm W x 285mm D x 87mm H 3Kgs Gross weight Packed 4 86 Kg 10 71 lbs Nett Weight Unit only 3 85 Kg 8 48 lbs ...

Page 35: ...oop through Black Burst and Tri Level signal Video Format SD 720x576 50 Hz 720x480 59 94 Hz HD 1280x720P 50 59 94 60 1920x1080i 50 59 94 60 1920x1080P 23 976 24 Colour Format 4 2 0 or 4 2 2 depending Codec chosen Codec MPEG2 Long GOP HD 10Mbps 4 2 0 1440x1080 1280x720 25Mbps 4 2 0 1440x1080 1280x720 35Mbps 4 2 2 1920x1080 1280x720 65Mbps 4 2 2 1920x1080 1280x720 120Mbps 4 2 2 1920x1080 1280x720 MP...

Page 36: ...Aug 01 2019 Version E6 Datavideo Technologies Co Ltd All rights reserved 2020 www datavideo com product HDR 60 ...