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Instant Replay Owner's Manual

After pressing E

NTER 

or C

ANCEL 

the display briefly shows the number of files transferred without

error:

FILES SENT: 0

PLEASE WAIT

If any files could not be sent, the display shows the number of files transferred without errors and the
number of files not sent due to errors:

FILES SENT: 0

FILES NOT SENT: 1

Note that Errors shown in the Transmitter are never the result of cabling or interface problems; they
reflect a problem within the unit.  Transmitter errors will also be shown on the Receiver, but Receiver
errors are shown on the Receiver only.

File Transfer (RECEIVER)

When Instant Replay is idle and FILE RECEIVE is ON, it monitors the selected RECEIVER INPUT
(XLR-3 or RCA) for a file transfer with destination name that matches the stored receiver name.
When a file transfer addressed to the Receiver begins, the display shows the following:

FILE         1 OF XX

00%  COMPLETED

•

  If Cancel or Stop is pressed, the transfer proceeds while the following prompt is

displayed:

QUIT TRANSFER?

PRESS ENTER/CANCEL

•

  Press Cancel for the transfer to proceed.

OR

•

  Press Enter to exit from the transfer. The display will show:

TRANSFER INCOMPLETE

PRESS ENTER/CANCEL

When a transfer is completed without errors, the following message appears:

TRANSFER COMPLETE

NO ERRORS

If files were received with errors, the display then shows the number of files received without errors
and the number of files discarded due to errors:

GOOD FILES:    XX

BAD FILES :        0

•

  Press E

NTER 

or C

ANCEL

. The display will briefly show:

FILES SENT:         X

PLEASE WAIT

The display then shows the number of files received without errors and the number of files discarded
due to errors:

Summary of Contents for Instant Replay DR-554-E

Page 1: ...DIGITAL AUDIO RECORDER PLAYER WITH EDITING Model DR 554 E OWNER S MANUAL EIGHTH EDITION Firmware Version 2 3 October 2000 P RO F E S S I O NA L DI G I T A L A U DI O ...

Page 2: ...logy Equipment Including Electrical Business Equipment EU Declaration of Conformity Type of Equipment Professional Use Audio Equipment Conforms to the Following Standards EN55103 1 Emission 1997 Electromagnetic compatibility Product family standard for audio video audio visual and entertainment lighting control apparatus for professional use EN55103 2 Immunity 1997 Electromagnetic compatibility Pr...

Page 3: ...erling Center Drive Westlake Village California 91361 4613 USA Telephone 818 991 0360 8 00 AM to 5 00 PM Pacific Time Fax 818 991 1360 Email support 360systems com Visit our web site at www 360systems com CAUTION Instant Replay contains a hard disk drive While today s hard disks are very reliable they are vulnerable to shock Handle with care Please exercise care not to drop or bump Instant Replay ...

Page 4: ...ion dirt or static electricity 360 Systems assumes no liability whatsoever for real or consequential damages loss of profits inconvenience or any other losses due to non operation of the Instant Replay 360 Systems sole liability under this limited warranty shall be the repair or replacement of defective product or components Products being returned under warranty shall be sent to 360 Systems or on...

Page 5: ...etering and Level Controls 15 AUDIO EDIT OPERATIONS 15 Edit After Recording 15 General Editing 15 Head Trim 15 Tail Trim 16 Fade In 16 Fade Out 17 Adjust Output Gain 18 Adjust Pre Roll 18 FUNCTION BUTTONS 18 Bank Select 18 Assign Hot Key 18 Preview 19 Playlists 19 Loop 20 Pause 21 Menu 21 Cancel 21 Scroll Up Down Arrows 21 Find 21 Enter 21 MACHINE SETUP MENUS 22 Editing Menu 22 Record Setup Menu 2...

Page 6: ...tions 32 Configuring Instant Replay 32 OPERATION 33 Format External Disk 33 Selecting the External or Internal Drive 33 Ejecting a Disk 34 Copy Cut 34 Copy Bank 34 To Copy a Bank 35 Copy Drive 35 Replacing Cuts with Hot Key Assignments 36 Disk Compatibility with other 360 Systems Products 36 CHAPTERFOUR D NETFILETRANSFEROPERA TIONS 38 Introduction 38 Features 38 File Transfer Characteristics 38 Ba...

Page 7: ...tant Replay Owner s Manual Page 7 To Format the Internal Hard Disk 49 FORMAT EXTERNAL DISK 50 To Format the External Disk 50 DEFRAGMENT DISK 51 Defragment Disk Command 51 To Defragment the Disk 52 INDEX 53 ...

Page 8: ... identifies it within Instant Replay s library It also has a name that you supply to aid in identifying and locating the Cut To enter a name the Hot Keys assume the function of an alphanumeric keyboard Cut names can be added or altered at any time and may consist of up to 15 characters The Find function can be used to find a Cut by name Each Cut s length is displayed in HH MM SS hours minutes seco...

Page 9: ...e Index Number to the Cut However you can also choose another empty Index by using the SCROLL ARROW KEYS Whenever RECORD OVERWRITE is on you can choose to re record and replace an existing Cut while retaining its previously assigned Index Number and any Hot Key Assignments The Index Numbers of Cuts can be changed to any empty Index Number using the Move Cut operation When more than one Cut is pres...

Page 10: ...ether Dolby AC 2 or a linear format is chosen Under some conditions the display may indicate MAX LENGTH rather than TIME LEFT This is normal for hard drives larger than 2 gig when they have a relatively small amount of space used This can also happen with any size drive after the unit has been used for some time and many Cuts have been recorded and erased See Maintenance and Disk Operations on pag...

Page 11: ...e to end up at the sample rate defined by the selected Recording Format When it is disabled the digital input requires that the incoming digital audio signal match the currently selected format See page 22 Record Setup Menu to disable the converter The Sample Rate Converter can be used by itself to convert a digital input to 48K or 44 1K output by simply putting Instant Replay into record ready Ta...

Page 12: ...Module Hot Keys Recording Operations Audio Edit Operations Machine Setup Menus Function Buttons 41 31 A 21 Q 11 1 1 42 Z 32 S 22 W 12 2 2 43 X 33 D 23 E 13 3 3 44 C 34 F 24 R 14 4 4 45 V 35 G 25 T 15 5 5 46 B 36 H 26 Y 16 6 6 47 N 37 J 27 U 17 7 7 48 M 38 K 28 I 18 8 8 49 39 L 29 O 19 9 9 BACKSPACE 50 40 30 P 20 0 10 SPACE BANK PREVIEW LOOP MENU SCROLL SCROLL CANCEL PAUSE PLAY ASSIGN SELECT HOT KE...

Page 13: ...selection using the top row of keys Drive selection when an external drive is connected using the E and I keys The main array of 50 buttons are Hot Keys numbered 1 through 50 A Hot Key s primary function is to trigger playback of a Cut assigned to it Hot Keys light up whenever their assigned Cut is playing Most buttons additionally carry an alphabet character In operations that require the entry o...

Page 14: ...INPUT to ANALOG or one of the DIGITAL INPUT SELECTIONS in Record Setup Menu Press RECORD button Set Input Level controls for Analog Input only Select an alternate Index Number if desired using SCROLL ARROWS Press PLAY machine will enter Record mode When done press STOP Enter Cut Title using alphanumeric keys Press ENTER to save the title T T TI I IP P P If you wish to place a Cut in an Index Numbe...

Page 15: ...pt for Head Tail in the RECORD SETUP MENU pg 22 which determines whether the editing prompts are displayed automatically after each recording Edit After Recording If Prompt for Head Tail in the RECORD SETUP MENU is enabled the following Head Trim screen will be displayed at the end of each recording ENTER ADJUST OR PLAY HEAD 0 00 Followed by the Tail Trim screen ENTER ADJUST OR PLAY TAIL 3 00 Gene...

Page 16: ...to move the cursor to the digit to be adjusted Then use the NUMERIC keys top row of Hot Keys or the SCROLL keys to make an adjustment to the numeric value Press MENU or CANCEL to return to previous menu level or the SPACE key to reset to the End of File Note that the SPACE key reset will not restore audio discarded by the Keep Only 1st 30 Sec setting Note that for tail trimmed recordings there is ...

Page 17: ...eturn to previous menu level Fade In is limited to a maximum length of 40 seconds Fade Out Use the MENU ENTER and SCROLL keys to navigate to the Adjust Fade Out menu Menu Editor Adjust Fade Out ADJUST FADE OUT FADE OUT 00 00 Press the ENTER key to make an adjustment Fade values are expressed in duration of the fade Fades are limited to a maximum length of 40 seconds ENTER ADJUST OR PLAY FADE OUT 0...

Page 18: ... row of Hot Keys or the SCROLL keys to make an adjustment to the numeric value Press ENTER again to save the setting or press CANCEL to revert to the original Pre Roll point Press MENU or CANCEL to return to previous menu level FUNCTION BUTTONS Bank Select When you press the BANK SELECT button it lights and the top row of Hot Keys flash The display changes to show the Number and Name of the curren...

Page 19: ...e Hot Keys to view their information In either case pressing PREVIEW a second time exits this mode and restores normal operation including the Cut that was selected when Preview was pressed If no Cut is playing CANCEL will also end Preview T T TI I IP P P Using Preview to Find Unassigned Hot Keys PREVIEW is useful when assigning Hot Keys to find an unassigned or unneeded key without losing track o...

Page 20: ...add additional Steps Loop LOOP causes a Cut to repeat endlessly until either STOP or LOOP is pressed STOP ends playback immediately Pressing LOOP exits from the Loop mode and allows the current Cut to continue playing to its end While a Cut is looping another Cut can be selected for playback A different Hot Key can also be played The new Cut will immediately start from the beginning and will also ...

Page 21: ... new value and CANCEL will restore the previous one Pressing MENU a second time will exit to normal operation See Machine Setup Menus on page 22 for a listing of option details Cancel This button is used to end operations exit menus or to answer no to display prompts In Playlist mode CANCEL deletes the currently selected Step of the Playlist Scroll Up Down Arrows Used to select Cuts Banks Menus Pl...

Page 22: ...led Refer to the section Recording Operations on page 14 for more information about these settings Operations Menu Change Cut Name Changes name of currently selected Cut Erase Erases currently selected Cut Move Cut Move currently selected Cut to any unused Index number Defragment Disk Eliminate fragmentation of audio files on disk Change Bank Name Changes name of currently selected Bank Format Ext...

Page 23: ...is is equivalent to using the ASSIGN HOT KEY button Clear Hot Key Scans list of Hot Key Assignments in Current Bank using SCROLL ARROWS Pressing ENTER clears the displayed Hot Key Assignment Assign Bank Assigns all available Cuts in a selected range of 50 consecutive Index Numbers to the corresponding Hot Keys First select the Cut to begin the range before pressing MENU When ENTER is pressed in AS...

Page 24: ...o disk upon exiting Playlist mode Note that whenever PLAYLIST is enabled the Hot Keys are used only for adding events to the Playlist and do not play audio Only Cuts assigned to the currently selected Bank can be included in the Playlist Setting the Type of Playlist After you have created a Playlist you can change it from MANUAL STEP to FOLLOW ON or vice versa Once Playlist Type has been set for a...

Page 25: ...e playback to end at the end of the Playlist Selecting and Playing a List To select and play a Playlist If necessary select the Bank that contains the desired Playlist The Playlist number is always the same as the Bank Push the PLAYLIST button Push the PLAY button Playlists always start at their first Step when turned on A Playlist can be enabled on the fly during playback of another Cut The next ...

Page 26: ...s the Playlist mode and cues up the first Cut of the Playlist The current Cut will play to completion and the button corresponding to the first Cut in the Playlist will flash However the Playlist will not execute until you press PLAY even if it is a Follow On Playlist When executing a Playlist the bottom line of the display shows the Cut currently playing The top line shows the Cut that is selecte...

Page 27: ...omponent failure and will require service by a qualified repair technician Contact 360 Systems or your 360 Systems distributor AUDIO CONNECTIONS Audio Inputs The ANALOG INPUTS are a pair of female XLR 3 connectors marked LEFT and RIGHT The inputs are electronically balanced with an impedance of 40k ohms With the INPUT LEVEL controls up full a 6 75dBu tone will produce a full scale output approxima...

Page 28: ...urned off during subsequent playback It may be helpful to use the HEADPHONE OUTPUT for control room monitoring while the Main Outputs provide the main feed to a mixer or transmitter DIGITAL AUDIO CONNECTIONS AES EBU Input An XLR 3 female connector is provided for digital input in the AES EBU format There is a selectable Sample Rate Converter built in to Instant Replay When SAMPLE RATE CONVERTER is...

Page 29: ...ity Digital Audio Output When using Instant Replay as a digital audio source RECEIVER ECHO should be DISABLED in the FILE TRANSFER MENU Also it is not a good idea to use cuts with different sample rates on the same project as this may cause equipment connected to the digital outputs to click pop mute or stop recording when the sample rate changes The analog outputs are not affected by sample rate ...

Page 30: ...CE D NET TRANSFERS THIS CAN CAUSE DAMAGE TO LOUDSPEAKERS IF THE LEVEL IS SUFFICIENT Printer Port This is a standard parallel printer port on a 25 pin D connector Although many printers may be used 360 Systems has tested the following models MANUFACTURER PRODUCT NAME MODEL NUMBER CANON BUBBLE JET BJ 200E CANON BUBBLE JET BJ 200EX HEWLETT PACKARD LASER JET 4 HEWLETT PACKARD LASER JET 6L Canon BJ and...

Page 31: ...ess ENTER again Use the SCROLL ARROW KEYS to select GPI INPUT and be sure it is set to ENABLE If it is set to DISABLE press ENTER then the UP ARROW key and ENTER again Press MENU to return to normal operation When you activate the remote momentary switch Instant Replay will behave as if you had pressed PLAY You can also initiate recording remotely by putting Instant Replay in Record Ready and acti...

Page 32: ...ive WARNING When using Dolby AC 2 format you can record directly to and play back from the zip drive However we recommend that the internal hard drive be used for critical recording and playback It is not possible to Record or Play material in 48K or 44 1K Linear formats using the External drive The display will show DRIVE TOO SLOW if a Linear Cut attempts to Play It is not possible to Record dire...

Page 33: ...e Press the Bank Select button The I and the E Keys light up along with the Numeric Bank Number keys The I key lights continuously to indicate that the Internal Drive is the currently selected drive The E key flashes to indicate that it can be selected If the External Drive is the active drive the E key lights continuously and the I key flashes Press the E Key Hot Key 13 to select the External Dri...

Page 34: ...py material from the currently selected drive to the other drive Cuts are never copied to the same drive Select the Cut to be copied Press Menu and select OPERATIONS with the Scroll Arrow keys Press Enter Select COPY CUT using the Scroll Arrow keys Press Enter If desired select a different Index Number to copy to using the Scroll Arrow keys You can only select unused Index Numbers If the Index Num...

Page 35: ...YING 1 OF XX 001 CUT NAME 01 If you chose either of the REPLACE options and the operation results in a cut being replaced the display will show REPLACE 1 OF XX during that portion of the copy operation When the operation is complete the display will show FILES COPIED XX FILES NOT COPIED 0 Press Enter or Cancel to return to the menu Press Menu to exit Files Not Copied should be zero unless the dest...

Page 36: ... from a Zip Disk using the Replace Names option in Copy Disk or Copy Bank and will appear at the same places in all Banks and Playlists Replace Index and D NET Receive work the same way with the added requirement that a numbering system for the Cuts must be adhered to carefully Disk Compatibility with other 360 Systems Products Instant Replay Zip 100 disks are compatible with DigiCart II Plus Whil...

Page 37: ...Instant Replay Owner s Manual Page 37 See Using an External Drive on page 32 for information regarding special restrictions on Zip disk compatibility ...

Page 38: ...Mail Box feature File Transfer Characteristics Transfers are one way without acknowledgment from the receiver and are initiated from the sending machine The sender specifies a destination name or partial name with a wild card character All machines that are configured with a matching name can receive the file A file is transferred to a specific Cut Index or optionally to a Mail Box location A tran...

Page 39: ...Gigabyte or larger drives that contain more than about 1 Gigabyte of material the length of backup files can exceed the length of a single DAT tape In this case it is necessary to do individual Bank backups If you have Cuts to back up that are not assigned to Hot Keys in any Bank they must be assigned to a Bank for the purpose of backing them up If you have more than 50 unassigned Cuts back up the...

Page 40: ...ackup Bank as desired on the unit that will be sending the material FILE TRANSFER MENUS FILE TRANSFER is a sub menu selected from the main Menu It has menu items for file transfer configuration for selecting transfer of a single Cut or all Cuts and for performing backup and restore The FILE TRANSFER menu contains a number of its own sub menus At the outer most level the SCROLL ARROW keys select a ...

Page 41: ... to receive all file transfers regardless of the Receiver Name specified by the transmission provided the destination Drive and Directory are correct Leading and trailing blanks in names are not allowed and are removed whenever a name is saved When sending to a specific location instead of sending to a Mail Box the destination Drive defaults to 1 the destination Directory defaults to 0 and the des...

Page 42: ...menu button begins to flash and the display shows START RESTORE DEVICE STOP CANCEL TO QUIT At this time start the DAT machine playing a backup tape through its AES EBU digital output and press Enter Alternately press Cancel to exit from this operation When backup data is received from the DAT player the display changes to show the current file number and the percent completion for the current file...

Page 43: ...eading and trailing spaces are not significant and are removed when the name is saved Press ENTER to confirm the selection Use the SCROLL ARROW keys to select the TRANSFERS TO ACCEPT menu item Press ENTER and then use the arrows to select the appropriate setting MAIL BOX ONLY when only Mail Box transfers are to be allowed ALL when Mail Box transfers and transfers to specific locations are to be al...

Page 44: ...CATION 1 0001 SELECTED CUT Press the SCROLL UP ARROW key to proceed OR Change the Destination Location by pressing ENTER followed by a SCROLL ARROW key to select between a specific location and MAIL BOX The selection flashes until you press ENTER again to confirm When a specific location is displayed pressing ENTER allows selection of a different location Portions of the location field that are no...

Page 45: ...T TRANSFER PRESS ENTER CANCEL Press CANCEL to continue the transfer Press ENTER to confirm the cancellation of the transfer The display will briefly show TRANSFER ERROR CANCELED BY USER After the brief error message the display then changes to TRANSFER INCOMPLETE PRESS ENTER CANCEL If an error occurs during a transfer the display briefly shows TRANSFER ERROR XXXX ERROR MESSAGE Some possible error ...

Page 46: ... transfer with destination name that matches the stored receiver name When a file transfer addressed to the Receiver begins the display shows the following FILE 1 OF XX 00 COMPLETED If Cancel or Stop is pressed the transfer proceeds while the following prompt is displayed QUIT TRANSFER PRESS ENTER CANCEL Press Cancel for the transfer to proceed OR Press Enter to exit from the transfer The display ...

Page 47: ...Y SENDER THE USER AT THE SENDING MACHINE CANCELED MAIL BOX FULL INDEX 999 IN THE DESTINATION MACHINE IS IN USE Differences from DigiCart II D NET Implementation DigiCart II files in formats other than AC 2 48K Stereo or 44 1K Stereo will be rejected by Instant Replay Sending to the Mail Box in a DigiCart II means sending to the first unused Index Number following the highest used Index in Director...

Page 48: ...nt Replay Owner s Manual On Instant Replay the TRANSFER DRIVE feature is really a transfer of the only Directory an Instant Replay has Drive 1 Directory 0 Backup and restore are not provided in DigiCart II machines ...

Page 49: ...TED YOU MUST RECYCLE POWER TURN THE MACHINE OFF THEN BACK ON AGAIN TO ENSURE PROPER OPERATION REPEAT THE FORMAT PROCESS AFTER CYCLING POWER To Format the Internal Hard Disk Turn Instant Replay s power switch OFF While holding down the STOP button turn power ON Continue to hold stop until the unit initializes The display will prompt FORMAT ERASE DISK PRESS ENTER CANCEL Press ENTER to proceed or CAN...

Page 50: ... FORMATTING PROCESS IS ABORTED YOU MUST RECYCLE POWER TURN THE MACHINE OFF THEN BACK ON AGAIN TO ENSURE PROPER OPERATION REPEAT THE FORMAT PROCESS AFTER CYCLING POWER To Format the External Disk Press MENU and use the SCROLL ARROWS to locate OPERATIONS Press ENTER and use the SCROLL ARROWS to locate FORMAT EXT DISK Press ENTER and the display will prompt FORMAT ERASE DISK PRESS ENTER CANCEL Press ...

Page 51: ...ill produce error messages and the Defragmentation program will not continue If a severely fragmented Cut is present its Index Number will appear in the error message The only cure for this is to reformat the drive and restore from a backup Defragmentation should be done occasionally especially if Cuts are frequently overwritten with new recordings or if Cuts are often erased The process can take ...

Page 52: ...you press ENTER the display prompts ARE YOU SURE PRESS ENTER CANCEL Press CANCEL to abort or press ENTER to proceed The display will prompt DEFRAGMENTING DISK 00 COMPLETE As Defragmentation takes place the lower line of the display will indicate progress by displaying the percentage completed When defragmentation is complete the display will prompt DEFRAGMENTATION COMPLETE RESTARTING MACHINE Insta...

Page 53: ...t gain adjust 16 pre roll 16 tail trim 14 Editing Setup Menu 20 Electrical Power 26 Enter 19 Erase 12 External Drive 8 File Receiver On Off 40 File Transfer Menu 22 39 Find 7 19 Follow On Playlist 23 Format external disk 32 49 internal drive 48 Front Panel Controls 10 GPI Play Remote Input 30 Headphone Level Control 13 Hot Keys 6 11 assigning 17 21 menu 21 overwritng 17 reassigning audio 35 Index ...

Page 54: ... Restore From Backup 40 41 sample rates 8 Sort Directory By 20 Stop 12 Symbols warning and information 1 Transfer all cuts 39 42 cut 39 43 machine to machine 39 Transfers To Accept 40 Transport Controls 11 Warranty Information 4 RMA number 3 Zip Drive overview 31 spindown 33 ...

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