Cantar v1.29 user manual 2004 Sept 28
p.20
Push backup
1 o’ clock
This position gathers the settings
necessary to ensure the copy of
the Hdd files
to
other medias.
1 Working Day
2004-08-11 2004-08-26 2004-08-27
2 Temporality
(Oct. 20, 2004 available)
Iddle Bckp Iddle Cnvrt All at end
Instead of backing-up the day at the end of the
session, it is possible to progressively save it dur-
ing iddle periods while Cantar is in TEST or STOP.
Iddle Bckp:
backup is actually done on an external
Hdd or DVD-Ram burner, or the internal UJ-825
DVD-Ram burner.
Iddle Cnvrt:
Mono to Poly, 24
to 16bit conversions are performed and stored for
faster one-go backup at the end of session.
All at
end:
there is no iddle tasks, conversions and actual
backup are triggered by the operator at end of
session.
3 Tracks
All 1->8M 1->6 M
7-8 M
Pure Monophonic to Monophonic file copying.
The bit depht remains the original one.
4 Convert
(None)
MxPoly24 MxPo16.bwf, etc
These conversions are applied to 7-8 tracks only:
•Monophonic to Polyphonic interleaving •24 to
16bit decimation •16bit dithering •.wav extension
(or .bwf for AaAvid v7).
If your intention is to deliver converted files out of
the 7-8 track mixdown (see “Convert”) first make
your 1 to 7 selection. As soon as there is a pause on
the set, go to StartBackup without inserting a media
in the burner. The PreConvert will be performed
and stored on the hard drive, thus reducing the end
of day actual burning time by three to four minutes!
If in a hurry you must reactivate the recording, just
press the [Esc] button and swiftly go back to PPR.
5 Media Type
CD700Mb ExtHdd
DVD-Ram DVD*R
Only use Aaton tested and approved DVD±R,
CD-R and DVD-Ram burners.
7 FileNames
Short
Long w. Sc&Tk
Short (BA1234_1.wav) or Long with Sc&Tk
(BA1234==123A 12R w14==_1.wav)
Long filenames give direct access to scene & take
descriptors on PC desktops and editors’ timelines,
the text between [==] signs can be freely modified
by the editor.
If you back-up on an external Hdd, the file names
are forced to ‘short’ since long filenames are not
supported on Cantar recorded Hard Drives.
Note that the Majax software can later extracts
the scene and take descriptors from the file ‘bext’
chunk and add them to the short filenames to
make them long ones.
7 MediaLabel
CD 1/2
Cantar calculates and shows the number of disks
needed to perform the backup of the selected
Hdd files. Press OK and with arrows select the
one you want to burn. [Shift•Eye] shows the
MediaLabel name to write on the disk: CD_MXD_
2/5 means CDR, mixdown tracks, disk two in a five
disk group. When the burning starts, the message
panel displays the remaining data to be burnt.
Because of the unknown weather conditions, burn-
ing done, the disk is not ejected.
Long files:
the size of the files can make it impos-
sible to together copy all the tracks of a long take
onto a single CD-R; for instance if a single mono-
phonic track is 200MB, and you have 6 tracks to
back up, you would need a 1.2GB disk. In this type
of situation, Cantar breaks the take into its individ-
ual files while minimizing the number of CDs. The
label becomes CD_2_D072, where [CD] is the
media, [_2] the track #, and [D072] the last four
characters of the filename.
8 Files to Copy
Not yet Archived
All
In push-Backup, once a file is copied it receices an
‘Archived’ stamp. This avoids it to be copied all over
again. The use of this stamp is mandatory for the
Iddle Backup which progressively copies not yet
archived files. This stamp is also used when burning
a DVD±R at noon and the rest of the day’s work
in the evening!
To make new copies of already archived files, ‘All’
must be selected.
9 Check After Burn
Yes
No
The checking operation lasts the same time as the
disk burning.
Backup (a)
