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10 StartBackup

Yes 0.435GB No 0.435GB

This is available in

Iddle Cnvrt

and

All at End

temporali-

ties only. The initial volume,

e.g. 0.435GB, is shown then decremented during

the copy. Once the backup is launched, position

the main selector on STOP: the display backlights

switching off at the end of the copy, you will be

warned from a distance.

A practical note:

scroll through Media Labels,

choose the one you wish to start with, press OK

and go to StartBckp, press OK, switch to YES and

press OK. Once done, go back to Media Labels,

choose the next one and so on until everything

has been backed up. You can interrupt the process

between two disks and return to it later. Don’t

forget to write the media label, the date and proj-

ect name onto the burned CD/DVD as it comes

out, so as not to waste time looking for the ones

you haven’t done yet!

DVD±R

Aaton tested internal DVD burners should only be

used: the slot loading Panasonic UJ-825B

(4x DVD-R,

2.4x DVD+R, 2x DVD-Ram, 16x CD-R),

and the tray loading

LiteOn SOSW-852S

(4x DVD±R)

. First verify that

your blank disks are compatible with the burner.

We currently recommend

TDK

, Maxwell and

Verbatim, never use supermarket branded medias.

Ask the post-prod supervisor his ±R prefered fla-

vor; old Avid Mac can only handle DVD-R.

The burner ‘disk-ready’ icon shows on the right-

most circular display if a media is inserted and

recognized only. This can take as long as twenty

seconds.

While we never heard of a problem with CD-Rs,

most DVD burning failures come from bad han-

dling, we all know that a dirty DVD can be read,

but

a finger touched DVD can no longer be used

for recording.

Open your thumb and index in a

U shape and hold the blank disk by its opposite

edges.

If there is some dust on a recorded DVD,

do not clean it with a cloth in rotary movement

(best way to destroy a complete track), but by suc-

cessive radial strokes.

DVD-Ram Real-Time Mirroring

Use a LaCie D2 Multidrive and Panasonic 4.7G

DVD-Ram Type II SingleSided medias, FAT32 for-

matted by Cantar itself.

After connecting the drive to the Cantar firewire

port, power up Cantar. After a few seconds, the

center modulometer displays the drive icon. In the

SESSION position, select Int&Ext HD.

The LaCie 1x recording-speed currently limits the

real time mirroring to 6 tracks at 24-bit/48kHz, e.g.

4 track plus mixdown going to both drives.

When you stop recording, the •REC indicator

remains on for a few seconds. This corresponds

to the activity light on the drive itself, since it is still

writing data after Cantar has stopped recording on

the internal Hdd.

* DVD-Ram formatting can also be done in a PC running Windows
2000 (or Mac OS-X) :  place a blank disc in the drive, right-click on the
drive icon (F:) and select«Format».  The Windows format utility asks you
to select either UDF 1.5, UDF 2.0, or FAT32.  Select FAT32, give the disc
a volume label, and click OK.  Formatting takes about ten seconds (physi-
cal format not selected).

Lacie 1.6TB Disk

With PartitionMagic, make one FAT32 ‘primary’

partition (127GB) and format the rest under

NTFS. Cantar has direct access to the FAT32 par-

tition on which it can push the backups. A PC will

later transfer the files from the FAT32 to the NTFS

partition of the disk.

If the complete disk is NTFS formatted, a laptop

must pull the files out of the FAT32 Cantar Hdd

and copy them to the 1.6TB disk.

Pull Backup

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