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Cantar-X User Manual v2.44 (r14) 2013 March 21
p.41
p.41
Tag type1:
general mode for DVD burning (CD_T1-6_001).
T1-6: six mono tracks, T1-8: eight mono tracks from the
AAD folder. MXDN: monophonic stereo mixdown from the
AAD folder. MXBN: poly stereo mixdown from AAX folder.
MXBC: poly stereo mixdown with 24-bit to 16-bit reduction.
001 to 999: the media rank.
Tag type2:
CD_TK-1_001 used if the files must be separated
because their group is too large to be burned on a single
690MB CD. TK-1 is the track number and 001 the media
name rank.
11 Snap Report
(*)
None IntHD Dir IntHD DirR2 IntHD DirR1
IntHD Nat IntHD Rot IntHD miX
Snap immediately stores the day's Sound-Report into a
YYYYMMDD.AA# folder (#=
D
ir,
N
at,
R
ot, mi
X
) which car-
ries the same status as the backup files (p.38).
(*) based on the SESSION.03 selection, the report is sent to
the internal drive, external drive or both.
12 Idle Report
No ->Bckp Disk
Since Cantar has no means to know when you are about to
remove the backup media, you must manually trigger
'Idle
Report' before removing the media
.
Idle Report copies the Sound-Report to a YYYYMMDD.AA
#
folder (#=
D
ir,
N
at,
R
ot, mi
X
) which carries the same treat-
ment as the backup files (p.38).
13 Clean Polys
Yes nnnnMB No nnnnMB
This operation erases all of the previous day's Poly files
resulting from 'Idle Polys' treatments stored in the internal HD.
Obviously if you later have to deliver a second backup copy
containing Poly files, 'Run Bckp' will take longer since it will
have to recreate the erased files. As a precaution, only the
Poly files of preceding workdays should be erased.
14 Run Bckp
No nnnnMB Yes nnnnMB
The default is No, it lets you see the size of the files to be
copied... then you leave with
[ok]. 'Run Backup' writes three
forms of Sound-Report once the
backup is completed: (1) ready to
, (2) tab delimited
CSV
, and (3) Avid
ALE
(p.38).
Example of a standard backup
Select '
T1-T8 (7/8)
' in BACKUP.03, '
Native Mono
' in .04,
'
16Trnc Poly
' in .05, '
Ext. HD
' or '
CF card
' in .06. You
get a Poly16-bit mixdown plus the 24-bit Monophonic ISO
tracks.
The several disk case
Go to BACKUP.10 'Media Label', select the media you wish
to burn, [ok], BACKUP.14 'Run Bckp', [ok], 'Yes', [ok]. Go
back to 'Media Label', choose the next one and so on. You
can interrupt the process between two disks and return to it
later. Don't forget to write Cantar ID, Project name, Date,
and Media label onto the CD/DVD as it comes out, so as
not to waste time looking for the ones you haven't done yet!
Upon completion of writing, the disk will have to be manu-
ally ejected. When the green indicator starts blinking, press
the burner's [eject] button.
Direct backup from a Mac or PC
Once TECHSET.01 has '
Unmount
'-ed, the internal HD is no
longer under Cantar's control but is still powered; a FireWire
connected MAC/PC sees the Cantar HD as any other HD,
and can copy the files, perform selective erasure, and edit
the metadata with Majax.
Warning:
to prevent the destruction of the FireWire input
(16.6V max.) by Mac GXs (33V), take out the internal HD
shuttle and connect it to the GX; its FW input handles up to
40V. (Mac/PC laptops supply a safe 12V).
BACKUP
REPORTS
BACKUP 14
Run Bckp
Yes 360MB <
FILE RETRIEVAL
the disc's FAT is saved every ten seconds. In case of power interruption, the audio
is playable but TC and comments are not saved; use Majax to reconform it (see p.57).
In case of disk crash or accidental erasure, do not continue to record, do not try any recovery pro-
gram, this will destroy any audio that could have been otherwise saved. Contact Aaton.
