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Page 4: ...reStore is a trademark of Focus Enhancements Inc Product and brand names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies and are hereby acknowledged Subject to change without...

Page 5: ...interference to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following meas...

Page 6: ...h NLE Packages 47 Compatible Render Free NLE Packages 47 Compatible NLE Packages Requires Rendering 47 Timecode 48 Chapter 1 Introduction 1 In a Hurry 1 Helpful Hints 1 What is a DV Direct to Disk Int...

Page 7: ...w FOCUSinfo com regularly for updates For More Information send in your registration card so we can keep you informed of new devel opments Note that Focus Enhancements does not sell its mailing list Y...

Page 8: ...tion stage of production the editing post production stage and the presentation stage FireStore is most useful in the following applications Record DV video live to disk at the acquisition stage Not o...

Page 9: ...video in industrial presentation or scientific ap plications Equipment Your FireStore Package comes with FS 1 FireStore Unit 6 pin to 6 pin FireWire cable Power supply This manual Product registratio...

Page 10: ...ther end to FireStore s POWER jack Connect FireStore s TO HDD 6 pin FireWire port to the 6 pin FireWire port A on your FireWire hard disk drive If using external power on your FireWire hard disk drive...

Page 11: ...the following two messages If you see message A FireStore is ready to use If you see message B first check the cable connection between the FireStore unit and disk drive Also check to see if there is...

Page 12: ...ions when the unit is in one of three modes NORMAL SHIFT and ALT Normal Mode In NORMAL mode FireStore s buttons carry out the function that is listed on the button itself In NORMAL mode functions incl...

Page 13: ...and PLAY are pressed simultaneously recording be gins immediately Shift Alt Press the SHIFT ALT button once to put FireStore into SHIFT mode giving each button an alterna tive function SHIFT ALT butto...

Page 14: ...ctly below that particular button FireStore will remain in SHIFT mode until the SHIFT ALT button is pressed again When the button is no longer lit it is back in NORMAL mode Note In order to access the...

Page 15: ...e beginning of the current disk pressing this button returns FireStore to the beginning of the previous disk DISK Forward Index Disk This button advances FireStore to the beginning of the next disk dr...

Page 16: ...rames per second to 1 frame per second Reverse Play Pressing this button will play the current clip or disk in reverse at either 30 frames per second NTSC or 25 frames per second PAL 1 FRM Increase Pl...

Page 17: ...ile name of the current clip For more on clip names see pg 32 To exit return to NORMAL mode and press the STOP button ALT Format Disk Initiates format on current disk You will be asked Format Disk Y o...

Page 18: ...ther information and sometimes timecode to be input to or output from FireStore Compatible DV camcorder and VTR formats include DV miniDV DVCam DVCPro Digital 8 and Professional DV These are 25Mb s 4...

Page 19: ...ore at a time Connecting a FireWire Hard Disk Drive It is possible to connect just about any FireWire IEEE 1394 hard disk drive to FireStore Focus Enhancements generally recommends that you use a Fire...

Page 20: ...n the first drive 3 Repeat Step 2 for up to eight drives Additional power supplies will be needed when more than one disk drive is connected to FireStore Power up FireStore and any connected FireWire...

Page 21: ...iate FireWire drivers on the com puter before use Consult your disk drives documentation for more in formation 6 Once FireStore has booted up press the HDD key You will be asked Goto HDD mode Press Pl...

Page 22: ...ry power supply cont FireStore Only 7 15V DC min 500mA max 9A FireStore one low power drive 7 15V DC min 2A max 9A FireStore features a 2 5mm power jack on its back panel It is center pin tip positive...

Page 23: ...ireStore is ready to use you should see one of the following displays on the LCD screen If you see the No Disk screen displayed shown below first check to see if there is power supplied to the disk dr...

Page 24: ...ger record on FireStore using the REC REC PAUSE but ton on your DV camcorder This is done using FireStore s FIREWIRE SLAVE MODE To access the FireWire Slave Mode simply select the SETUP mode on your F...

Page 25: ...me and any additional frames and save it to disk in a clip During capture the LCD will display the following screen It will have the same clip name structure see pg 27 Set Time and Date as standard vi...

Page 26: ...Rec using FireStore Other LCD screens are shown below Note More than 1 000 stills on a single disk may slow down FireStore access times this number will vary from disk drive to disk drive CAUTION As a...

Page 27: ...reStore does not have an analog output for monitoring If FireStore is ready to use you should see the following display on the LCD screen If you see the No Disk screen displayed shown below first chec...

Page 28: ...will reflect this with the following To return to normal playback simply press the PLAY button Fast Reverse Play It is possible for up to 30 times reverse playspeed with FireStore in fast reverse mode...

Page 29: ...turn to normal play press the PLAY button or to stop playback press the STOP button Single Frame Forward and Backward It is possible to move forward and backward frame by frame with FireStore To go in...

Page 30: ...button will move back one frame Press ing the FAST FORWARD button will move forward by one frame Each sequential press will move either forward or backward one frame as many times as it is pushed To...

Page 31: ...f these by pressing FireStore s MODE button once The display will toggle between the following two LCD displays Setup Menu FireStore has a user setup menu which allows the user to define various pref...

Page 32: ...this mode allows the user to toggle between triggering PAUSE and UN PAUSE of playback or record on FireStore The following LCD screen will appear when this option is selected 3 Index New File Selecti...

Page 33: ...e Setup Menu as described on page 25 Toggle through to the Date and Time Setup Menu by pressing the MODE button The following LCD screen will dis play Press the PLAY button to scroll between the vario...

Page 34: ...e camcorder will create a new file on the disk FireStore will remain in this mode until it is returned back to LOCAL control LOCAL control will return all control back to FireStore s front panel To se...

Page 35: ...sing the MODE button Press the FORWARD INDEX button to select one of the three record file formats The following LCD screens will appear Lock Unlock Front Panel Separate to the Setup Menu is the Lock...

Page 36: ...ed out on the FireWire disk drive prior to use WARNING FORMATTING A DRIVE WILL ERASE ALL DATA BACK UP ANY VALUABLE DATA BEFORE DOING THE FOLLOWING TASKS To format a drive on a Windows system connect t...

Page 37: ...apter 8 for more information Check Disk FireStore s CHECK DISK function allows the user to check the connected FireWire disk drives for problems To check an attached FireWire disk drive press FireStor...

Page 38: ...27 for more information This file name is known as the BASE FILE NAME It is possible to see this name on the FireStore LCD display for the currently selected clip by doing the following Press and hold...

Page 39: ...ing then deleting then re recording then deleting etc can result in disk fragmentation and slower perfor mance Whenever possible limit the amount of times a file is deleted after recording Disk Space...

Page 40: ...Connections on pg 4 2 Connect power to your FireWire disk drive if needed and turn ON 3 Switch the power switch at the back of the FireStore unit to ON The green power LED on the front panel will ligh...

Page 41: ...screen will read Formatting Once formatting is complete the LCD will display the following screen You are now ready to use FireStore Creating a Partition on an Unknown Volume Type Win98 or ME If the F...

Page 42: ...indow should open on your computer 4 At C WINDOWS type fdisk and then press the Enter key on your computer s keyboard Answer Y to Enable Large Disk Support 5 The DOS prompt window will now display 5 m...

Page 43: ...se button From the menu select Format Choose Full from the Format Type and then click Start to begin This could take some time 11 You have now created a volume which will allow FireStore to create a F...

Page 44: ...e Wizard click Next in the Window 6 Select the FireWire disk drive from the list look for the drive that has a similar capacity to your FireWire disk drive if multiple drives are connected Click Next...

Page 45: ...owed by Next 13 Choose FAT32 as the File System to Use under Formatting Ensure that the Perform a Quick Format box is checked See Below 14 Review your settings Click Finish to begin format 15 When fin...

Page 46: ...ems Check the Focus Enhancement s website www FOCUSinfo com for more information In order for you to use FireStore recorded FireWire disk drives on a com puter you must have an active IEEE 1394 connec...

Page 47: ...sually your computer s main disk drive Once located double click on the FireWire disk drive If you have trouble locating the FireWire disk drive right mouse click each drive and select Properties from...

Page 48: ...are being recorded to FireStore that exceed 9 minutes in length FireStore automatically creates a new file without dropping any frames The two clips will have the same primary file name however the l...

Page 49: ...licking on it Your computer will now dismount the disk drive and display the following message It is now possible to unplug the connected FireWire disk drive from your computer system Mounting FireWir...

Page 50: ...Wire disk drive on the desktop double click the disk icon to open it up Once opened you will see the following Computer Main Disk Drive FireWire Disk Drive marked with PC label Clip Text Log Text File...

Page 51: ...d 2GB segment will be labeled with a 02 Additional 2GB segments will be labeled with a 0X number Dismounting Disk Drives from Macintosh Com puter Systems Once you have completed working with your disk...

Page 52: ...h the FireWire plug That exact same file can be sent out the FireWire plug back to the camera or VCR for playback Needless to say a raw DV file is the simplest and most ef ficient method for storing D...

Page 53: ...include those listed below Two lists are shown one that shows files that will work in the particular NLE package without rendering and files that can be imported but require rendering later see pages...

Page 54: ...able to extract the timecode No setup procedure is necessary to record incoming timecode on FireStore If the timecode is present it will be recorded to the file In the example below a clip that was re...

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