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Cantar-X  User Manual v2.26 (r13)  2009 April 27 

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Summary of Contents for Cantar X1

Page 1: ...t 7 m o n o m i x t o t 8 p 2 8 s a v e a n d r e l o a d a l l s e t t i n g s p 3 3 w i l d a l l a n d t r i o p d f r e p o r t s p 3 8 e d i t o r f r i e n d l y p o l y r o t a t e p 3 9 s t e...

Page 2: ...Headphone level p 18 Line out Foldback level p 18 Check In Grids Out Maps p 18 Rec Play rehearsal p 18 PPR Pre Post Record Pre recording buffer p 19 Sc Take Track names TapeRef p 19 Post recording me...

Page 3: ...generated once backup call is completed Tarkan v1 11 adds CSV to the PDF SoundReport Tarkan completion menu fits WinXP netbook screens v2 24 Nov 2008 Windows PCs handle unmounted internal drive Simult...

Page 4: ...ers analog inputs plus six linear faders mixdown devoted to one specific task are faster to handle than multi function knobs An important consideration for desert or high seas work all of the me chani...

Page 5: ...ractor hole to push the drive out of the Cantar housing see the DVD burner extraction arrows on the picture below DESCRIPTION 2 BOTTOM VIEW Rules about FireWire cables The cable retainer screw should...

Page 6: ...long pressure battery on duty shift batt in STOP turns OFF Cantar Headphones 1 4 jack in an isolated compartment The headphone am plifier is powerful enough to drive loudspeakers down to 8 ohms The st...

Page 7: ...grids to help you sort and memorize your configurations e g A1 to A5 for mic only setups B1 to B5 when some line inputs are on duty C1 to C5 for complex setups that include digi ins The config crown...

Page 8: ...ight sunlight to save backlight power see TECHSET 05 Backlight p 33 Rectangular screen Operating positions p 10 In STOP top row batt L batt R voltage middle row system time bottom row system date In T...

Page 9: ...ct the In Grids PUSH the SoloMixPan slider to the battery side and press or click in click out the routing button The silver config crown gives sequential access to fifteen In Grids the last in use is...

Page 10: ...thumb while the blue shift button may be pressed by the index finger silver in REC insert a marker on the fly in TEST after routing opens routing creation coming soon in PLAY go to operator s record...

Page 11: ...300mv below the operator entered Batt Alert level both inputs are put on duty This allows the simultaneous use of a 12 5V NiMH battery with alert level set to 10 5V and a 14 4V Li Ion battery with al...

Page 12: ...d is named for the date e g 20041206 AAD see Calender Time p 13 If the iso tracks must be interleaved before import into crip pled editing machines in need of polyphonic files Cantar builds an aaP suf...

Page 13: ...st turn OFF Cantar then back ON and answer YES or go to TEST Sync Time At startup you will notice a blinking int c or ext c icon depending upon the master internal clock or slave external clock mode s...

Page 14: ...cord run mode lets you use the pre record buffer without creating TC overlaps For example if the preceding take ends at 01 45 00 and the pre record buf fer is set at thirteen seconds the next audio fi...

Page 15: ...ge from to e g 12 45 36 Many nights of engineers time have been spent trying to find a universal method to sync sound and images on the slow second planet but nothing came out In the U S you must ask...

Page 16: ...and is applied to ganged preamps Inversion Press shift lim inv 1 to invert the phase of a mic signal a triangle appears below the concerned mic number on the middle circular screen High pass filters a...

Page 17: ...ton 2 The slaved gain value is displayed with I signs showing in which direction you should rotate the fader to avoid any sud den level change when unlocking the balance key Line links The links are s...

Page 18: ...oo p 53 A two channel 12dBu transformer accessory is available p 57 note insert a 12k ohm resistor in the input path of the Sen heiser transmitters to avoid oscillation and noise generation Check and...

Page 19: ...iletag of the NEXT recording 2 Comments jog to Tk Comment and press ok to activate the bottom line where the former comment appears Characters max 200 can be entered with and jog but it is much easier...

Page 20: ...to REC A new file is created it carries the same scene ID and the take is incremented You will not lose a single audio sample A short pre silence is added at the head of the new file to ease the splic...

Page 21: ...since Cantar waits for three seconds to validate the new LTC then goes to REC while splicing the preceding three second audio stored in the pre record buffer If you want to continue the recording kno...

Page 22: ...Press the link lock 3 button between mic1 mic2 faders to dis able the mixer s linear faders press the link lock 3 button between mic3 mic4 faders to dis able all rotary faders Any action on a disable...

Page 23: ...back signal s the analog inputs are recorded in the stan dard way To launch the first play card press ok if you are using a keyboard press space To stop before reaching the cue out press ok To replay...

Page 24: ...your time while passing over stop if the message you were too fast appears go back to stop for one second Play card creation read p 48 p 49 1 Go to BLUE PLAY note1 then shift to choose a Play file amo...

Page 25: ...proj ects shareware SoundConverter note2 to update iXML headers recorded in a pre v2 11 Cantar clone it under an RPA In Grid p 28 or use Majax Live or clone In BLUE BRWS 21 TC mode Live gives access t...

Page 26: ...light 06 View Fader dB 07 Record beeps 08 Clip detection beep 09 Lack of ext clock beep 10 11 Beep routing level 12 Meter speed 13 Peak hold duration 14 15 BatL BatR alert 16 HDD Power Down 17 Serial...

Page 27: ...he black button to accept it to route line1 to T5 jog the cursor through T2 T3 and T4 until you land on T5 odd tracks are on the outer circle even tracks on the inner circle Go to the position opposit...

Page 28: ...1kHz to Cantar s selected sampling rate e g 48000Hz Sixteen Tracks needs two Cantar X2s To impose the same sampling rate and phase and get a sixteen track machine enter a Wordclock signal on the SubD...

Page 29: ...ack button to link track1 to both the left and right ears same for T2 right screen jog to T6 press the black button to link track6 to the right ear same for T8 If you want an m s recorded track pair s...

Page 30: ...f M S pairs recorded on T1T2 T3T4 T5T6 can be added to the T7T8 Out Map AES power reminder As soon as you select an Out Map with digi out the track icons start flashing in the circular screens to remi...

Page 31: ...1 to 35 sec Pre record buffer duration Up to 35 seconds 8 tracks 24 bit 48kHz Up to 17 seconds 8 tracks 24 bit 96kHz 07 BalanceLock Unlocked Locked Slaved fader status see Mic links p 17 08 Mic Links...

Page 32: ...UK Date MMDDYY Filetag TapeRef and Freeform entries are not yet enabled 17 RecRun Init 01h00m00s The RecRun clock jumps one hour at each rectangular screen bottom line opening Rtc record run is activa...

Page 33: ...Setups as desired can be saved keep them in the internal HDD Since they can be used in another Cantar copy them onto a laptop before returning a rented machine next time you will re import them and be...

Page 34: ...TEST to wake up the HDD it will be up to speed within three to ten seconds the pre record buffer hides this speed ramp up Cantar s cold start from a totally un powered machine to recording is a blazi...

Page 35: ...1 Connect a cable to the Cantar FireWire socket while it is unpowered p 5 2 To avoid any power interruption during the following oper ations activate both onboard fully charged batteries by simultane...

Page 36: ...are FAT32 One Primary Partition formatted directly acces sible by both Mac and PC Internal Open the disk compartment and unscrew the disk carrying shuttle Following the instructions below connect it...

Page 37: ...ase Day No Yes To reduce disk fragmentation file erasure is performed on full workday folders only Select Day ok jog to select a day ok the bottom line displays ScanningDay then the cursor jumps to Da...

Page 38: ...nt field max 200 char is used as the take separator Disarmed tracks carry no track name Paper size is unified 21x27 2 cm to fit both A4 and Letter formats note on some Mac firmware you must open the P...

Page 39: ...resaves files that have been updated PolyStore To speed up the end of day Run Backup PolyStore copies onto the int HDD the provisional polyphonic files resulting from the treatments done during idle...

Page 40: ...For MAC PC compatibility see SESSION 04 Disk Format p 36 and Tutorial 2 Drives Media p 43 07 Burn Mode Burn Only Burn Check Check Only Checking a DVD takes just as much time as burning it 08 FilesToCo...

Page 41: ...f preceding workdays can be erased 14 Run Backup No nnnnMB Yes nnnnMB The default is No with the size of the files to be saved This allows you to quickly visit and immediately leave using the same ok...

Page 42: ...depending on the treatment they received Direct mono go to AAD poly Native go to AAN poly Rotate go to AAR and miX go to AAX p 39 p 40 After the backup is done it is still possible to make some metad...

Page 43: ...hat recommendation Extend TECHSET 16 HDD Pwr Dwn to 255 minutes Do not perform an HDD Unmount Mount operation these instructions will be removed Feb 2009 CD DVD Burners All former CD DVD burners shoul...

Page 44: ...es the B Format stereo monitoring with adjustment of the pattern and width Routing Connect the Soundfield ST350 X output to line1 T5 Y to lin2 T6 T5 T6 m s declared and W to line3 T4 panned to center...

Page 45: ...rd ap proaching a boom mic I would be favoring the radio until the actor steps into the sweet spot of the boom at which point I would crossfade potting down the radio as I pot up the boom This does no...

Page 46: ...n is also sent through Line out or Digi out to the camera s A1 A2 audio tracks to let the director immediately verify the last take and to later look at the day s rushes Because of a MediaComposer lim...

Page 47: ...8 of the EDL s TapeID or SoundRoll column with the User s TapeRef found in the audio files metadata then uses the timecode in and out points to finish the job with Pyramix you don t even need to use T...

Page 48: ...etadata We identified three main applications for the clone mode Remix you make a copy of the original iso tracks and perform a new mixdown with the onboard mixer or the Can tarem Remix also lets you...

Page 49: ...ater To update old style files see p 25 Rehearsal As soon as blue test is activated the playback tracks Tp1 to Tp6 are internally sent to the digi1 8 inputs from where they are routed the standard way...

Page 50: ...tail generates a timecode over lap with the next original take To get a clone of the same exact length as the original same srart and stop TC go to BLUE PPR and trigger the recording with the keyboard...

Page 51: ...k on the desired cross point it turns blue double click to deactivate To set the inputs for T7T8 first click the desired T7 cross point it turns yellow as well as the other possible choice s click the...

Page 52: ...he Metadata screens is allowed on the positions where the MainSelector bottom becomes dark grey double click on the selector itself operands screen This screen displays the AUDIO TC TECHSET SESSION an...

Page 53: ...assigned fader is the one displayed just before releasing the key note Cantarem no longer links lines1 2 or lines3 4 a great er choice is offered in AUDIO TC 09 To control several mic or line input f...

Page 54: ...d one 4 Connect the latest Cantar ID will show at next connection 5 Status for main tenance engineers Working Screens Arcan w displays the modulometers prefader and mixer gains plus the mic preamp set...

Page 55: ...Audio TC also running in Cantar and other cameras on the set During image import the NLE extracts this Audio TC to autosync images and audio p 46 Emergency master clock Turn ON GMT press the white but...

Page 56: ...ac equipped with an E SuperDrive replace it with a genuine Matshita UJ 875 or connect a standalone DVD RAM burner or use the TECHSET 01 Unmount ed Cantar internal DVD burner itself IndawPass Tell your...

Page 57: ...shield To extract the drive see p 5 Mic XLR3 F Symmetrical transformer 0dBu 24dBu w pad mic1 mic2 mic5 on XLR3 1 Gnd 2 Hot 3 Cold Mic XLR5 F Symmetrical transformer 0dBu 24dBu w pad mic3 Left or M 1 G...

Page 58: ...ck solo button above the track fader you want to Arm Disarm p 18 12 AutoSlate Press shift silver within six seconds after each slate clap The slates generated by a multi cam era shoot are labeled SA S...

Page 59: ...l ver config crown p 9 to select a preset Press routing to retain the choice p 18 30 Output Maps In TEST or PPR pull the SoloMixPan slider toward the operator Press routing then rotate the black monit...

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