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Disk Recorders
February 2017

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  • Page 1 Installation and Operation Manual HyperDeck Disk Recorders February 2017...
  • Page 2 HDMI or SDI monitor for instant playback. The HyperDeck Studio Mini model is a small and portable, modular Ultra HD disk recorder that records on tiny SD cards. With HyperDeck Studio Pro, you can connect analog sources and also record and play back Ultra HD with 6G-SDI.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Contents Contents HyperDeck Disk Recorders Getting Started Adding Titles Adding Audio Tracks Recording Color Correcting your Clips Playback Using Scopes HyperDeck Status Indicators Secondary Color Correction Qualifying a Color About SSDs and SD Cards Adding a Power Window Blackmagic HyperDeck Setup...

  • Page 4: Getting Started

    Plugging in Analog Audio and Timecode on HyperDeck Studio Pro If you want to connect analog audio sources to HyperDeck Studio Pro, plug into the XLR or RCA connectors. To select your desired audio input, simply press the ‘input’ button on the front control panel to cycle through combinations of video and audio inputs.
  • Page 5 To plug in an SSD: Hold a 9.5mm SSD with the connection pins facing the bottom and aligned with your HyperDeck’s drive bay. Gently push the SSD into the drive bay until you feel it slot into place. Your HyperDeck will verify the SSD. This is shown by an illuminated green light surrounding the drive bay.

  • Page 6: Recording

    Recording Video with HyperDeck Studio SSD Models Insert your formatted SSD into either SSD slot. The LED strip surrounding the drive will illuminate green as HyperDeck reads the disk. When the slot light turns off, your HyperDeck is ready to record.
  • Page 7 When there is less than 3 minutes of record time remaining on your SD card or SSD, the timecode counter on your HyperDeck’s LCD will turn red and the ‘stop’ button will flash slowly. This also means there is no second disk with space that recording can continue onto. In this case, you simply need to insert a disk with space so recording can continue.
  • Page 8 Ref Input If your HyperDeck has a reference input, it can accept black burst and tri-level sync signals from a sync generator. Connect a reference source to this input if you want to synchronize HyperDeck with other video equipment, such as a production switcher.

  • Page 9: Playback

    1080p59.94 01:23:47:08 Press the play button on your HyperDeck’s control panel to play back a clip, and press the forward or reverse skip buttons to restart the current clip or skip to a different one If the play button flashes on HyperDecks that record on SSDs, this means the disk is not fast enough and playback cannot keep up.
  • Page 10 SDI output of your HyperDeck. Ultra HD Playback on HyperDeck Studio Pro HyperDeck Studio Pro can play back Ultra HD video via single link 6G-SDI, dual link 3G-SDI, and quad link HD-SDI.

  • Page 11: Hyperdeck Status Indicators

    LED indicators for each media slot and the built in LCD. Media Slot Indicators When you first power on HyperDeck, or any time you insert an SSD or SD card, the slot indicator will illuminate green while checking the media and then switch off. If the disk has not been formatted correctly, or fails to work, the slot will illuminate solid red until the disk is removed.
  • Page 12 In our testing, we have found larger newer models of SSD and larger capacity SSDs are generally faster. SSDs recommended for use with HyperDeck for uncompressed 10 Bit HD and ProRes or DNxHR Ultra HD video recording include: Brand SSD Name/Model Number...
  • Page 13 Choosing a fast SD Card For high quality HD recording on HyperDeck Studio Mini, we recommend high speed UHS-II SD cards. These cards need to be capable of write speeds above 110MB/s for recording up to Ultra HD 2160p30. However, if you are recording standard definition or lower bit rate, lower quality compression you might be able to use slower cards.
  • Page 14 HyperDeck’s LCD menu, or via a Windows or macOS computer. HFS+ is also known as Mac OS Extended and is the recommended format for HyperDeck as it supports journaling. Data on a journaled disk is more quickly recovered in the rare event it becomes corrupted, and less likely to be corrupted in the first place.
  • Page 15 Confirm the format by using the jog/shuttle wheel and pressing the set button A progress bar will show you the formatting progress. When your HyperDeck has finished formatting, ‘formatting complete’ will display on the LCD. Press the ‘set’ button again to return to the menu.
  • Page 16 Set the file system to exFAT and the allocation unit size to 128 kilobytes. Type a volume label, select quick format and click Start. Your media will quickly be formatted and made ready for use with HyperDeck. About SSDs and SD Cards...

  • Page 17: Blackmagic Hyperdeck Setup

    SSD or SD card in the exFAT format Blackmagic HyperDeck Setup Using HyperDeck Setup Blackmagic HyperDeck Setup is used to change settings and update the internal software in your HyperDeck. In addition to installing HyperDeck Setup, uncompressed 10 bit codecs are installed for Mac and Windows.
  • Page 18 Launch HyperDeck Setup. Your HyperDeck model will be named in the setup utility home page. Click on the circular ‘setup’ icon or the image of your HyperDeck to open the settings page. In the ‘record’ settings, click on the ‘codec’ drop down menu and select your desired codec.
  • Page 19 To change settings using HyperDeck Setup, plug HyperDeck into your computer via the USB port Use HyperDeck Setup to select your desired recording and playback format All subsequent clips will be recorded in the chosen format. Setting the recording format also sets the playback format. For example, if you want to play back an uncompressed 10-bit QuickTime file, set the recording format to Uncompressed 10-bit QuickTime.

  • Page 20: Control Panel Display Menu

    Using the Display Menu Use your HyperDeck’s control panel display menu to change your video and audio inputs and outputs as well as any settings changes you would make in HyperDeck Setup such as trigger recording, timecode output and your chosen recording codec.
  • Page 21 Press ‘set’ to enter the ‘timecode input’ menu and select ‘input’. Press ‘set’ to confirm your selection. It might be necessary to turn on the RP 188 setting in your camera before HyperDeck will be able to record the timecode.
  • Page 22 HD-SDI connection Timecode Run Recording HyperDeck also supports timecode run recording, which is similar to start/stop recording, but is only used if your HD-SDI camera does not support trigger recording via HD-SDI. To set up Timecode Run recording using HyperDeck Setup: Go into your camera’s timecode settings and change them from ‘free run timecode’...

  • Page 23: Rs-422 Control

    Recording will stop whenever the timecode stops. Be careful if your HyperDeck is connected to the SDI output of a video router, as any change to the video source might cause HyperDeck to start recording unexpectedly due to a change in timecode being detected via HD-SDI.
  • Page 24 LCD menu in HyperDeck Studio Mini, to allow remote deck control. You can now remotely start and stop recording and playback of your HyperDeck as well as performing other common jog and shuttle functions. The full list of supported RS-422 commands is in the following section named ‘supported RS-422 commands’.
  • Page 25 Supported RS-422 Commands Command Reply No Remote Notes 0 - System Control NTSC: 0xF0E0 0x00 0x11 DeviceTypeRequest PAL: 0xF1E0 Enabled 24P: 0xF2E0 1 - Slave Response 0x20 0x00 Stop Acknowledge Disabled 0x20 0x01 Play Acknowledge Disabled 0x20 0x02 Record Acknowledge Disabled 0x20 0x10...
  • Page 26 0x40 0x18 InFwd Acknowledge Disabled 0x40 0x19 InRev Acknowledge Disabled 0x40 0x1A OutFwd Acknowledge Disabled 0x40 0x1B OutRev Acknowledge Disabled 0x40 0x20 InReset Acknowledge Disabled 0x40 0x21 OutReset Acknowledge Disabled 0x40 0x22 AInReset Acknowledge Disabled 0x40 0x23 AOutReset Acknowledge Disabled 0x44 0x31 PrerollPreset...
  • Page 27 Set if total space left on available SSDs is less than 30 seconds Others Cue Complete (byte 2, bit 0) Always 1: Cue requests are always instantaneous HyperDeck Serial RS-422 Protocol Protocol Based on Sony 9-pin protocol Interface Baud rate 38.4 Kbps...

  • Page 28: Connecting To An Atem Switcher

    Connecting to an ATEM Switcher If you’re using an ATEM switcher, you can plug in up to 4 Blackmagic HyperDeck disk recorders and control them using the ATEM software control panel. This is a very powerful feature that effectively gives you an entire videotape department at your fingertips. You can also trigger...

  • Page 29: Understanding Post Production Workflows

    01:42:56:12 INPUT 01:42:56:12 DISP INPUT Make sure your HyperDeck has remote set to ‘on’ in the LCD menu, or via the control panel remote button, to enable Ethernet control with an ATEM switcher Understanding Post Production Workflows Accessing Your Clips To access your clips, simply plug the SD card or SSD into your computer via an SD card slot, external reader, or SSD dock.

  • Page 30: Using Davinci Resolve

    Using DaVinci Resolve Introducing DaVinci Resolve Recording clips with your HyperDeck Disk Recorder is only part of the process of creating film and television content, and just as important is the process of media backup and management as well as editing, color correction and encoding final master files. DaVinci Resolve for macOS...

  • Page 31: Importing Your Clips

    Importing your Clips To start editing your clips, you’ll first need to import them into the media pool: Launch DaVinci Resolve. If this is the first time you’ve opened DaVinci Resolve, wait for the Project Manager to appear, and double click the ‘untitled project’ icon in the project manager window.
  • Page 32 To start editing your clips, you’ll need to create a new timeline. The timeline is the stage upon which all your editing will take place. Double click a clip in the media pool to open the clip in the source viewer. Use the mouse pointer to scrub the play head in the source viewer left and right until you find the start frame you want for the clip.

  • Page 33: Trimming Clips

    Trimming Clips When editing clips you’ll want to trim them to include only the specific actions you want in each shot. There are various ways, but the easiest is to adjust the clips’ in and out points on the timeline: After adding clips to your timeline, hover your mouse pointer over the start of a clip until the pointer becomes a ‘trim’...

  • Page 34: Adding Transitions

    Press your new shortcut keys on the keyboard. If you make a mistake you can easily undo the change by clicking the ‘undo’ icon next to the setting. Click ‘save’ to confirm your new shortcut setting. Trim your clips by dragging their start and end points left or right. The ‘snapping’...

  • Page 35: Adding Titles

    You now have a smooth transition mixing from one clip to the other. If you want to adjust the length of the transition you can lengthen or shorten its start and end point using a similar approach to trimming a clip. Hover your mouse pointer over the start or end of the transition until the transition ‘trim’...

  • Page 36: Adding Audio Tracks

    Adding Audio Tracks If you want to mix a large sound edit with lots of sound effects and music, you can easily add more audio tracks when you need them. To add an audio track: Right click next to the name of the last audio track on your timeline and select ‘add track’.

  • Page 37: Using Scopes

    With the ‘color’ page you get absolute control over the look of your clips. First, click on the ‘color’ tab to open the ‘color’ page. You’ll see the color wheels, curves palettes and general color correction tools as well as the preview and nodes window.
  • Page 38 The parade scope helps you optimize highlights, mid tones and shadows. The ‘lift, ‘gamma’, ‘gain’ and ‘offset’ color wheels give you total control over the color and tonal balance of your clips. To make a uniform adjustment to all colors for each tonal region, drag the dial underneath the color wheels back and forth. Adjusting the ‘lift’...

  • Page 39: Secondary Color Correction

    You can also use the curves palette to make primary color corrections. Simply click to create control points on the diagonal line inside the curve graph, and drag them up or down to adjust the master RGB contrast at different areas of image tonality. The optimum points to adjust are the bottom third, mid, and top third of the curve line.

  • Page 40: Adding A Power Window

    To qualify a color: Add a new serial node. Open the ‘qualifier’ palette and make sure the ‘color range’ sample eyedropper tool is selected. Click on the color in your clip you want to affect. Usually you’ll need to make some adjustments to soften the edges of your selection and limit the region to only the desired color.

  • Page 41: Tracking A Window

    Now you can make color corrections to your image in just the area you want. Power windows let you make secondary corrections to specific parts of your image. Tracking a Window The camera, object or area in your shot may be moving, so to make sure your window stays on your selected object or area, you’ll need to use DaVinci Resolve’s powerful tracking feature.

  • Page 42: Using Plugins

    Click on the ‘forward’ arrow to the left of the checkboxes. DaVinci Resolve will now apply a cluster of tracking points on your clip and then step through the frames to analyze the movement. When the tracking is done, your power window will follow the path of the movement in your clip.
  • Page 43 The frame rate will be locked to your project frame rate setting. Underneath the presets you will see the timeline filename and the target location for your exported video. Click the ‘browse’ button and choose the location where you want to save your exported file.

  • Page 44: Developer Information

    The Blackmagic HyperDeck Ethernet Protocol is a text based protocol accessed by connecting to TCP port 9993 on HyperDeck Studio models that have a built in Ethernet connection. If you are a software developer you can use the protocol to construct devices that integrate with our products.

  • Page 45: Protocol Details

    The HyperDeck Ethernet server listens on TCP port 9993. Basic syntax The HyperDeck protocol is a line oriented text protocol. Lines from the server will be separated by an ascii CR LF sequence. Messages from the client may be separated by LF or CR LF.
  • Page 46 Command syntax Command parameters are usually optional. A command with no parameters is terminated with a new line: {Command name}↵ If parameters are specified, the command name is followed by a colon, then pairs of parameter names and values. Each parameter name is terminated with a colon character: {Command name}: {Parameter}: {Value} {Parameter}: {Value} ...↵...
  • Page 47 Connection response On connection, an asynchronous message will be delivered: 500 connection info:↵ protocol version: {Version}↵ model: {Model Name}↵ ↵ Connection rejection Only one client may connect to the server at a time. If other clients attempt to connect concurrently, they will receive an error and be disconnected: 120 connection rejected↵...
  • Page 48 The server will respond with a list of all supported commands: 201 help:↵ {Help Text}↵ {Help Text}↵ ↵ Switching to preview mode The "preview" command instructs the deck to switch between preview mode and output mode: preview: enable: {"true", "false"}↵ Playback will be stopped when the deck is switched to preview mode.
  • Page 49 Changing timeline position The "goto" command instructs the deck to switch to playback mode and change its position within the timeline. To go to the start of a specific clip: goto: clip id: {Clip ID}↵ To move forward/back {count} clips from the current clip on the current timeline: goto: clip id: +/-{count}↵...
  • Page 50 Retrieving device information The "device info" command returns information about the connected deck device: device info↵ The server will respond with: 204 device info:↵ protocol version: {Version}↵ model: {Model Name}↵ unique id: {unique alphanumeric identifier}↵ ↵ Retrieving slot information The "slot info" command returns information about a slot. Without parameters, the command returns information for the currently selected slot: slot info↵...
  • Page 51 "notify" command. When enabled, changes in transport state will generate a "508 transport info:" asynchronous message with the same parameters as the "208 transport info:" message. Video Formats The following video formats are currently supported on HyperDeck Studio: NTSC, PAL, NTSCp, PALp 720p50, 720p5994, 720p60...
  • Page 52 QuickTimeUncompressed QuickTimeProResHQ QuickTimeProRes QuickTimeProResLT QuickTimeProResProxy The HyperDeck Studio Pro and HyperDeck Studio 12G additionally support the following file formats: QuickTimeDNxHR220 DNxHR220 Supported file formats may vary between models and software releases. Querying and updating configuration information The "configuration" command may be used to query the current configuration of the deck: configuration↵...
  • Page 53 Clearing the current timeline The "clips clear" command instructs the deck to empty the current timeline: clips clear↵ The server responds with 200 ok↵ Adding a clip to the current timeline The "clips add:" command instructs the deck to add a clip to the current timeline: clips add: name: {"clip name"}↵...

  • Page 54: Help

    “Find your local support team” button on the support page and call your nearest Blackmagic Design support office. Checking the Software Version Currently Installed To check which version of Blackmagic HyperDeck software is installed on your computer, open the About Blackmagic HyperDeck Setup window. On macOS, open Blackmagic HyperDeck Setup from the Applications folder.

  • Page 55: Regulatory Notices And Safety Information

    Regulatory Notices and Safety Information Regulatory Notices Disposal of waste of electrical and electronic equipment within the European union. The symbol on the product indicates that this equipment must not be disposed of with other waste materials. In order to dispose of your waste equipment, it must be handed over to a designated collection point for recycling.

  • Page 56: Warranty

    Warranty 12 Month Limited Warranty Blackmagic Design warrants that this product will be free from defects in materials and workmanship for a period of 12 months from the date of purchase. If a product proves to be defective during this warranty period, Blackmagic Design, at its option, either will repair the defective product without charge for parts and labor, or will provide a replacement in exchange for the defective product.

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