Page 1: Table Of Contents
v.1.29 user-manual see ‘keep in touch’ on back cover Operator Interface Mon-outs Circular displays 3 Monitoring banks 14 Data panel 3 Check & create grids 14 Main selector 4 AES-out 14 Push buttons 5 Powering AES in-out 14 Route-ins Three-crown-turret 5 Power Create/Modify dispatches 15 Power on/off 6...
Page 2: Operator Interface
Operator Interface Cantar v1.29 user manual 2004 Sept 28...
Page 3: Circular Displays
Operator Interface Ergonomics 4. Linear pan-pots The Cantar interface is the easiest to use in the most difficult environment : • because the swivelling front panel always presents the best viewing angle, • because the largest display surface of all recorders permanently shows the recording parameters, •...
Page 4: Main Selector
Operator Interface Main Selector BACKUP Six operational positions, •REC •PPR •TEST •STOP •PLAY •BROWSE are laid in the standard way, easy to actuate even with TEST SESSION gloves on. Six setting positions, •MON-OUTS •ROUTE-INS •AUDIO •TECH •SESSION •BACKUP are the gates to parameter STOP TECH programming.
Page 5: Push Buttons
Operator Interface Push-buttons Three-crown turret waterproof and silent. In sound recording operation the large all weather crowns are constantly used to check and select the In the Main Selector various monitor-outs and route-ins configurations with one hand only. TEST [white] shows monitor-out configurations [shift•white] : opens/closes Scene edit, : puts an...
Page 6: Power
With a single set of on-board NiMH batteries, the 15 hour Cantar outperforms all other portable digital recorders. The day Aaton Li-Ion batteries are available (March 2005) the 22 hour Cantar will approach the prover- bial Nagra-4 endurance. And with the twin battery system you will never be taken by surprise.
Page 7: Files
ST1254 base of the Aaton filing system. This is the safest way to sort huge amounts of files and never overwrite one. It also is the simplest way to insure autoconfor- mation between the polyphonic 16bit bounced files sent to the editor, and the original monophonic 24bit files going to Pyramix or Protools (through Titan3).
Page 8: Calendar Clock
Aaton OriginC, to the modifiable element. Using the jog, select the an Aaton GMT or an Ambient Clock-It trilevel gene- desired figure, with arrows move on to the next rator. Atc (Ascii) shows in the message panel.
Page 9: Fps And Sampling Rates
Time (b) the working day, this avoid the Camera fps & file sample rate stamps loss of the 1ppm syncing time. In the sync sound world Cantar is perfectly inde- If you nevertheless want to pendant of the actual camera speed, but because power down Cantar at lunch of some Avid software versions and Mac OS levels, time, the blinking intc icon at...
Page 10: Test
Test Microphone Prep. insert an external -26dB XLR3-XLR3 attenuator on the mic input. 10 o’clock This position opens access to the classical audio tests. It is Mic Coupling important to properly feed the The five coupling types M1–>M2 and M3–>M4, or Cantar mic-preamps which offer the longest dynamic M1–>M2-M3 or M1–>M2-M3-M4 or M1–>M2-M3- range in one go with no pre-conditionners.
Page 11: Ppr
Pre-Post-Record PPR File Shortening To divide a file being recorded into shorter files and 11 o’clock This selector position is unique enter a new Sc&Tk ID, make a quick REC to PPR to to Cantar, it gathers three essen- REC. A new file is created which carries the same tial functions: prerecord activa- scene ID but take +1.
Page 12: Rec
Rec. Disk Recording in position [2], and select Phone=MX. When accessed from the solo list, the mixer output 12 o’clock MX is stereo monitored and shows on the rightmost In REC a red LED lights up in modulometer. the data panel and a [•REC] icon shows under the active disk drive.
Page 13: Play
Play Browse Playback Browse 8 o’ clock 7 o’clock This selector position opens This main selector position access to the files of the day opens access to all the folders of only. the current project. Files of the Day Wake up Hdd ! Main selector on PLAY, the last recorded file is played.
Page 14: Mon-Outs
Mon-outs Monitoring the out- in use shows by pressing the main selector [white] puts central button. As long as it is held down the three circular displays representing the left, center and 6 o’clock This selector position opens right channels provide a quick overview of the mon- access to the creation/modiﬁ- itoring grids without affecting the ongoing work.
Page 15: Route-Ins
Route-ins Inputs to tracks Track Arming Since Cantar does record totally independant Solo- 5 o’clock Any of the 15 inputs – line, Tracks (also called BWF-Monophonics), there is no mic or AES – can be sent to space lost on unused tracks. Do not hesitate to as- any track.
Page 16: Audio Set
Audio set Audio parameters Note on Mixdown Film-directors and image editors don’t want multitrack sounds; they do prefer a single 4 o’ clock Here are gathered the settings stereo pre-mix reﬂecting the sound of each scene. which show in the audio files At the end of the shooting day it is faster to burn delivered to the client and on the mixdown on a CD delivered to the post facility...
Page 17: Tech Set
Tech set (a) 8 BattAlert Tech parameters 10.8 Volts 13.2 Volts (see p. 6) 3 o’ clock Here are gathered the operat- Auto switch-over is done 300mV below the opera- ing parameters related to the tor set BattAlert. It allows the use of either 12.5V recorder day-in day-out use.
Page 18: 17 Software Install
It installation, if the new firmware version doesn’t takes about fifteen minutes to show up, redownload it from the Aaton site. reach the +2°C to +4°C equilibrium in a -15°C Note that you can install the N-n version by the environment.
Page 19: Session
Session Session/project 4 FAT32 formatting Ext Disk Shift•Red 2 o’ clock On this selector position are The internal Hdd is IEE.1394 connected. External gathered the settings related disks should preferably be LaCie FireWire Hdds, to a given project title. size up to 120GB. When buying an Hdd ask your vendor to deliver it FAT32, one Primary Partition 1 Project Name (not a Logical Partition).
Page 20: Push Backup
To make new copies of already archived files, ‘All’ 5 Media Type must be selected. CD700Mb ExtHdd DVD-Ram DVD*R Only use Aaton tested and approved DVD±R, 9 Check After Burn CD-R and DVD-Ram burners. The checking operation lasts the same time as the disk burning. 7 FileNames Short Long w.
Page 21: Dvd±R
DVD±R If the complete disk is NTFS formatted, a laptop Aaton tested internal DVD burners should only be must pull the files out of the FAT32 Cantar Hdd used: the slot loading Panasonic UJ-825B and copy them to the 1.6TB disk.
Page 22: Work-Flow
AES audio on slate synced rushes SD-Vitc, HD-Vanc, video Transmit this page to your post-production manager, it shows how the Aaton InDaw audio syncing station solves ALL the problems you may encounter in the maze of the audio- video-film speeds and standards.
Page 23: Majax & Autoconfo
4. Copy the ‘shoot date’ column of the bin into an on a simple laptop audio card with ±12dB (3dB ‘Aaton date’ column in which wrong date entries can steps) level adjustment ; corrects scene&take IDs be corrected; place this column before the ‘Aux-TC’...
Page 24: Surround 5+1
Tutorials (c) (select Save As...). Put it into the ‘Scan Control’ the track five filename by an hyphen, e.g. AA0021_ folder which is the Titan directory. The option will 5.wav becomes AA0021-5.wav. then appear in the ﬁle selection rules. Launch Pyramix and make two MS strips, one for The way the CantarRules works is to use the ﬁrst the front, one for the rear: lay down the three 6 digits from the ﬁle name and ﬁrst 6 digits from...
Page 25 Tutorials (d) Digit INPUTS Digit Line Line 7&8 1 to 5 1 to 6 1&2 3&4 �� MIXER A1 to A5 with B1 to B5 MS dec. C1 to C5 T7 T8 Mode HARD DISK Int & Ext Digit 1 to 6 Digit 7&8 ��...
Page 26: Audio In/Out
Connectors MICS on XLR-3 TIME IN/OUT on LEMO5 Symertical transformer isolated (+0dBu) 1= Gnd, 2= Ltc-In, 3= Ascii, 4= nc, 5= Ltc-Out Mic-1, Mic-2, Mic-5 XLR-3 1= Gnd, 2= Hot, 3=Cold MICS on XLR-5 Symetrical transformer isolated (+0dBu) Mic-3 (Left or M) POWER on XLR-4 reduced to 2.
Page 27 Sharing ideas As an owner/user of Cantar, you Exchange tips and ideas with your should regularly visit peers and propose improvements, on http://soft.aaton.com/swcantar/ the Cantar users’ list: to get the newest manual and lat- http://blake.aaton.com/mailman/ est Cantar or Majax softwares.

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