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Avid Technology Airspeed 5000 Manual

Avid Technology Airspeed 5000 Manual

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1. Connections
A picture of the back of the recorder chassis is shown below with connection points.
AC
Power
The Video input/SDI BNC should be connected to the output of the system that is to be recorded from.
The Video output/SDI BNC should be connected to a monitor for test purposes.
2. Boot the Recorder
If the recorder does not power up after plugging in the power cords then switch on the power by
pushing the power switch as shown below.
The system should take few minutes to boot up into Windows 7.
USB Mouse
and Keyboard
Connectors
Video/SDI
Output
VGA
Output
Video/SDI
Input

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Summary of Contents for Avid Technology Airspeed 5000

  • Page 1 1. Connections A picture of the back of the recorder chassis is shown below with connection points. Video/SDI Video/SDI Output Input USB Mouse and Keyboard Power Output Connectors The Video input/SDI BNC should be connected to the output of the system that is to be recorded from. The Video output/SDI BNC should be connected to a monitor for test purposes.
  • Page 2 3. Unzip the customer diagnostic tool Airspeed5000Test.zip After unzipping the zip file go to the folder that that it was unzipped too and run the Airspeed5000Test.exe. Airspeed Customer Diagnostic tool...
  • Page 3 4. Diagnostic Test Page The following page should appear.
  • Page 4: Select Video Format

    5. Select Video Format...
  • Page 5 6. Set Video Format Notice that SD_NTSC_485 has been selected as the video format for both play and capture. After selecting the Start Video button color base should appear on the SDI output BNC. This sets the Video IO to standard definition or SMPTE 259M. Select Start Video...
  • Page 6 Next select the stop video button.
  • Page 7 7. Select the Record Tool Use the scroll bar and scroll down to “SDI Raw Rec/Play” icon as shown below:...
  • Page 8 Select the “SDI Raw Rec/Play” icon and the following screen should appear:...
  • Page 9 Select ““Rec/Play pass-thru” Select “Rec/Play pass-thru” as shown in the above pulldown and the following screen should appear:...
  • Page 10 At this point select the start button and the output of the recorder should show what is connected to the input of the recorder, this is to confirm that the system is receiving a valid video/SDI input signal and able to loop it through to the output. The next step is to stop the video/SDI loop through by selecting the “Stop SDI”...
  • Page 11 If the loop through was successful the system is now ready to capture uncompressed video/audio. The next step is select “Record to file” mode as shown below:...
  • Page 12 After selecting the “Start” button the following pop up will appear:...
  • Page 13 Type in a file name for the uncompressed capture/record of video and audio. Select the “E:” drive to store the data to. Select “Save” to start the uncompressed capture of video and audio.
  • Page 14 At this point the video effect sequence can be done on the video/audio switcher. After the effect has completed the capture/record can be stopped by selecting the “Stop SDI” button as shown below:...
  • Page 15 8. Verify Captured Data File After performing a data capture, the file can be played back by selecting “Play from file” as shown below: The following pop up should appear:...
  • Page 16 Select Drive E: Select file Select Open Select the “E:” drive as the source of the file. Select the file to be played. Select “Open”. At this point the recorded video/audio will play out at the output of the recorder as an SDI stream.