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USB Operation
The USB connection is used to view recorded video using the QuickTime player on a computer. The files must be
recorded using the Native Personality, FAT32 Disk format and the QT file format. To utilize these formats:
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Connect the Serial connection to a computer using a straight-through cable.
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Power on the FieldPro and start the DVR Master software on the computer.
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Go to the Settings Tab and Select Native in the Personality section.
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Go to the Disk Tab to click FAT32 Disk and QuickTime File formats, then "Delete All Video".
The Delete process will take up to a minute to complete. To monitor the Delete process, connect video to the input
and monitor to the video output – the pass-thru video will be black during the Delete and format of the drive. If the
video does not go black, the Delete is not progressing properly. When the format completes properly, the drive will
be full of RAxxxxxx.FFV files. These files are the available space ready for video to be recorded.
The drivers are included in Windows 2000 and Windows XP for the connection. The drive should show up as an
external drive when the USB cable is connected and the DVR is powered "On", unless the unit is in Record. The
DVR will not allow USB access when recording since all data on the drive could be damaged / deleted by doing so.
Connecting the USB cable during Play will stop the playback and send the DVR into Pass-Thru mode because the
DVR and the USB cannot access the drive simultaneously.
The files containing video will be named CLIP0000 AAAABB.MOV, where the "0000" will increment per take, 'AAAA'
and 'BB' are hexadecimal numbers added to differentiate files of the same clip. All other files on the drive are not
video files, and therefore, are not playable. The FAT32 format limits file size to 2 GB. Long video clips will span file
boundaries. The filenames will indicate sequential files in a clip by incrementing the digits 'BB' from 00 to as many
files as are in one clip.
Video requires a fast computer to play smoothly in real time. If your video does not play smoothly, QuickTime Pro
has a setting under the Movie tab to play all frames. This slows the video to the speed of the computer, but shows
all of the frames recorded.
Audio in QuickTime files will be Mono from the Left Channel Input.
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