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8. Monitoring and Recording

Atomos Anti-Shock Technology

Spinning disks are very reliable in a controlled environment where

movement and vibration are minimal and within the capabilities of the

devices. They are ideal for low-cost recording, but will suffer reduced

performance if they are jolted or receive a sudden impact.

Should one of these events occur, the Samurai will sense the hard disk

slowdown. If there is a break in the recording it will detect the number of

frames involved and will then continue to record when it is safe to do so.

This means that even if you suffer a momentary break in your recording, the

video capture will continue without any intervention from you, the user.

It is obviously important for you to know that you have suffered from an

interrupted recording and the user interface will display a warning (in the

form of a Kangaroo sign) clearly above the disk-capacity display on the

main screen.

If you ﬁnd you are working on a very active project where you are seeing

a lot of “Skippys” then you probably need to switch to SSDs, and only

use spinning disks for gentler environments.

To remove “Skippy” warning, simply touch the icon

and it will disappear.

File Recovery

From AtomOS 3.0 onwards, a ﬁle recovery feature is included, in the

event of a disk being removed, or a battery running out, while recording.

The Samurai saves the ﬁle every 8 seconds while in recording mode, so

if the recording is stopped suddenly, without closing the ﬁle properly,

you will only ever lose 8 seconds of material.

In the event of an interrupted recording, when you restart the Samurai,

or replace the disk, you will be presented with a menu that gives you

the option to recover immediately, or recover it later.

If you recover later, every time you put the disk in, or start up the

Samurai, the same menu will appear to prompt you to recover the ﬁle

that did not close properly.

If the drive is broken, or has become corrupted, then we will

not be able to recover the ﬁle and we recommend that you try

third-party hard disk recovery software.

“Skippy”

warning

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