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Using the Playback and Playout features

The Samurai has a powerful playback function that allows you to

playback pristine Apple ProRes or (optionally) DNxHD recordings in

real-time with controls to navigate quickly to any part of a clip, the

ability to play recorded content faster than normal playback speed

or step through the clip frame-by-frame to check your footage very

accurately.

Playback makes the Samurai a fully-functional portable HD Deck with

quality visually identical to uncompressed!

Whenever a clip plays on the Samurai’s screen, it will also be presented

as an HD-SDI signal through the Samurai’s HD-SDI output. You can

view this on an HD-SDI monitor, or, using an optional Atomos S2H

Connect Converter, on an HDMI monitor.

To play back a clip, ﬁrst touch the green Play control on the home

screen. There will be a short pause while clips are made available for

playback. You will then be taken to the Play Navigation screen.

exFAT Disks

If the disk has been formatted on Samurai it will use the ExFat ﬁle

system. The Play navigation screen will display a list of ﬁles that have

been recorded. The naming convention used includes the unit’s name,

Scene number, shot number and take number, e.g.

SAMURAI_S001_S001_T001.mov

This list is ordered in the same order it was recorded in. To navigate the

list use the up and down arrows to scroll through.

To play the item touch the ﬁle you want to play and this will start the

playback.

FAT32 Disks

If the disk has been formatted on Ninja it will use the FAT32 ﬁle system.

The Play navigation screen will display the

Scene and Shot folder

structure.

The ﬁrst screen will show you all the

Scene folders. In the picture

below we can see Scene001) within the Scene Folder are any

Shot folders. In the picture below you will see the 5 different shot

folders. Within each Shot folder will be the list of takes.

Fat 32 has a ﬁle size limitation of approx 4GB, when you recorded

on the Ninja it would generate a new take each time the recording

exceeded this limit.

You will notice the

take has a different icon, this indicates the ﬁle can

be played back.

You can navigate the ﬁles and folders using the blue up and down

arrows. Once you see the

take you would like to playback, touch the

take icon you want to play and this will start the playback.

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