Atomos Ninja Blade User Manual
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Page 1: User Manual
Discover Smart Production Atomos Ninja Blade User Manual EDITION 1: FEB 2014 Have you registered your Ninja Blade yet? Upgrade to 3 year warranty now. Website: www.atomos.com | Sales: sales@atomos.com | Support: support@atomos.com... -
Page 2: Table Of Contents
............... • Do not dispose of the Ninja Blade or its batteries in municipal waste and do not... -
Page 3: Warranty & Conditions
Software, you agree to be bound to the terms of this ATOMOS warrants that: EULA. If you do not agree to the terms of this EULA, ATOMOS is unwilling to license the Software to you. • the main product, not including TFT/LCD, or any external accessories, will be free from defects in materials and workmanship for a period of 1. -
Page 4: Introduction
Ninja Blade are very cheap; the cost of storage is no longer an issue. Blade Unit alone (excluding IPS screen) by registering your Ninja Blade Buying a disk for the Ninja Blade is just like buying a tape – except that online at www.atomos.com/registration This will enable us to let you know about updates to the product and other important information surrounding your purchase. - Page 5 1. What’s included Atomos does not sell storage and your package will not contain any have to add anything except 2.5” storage media (you can buy additional spinning disks or SSDs. You can buy these locally to keep running costs as low as possible.
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Page 6: What You Also Need
½” Here are some things that you should bear in mind when using spinning drives if your Ninja Blade is going to be attached to a tripod or if spinning disks: it is not going to be subject to excessive vibration. For harsher conditions, choose a solid state drive. -
Page 7: Hdmi Cables
If the HDMI cable is removed while recording the “Skippy” image will also be displayed. To remove touch Skippy and Refer to page 25: Atomos Anti-skip Technology for more information about “Skippy”. Atomos Ninja Blade – User Manual Edition 1: Feb 2014... -
Page 8: Mounting Disks In The Master Caddy
Ninja Blade. You have little that can cause problems and the most likely thing is that the Master... -
Page 9: Connecting And Powering Up
No. 1 and to the left of battery No. 2 as you look at the back of the Ninja Blade. Pull the latches towards the batteries to release them. -
Page 10: Power On/Power Off
Momentarily press the circular button on the right side of the Ninja Blade as you look at the screen to power up the unit. After a couple of seconds you will see the Atomos logo, and then the Ninja Battery Latch Blade Home Screen. -
Page 11: Master Caddy And Screw Mounts
On the left hand side of the unit (as you face the screen) is a slot The Master Caddy is hot-swappable, so you can do this at any time – for Ninja Blade Master Disk Caddies. To insert a caddy, gently push until it clicks into position. -
Page 12: Using The Ninja Blade
Category 3 – Main Controls REC, PLAY & MENU The Main Controls of the unit are indicated by large round icons. To enable recording For instant playback and review To make settings changes See page 28 Atomos Ninja Blade – User Manual Edition 1: Feb 2014... -
Page 13: Home Screen / Menu Functions
NO INPUT Play Touch this icon to play previously recorded clips. When you press the Play green button you will be taken to the navigation screen. STANDBY NAVIGATION Atomos Ninja Blade – User Manual Edition 1: Feb 2014... -
Page 14: File Naming / Date & Time / Display Options / Screen Lock
Allows you to modify the brightness of the screen. You are display information about the signal being input to the Ninja Blade at the time. If there is no input, it will say No Input. When a valid signal source is length to increase or decrease the brightness of the display connected, the display will change to (for example) 1080i50. -
Page 15: Batteries Screen / Auto Switching / Manual Switching
Unit Name Warning: If both of the batteries are fully depleted, the unit will BLADE turn itself off. The Ninja Blade will switch to the battery screen NINJABLD for the last 5 seconds of available power before shutting down, alerting you that shutdown is about to occur. -
Page 16: Audio In / Audio During Playback
Audio In AUDIO DURING PLAYBACK MODE When you enter into Playback mode on the Ninja Blade it will only output channels 1/2 on the headphones, please bear this in mind when you select the audio channels for recording. Located in the bottom left corner of the main screen you can see the... -
Page 17: Monitoring And Recording
1080i59.94 IMPORTANT: You need to match the format you are recording internally on the camera with the format recorded on the Ninja Blade. recording format simply touch the format icon repeatedly and the Ninja Blade will cycle through the options available. The basic rule is match the format of the internal recording on the camera (not the external output of the camera). -
Page 18: Smartcontrol / 6 Ways To Start Recording
4. HDMI Camera trigger record SDI signal that lets the Ninja Blade know the start/stop record has been pressed on the camera; in turn this will trigger the Ninja Blade to start/stop Atomos Ninja Blade – User Manual Edition 1: Feb 2014... -
Page 19: Waveform Monitoring
8. Monitoring and Recording cont. Waveform Monitoring New to AtomOS5 and the Ninja Blade is Waveform Monitoring which can be enabled with only a few button presses. Waveform Monitoring Overview Waveform Monitoring Luma Overlay Dynamic Range RGB Parade Display Transparency... -
Page 20: Luma Overlay / Rgb Parade / Vectorscope
Dynamic Transparency The Dynamic Range slider directly controls the intensity of the waveform while the Transparency slider adjusts the transparency values of the waveform display on screen. Atomos Ninja Blade – User Manual Edition 1: Feb 2014... -
Page 21: Monitor Assist
You could even say that Monitor Assist icon The Waveform Monitoring icon will only be visible if there is an input signal detected. Atomos Ninja Blade – User Manual Edition 1: Feb 2014... -
Page 22: Focus Assist / Zebra / False Colour
To help you determine the exposure range with more accuracy, please use the scale below: FOCUS ASSIST MONO FOCUS ASSIST MONO You can change the focus peaking colors and modes in the settings. Atomos Ninja Blade – User Manual Edition 1: Feb 2014... -
Page 23: Blue Only / Grid Lines / Focus Assist Settings
SAFE AREA/GRID LINES SHOWN WITH MENU OVERLAYS SAFE AREA/GRID LINES SHOWN WITHOUT MENU OVERLAYS The Safe Area/Grid Lines will still be visible when tapping the centre of the screen to hide the overlays. Atomos Ninja Blade – User Manual Edition 1: Feb 2014... -
Page 24: Smartlog
MONITORING MODE: CLIP MARKED AS A GOOD TAKE Removing tagged clips To clear all marking point clips, press on the Clear Tagging icon below the Home screen icon. Clear Tagging icon Atomos Ninja Blade – User Manual Edition 1: Feb 2014... -
Page 25: Exporting .Xml
• You will be shown a please wait screen (the length of time will vary • Then it will return you to the previous screen You can carry on recording but please remember before you eject Atomos Ninja Blade – User Manual Edition 1: Feb 2014... -
Page 26: Organising Material On Disk
If you do not set this up Ninja Blade will start recording from menu screen. recognised natively by both PCs and Macs, without any will let you record to the full capacity of your storage medium exceeding it. -
Page 27: Anti-Shock Technology
In the event of an interrupted recording, when you restart the Ninja Should one of these events occur, the Ninja Blade will sense the hard Blade, or enter playback mode, you will be presented with a menu that disk slowdown. -
Page 28: Timecode
Menu also accessible by touching Menu and then Timecode) on the internal Ninja Blade Time of Day clock. This can be set in > Date & Time 04:08:01:23 Occupying the lower-centre part of the screen is the timecode display with controls to set the start-time of the timecode. -
Page 29: Pulldown
You will, of course, want the Ninja Blade to record eg 1080p24, not 1080i60 to the disk. In many cases, it is not easy for the Ninja Blade to completely still video. This is why you should wave your hand in detect the pulldown operation in the video, so you will have to set the front of the lens. -
Page 30: Playback & Playout
Within each folder will be the list of Playback makes the Ninja Blade a fully-functional portable HD Deck the Ninja Blade it would generate a new take each time the recording exceeded this limit. take You will notice the You can view this on an HDMI monitor, or, using an optional Atomos be played back. -
Page 31: Playback Controls
Move between the previous and next clips for playback. Fast Reverse/Fast Forward Plays the clip at 8x normal speed Fast Fast Reverse/Fast Fast Forward Plays the clip at 64x normal speed Atomos Ninja Blade – User Manual Edition 1: Feb 2014... -
Page 32: Loop Mode
Loop Mode At any time, you can hide all the visible controls by simply The Ninja Blade has the ability to play back a single clip in loop mode touching the screen (away from any controls) once. Touch it again via the HDMI output. -
Page 33: Connecting And Editing
Docking Station may consume more power than is Eject the Master Caddy from your Ninja Blade and insert it into the available from a single USB port. We supply you with a USB to 5v Docking Station. -
Page 34: Importing / Import Into Final Cut Pro
Importing Ninja Blade footage into Final Cut Pro You can import Ninja Blade footage into Final Cut Pro (FCP) in just a few simple steps. First, connect the Ninja Blade Docking Station to your Apple Mac using the USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 port. -
Page 35: Smartlog With Fcpx
• Select the drive (in this example it is EXCVIDEO) • • • Select the Ninja Blade drive under Devices (in this example it is called EXCVIDEO) • Choose the unitname.FCPXML, select Import FCP X will make a event of the disk name and reference all the footage in that event. -
Page 36: External Power Supply
13. Using Ninja Blade with external power supplies AC Adaptor (included) This connects on the battery slot on the back of the Ninja Blade. Please ensure it is connected to slot 1. The end of the adaptor will connect to a mains plug. -
Page 37: Software Upgrades
3. Put 2 freshly charged batteries on your Ninja Blade. It is very important the previous attempt). 4. Power down your Ninja Blade. - Page 38 • Connect H2S converter • Connect S2H converter Website: www.atomos.com | Sales: sales@atomos.com | Support: support@atomos.com Atomos Ninja Blade – User Manual Edition 1: Feb 2014 © ATOMOS Global Pty. Ltd. trading as ATOMOS under license. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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