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PIX 250i User Guide

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Storage & File Management

3. Choose the Erase/Re-format: Drive Number for the drive to be formaed or

Erase/Re-format: All Drives option.

4. A conrmation dialog will appear: “All data will be erased. Continue?”. Use the Control

Knob to select OK.

5. Use the displayed on-screen keyboard (or an external USB keyboard, if aached) to enter a

volume label for the drive, and then use the Control Knob to select OK to initiate the format.

When formaing all drives at once, the volume label is applied to all drives but each drive

will be suxed with a dash and drive number to distinguish between drives.

Drive formatting can alternatively be initiated from PIXNET under the File Storage menu.

Drive Modes

Each of the two drive slots can be set to Read Only, Record,

Ethernet File Transfer, or Switch to Network upon Full from the Setup Menu option

[File Storage - Drive Record/Network Mode].

• Read Only: Drives in this mode will not be written to during recording. Any compatible ﬁles on

the drive will still be available for playback and the drive can still be formatted.

• Record: Drives in this mode will be written to for recording. This is the default mode.

• Ethernet File Transfer: Drives in this mode will be shared to the network as a standard Samba

share (see Ethernet File Transfer) and cannot be recorded to, formatted, or accessed for playback

from the unit.

• Switch to Network upon Full: Drives in this mode will be in Record mode until they are ﬁlled.

Once ﬁlled, they will be put into Ethernet File Transfer mode.

When [File Storage - Video Record Mode] is set to Simultaneous, a drive that becomes full will

only mount as a network share when the last drive that is set to Switch to Network upon Full becomes

full.

Record Mode (Simultaneous or Sequential)

The Setup Menu option [File Storage - Video Record Mode] determines how drives will be written

to during recording. When set to Simultaneous (the default setting), all drives that are online and set

to Record will be written to at the same time.

When set to Sequential (available in Video Mode only), the lowest numbered drive that is online

and set to Record mode will be written to. When that drive is full the recording will continue on the

next available drive that is online and set to Record mode. If no drive is available, recording will

stop. The order of drives when recording sequentially is from lowest (Drive 1) to highest (Drive 4).

Metadata

Several parameters can be set within the Setup Menu File Storage to aid in the organization of ﬁles.

Some of this metadata can be used in naming the ﬁle which is to be recorded. Folders are created on

the drives based on the Reel number. QuickTime ﬁles contain reel and timecode metadata. (See “Take

Details Screen”, page 10)

PIX recorders support SMPTE-315M camera positioning metadata for ProRes recordings, but DNxHD

ﬁles generated by the recorders will not contain SMPTE-315M metadata.

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