24Frame steppingPressing the Menu key again will present an alternate set of soft keys, these will be and ll> forreverse and forward Frame Stepping.Note: Holding either key down for more than 2 seconds will cause a rapid stepping in that direction.Loop PlayWhen loop play is enabled and the last frame of the clip is reached the unit will start playing over fromthe first frame of the first clip with no time lost. To set up Loop Play see page 15.Power on Auto PlayWhen this option is enabled the recorder will immediately begin playing back the current BIN or CLIPwhen first powered up. To set up Power On Auto Play see page 15.Transferring files to a computerPreparationThe MAKING MEDIA FILES menu process must be undertaken with the recorder before removingand connecting the HE-1 drive enclosure to a computer with a USB 2.0 cable.MAKING MEDIA FILESThis menu operation prepares the video content already on the HE-1 drive to be seen by a computerby building the selected file wrappers around the recorded content and emulating the chosenoperating file system. Two choices are available, FAT32 and NTFS and they are chosen using theSETUP FAT32/NTFS menu option. See pages 15 and 16 for more information.Operating File System limitationsThe FAT32 format is compatible with both Macs and PCs. This format limits the size of a file to amaximum of 2GB, that translates to approximately nine minutes of video. A clip that lasts longer thannine minutes is broken into multiple files each 2GB long with the last one making up any remainingtime. When these files are placed on an editing time line, no video is lost in the transition betweenfiles. FAT32 also has a clip boundary of 2 seconds so it is best to make a recording longer than 2seconds.The NTFS format is fully compatible with PCs and is read compatible with Macs. Its main advantageis that it does not impose a file size limitation resulting in one file per recording. NTFS’ clip boundaryis frame accurate.Note: Some editing software packages cannot accept video file sizes greater than 40GB, make sureyour edit software is not affected if you plan on shooting one long continuous take greater than twohours and using NTFS.File OrganizationAfter the media conversion is made using MAKING MEDIA FILES, all bins that contain video willappear to the computer as folders named BINxx. Where xx represents the BIN number ranging from01 to 99. Inside each BIN folder, each clip will be represented as a separate file with an extensionname like .avi, .mov depending on the setting chosen prior to recording. Each file will be namedBxxCnnyy where xx again represents the BIN number; nn represents the CLIP number ranging from01 to 99. The number yy is the number of the spilt file caused by the FAT32 limitation.
