Quick Erase/Format Button and Utility Programs:

This button is used to format your DV Drive and to erase all current media

that is stored on the device. Use a pin to press and hold the button for

more than 5 seconds. The Power-access LED will ash in different colors

for about 3 seconds. Your DV Drive is now empty and ready to record.

Note: All of the les inside the “Media” folder will be erased; all other les

will remain intact.

Internal Rechargeable Battery:

the unit, and DO NOT turn the unit’s power off before the programming sequences are completed.

Pick up the DV Drive unit and look at the lights at the rear panel.

- Turn the DV Drive unit’s power on. Wait until both LED’s start to blink.

Press and hold the RED LED for over 5 seconds. Both LED’s display current stored le format illustrated

below. If this is the rst time, “Raw DV” is the default.

Toggle the RED button to choose one of the above le formats. Once the le format is determined, stop

toggling, and wait for 10 seconds. The unit itself starts writing the new le format information into internal

memory. During the writing process, both LED’s shall blink off and on for another 10 seconds. Once the

le format is updated, both LED’s shall blink normally indicating the writing process is successfully

done. You MUST turn the unit’s power off before next le format programming. Your unit is now

Step 2:

Step 3:

Step 4:

TURNING THE BATTERY ON & OFF:

When you rst receive your DV Drive device, the

battery switch is defaulted to the “OFF” position.

To turn on the battery, slide the battery switch

(located in between the “REC” button and the

FireWire port) to the left towards the “REC” button.

To conserve power and turn off the battery, slide it

INSERTING THE DV DRIVE INTO THE

CARRYING CASE:

Slide the PYRO DV Drive into the carrying case

which came packaged with your device with the

connectors towards the top of the case and then

connect the FireWire cable coming from your

camcorder into the FireWire port on the DV Drive.

PREPARING YOUR DV DRIVE FOR USE IN THE

FIELD:

Before zipping pouch, allow enough space for your

connect the FireWire cable (6-pin end) to the DV Drive. Set your camcorder

to “Camera” or “VCR mode”. Start recording DV streams directly from your

camcorder to the DV Drive by pressing the “REC” button. A RED colored LED

embedded inside the button starts to ash indicating that video recording is in

progress. Stop DV recording by pressing the “REC” button again.

Using the PYRO DV DRIVE:

Raw DV

(Clipxxyy.dv)

QuickTime MOV

(Clipxxyy.mov)