Panasonic AG-HPG20, AG-HPG20E, AG-HPG20P Contents, Introduction, Name of the parts, Preparations, Playback, Recording, Recommendation for Use of Genuine, Panasonic Battery

Contents

Read this first!.................................................	2
IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS..........	5
Recommendation for Use of Genuine
Panasonic Battery
(Rechargeable Battery)...........................	5
Operating precautions....................................	8
How to use the unit.......................................	12
Introduction
About this manual.........................................	15
Before use......................................................	15
Accessories...................................................	17
Name of the parts
Name of the parts..........................................	18
Operation area.................................................	18
Mechanism area and input/output connector
area..............................................................	19
Preparations
Charging the battery.....................................	20
Charging..........................................................	20
Installing and removing the power
supply.....................................................	21
Installing and removing the battery..................	21
Connecting and disconnecting
the power cable............................................	21
Basic operations...........................................	22
Turning the power on and off...........................	22
Using the LCD monitor.....................................	22
Menu operations..............................................	23
Operation modes.............................................	24
LCD monitor settings.......................................	26
Setting date and time.......................................	27
P2 cards.........................................................	28
Inserting P2 cards............................................	28
P2 card access LED and P2 card status.........	28
Formatting P2 cards.........................................	29
P2 card protection............................................	29
Ejecting P2 cards.............................................	30
P2 card recording durations.............................	31
Dividing clips over 4 GB in size........................	31
LOOP REC recording.......................................	32
Other...............................................................	32
USER button....................................................	32
Charging the internal battery............................	32
Using SD/SDHC memory cards...................	33
Inserting and removing the SD card................	33
Formatting SD cards........................................	33
Precaution for using SD cards.........................	33
Saving USER files on SD cards...................	34

Playback
Thumbnail display.........................................	35
Playback formats.............................................	35
Names and functions of thumbnail display
screen parts.................................................	35
Changing the displays on the thumbnail
display screen..............................................	38
Setting the items to be displayed.....................	39
Clip management..........................................	40
Selecting clips..................................................	40
Deleting clips....................................................	40
Repairing and connecting clips........................	41
Copying clips....................................................	42
Displaying the clip information.........................	43
Editing the clip information...............................	45
Adding meta-data to clips................................	46
Adding shot marks to clips...............................	54
Displaying the P2 card status..........................	54
Displaying SD card information........................	56
Clip playback.................................................	57
Playing back clips............................................	57
Single clip playback.........................................	58
Variable-speed playback..................................	59
Clip and text memo forward/reverse................	59
Rapid forward/rapid reverse playback.............	59
Frame feed playback.......................................	59
Repeat playback..............................................	59
Adding text memos..........................................	60
Playback from text memo position...................	60
Deleting text memos........................................	61
Dividing and copying clips using text memos...	61
Replacing thumbnail images............................	61
Outputting images to an external monitor
for playback..........................................	62
Setting the outputs...........................................	62
Adjusting the output volume level during
recording and playback................................	62
Adjusting the output volume level during
variable-speed playback..............................	62
Recording
Recording data on P2 cards.........................	63
Recording.........................................................	63
2-slot continuous recording .............................	64
Waveform monitor (WFM) displays..................	64
Time code displays..........................................	65
Setting the recording time code.......................	65
Set the user’s bit..............................................	66

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