Thumbnail operations (continued)

DATE FORMAT:

Select year/month/day (YMD), month/day/ year (MDY) or day/month/year (DMY) as the order for displaying the recording date/time. This format will be the same for the recording date displayed by the clip properties and the recording date displayed by DATA DISPLAY.

THUMBNAIL SIZE:

Select LARGE (3x2) or NORMAL (4x3) for full-screen displays of thumbnails.

PLAYBACK RESUME:

Resumes playback from the point where a previous playback operations was halted.

THUMBNAIL INIT:

Select this to return all the above settings to the factory (initialization) settings.

EXIT:

Select this to return to the last screen.

5 Press the MENU button to release the menu mode.

Changing playback format

Use the following steps to change the playback format in order to play back a clip in a playback format (a clip whose clip number is indicated in red) that differs from that currently selected.

1 Use the Operation lever in the thumbnail screen to move to the clip you want to play back.

2 Push the Operation lever in the R direction and hold it down for 2 or more seconds.

Thumbnail status indicates “UPDATING…” after which the previous screen reappears.

When the recording format of a clip indicated by the yellow frame is a format playable by this unit, the playback format changes to enable playback of the clip with the yellow frame.

Deleting clips and formatting cards

(OPERATION)

You can perform any of the following operations. If necessary, make preparations prior to undertaking the operations.

Deleting clips

• Select the clip to be deleted.

Formatting P2 cards or SD memory cards

Insert the card to be formatted into the unit.

When a card is formatted, all its data will be deleted.

Repairing bad clips

Select the bad clip (indicated by X ) you want to repair. (Note that clips indicated by a red X symbol cannot be repaired.)

Reconnecting incomplete clips

Select an incomplete clip (indicated by “  !  ”) you want to reconnect. Incomplete clips are usually grouped together.

Replacing thumbnails

Attach text memos to clips and change them to

TEXT MEMO CLIPS.

Move the yellow frame to the thumbnail you want to edit.

1 On the thumbnail screen, press the MENU button.

A menu now appears. (Page 64)

2 Push the Operation lever in the E or R direction to select OPERATION and press it (or push it in the Q direction) again.

THUMBNAIL

OPERATION

PROPERTY

META DATA

EXIT

3 Push the Operation lever in the E or R direction to make a selection and press it again.

THUMBNAIL

DELETE

OPERATION

FORMAT

PROPERTY

REPAIR CLIP

META DATA

RE-CONNECTION

EXIT

EXCH. THUMBNAIL

EXIT

 

DELETE:

Select this to delete the selected clip.

Select YES to delete the clip or NO to cancel the deletion, and press the Operation lever.

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Panasonic AG-HPX170P Thumbnail operations, Changing playback format, Deleting clips and formatting cards