5 Select OPERATION FORMAT (HDD) in the menu and use a cursor button and the SET button to select YES.

•Select YES in the confirmation message that appears again to start hard disk drive formatting.

•Handled as a “TYPE S” hard disk drive after formatting.

NOTE

All data on a hard disk drive is deleted when the disk is formatted. It is not possible to select part of a partition to delete.

Writing to hard disk drive

1

Switch to the USB host mode.

 

 

For details, refer to [Switching to USB Host Mode]

 

 

(page 150).

 

 

 

2

Connect a hard disk drive via USB.

 

 

If the hard disk drive has not been formatted by

 

 

the camera, format it according to the instructions

 

 

provided in [Formatting Hard Disks] (page 152).

 

 

 

3

Insert a P2 card.

 

 

4

Press the THUMBNAIL button to open the

 

 

thumbnail screen.

 

 

 

5

Press the THUMBNAIL button and select HDD

 

 

EXPORT from the thumbnail menu and

 

 

specify the slot of the P2 card with the data you

 

 

want to write to the hard disk drive.

 

 

 

6

Select YES.

 

 

• This starts the write process.

 

 

• A progress bar appears during the write process.

To interrupt writing, press the SET button. Selecting YES in the cancel confirmation that appears will stop the write process.

• COPY COMPLETED! announces the end of the write process.

NOTE

•To turn off the verify phase in a write operation, select HDD SETUP in the thumbnail menu and set VERIFY to OFF. This speeds up the write time but does not verify the written data.

•Selecting ALL SLOT writes the data on all inserted P2 cards inserted in the camera to the hard disk drive.

NOTE

•A TYPE S hard disk drive can write data in card units. Up to 23 P2 cards can be saved to a hard disk drive.

The P2 card data recorded on a hard disk drive are recognized as separate drives.

•To write P2 cards with bad clips, it is a good idea to repair these clips before writing them to a hard disk drive.

•Ending a recording during the verify phase will end writing of data from the P2 card to the hard disk drive.

Writing back data to P2 cards

This allows you to select a clip from the hard disk drive and write it back to a P2 card.

1

Switch to the USB host mode.

 

For details, refer to [Switching to USB Host Mode]

 

(page 150).

 

 

2

Connect a hard disk drive via USB.

 

 

3

Insert the P2 card to which data will be written

 

back to.

 

 

4

Press the THUMBNAIL button, select HDD

 

EXPLORE from the thumbnail menu, move to

 

the partition with the data that will be read and

 

press the SET button.

 

 

5

Select the clip to be written to the P2 card from

 

the thumbnail on the hard disk drive.

 

 

6

Press the THUMBNAIL button, select

 

OPERATION IMPORT SELECTED CLIPS

 

from the thumbnail menu and select the slot of

 

the P2 card to write the data to.

 

 

7

Select YES.

•This starts the data write to the P2 card.

•When the write process ends, “COPY COMPLETED!” appears.

NOTE

• When clips are selected for writing, verify is not performed.

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