Panasonic AG-TL950 appendix Controls and Connectors

2 CONTROLS AND CONNECTORS

2-1 Front Panel

REC

POWER	STOP
				POWER
				HDR
PAUSE/
/REW REV PLAY STILL	PLAY FF/	TRACKING	V. LOCK	TIMER SEARCH COUNTER LOCK CNT RESET
REV ADV	FWD ADV

EJECT

REC REVIEW REC

RESET/
CANCEL	ON SCREEN
	SHIFT
MENU	TIME MODE
	SET	AG-

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#[RESET/CANCEL] button

•In the Timer Program Setting mode, press this button to cancel the program settings. For details, refer to “Timer Recording” on page 36.

•Also press this button to interrupt alarm recording or to reset the alarm input data or power loss (power failure) data. For details, refer to pages 21 and 39.

•Resets the seconds in the currently displayed time to 00 when pressed together with the $ [CNT RESET] button (except in menu setting mode).

-When the seconds value is 29 or less, the minutes value is the same but the seconds value is reset to 0. (eg. 12:34:29 [ 12:34:00)

-When the seconds value is 30 or more, the seconds value is reset to “00” and the minutes value is increased by one. (e.g. 12:34:30 [12:35:00)

$[CNT RESET] button

When the display shows the control tape counter or reel tape counter, press this button to reset to “00H00M00S” or “0000”.

%[LOCK] button

Press to activate the operation lock function.

^[COUNTER] button

Selects which data — current time, control tape counter (00H 00M 00S — 23H 59M 59S) or reel tape counter (0 — 9999) — is displayed. Each time this button is pressed, the display switches to the next item.

&[SEARCH] button

Use to search the alarm recorded section or a section recorded at a specified date and time. In the Stop mode, select the search mode by pressing this button.

•Press once to engage the Alarm Search mode.

•Press twice to engage the Alarm Scan mode.

•Press three times to engage the Date/Time Search mode.

•Press four times to release the search mode.

After the search mode is selected with this button, press the [FF] or [REW] button to execute the search operation in the selected mode.

For details, refer to page 49.

*[TIMER] button

Normally use this button for timer recording. For details, refer to “Timer Recording” on page 31.

([V. LOCK +/–] buttons

Press to reduce vertical picture jitter in the Still, Field Advance Playback and Linear Slow Timelapse Play modes.

)[TRACKING +/–] buttons

If picture noise appears during play or field advance, press these buttons to adjust tracking so that noise is reduced. When the [+] and [–] buttons are pressed simultaneously, tracking is reset to the preset level.

*You cannot make any tracking adjustment at L12H and L24H Linear Slow Time-lapse Playback modes.

q[FF] button

•Press to fast-forward the tape.

•Starts fast-forward search when pressed in the Play mode.

•Starts forward alarm search or date/time search when the Search mode is specified with the & [SEARCH] button.

•Also controls field-by-field playback in the forward direction.

w[PLAY] button

• Press to play back the tape.

e[PAUSE/STILL] button

•Engages the Record-Pause mode when pressed in the Record mode.

•Displays a still picture when pressed in the Play mode.

•Field advance or reverse playback is executed each time the [FF] or [REW] button is pressed while pressing this button in the Still mode. (When the [FF] or [REW] button is pressed for more than 2 seconds, Continuous Field Advance Playback mode is engaged. After about 3 minutes, the Stop mode is engaged.)

r[REV PLAY] button

Starts reverse playback when pressed in any mode except Record, Record-Pause and Record Check.

t[REW] button

•Press this button to rewind the cassette.

•Starts rewind search when pressed in the Play mode.

•Starts reverse alarm search or date/time search when the Search mode is specified with the & [SEARCH] button.

•Also controls field-by-field playback in the reverse direction.

y[HDR] indicator

Lights in the HDR recording and HDR playback modes.

* HDR: High Density Recording

• For details on HDR recording, refer to page 28.

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