Shooting 3 Chapter
ClipLink Shooting
4 Press the ClipLink CONTINUE button.
The tape remaining indication in the display window flashes as the camcorder automatically searches the recording stop point. When it finds the recording stop point, it stops and enters recording pause mode.
Once it has stopped, check that the appears in the display window.
To find the recording stop point efficiently
If you press the ClipLink CONTINUE button after rewinding or fast forwarding the tape to the position between the previous recording’s start point and stop points, the recording stop point can more efficiently be found via an automatic search function.
If the recording stop point cannot be found, the CONT indication flashes in the display window.
5 Press the VTR button on the camcorder or the lens.
This starts the recording function.
6 When the recording is finished, set recording pause mode (or specify a Mark OUT point).
The time code (HH:MM:SS), scene number (serial number of scene during which recording was stopped) and other data for the current clip (contents between the Rec IN and Rec OUT points or between Mark IN and Mark OUT points) are recorded into cassette memory. The Index Pictures for the recorded scene are recorded after the recorded scene when the
Repeat steps 5 and 6 to start recording the next scene.
The Index Pictures are recorded onto the tape as described below when the
When all Index Pictures are recorded at the end of the recordings
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Two or more series of Index Pictures may be recorded if ClipLink shooting is once interrupted due to ejecting the cassette and resumed (in case of changing the camcorder on resuming, for example).
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If there is no need for ClipLink continue
It is not necessary to press the ClipLink CONTINUE button when restarting recording.
See step 4 in the previous section “Resuming Recording in ClipLink Mode”.
The contents recorded on the cassette may differ in this case depending on the settings when the recording is restarted.
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