Locating a scene on a tape for playback

Searching quickly for a particular scene

— Multi-picture search

You can display thumbnails of all the beginning scenes of moving pictures recorded on the tape on the index screen. (You can display a maximum of 11 thumbnails on one index screen.)

The thumbnails described in this section are still images of the beginning scenes of each recorded moving picture and thumbnails of still images to help you search for a desired scene easily. When you select the thumbnail you want to play back, your camcorder starts searching for the image or scene and plays it back automatically.

1 Slide the POWER switch repeatedly to select the PLAY/EDIT mode.

2 Touch .

3 Touch [MULTI-SEARCH].

If the item is not displayed on the screen,

touch / . If you cannot find it, touch

MENU, then select it from the (EDIT/ PLAY) menu.

4 Press / to select the direction in which to scan.

Your camcorder starts scanning in the

selected direction. If you select , the scan starts with the thumbnails that are displayed in the upper left-hand corner, and

if you select , the scan starts with the thumbnails displayed in the bottom right- hand corner.

When scanning is completed, it stops automatically and the upper left-hand window turns black.

 

SRCH

 

DATE

 

 

 

 

END

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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5 Touch the thumbnail you want to cue

the tape to, then touch [SRCH] or touch the thumbnail again.

Your camcorder starts searching for the image or scene and plays it back automatically.

When you want to change the thumbnail,

touch , touch the thumbnail you want to cue the tape to, then touch [SRCH] or touch the thumbnail again.

 

SRCH

 

PAUSE

 

 

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END

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The orange portion of the bar indicates the scanning range and the pale blue portion of the bar indicates the recorded portion.

To return to the [MULTI-SEARCH] screen from the playback screen

Touch .

To stop the Multi-picture search

Touch [PAUSE].

To stop the operation

Press [END].

bNotes

•If the tape has a blank section between recorded sections, the Multi-picture search function may not work correctly.

•The maximum number of thumbnails that can be stored on one cassette is about 400.

•While using the Multi-picture search function, you cannot use any other functions.

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