Sony DSR-1800AP High-Speedand Low, Speed Search—Quickly, and Accurately, Determining Editing, Points, Search Operations via External Equipment, Search Operations on This Unit

High-Speed and Low-

Speed Search—Quickly

and Accurately

Determining Editing

Points

Use the search function to easily locate the desired scene and to quickly and accurately determine edit points.

When F. FWD/REW under the AUTO EE SELECT menu item (see page 63) is set to PB (factory default setting), you can use the F FWD and REW buttons on this unit or external equipment for high-speed search.

Search Operations via External Equipment

You can control the unit in the following operation modes from an editing control unit (PVE-500, etc.) connected to the REMOTE connector on the rear panel or from a SIRCS-compatible remote control unit such as the DSRM- 10 connected to the CONTROL S connector on the front panel.

Shuttle: Use this mode to view color video playback at speeds ranging from 0 to 60 times normal speed in both directions.

Note

When controlling the unit from the DSRM-10 for shuttle-mode search, the maximum search speed is 16 times normal speed in both directions.

Jog: Use this mode for low-speed search and frame-by- frame search.

Digital slow: Use this mode for noise-free color video playback at speeds ranging from 0 to 1/2 times normal speed in both directions.

Still: Use this mode to view a still picture of any field.

Jog audio: Use this mode to monitor the audio at speeds ranging from 1 to 1/30 times normal speed in both directions.

Note

When controlling this unit from external equipment, be sure to turn on or off the buttons in the remote control setting section on the front panel of the unit as shown in the following table.

External equipment	Buttons in the remote control
	setting section
Editing control unit	Turn on both the REMOTE and 9PIN
connected to the	buttons.
REMOTE connector
SIRCS-compatible	Turn off the REMOTE button.
remote control unit
connected to the
CONTROL S
connector
Equipment	Turn on both the REMOTE and
connected to the	i.LINK buttons.
DV IN/OUT
connector

For description on how to carry out search operations via external equipment, see the operating instructions for the equipment.

Search Operations on This Unit

When you perform searching on this unit, be sure to turn off the REMOTE button on the front panel.

Playing back in jog mode

In jog mode, you can control the speed of playback by the speed of turning the search dial. The playback speed range is ±1 times normal speed by factory default. The speed variation range and pattern can be changed with the JOG RESPONSE menu item (see page 64).

To carry out playback in jog mode, use the following procedure.

JOG indicator

				INPUT	V:SDTI		SDTI	i.LINK
				VIDEO	COMPOSITE		Y-R,B S VIDEO	SDI	SG
				CH11/2	ANALOG	AES/EBU		SDI	SG
				AUDIO	ANALOG	AES/EBU		SDI	SG
				CH23/4
1	2	3	4	PB FS	48k44.1k32k		REC MODE	2CH4CH

1 1,2,3

1 Press the SEARCH button or search dial so that the JOG indicator in the display section is lit.

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