Playing and Checking Recorded Contents

By pressing the PLAY button, you can review any length of recording on the viewfinder screen in black and white or in color on the LCD monitor. There are two other ways to review the recording.

•Recording review: You can view the last two to ten seconds of the recording on the viewfinder screen in black and white or in color on the LCD monitor.

•Playback in external color video monitor: You can see the recording in color on a color video monitor without the need for any external adaptor.

For details about the switches and controls used to select the audio output signal and to adjust the audio level, see “Location and Function of Parts” on page 9.

Checking the recorded contents immediately after shooting — Recording Review

With recording paused, press the RET button on the lens. The tape is automatically rewound over the last approximately 2 seconds of the recording (approximately 10 seconds maximum if you press and hold the RET button), and then this last part of the recording is shown in the viewfinder and on the LCD monitor. Use this function to check whether recording went correctly.

By assigning the LENS RET function to the ASSIGN switch, you can use the switch in the same way as the lens RET button.

For details, see “Assigning functions to ASSIGN switches” on page 106.

Notes

•During recording review, do not set the POWER switch to off. The camcorder may not be able to find the continue point.

•You cannot start recording until the recording review has finished.

Checking the recording on the color video monitor

Connect a color video monitor to the MONITOR OUT connector or the VIDEO OUT connector of the camcorder. By pressing the PLAY button, you can view the recorded picture.

For details about how to connect a monitor, see “Connecting a Monitor” on page 40.

Note

For the DSR-450WS/450WSP, only the picture displayed through the camera is output to the CBK-SD01 SDI Output Board. Playback pictures cannot be output even during playback.

To use setup add (DSR-400/450WS only)

Setup add is a function that adds a setup to the playback video signal. To activate this function, set SETUP ADD to ON on the VTR MODE page of the MAINTENANCE menu.

Notes

•The video image that connects the DVCAM format and DV format is distorted during playback.

•The camcorder can play video and audio that is recorded in DVCAM format or DV format (in SP mode).

•If two or more audio sampling frequencies are mixed on one tape, the part where the video images are recorded in different frequencies will be distorted.

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