aMENU button

Press this button to display the menu on the monitor screen and the time counter display. Press it again to exit the menu display.

On how to use the menu, see Chapter 6 “Menu Setting”

bRESET button Press this button to:

• reset menu settings,

• reset the time data shown in the time counter display to zero

• send a negative response to the prompts issued by the unit, or

• delete clips.

cSET button Press this button to:

• save new settings, such as selected menu items and time code settings, to memory.

• send a positive response to the prompts issued by the unit, or

• create a clip list.

dCursor/clip operations buttons

Press these buttons to select a menu item, to change timecode initial values and user bits data, and to set clip in and out points, and to set cue points.

K(IN): Moves to the left or sets an in point. J (CUE): Moves up or sets a cue point.

k (OUT): Moves right or sets an out point.

j: Moves down.

For details on modifying the time code value, see “To set the initial time code value and user bit data” on page 30.

7Search control section

1SEARCH button

2 VAR button

JOG SHUTTLE3 JOG and SHUTTLE indicators

SEARCH VAR

4 Search dial

aSEARCH button

Press this button, turning it on, to use the search dial for search playback in jog or shuttle mode.

See the description of the search dial 4 for more information about the jog and shuttle modes.

bVAR (variable) button

Press this button, turning it on, to use the search dial for search playback in variable mode.

See the description of the search dial 4 for more information about the variable mode.

cJOG and SHUTTLE indicators

One of the indicators lights to show the current or most recent search playback mode.

JOG indicator: Jog mode

SHUTTLE indicator: Shuttle or variable mode.

dSearch dial

Rotate to perform search playback in jog shuttle, or variable mode.

The G indicator lights when you rotate to the right to indicate forward direction playback. The g indicator lights when you rotate to the left to indicate reverse direction playback. The s indicator lights when playback is stopped. The s lights when unit is powered on.

Each press of the search dial toggles between shuttle and jog mode, or between variable mode and jog mode.

Search

Operation/function

playback mode

 

 

 

Shuttle

Press the SEARCH button or the search

 

dial to select shuttle mode (the SHUTTLE

 

indicator lights). Playback is carried out

 

at a speed determined by the rotation

 

angle of the search dial.

 

The maximum shuttle playback speed

 

can be changed with the MAX SRCH

 

SPEED menu item (see page 65).

 

 

Jog

Press the SEARCH button or the search

 

dial to select jog mode (the JOG indicator

 

lights). Playback is carried out at a speed

 

determined by the rotation speed of the

 

search dial. The playback sped range is

 

±1 times normal speed. The search dial

 

does not click in this mode.

 

 

Variable

Press the VAR button, lighting it (the

 

SHUTTLE indicator also lights). You can

 

control fine-grained (in 61 steps)

 

playback over the range (2 times normal

 

speed. The search dial clicks in the

 

positions for still playback, ±1 times

 

normal speed, and ±2 times normal

 

speed.

 

 

22 Location and Function of Parts