Sony HDW-F500 6-2Advanced Automatic Editing, 6-2-1Performing DMC Editing, Overview of DMC editing, Requirements for DMC editing, Tape movement during DMC editing

6-2 Advanced Automatic Editing

This section describes the following advanced editing	Setting edit points and playback speed
methods:
• DMC editing	Use the procedure below to set edit points and
• Animation editing
	playback speeds for DMC editing.
• Preread editing

6-2-1 Performing DMC Editing

If your player VTR has DT (Dynamic Tracking) capability, you can perform variable speed editing by controlling the playback speed from the lower control panel. This type of editing is called DMC editing.

Overview of DMC editingRequirements for DMC editing

•DMC editing may be done during assemble or insert editing, but not during split editing.

•The player VTR must support DT playback.

Tape movement during DMC editing

During DMC editing, the tape moves as shown in the diagram below.

IN point	OUT point
Preroll $	$ Post-roll

Recorder

VTR

				Stop
	Playback		DMC editing mode			Playback
	mode					mode
Preroll time ⋅					Post-roll time ⋅
		IN point
initial speed		$			final speed

Player

VTR

Moves at
the initial	Playback at speeds	Stop
speed.
	stored in memory	Moves at
		the final
		speed.

Tape movement during DMC editing

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Setting edit points and playback speed

1 Press the [F3] (ASSEMBLE) button in theHOME menu,orpresstherespectiveINSERTbutton([F4]

(INSTC),[F5] (INSVIDEO),[F6] (INSA-CH1),

F7][ (INSA-CH2),F8][(INSA-CH3),F9][(INS

A-CH4) or[F10] (INS CUE) button) to select the edit mode that you want.

2 Press the PLAYER button to set the VTR to act as the player VTR.

The PLAYER button lights up.

3 Press theALT/[F7] (DMC) buttons in the HOME menu.

The button lights up and the VTR enters DMC editing mode.

4 Press the IN button while holding down the ENTRY button to set an edit point.

Note

You cannot set an OUT point for the player VTR for DMC editing.

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