1-1-2 Features of the Control Panel

The BKDW-515 Control Panel provides six menu screens corresponding to the six operation modes to allow fast and easy adjustment of necessary settings, as well as the ability to store menu settings to a memory card for later recall.

Menu-driven operations for a variety of purposes

Six menus are displayed on the 90 ⋅ 72 mm (3 5/8 inches ⋅ 2 7/8 inches) screen and are set using the 10 function keys.

HOME menu

Use this menu to make the basic settings for recording, playback, and editing operations, and to select channels to be edited during insert editing.

TC menu

Use this menu to make time code settings.

CUE menu

Use this menu to set up to 100 cue points. In page mode, 10 cue points per page can be set on a total of 10 pages.

PF1/PF2 (Personal Function) menus

Use these menus to register up to 40 of the most frequently used items from the other menus (up to ten items each can be registered to PF1, ALT+ PF1, PF2 and ALT+PF2). Menu items that may be registered can be displayed by pressing the [F4] (PF1&2 ASSIGN) button in the SET UP menu.

SET UP menu

•The VTR BANK menu allows up to eight pages of menu settings to be saved.

•Use the MEMORY CARD menu to store current settings of the VTR and up to 8 pages of the contents of the VTR memory bank to a memory card.

•Use the scrollable PF1&2 ASSIGN menu to display the items that can be registered in the PF1/PF2 menus, and to select and register the most frequently used menu items.

•Use the scrollable VTR SETUP menu to display the items necessary for making initial settings, and to directly change settings without registering them with the function buttons for each menu.

•Use the PANEL SETUP menu to set control panel operations, such as the keyboard sound output.

MAINTENANCE menu

Use this menu to access the maintenance functions.

For details, refer to the Maintenance Manual.

A full complement of storage/recall functions

These functions allow you to use titles to store and recall menu settings in either the VTR’s internal memory banks or memory cards.

VTR memory banks

These memory banks allow you to store up to eight pages of VTR settings in addition to the current VTR settings. Factory settings are also stored here, allowing the VTR to be reset to these values at any time.

Memory cards

Each memory card can hold the current VTR settings as well as up to eight pages of settings. A single memory card thus allows you to store and recall the entire contents of the VTR memory banks.

Title function

This function allows you to add titles when storing data to the VTR memory bank or memory card, thus facilitating data retrieval and management.

Write protect function

Setting pages stored in VTR memory banks or memory cards can be write protected on an individual basis.

A full range of editing functions

Two HDW-F500 units can be connected allowing automatic or manual assembly and insertion. The VTR also features a full range of editing functions, including preview, review, preroll, and the setting or changing of edit points.

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