Chapter 6

Shot Mark Function

6-1 Overview

This unit can record shot marks or use shot marks recorded on HDCAM tape. Shot marks are indications at desired points on a tape which enable faster cuing.

Types of shot mark

This unit supports the following three types of shot mark. This chapter describes recording start marks and post marks, treating them as varieties of shot marks.

Shot mark type

Writing on a camcorder,

Writing on this unit

Modifying and

 

etc.

 

deleting on this unit

Recording start mark

Automatically written at the

Written or not according to a separate menu

Possible

 

start of recording.

setting for each recording mode (crash recording,

 

 

 

assemble editing, insert editing).

 

 

 

For each mode for which the setting is “ON”, the

 

 

 

mark is written automatically at the start of

 

 

 

recording.

 

 

 

 

 

Shot mark 1 and

Written by a manual shot

Written by a button operation during crash

 

shot mark 2

mark operation during

recording or assemble editing. A menu setting

 

 

recording or editing.

determines which of three types of mark is

 

 

 

written: shot mark 1, shot mark 2, or post mark.

 

 

 

 

 

Post mark

Not written

Written by a button operation during playback,

 

 

(Written only by this unit)

while stopped, during a search, or during

 

 

 

recording (crash recording or assemble editing).

 

First, the shot mark functions of this unit are described in simple terms.

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