To escape from the thumbnail display to the full- screen display

Press the THUMBNAIL button, turning it off.

2 Turn the SEL/SET dial or the MENU knob to select the sub clip you want to cue up.

3 To cue up the selected sub clip, press the SEL/SET dial or the MENU knob.

To start playback from the selected sub clip, press the PLAY/PAUSE button.

3-4 Recording Video

Signals from

External Equipment

With this camcorder, you can select in the OPERATION menu whether to record the video captured by the camera, or whether to record a signal from an external video device.

If this switching function is assigned to the ASSIGN 2 switch, regardless of the setting in the OPERATION menu, you can make the selection with the ASSIGN 2 switch. While recording video from an external device, the indication “EXT” appears on the viewfinder screen.

Notes

•You can switch the signals to be recorded using the ASSIGN 2 switch or by a menu operation at any time while recording on the disc. However, the signals recorded at the point where the signal is switched may be distorted. If the camera/external switching function is assigned to the ASSIGN 2 switch, you cannot use the following menu operations to switch between camera and external source input.

•Even when the REC VIDEO SOURCE item is set to “EXT”, if the external video signal is not input to the i.LINK DV IN/OUT S400 connector or the GENLOCK IN connector, the camcorder does not switch to EXT mode, and the pictures being shot by the camcorder are recorded on the disc.

3-4-1 Recording a DV Stream From External Equipment

Notes

•As the i.LINK cable, use an S400-compliant cable which is as short as possible (up to 1.5 m (5 feet)). It may not be possible to establish a DV connection when a longer cable is used.

•Recording a DV stream is possible only when the video recording format is DVCAM.

If the currently set video recording format is other than DVCAM, change it to DVCAM referring to 5-1-1 “Setting the Video Recording Format” on page 75.

Proceed as follows.

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