For details, see “Status Display on the LCD monitor and monochrome LCD” on page 22.

cWARNING indicator

Lights up or flashes when an abnormality occurs in the VDR section.

For details about the meaning of the states of the WARNING indicator, see “Operation Warnings” on page 215.

dACCESS indicator

This lights when data is written to or read from the disc.

eProtection cover of the audio control section

Open to access the audio control section (see page

26).

fProtection cover of the GUI screen operations section

Open to access the GUI screen operations section

(see page 26).

gMonochrome LCD

This shows the remaining battery capacity, remaining disc capacity, time data, and so on.

For details, see “Status Display on the LCD monitor and monochrome LCD” on page 22.

hEJECT button and indicator

Press this button to insert a disc or eject the disc. The indicator flashes while the disc is being ejected.

iF REV (fast reverse) button and indicator

This plays back at high speed in the reverse direction. The indicator lights during high-speed playback in the reverse direction.

jPLAY/PAUSE button and indicator

Press this button to view play back video images using the viewfinder screen or the LCD monitor. The indicator lights during playback.

Press this button again during playback to pause, outputting a still image. At this time the indicator flashes.

This unit is equipped with an image search function at approximately four times normal playback speed, for easy checking of recorded material. To use the image search function at

approximately four times normal playback speed, press the F REV button or F FWD button during playback.

At this time the PLAY indicator and F REV or F FWD indicator light.

kF FWD (fast forward) button and indicator

This plays back at high speed in the forward direction. The indicator lights during high-speed playback in the forward direction.

lPREV button

This jumps to the first frame of the current clip. During the jump, the F REV indicator flashes. If you press this together with the F REV button, the jump is to the first frame of the first recorded clip on the disc.

mSTOP button

Press this button to stop disc playback.

nNEXT button

This jumps to the first frame of the next clip. During the jump, the F FWD indicator flashes. If you press this together with the F FWD button, the jump is to the last frame of the last recorded clip on the disc.

oDISP SEL (display selection) /EXPAND (expand function) button

With each press of this button, the display in the LCD monitor changes as follows.

Display indication

Meaning

Video with

The LCD monitor displays

superimposed

the same text information

information (CHAR)

as the viewfinder.

 

 

Video without

The video only appears.

superimposed

 

information (MONI)

 

 

 

Status display

Counter indications,

(STATUS)

warnings, audio levels, and

 

similar information appear.

 

No video image appears.

 

 

If you press this button when the thumbnail screen is displayed, the duration of the selected clip is divided into 12, and the first frame of each of the divisions is shown in a further thumbnail display (expand function). Each time you press this button, the division is repeated (to a maximum of three times, with 1,728 divisions).

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