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Hold down the SHIFT button and press this button to step back through the division process.

For details of the expand function, see page 105.

pHOLD (display hold)/CHAPTER (chapter function) button

Pressing this button instantly freezes the time data displayed in the counter display section. (The timecode generator continues running.) Pressing this button again releases the hold.

You can use this button, for example, to determine the exact time of a particular shot.

For details of the counter display, see page 23.

If you press this button when the clip thumbnail screen is displayed, those frames on which shot marks are recorded appear in a list (chapter function). Press the button once more to return to the normal thumbnail display.

By displaying thumbnails with shot marks attached in place of index frames, you can check the contents of clips more easily and more quickly. This is also useful for cueing up long clips.

For details of the chapter function, see page 106

qRESET/RETURN button

Resets the value shown in the time counter display. According to the settings of the PRESET/ REGEN/CLOCK switch (see page 26) and the F- RUN/SET/R-RUN switch (see page 26), this button resets the display as follows.

Settings of switches

To reset

DISPLAY switch:

Counter to 0:00:00:00

COUNTER

 

 

 

DISPLAY switch:

Timecode to 00:00:00:00

TC

 

PRESET/REGEN/

 

CLOCK switch:

 

PRESET

 

F-RUN/SET/R-RUN

 

switch: SET

 

 

 

DISPLAY switch:

User bits data a) to 00 00 00

U-BIT

00

PRESET/REGEN/

 

CLOCK switch:

 

PRESET

 

F-RUN/SET/R-RUN

 

switch: SET

 

 

 

a)Of the timecode bits for every frame recorded on the disc, those bits which can be used to record useful

information for the user such as scene number, shooting place, etc.

For details, see “Setting the Time Data” on page 68.

This button returns to the previous screen when pressed during thumbnail display.

For details, see “GUI screen operations” on page 103.

rDISPLAY switch

This cycles the data displayed in the counter display through the sequence COUNTER, TC, and U-BIT.

COUNTER: Display the elapsed recording/ playback time (hours, minutes, seconds, frames).

TC: Display timecode.

U-BIT:Display user bit data.

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

sBRIGHT (brightness) button

Switches the brightness of the LCD monitor backlight, and turns the backlight of the monochrome LCD on and off.

Each press of the button selects the next setting in the order shown in the following table.

Setting

LCD monitor

Monochrome

 

backlight

LCD backlight

H

High (select this to view

Lit

 

the LCD monitor

 

 

outdoors in the

 

 

daytime)

 

 

 

 

M

Brightness between H

Lit

 

and L

 

 

 

 

L

Low (select this to view

Lit

 

the LCD monitor

 

 

indoors or outdoors at

 

 

night)

 

 

 

 

OFF

Off (the display is also

Off

 

off)

 

 

 

 

Status Display on the LCD monitor and monochrome LCD

The following display appears on the LCD monitor display which is set to STATUS with the DISP SEL/EXPAND button, and on the monochrome LCD.

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