Playback and Recording 3 Chapter

If you press the PLAY button, playback starts from the selected essence mark frame.

Searching With the Chapter Function

When a clip contains shot marks, you can display them as chapter thumbnails.

See “To set shot marks” (page 36) about how to set shot marks.

1 With the thumbnail list visible, select the thumbnail of the clip that contains the scenes you want.

An “S” mark appears in the upper right of the thumbnails of clips which have shot marks set.

“S” mark

2 Press the CHAPTER (F4) button.

The CHAPTER screen appears, showing thumbnails of the frames where the shot marks are set.

“S1” and “S2” marks on thumbnails indicate frames where SHOT MARK1 and SHOT MARK2 marks are set.

Thumbnails without a mark are frames where REC START marks are set.

3 Select the clip whose thumbnail you want to change (you can do this with the same operations as step 1 of “To select a thumbnail image and start playback” (see page 37)).

4 Press the SET button or the PLAY button.

If you press the SET button, a still image appears showing selected shot mark frame.

If you press the PLAY button, playback starts from the selected shot mark frame.

To delete shot marks at chapter positions

You can delete shot marks (SHOT MARK1 and SHOT MARK2) at chapter positions in the CHAPTER screen. (REC START essence marks cannot be deleted.)

1 With the CHAPTER screen visible, press the CLIP MENU (SHIFT + SUB CLIP) button or MENU button to display the clip menu.

2 Select DELETE SHOT MARK.

“DELETE SHOT MARK” appears in the upper left of the screen.

3 Select the thumbnail image of the shot mark position to delete.

4 Press the SET button.

A message appears, asking for confirmation of the deletion.

5 Press OK to execute the deletion or CANCEL to cancel it, and then press the SET button.

Clip List Playback

You can play back clips in the same order as in a clip list created using the scene selection function.

See Chapter 4 for more information about scene selection.

Playing back in clip list order

Proceed as follows.

1 If the clip list that you want to play exists on the disc, load it into the current clip list.

2 Press the SUB CLIP button, turning it on.

3 Press the PLAY button.

Playback begins from the first sub clip in the current clip list.

Notes

•Stop the unit before using the SUB CLIP button. Press the STOP button if a message appears telling you to stop the unit.

•Depending on the length of sub clips in the clip list and their arrangement on the disc, playback may freeze momentarily between sub clips.

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