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Front Panel
Chapter 2 Names and Functions of Parts
If no clip list is registered, this button does not light
when pressed. The operation is invalid.
DISC MENU button: When pressed together with the
SHIFT button, displays the Disc Menu (see page92).
Press the button again, turning the indicator off, to
hide the Disc Menu.
See “GUI screen operations” (page73) for more
information about how to use the thumbnail screens.
gTHUMBNAIL button and indicator
To carry out a thumbnail search or create a clip list in the
GUI screen, press this button turning the indicator on.
Thumbnail images representing each clip or sub-clip
appear. Press once more, turning the indicator off, to return
to a whole-screen display.
To display the thumbnails of essence mark frames (frames
with an essence mark attached), hold down the SHIFT
button, and press this button. The essence mark selection
menu appears. Select the desired type of essence mark, and
the corresponding essence mark frames appear in
thumbnails. Press once more, turning the indicator off, to
return to a whole-screen display.
See “GUI screen operations” (page73) for more
information about how to use the thumbnail screens.
hDISPLAY button
Each press of this button switches between the basic
operation display and video monitor display (see page23).
This button is disabled unless either the basic operation
display or the video monitor display is displayed.
iSHIFT button
Switches between functions for any button with two
functions.
jPAGE/HOME button
When pressed alone functions as the PAGE switching
button. When pressed together with the SHIFT button,
functions as the HOME button.
PAGE button: Displays the function menu, if it is not
already visible. (The most recently displayed page of
the function menu appears.)
HOME button: When pressed with the function menu
visible, returns to the HOME page of the function
menu.
kEXPAND button
When pressed during thumbnail display, divides the
selected clip into 12 blocks and displays a list of
thumbnails of the first frame in each block (expand
function). The division is repeated with each press (up to 3
times, for a total of 1,728 blocks).
When this button is pressed together with the SHIFT
button, the unit returns to the previous division level.
Press the RESET/RETURN button to return to the
thumbnail screen.
This button also becomes a function button (F6) when the
function menu is visible.
See page75 for more information about the expand
function.
lCHAPTER button
When pressed during thumbnail display, displays a list of
thumbnails of the frames where essence marks are
recorded (chapter function). When this is pressed again,
returns to normal thumbnail display. The chapter function
can be useful when essence mark thumbnails provide more
information about the content of the clip than the index
pictures of the first frames. This can also be used to cue up
long clips.
This button also becomes a function button (F5) when the
function menu is visible.
See page75 for more information about the chapter
function.
5Recording and playback control section
aPREV (previous) button
Press this button, turning it on, to show the first frame of
the current clip. While the first frame of a clip is shown,
pressing this button jumps to the beginning of the previous
clip. 1) This button is also used together with other buttons
for the following operations.
Reverse direction high-speed search: Hold down the
PLAY button, and press this button. A high-sp eed
search in the reverse direction is carried out.
Displaying the first frame of the first clip: Hold down
the SHIFT button, and press this button.
1)When setup menu item 153 FIND MODE is set to “clip & rec start mark”,
this button jumps to the frame where the previous Rec Start essence mark
is set and displays the video of that frame.
Note
TOP F REV F FWD END STANDBY REC INHI
PREV NEXTPLAY STOP REC
1PREV button
2PLAY button
3NEXT button
4STOP button
5REC button
6STANDBY indicator
7REC INHI indicator