You return to the thumbnail screen, and a lock icon appears on the thumbnail of the selected clip to show that it is locked.

Lock icon

Locked clips cannot be deleted or set the thumbnail image (index picture) and so on. Unlock the clip if you want to perform any of these operations.

To lock clips with a shortcut operation

After carrying out step 2 in the procedure, press the STOP button with the SHIFT button held down (shortcut operation).

You can lock clips without displaying the CLIP MENU.

To unlock clips

Carry out step 2 of “Locking clips” to select a locked clip (one with the lock icon displayed on its thumbnail). Then do one of the following.

•Carry out steps 3 and 4 of “Locking Clips”.

•Press the STOP button with the SHIFT button held down (shortcut operation).

To lock all clips

1 Carry out steps 1 and 3 of “Locking Clips” to display the CLIP MENU.

2 Use the V/MARK1 or the v/MARK2 button to select LOCK OR DELETE ALL CLIPS, and then press the b/OUT button.

A submenu screen appears.

3 Select “LOCK ALL CLIPS”, and then press the SET button.

A confirmation screen appears.

4 With “OK” selected, press the SET button.

All clips are locked.

To unlock all clips

Carry out the procedure in “To lock all clips”, selecting UNLOCK ALL CLIPS in step 2.

Deleting Clips

You can delete selected clips while checking their content.

Notes

•Clips cannot be deleted when the Write Inhibit tab of the disc is set to the recording disabled position, or when the function menu item “REC INH” is set to “ON”.

•Locked clips cannot be deleted.

•When the target clip is referenced in a clip list, the clip list that references the clip will also be deleted.

•If the deletion target clip is referenced by the current clip list, all of the referenced sub clips, and only those sub clips, are deleted simultaneously.

1 With the SUB CLIP button off, press the THUMBNAIL button, turning it on.

The thumbnails of the clips on the disc appear.

2 Select the clip to delete. (You can do this with the same operations as step 1 of “To select a thumbnail image and start playback” (see page 43)).

Clip to be deleted

3 Press the MENU button.

The CLIP menu appears.

4 Use the V/MARK1 or the v/MARK2 button to select “DELETE CLIP”, and then press the SET button.

A deletion confirmation screen appears and then thumbnails of four frames (the first frame, intermediate frame 1, intermediate frame 2, and the last frame) in the target clip appear. At the same time, the clip name, title, date and time of creation, and duration appear.

One of the following messages appears, depending on whether the target clip is referenced in a clip list.

•When the target clip is not referenced in a clip list: “DELETE CLIP?”

•When the target clip is referenced in a clip list: “DELETE CLIP & CLIP LIST?” (The clip list that references the clip will also be deleted.)

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