Name of currently

Sixth clip is selected

selected clip a)

from a total of 34 clips.

Thumbnail of currently selected clip (first frame or specified b) frame)

To return to the previous screen

Press the THUMBNAIL button, turning the THUMBNAIL indicator off. At any point in the procedure you can return to the previous screen with this operation.

Note

The factory default setting is to use the first frame of a clip as its thumbnail image. At recording time, you can change this to another frame within 10 frames of the start of the clip (page 65). You can also change it to any frame at playback time (page 78). However, the thumbnail search function always cues up the first frame in a clip, even if the thumbnail image has been changed.

Recording date and time

Duration of selected clip

of selected clip

 

Clip information c)

 

a)When a title has been assigned to a clip (see page 69), the title is enclosed in double quotation marks, for example “TITLE00001”.

b)On how to make a thumbnail image of the specified frame, see page 78.

c)You can select the information to be displayed (see page 77). The factory default setting is display of timecode.

2 Use the SEL/SET button (four-way arrow key) or MENU knob to select the desired clip.

You can also select clips by the following operations. Press the PREV button: When FIND MODE on the ESSENCE MARK page of the MAINTENANCE

menu is set to R.ST, this moves to the previous REC START essence mark. When FIND MODE is set to CLIP, this moves to the start of the current clip, or moves to the first frame of the previous clip if the PREV button is pressed at the first frame of the current clip.

Press the NEXT button: When FIND MODE on the ESSENCE MARK page of the MAINTENANCE menu is set to R.ST, this moves to the next REC START essence mark. When FIND MODE is set to CLIP, this moves to the start of the next clip.

Press the PREV or NEXT button with the F REV or F FWD button held down: Move to the first or last clip.

Press the F REV/F FWD button: Move to the previous or next page.

3 To cue up the selected clip, press the SEL/SET button or the MENU knob.

To start playback from the selected clip, press the PLAY/PAUSE button.

The remainder of the thumbnail selection process is the same as in steps 2 and 3 above.

Switching the Information Displayed in the Thumbnail Screen

You can switch the clip information displayed at the bottom of thumbnails. You can also switch the display of thumbnail sequence numbers.

Note

The factory default setting is “TIME CODE”.

Proceed as follows.

1 With the thumbnail screen displayed, hold down the SHIFT button and press the SEL/SET button to the bottom side (the CLIP MENU side).

The CLIP menu appears.

See page 95 for more information about the CLIP menu.

2 Use the SEL/SET button or MENU knob to select “CLIP INFORMATION”, and then press the button or knob.

A sub menu appears.

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