•Perform a clip operation (lock or delete a clip)

•Make a network or FAM connection

•Eject the disc

•Change the recording format (change the setting of OPERATIONAL FUNCTION >REC FORMAT in the setup menu, or change the setting of AUDIO CONTROL >REC MODE in the setup menu)

•Power the unit off

To turn the function off

Set OPERATIONAL FUNCTION >CLIP CONT. REC in the setup menu to “OFF”.

Playback

This section describes playback of video and audio on the unit.

Before starting playback, make the following settings and adjustments.

Selection of time data to display: Select with CNTR SEL on page P1 of the function menu.

Selection of audio channels to monitor: Select with MONI CH and MONI SEL on page P1 of the function menu.

Volume adjustment of the monitor audio: Adjust with the LEVEL knob.

Remote/local setting: Set the remote control switch. If you set it to REMOTE, also set the setup menu item

INTERFACE SELECT >REMOTE I/F (“REMOTE” and the connector used appear on the display).

Disc playback start position

Although this unit uses optical discs, it is designed to offer the most convenient features of tape playback by VTRs. One of these is the playback start position, which works in the same way as tape, as described below.

After playback stop

The unit stops at the position where the STOP button was pressed.

Press the PLAY button to resume playback at the stop position.

After recording

The unit stops at the position where recording ended.

To play back a clip, press the PREV button to move to the start frame of any clip or the previous REC START essence mark, 1) or press the PREV button with the PLAY button held down to move to any position.

1)The setting of OPERATIONAL FUNCTION >FIND MODE determines whether the unit jumps to clips or to REC START essence marks.

When you play back clips recorded with the Clip Continuous Rec function (see page 50), you should set this menu item to “REC START EM”.

After disc insertion

The unit stops at the position of the disc when it was most recently ejected.

Press the PLAY button to resume playback at the most recent position.

The playback position is saved to the disc when the disc is ejected, which allows playback to start at that position whenever it is loaded into any XDCAM player.

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