Overview 1 Chapter

•With the optional CBK-FC01 Pull Down Board installed, a 24 fps3) progressive scan video can be recorded subjected to pull-down, providing imaging quality close to that of film. (PDW-510/530 only)

1)Abbreviation of “Power Hole-Accumulated Diode.” “Power HAD” is a registered trademark of Sony Corporation.

2)More precisely, 29.97 fps

3)More precisely, 23.98 fps

Camera signal processing for high image quality shooting

•The 12-bit A/D converter provides high image quality, stability, and reliability.

•The high-performance electronic shutter allows you to select the extended clear scan mode (ECS 1) ) and high vertical resolution mode (EVS 2) ), to obtain clear video shooting.

1)ECS: Extended Clear Scan

2)EVS: Super Enhanced Vertical Definition System

Shooting functions to cope with different shooting conditions

•The slow shutter function (up to 1/2 second) allows shooting under very poor lighting conditions.

•You can easily recall sets of adjustment values from memory, to match the particular lighting conditions.

•The ATW 1) function provides automatic white balance adjustment in response to changing lighting conditions.

•The TruEye TM 2) process yields distortion-free video, even with high intensity colors.

•The TURBO GAIN button enables an instantaneous boost of the video gain to the maximum 48 dB.

1)ATW: Auto Tracing White balance

2)TruEye: “TruEye” is a registered trademark of Sony Corporation.

Freeze mix function

This allows a still image from the previously captured video to be aligned with the video output from the camera. Thus you can adjust the camera position to get exactly the same framing for new shooting.

Saving and recalling settings in a “Memory Stick”

Using an “Memory Stick” 1), you can save menu settings for particular shooting conditions, for recall as required.

1) “Memory Stick” is a trademark of Sony Corporation.

High-functionality viewfinder

The 2-inch monochrome viewfinder allows accurate focusing.

The switch settings, automatic black balance and white balance items, status, warnings and so on appear on the viewfinder screen.

1-1-3 Features of the Optical Disc Drive (VDR)

Recording and playback in clip units

Each time you start and stop recording, this creates an independent clip. During playback, you can jump to any clip, to check the recorded video.

•During recording, material is always written to unused parts of the disc. Therefore, even when playing back between shooting sessions, there is no danger of inadvertently overwriting the previous recording.

•Immediately after recording, you can delete clips you decide not to keep, allowing efficient use of the available disc capacity.

Wide range of metadata recording

Together with the recorded video and audio, a variety of additional information is recorded as metadata on the disc.

•Using simultaneous recording of proxi AV data (low rate video and audio: video around 1.5 Mbps, and each audio channel 64 kbps), high-speed transfer to an external editor or video and audio transfer over a low bandwidth network is possible.

•It is also possible to record a variety of metadata such as a camera ID, disc number, scene number, and so on. Such metadata offers a great advantage when searching for data in subsequent processes.

Wide range of menu settings

The menus provide the following operations, amongst others.

•Status display, message, and marker display settings

•Camera adjustment settings

•Switch function assignment

•“Memory Stick” operations

You can also assign any settings to the USER menu, to create customized menus.

Picture cache recording

Video and audio for a maximum of 10 seconds is always held in memory, so that when you start recording, it is possible to record from just before the REC START button was pressed.

Time-lapse video (intermittent recording) function

You can record video intermittently, capturing any number of frames at any desired time interval.

16 1-1 Features