Deleting Clips - Sony PDW-530 Operation Manual

To play back the recorded clip
Press the PREV button, then press the PLAY button to
play from the beginning of the clip.
7
Repeat steps 5 and 6 as required for shooting.
Each time you repeat steps 5 and 6 , successive clips
are recorded on the disc.
Clip 1 Clip 2
REC REC REC
START STOP START
Note
It is not possible to record a clip shorter than 2 seconds. If
you stop recording within 2 seconds of starting, this results
in a 2-second clip.
If you stop recording and restart within 2 seconds of the
original start, this creates a single continuous clip from the
original start time.
Playback control buttons
During recording, the EJECT button and the playback
control buttons (EJECT, F REV, F FWD, NEXT, PREV,
PLAY/PAUSE, STOP) have no effect.

3-2-2 Deleting Clips

With this camcorder you can delete clips one at a time, in
sequence from the last recorded clip, or you can delete all
clips in a single operation.
To delete the last recorded clip
Proceed as follows.
1
Holding down the MENU knob, move the MENU ON/
OFF switch from OFF to ON.
The TOP menu appears.
2
Turn the MENU knob to move the b mark to
"MAINTENANCE", and press the MENU knob.
If this is the first time the MAINTENANCE menu has
been displayed, the CONTENTS page of the
Clip 3
REC REC REC
STOP START STOP
MAINTENANCE menu appears. If the menu has been
used before, the last accessed page appears.
3
If the CONTENTS page is displayed, turn the MENU
knob to move the b mark to "DISC", and press the
MENU knob to display the DISC page.
If a different page is displayed, turn the MENU knob
until the DISC page appears, then press the MENU
knob to select the page.
M19 DISC
DELETE LAST CLIP:
DELETE ALL CLIPS:
QUICK FORMAT
4
Press the MENU knob, then turn it to move the b mark
to "DELETE LAST CLIP", and press the MENU knob
again.
The message "DELETE OK? YES b NO" appears.
5
Turn the MENU knob to move the b mark to "YES",
and press the MENU knob again.
The last recorded clip is deleted.
6
By repeating steps 4 and 5, you can delete a number of
clips in sequence from the last recorded clip.
Clip 1 Clip 2
Clips can be deleted in the sequence 3 t 2 t 1.
To delete all clips within the disc
Proceed as follows.
1
On the DISC page (see the previous item), move the b
mark to "DELETE ALL CLIPS", and press the MENU
knob.
The message "DELTE OK? YES b NO" appears.
2
To execute deleting, turn the MENU knob to move the
b mark to "YES", and press the MENU knob.
This deletes all clips within the disc.
TOP
EXEC
EXEC
: EXEC
Clip 3
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3-2 Recording