Access Lamp; Prev Button; Next Button - Sony PMW-500 Operation Manual

You can adjust the position and angle of the LCD
monitor.
c WARNING indicator
Lights up or flashes when an abnormality occurs
(see page 175).
d ACCESS lamp
Lights up in blue when data is written to or read
from the recording media.
e Protection cover of the audio control
section
Open to access the audio control section (see
page 20).
f Protection cover of the thumbnail
screen operations section
Open to access the thumbnail screen operations
section (see page 20).
g F REV (fast reverse) button and
indicator
This plays back at high speed in the reverse
direction. The playback speed changes in the
order ×4 t ×15 t ×24 with each press of the
button. The indicator lights during high-speed
playback in the reverse direction.
h PLAY/PAUSE button and indicator
Press this button to view play back video images
using the viewfinder screen or the LCD monitor.
The indicator lights during playback.
Press this button again during playback to pause,
outputting a still image. At this time the indicator
flashes at a rate of once per second.
Pressing the F REV or F FWD button during
playback or pause starts high speed playback in
the forward or reverse direction.
i F FWD (fast forward) button and
indicator
This plays back at high speed in the forward
direction. The playback speed changes in the
order ×4 t ×15 t ×24 with each press of the
button. The indicator lights during high-speed
playback in the forward direction.
j PREV button
This jumps to the first frame of the current clip.
If you press this together with the F REV button,
the jump is to the first frame of the first recorded
clip on the recording media.
If you press this button twice in rapid succession,
the jump is to the first frame of the last preceding
clip (or the first frame of the current clip when no
preceding clips exist).
k STOP button
Press this button to stop playback.
l NEXT button
This jumps to the first frame of the next clip.
If you press this together with the F FWD button,
the jump is to the first frame of the last recorded
clip on the recording media.
m DISP SEL (display selection)/EXPAND
(expand function) button
With each press of this button, the display in the
LCD monitor changes as follows.
Display indication Meaning
Video with The LCD monitor displays
superimposed the same text information as
information (CHAR) the viewfinder.
Video without The video only appears.
superimposed
information (MONI)
Status display Counter indications,
(STATUS) warnings, audio levels, and
similar information appear.
No video image appears.
If you press this button when the thumbnail
screen is displayed, the duration of the selected
clip is divided into fractions, and the first frame of
each of the divisions is shown in a further
thumbnail display (expand function). For an HD
recorded MP4 clip, its duration is divided into 12.
If an SD recorded AVI clip comprises multiple
files, the divisions are displayed for the individual
files.
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