Using Thumbnails To Search Inside Clips; Expand Thumbnail Screen; Shot Mark Thumbnail Screen - Sony PMW-TD300 Operating Instructions Manual

Press the THUMBNAIL button: Playback stops
and the thumbnail screen (see page 91)
appears in the viewfinder.
Playback also stops if you eject the memory card.
In this case, the camera picture appears in the
viewfinder.
To cue up clips
To return to the top of the current clip
Press the PREV button.
• During playback or F FWD, this jumps to the
top of the current clip and starts playback.
• During F REV or pause, this jumps to the top of
the current clip and displays a still image.
• Each subsequent press of the button moves to
the previous clip.
To play from the top of the first clip
Simultaneously press the PREV and F REV
buttons. This jumps to the top of the first clip on
the SxS memory card.
To jump to the top of the next clip
Press the NEXT button.
• During playback or F FWD, this jumps to the
top of the next clip and starts playback.
• During F REV or pause, this jumps to the top of
the next clip and displays a still image.
• Each subsequent press of the button moves to
the next clip.
To play from the top of the last clip
Simultaneously press the NEXT and F FWD
buttons. This jumps to the top of the last clip on
the SxS memory card.
To add a shot mark during play
You can add shot marks to clips during play by
using the same method used during recording (see
page 78).
Shot marks can be added to clips in left slots only.
Notes
• Shot marks cannot be recorded when the SxS memory
card is write protected.
• Shot marks cannot be added at the first frame of each
clip or last frame of the last clip.
94 Clip Playback
Using Thumbnails to Search
Inside Clips
You can switch a thumbnail screen to the
following thumbnail search screens, which allow
you quickly find the clips you want.

• Expand thumbnail screen

• Shot mark thumbnail screen

Like the normal thumbnail screen and the OK clip
thumbnail screen, these screens allow you to
select clip thumbnails (see page 93) and to start
clip playback (see page 93).
To search for scenes in clips with the
expand thumbnail screen
The expand thumbnail screen is convenient when
you want to find and cue up a specific scene in a
long clip.
To display the expand thumbnail screen, select a
clip in the thumbnail screen and press the
EXPAND button (see page 27) or select
THUMBNAIL >Thumbnail View >Forward
Expansion in the setup menu. The selected clip is
divided into 12 equally-sized blocks, and a
thumbnail of the first frame in each block is
displayed.
This helps you to quickly cue up to a desired
scene in a clip of long duration.
See "Displaying the Expand Thumbnail Screen"
(page 100) for more information about the expand
thumbnail screen.
To search for shot marks in clips with the
shot mark thumbnail screen
When a clip contains one or more shot marks, you
can easily find them with the shot mark thumbnail
screen. The shot mark thumbnail screen displays
a thumbnail of each shot mark frame in the clip.
To display the shot mark thumbnail screen, press
the ESSENCE MARK button (see page 28) or
select THUMBNAIL >Thumbnail View
>Essence Mark Thumbnail in the setup menu.
See "Displaying the Shot Mark Thumbnail Screen"
(page 100) for more information about the shot mark
thumbnail screen.