Handling Discs; Discs Used For Recording And Playback - Sony PDW-HD1550 Operation Manual

Item Setting
F4: ADD TO Adds a sub clip to the current EDL (see
CURT.EDL page 71).
F5: PB/EE Selects the video and audio signals that
are output in stop, forward direction high-
speed search, and reverse direction high-
speed search modes.
PB: Playback signal
EE: EE mode signal
F6: – (Unassigned function button)
a) The target operation mode is set using setup menu item 108 AUTO EE
SELECT.
P6 OTHER page
Item Setting
F1: REC FRMT Setup menu item 031 RECORDING
FORMAT (see page 88).
F2: REC MODE Setup menu item 150 REC MODE (see
page 93).
F3: WIDE I/O Setup menu item 731 WIDE MODE (see
page 99).
F4: DC MODE Setup menu item 930 DOWN
CONVERTER MODE (see page 101).
F5: UC MODE Setup menu item 950 UP CONVERTER
MODE (see page 102).
F6: LOCAL FN Setup menu item 006 LOCAL FUNCTION
ENABLE (see page 87).
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Handling Discs

Handling Discs
Discs used for recording and
a)
playback
This unit can record and play back the following
Professional Disc formats.
• PFD23A (capacity 23.3 GB)
• PFD50DLA (capacity 50.0 GB)
• PFD100TLA (capacity 100 GB)
• PFD128QLW (capacity 128 GB)
Notes
• It is not possible to use the following discs for recording
or playback:
- Blu-ray Disc
- Professional Disc for Data
• PFD128QLW is a quad-layer Write-Once Professional
Disc (hereinafter referred to as "quad-layer WO disc").
Pay due attention to the following points.
- Even if you delete any files written to the disc, no
- Reformatting the disc will not increase the available
- Repetitive file writing will consume the recordable
- No file can be written after the disc is finalized.
• PFD100TLA and PFD128QLW discs can be used only
by XDCAM devices with the XL-QD mark (see the
following illustration). They cannot be used by XDCAM
devices without this mark.
• Management data and other information are also
included in the capacity for each disc. For information
about the actual usable capacity, see "Recording/
playback times" (page 123) in "Specifications".
available storage space will be increased.
storage space.
resource space (for writing the disc management data,
etc.) on the disc. If no available recordable resource
space is left on the disc, file writing may be disabled
even with sufficient available storage space remaining.
XL-QD mark