Using Thumbnails To Search Inside Clips - Sony PMW-400K Operating Instructions Manual

To play clips sequentially starting from a
selected clip
1
Select the thumbnail of the clip that you
want to play first.
2
Press the PLAY/PAUSE button.
Play begins from the top of the selected clip.
Play continues through all clips after the selected
clip.
When the last clip has been played to the end, the
camcorder enters pause (still image) mode at the
last frame of the last clip.
Press the THUMBNAIL button to return to the
thumbnail screen.
Playback also stops if you eject the memory card.
In this case, the camera picture appears in the
viewfinder.
Notes
• There may be momentary picture breakup or still
image display at the transition from one clip to another.
During this time, the playback controls and the
THUMBNAIL button cannot be operated.
• When you select a clip in the thumbnail screen and
begin playback, there may be momentary picture
breakup at the top of the clip. To view the top of the
clip without breakup, put the camcorder into playback
mode, pause, use the PREV button to return to the top
of the clip, and start playback again.
• On SxS memory cards that contain both HD-mode and
SD-mode clips, you cannot play all clips in sequence.
For example, while an HD mode thumbnail screen is
displayed, only HD mode clips are played in sequence.
To cue up clips
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 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.
98 Clip Playback
To add a shot mark during play (HD mode
only)
You can add shot marks to clips during play by
using the same method used during recording (see
page 86).
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.
Using Thumbnails to Search
Inside Clips
• Expand thumbnail screen
• Shot mark thumbnail screen (HD mode only)
Like the normal thumbnail screen and the OK clip
thumbnail screen, these screens allow you to
select clip thumbnails (see page 97) and to start
clip playback (see page 98).
To search for scenes in clips with the
expand thumbnail screen
To display the expand thumbnail screen, select a
clip in the thumbnail screen and press the
EXPAND button (see page 17) or select
"THUMBNAIL" > "Thumbnail View" >
"Forward Expansion" in the setup menu. The
selected clip is displayed as follows.
HD mode: The clip is divided into 12 equally-
sized blocks, and a thumbnail of the first
frame in each block is displayed.
SD mode: Only in the case of clips that have been
split into partial files because the file size was
larger than 2 GB, a thumbnail of the first
frame of each partial file is displayed.
See "Displaying the Expand Thumbnail Screen
(UDF/exFAT/FAT-HD Mode only)" (page 105) for
more information about the expand thumbnail
screen.