Front Panel (6) - Panasonic DVCPRO HD AJ-HD1800P Operating Instructions Manual

Parts and their functions

Front panel (6)

TRIM buttons
These buttons are used to make fine adjustments to the
IN or OUT point.
By pressing the or j button while the IN (A IN) button or
OUT (A OUT) button is held down, the registered edit
point can be adjusted in 1-frame increments. When the i
button is pressed, the point is moved ahead by one frame;
conversely, when the j button is pressed, it is moved
back by one frame.
The playback phase can be adjusted by pressing the i or
j button while holding down the PLAY button.
REW button
When this button is pressed, the tape is rewound.
The rewinding speed can be selected using setup menu
item No.102 (FF.REW MAX).
STOP button
When this button is pressed, the tape stops traveling, and
if TAPE is selected as the
<HOME> menu, still pictures can be monitored.
Even in the stop mode, the drum continues to rotate, and
the tape remains tightly wound around the drum.
Therefore, when the VTR is left in the stop mode beyond
a specific period of time, it is automatically set to the
standby OFF mode in order to protect the tape. The VTR
is set to the stop mode immediately after the cassette has
been installed.
FF button
When this button is pressed, the tape is fast forwarded.
The fast forwarding speed can be selected using setup
menu item No.102 (FF.REW MAX).
EDIT button
This button is pressed together with the PLAY button
during playback to initiate manual editing.
When the button is pressed in the stop mode, the input
signals in the mode selected by the <ASSEMBLE> menu
or <INSERT> menu can be monitored in the EE mode.
When the STOP button is pressed, the original picture
and sound are restored.
During playback, search, fast forwarding or rewinding, the
input signals in the mode selected by the <ASSEMBLE>
menu or <INSERT> menu can be monitored in the EE
mode while the button is held down.
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OUTPUT setting on the
F1
<Note>
No guarantees are made for the sound played back in the
search mode.
PLAY button
Press this button to start playback.
When this button is pressed together with the REC
button, recording starts; when this button is pressed
together with the EDIT button during playback, manual
editing starts.
However, manual editing will not be initiated if the servo is
not locked.When only the PLAY button is pressed during
manual editing, editing is exited, and the playback mode
is established.
REC button
When this button is pressed together with the PLAY
button, recording starts.
SERVO lamp
This lamp lights when the drum servo or capstan servo
locks.
REC INHIBIT lamp
This lights or goes off in accordance with the status of the
accidental erasure prevention tab on the cassette tape
and the setting which has been selected for
on the <HOME> menu.
inhibited while the lamp is lighted.
Cassette tape's
accidental REC INH
erasure menu
prevention tab setting
status
Recording
ー
disabled
OFF
ALL
PRE
Recording
enabled
NORM
V/CTL
*
Whether the REC INHIBIT lamp is to light or blink is selected by
the No.114 REC INH LAMP setup menu item setting.
<Note>
When SETUP MENU No. 18 (SP MODE INH) is set to
ON, data cannot be recorded onto a tape that was
formatted in any other format than DVCPRO HD-LP. If the
menu is set to OFF, data can be recorded.
REC INH
F6
Recording onto the tape is
REC
INHIBIT Description of
lamp operation
status
Lighted*
All recording operations
(or blinks
are inhibited.
slowly).
All recording operations
Off
are permitted.
All recording operations
Lighted
are inhibited.
Recording operations
Blinks involving the overwriting
of existing material are
rapidly
inhibited.
Normal recording
Blinks
operations are inhibited.
rapidly
Editing is possible.
Recording of video
Blinks
signals and CTL signals
rapidly
are inhibited.
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