Controlling The Tape/Disk Transport - Sony MVS-8000X User Manual

• Tape transport and disk drive control: You can use the following tape
transport and disk drive control buttons:
REC, REW, PLAY, FF, CUE UP, VAR PLAY, SHTL, JOG, STANDBY
OFF, STOP, and ALL STOP. (For details of the operation of the buttons,
see "Device Control Block (Trackball)", "Device Control Block
(Joystick)" and "Device Control Block (Search Dial)" in Chapter 2
"Menus and Control Panel" (Volume 1).)
Depending on the settings made in the Setup menu, the CUE UP, PLAY and
STOP operations can be carried out from the transition control block. (For
details of the operation of the buttons, see "Transition Control Block
(Standard Type)" and "Transition Control Block (Compact Type)" in
Chapter 2 "Menus and Control Panel" (Volume 1).)
• Setting a start point: For each selected VTR/disk recorder/Extended VTR
you can set the start point timecode value as keyframe data.
• Setting a stop point: For each selected VTR/disk recorder/Extended VTR
you can set the stop point timecode value as keyframe data.
• Setting a start delay time: For each selected VTR/disk recorder/Extended
VTR you can set the start delay as key frame data.
• Recording to VTR or disk recorder: Record video to the selected VTR/
disk recorder.
• Loop/recue setting: You can select loop or recue as the playback mode.
These operate as follows.
When loop is selected: Playback repeats from the start to the end of the
currently recalled file.
When recue is selected: When playback reaches the stop point,
automatically cue up to the start point.
To use the loop or recue function, it is necessary to enable the function in setup.
For details, see "Making Detailed Settings on the External Device Connected
to the Serial Port" in Chapter 22 (Volume 3).

Controlling the Tape/Disk Transport

To switch to VTR/disk recorder operation mode
To control a VTR/Extended VTR/disk recorder with the device control block
(trackball) or device control block (joystick), press the [DEV] button in the
device control block, turning it on, to switch the device control block to the
VTR/disk recorder operation mode. The button assignment changes as follows
(the [SHIFT] button is disabled in VTR/disk recorder operation mode).
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