Shift Button; Audio Settings Section; Audio Level Meter Section - Sony PDW-1500 Operation Manual

i SHIFT button
Use to switch the functions of various buttons.
j SET and RESET buttons
Use these as follows.
SET button: Use for setup menu settings, scene selection
settings, and so on.
RESET button: Press to reset the counter. This is also
used to cancel setup menu settings and abandon scene
selection (thumbnail search).
k THUMBNAIL button
To carry out a thumbnail search or create a clip list, press
this button turning it on. Thumbnail images representing
each clip or sub-clip appear. Press once more to turn the
button off, and return to a whole-screen display.
To display the thumbnails of essence mark frames (frames
with an essence mark attached), hold down the SHIFT
button, and press this button. The essence mark selection
menu appears. Select the desired type of essence mark, and
the corresponding essence mark frames appear in
thumbnails. Press once more, turning the button off, to
return to a whole-screen display.
l Disc slot and EJECT button
Insert a disc in the disc slot. To remove the disc, press the
EJECT button.

1 Audio level meter section

1 Audio level meters
2 Audio input display
SG DATA SG DATA SG DATA
ANA SDI ANA SDI ANA SDI
AE8/EBU AE8/EBU AE8/EBU
dB dB dB
OVER OVER OVER
0 0 0
-12 -12 -12
-20 -20 -20
-30 -30 -30
-40 -40 -40
-60 -60 -60
15 26 37
CH- CH- CH-
a Audio level meters
Depending on the setting of the AUDIO METER SEL
button (see page 22), these show the audio recording levels
(during recording) or audio playback levels (during
playback) of channels 1 to 4 or channels 5 to 8. If an audio
level exceeds 0 dB, the OVER indicator lights.
By means of a maintenance menu setting, you can display
a reference level indicator ("-") to the right of each meter
when recording.
For details of the maintenace menu, see 8-4 "Maintenance
Menu" on page 106.
SG DATA
ANA SDI
AE8/EBU
OVER indicator
dB
OVER
0
-12
Reference level
-20
indicator
-30
-40
-60
48
CH-
Channel display
b Audio input display
For each channel, the following indicators light to show
the type of the selected audio input signal.
ANA: Analog audio signal
SDI: SDI audio signal
AES/EBU: AES/EBU format digital audio signal
SG: Audio test signal generated by the internal signal
generator
DATA: Non-audio signal
Make the audio input signal selection with the AUDIO
INPUT SEL button (see page 22).

2 Audio settings section

1 MONITOR switch
2 AUDIO MONITOR SEL button
3 AUDIO METER SEL button
4 AUDIO INPUT CH button
40 40 40
MONITOR
-60 -60 -60
CH- 15 CH- 26 CH- 37
L
MIX
R AUDIO
MONITOR SEL METER SEL INPUT CH
ALL/CH-1
VARIABLE
REC
PRESET
PB
PHONES
PREV PLAY
TOP F REV F FWD
6 PHONES jack and volume control knob
a MONITOR switch
Of the two channels (left and right) selected by the AUDIO
MONITOR SEL button (see next item), selects whether
both or one is monitored.
L: The left channel audio is output from the PHONES jack
and the AUDIO MONITOR OUT connector.
R: The right channel audio is output from the PHONES
jack and the AUDIO MONITOR OUT connector.
MIX: Stereo audio is output from the PHONES jack.
Monaural audio, the left and right channels mixed, is
output from the AUDIO MONITOR OUT connector.
b AUDIO MONITOR SEL (selection) button
Of the up to eight audio signal channels, the audio of the
two channels (left and right channels in the case of a stereo
output) selected by this button can be monitored with the
PHONES jack on the front panel and the AUDIO
MONITOR OUT connector on the rear panel.
Pressing this button cycles through the four of the
following channel combinations.
• Channels 1 (left) and 2 (right)
• Channels 3 (left) and 4 (right)
• Channels 5 (left) and 6 (right)
• Channels 7 (left) and 8 (right)
5 AUDIO INPUT SEL button
40 MONITOR
1/2 3/4
-60
CH- 48 5/6 7/8 4
VIDE
INPUT SEL INPUT
CH-2 CH-3
NEXT ST
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