Special Automatic Editing Methods; Quick Editing; Continuous Editing; Standalone Editing - Sony HDW-1800 Operation Manual

5-3 Special Automatic
Editing Methods
This section describes the following automatic editing
methods:

• Quick editing

• Continuous editing

• Standalone editing

• Preread editing
5-3-1 Quick Editing
After selecting the edit mode, you can reduce editing time
by setting the edit points and executing the editing at the
same time.
Use the following procedure.
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1
Select F6 (R/P SEL) in function menu page P06: EDIT
to select the player or the recorder, and stop the tapes
on both the player (PLAYER) and recorder
(RECDER) at the positions you want to make the
respective IN points.
2
Holding down the SHIFT/ENTRY button, select F1
(AUTOEDIT).
Editing starts.
3
While monitoring the editing on the monitor, hold
down the SHIFT/ENTRY button and select F10
(OUT) at the position you want to make the edit OUT
point.
Editing ends.
The point at which you started the editing will be the
IN point, and the point at which you ended the editing
will be the OUT point.
To preview
In step 1, after setting the recorder or player edit IN point,
hold down the SHIFT/ENTRY button and select F2
(PREVIEW).
5-3-2 Continuous Editing
After an automatic editing, the recorder automatically
returns to the OUT point.
For the second and subsequent editing operations, you can
continue editing by simply specifying the IN and OUT
points on the player. In this case the current OUT point on
the recorder will be the new IN point.
Recorder
Previous edit segment Current edit segment
Player
IN point
After automatic editing of one edit segment, to carry out
continuous editing use the following procedure.
1
Set the player IN and OUT points.
Recorder OUT point for the previous editing will be
the new IN point.
2
Holding down the SHIFT/ENTRY button, select F2
(PREVIEW) in function menu page P06: EDIT to
carry out the preview.
3
Holding down the SHIFT/ENTRY button, select F1
(AUTOEDIT).
Editing starts.
When the editing is completed, the recorder stops at
the OUT point, and the player stops 2 seconds after the
OUT point.
By repeating this procedure, you can carry out continuous
editing.
By setting setup menu item 326, you can make the
previous OUT point automatically will be the new IN
point.
5-3-3 Standalone Editing
This refers to editing using an external device as the player
which cannot be remotely controlled via the REMOTE1-
IN (9P) or REMOTE 1-OUT (9P) connector. For example,

5-3 Special Automatic Editing Methods

OUT point of previous editing =
IN point of current editing
OUT point
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