Playing Clips; Playing The Selected And Subsequent Clips In Sequence; Clip Operations; Operations Of The Thumbnail Menu - Sony PMW-F55 Operating Instructions Manual

Playing Clips

Playing the Selected and
Subsequent Clips in Sequence
1
Turn the MENU dial (page 10) to move
the cursor to the thumbnail image of the
clip with which you wish to start
playback.
2
Press the MENU dial.
Playback starts from the beginning of the
selected clip.
Notes
• To start playback by pressing the MENU dial, set "Set
Key on Thumbnail" in "Switch/Lamp" (page 84) of
the System menu to "Play."
• The playback picture may be momentarily distorted or
frozen between clips. You cannot operate the
camcorder during this condition.
• When you select a clip on the thumbnail screen and
start playback, the playback picture at the beginning of
the clip may be distorted. To start playback without
distortion, pause playback once after starting it, press
the Prev button on the sub display (VIEW-1) to return
to the top of the clip, then restart playback.

Clip Operations

On the thumbnail screen, you can operate the
clips or confirm the subsidiary data for clips using
the thumbnail menu. The thumbnail menu
appears when you press the OPTION button
(page 12) on the thumbnail menu.
Operations of the Thumbnail
Menu
Turn the MENU dial (page 10) to select a menu
item, then press the MENU dial.
Pressing the CANCEL/BACK button (page 10)
restores to the previous condition.
Pressing the OPTION button while the thumbnail
menu is displayed turns the thumbnail menu off.
Notes
• When the SxS memory card is write-protected, some
operations are unavailable.
• There may be items that cannot be selected, depending
on the status when the menu is displayed.
Clip operation menu
Display Clip Properties
Displays the detailed information of a clip screen
(page 48).
Copy MPEG2 Proxy (PMW-F55 only)
Copy All Clips: Copies all the MPEG2 Proxy data
to the destination media as a clip (page 48).
Delete Clip
Select Clip: Deletes the selected clip (page 49).
Customize View
Thumbnail Caption: Changes the items that are
displayed under the thumbnail screen. (page
49)
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