Essence Mark Button; D Menu Button - Sony PMW-500 Operation Manual

q BRIGHT (brightness) button
Switches the brightness of the LCD monitor
backlight.
Each press of the button selects the next setting in
the order shown in the following table.
If you press the button with the LCD monitor off,
the LCD backlight comes on in the H state.
Setting LCD monitor backlight
H High (select this to view the LCD
monitor outdoors in the daytime)
M Brightness between H and L
L Low (select this to view the LCD monitor
indoors or outdoors at night)
OFF Off (the display is also off)
Thumbnail screen operations section and audio
control section
a THUMBNAIL indicator
This lights when thumbnail screen is displayed.
b THUMBNAIL button
Press this button to display the thumbnail screen
(see page 80) and to carry out a thumbnail
operation.
Press once more to return to the original display.
c SET (set) button and arrow buttons
Use these buttons to make timecode and user bit
settings, and for thumbnail screen operations (see
page 87).
When the menu is displayed, press this button to
select an item or to confirm the setting change.

d MENU button

Each press of this button turns the setup menu
display on and off.
The function of this button is the same as that of
the MENU ON/OFF switch.
e F-RUN/SET/R-RUN (free run/set/
recording run) switch
Selects the operating mode of the internal
timecode generator. The operating mode is set as
explained below, depending on the position of the
switch.
F-RUN: Timecode keeps advancing, regardless
of whether the camcorder is recording. Use
this setting when synchronizing the timecode
with external timecode.
SET: Sets the timecode or user bits.
R-RUN: Timecode advances only during
recording. Use this setting to have a
consecutive timecode on the recording
media.
For details, see "Setting the Timecode" (page 59)
and "Setting the User Bits" (page 60).
f LEVEL CH1/CH2/CH3/CH4 (audio
channel 1/2/3/4 recording level) knobs
Adjust the audio levels to be recorded on channels
1, 2, 3, and 4 when the AUDIO SELECT CH1/
CH2 and AUDIO SELECT CH 3-4 switches are
set to MANUAL.
g AUDIO SELECT CH 3-4 (audio
channel 3/4 adjustment method
selection) switch
Select the audio level adjustment method for each
of audio channels 3 and 4.
AUTO: Automatic adjustment
MANUAL: Manual adjustment
h ESSENCE MARK button
By pressing this button when a thumbnail display
is on the screen, you can view the following
thumbnail displays of the essence-marked frames
of the selected clip, depending on the item
selected in a list displayed on the screen.
Shot Mark1: Thumbnail display of the frames
marked with Shot Mark 1
Shot Mark2: Thumbnail display of the frames
marked with Shot Mark 2
Shot Mark: Thumbnail display of the frames
marked with either Shot Mark 1 or Shot
Mark 2
Rec Start (UDF mode): Thumbnail display of
frames marked with Rec Start marks and of
the first frames of clips (when the first frames
are not marked with Rec Start marks).
All (UDF mode): Thumbnail display of all
frames marked with essence marks.
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