Using Thumbnails To Search Inside Clips; Expand Thumbnail Screen - Sony PMW-500 Operation Manual

To add a shot mark during play
HD
You can add shot marks to clips during play by
using the same method used during recording (see
page 75).
Notes
• Shot marks cannot be recorded when the SxS memory
card is write protected.
• Shot marks cannot be added at the first frame of each
clip or last frame of the last clip.
Using Thumbnails to Search
Inside Clips
You can switch a thumbnail screen to the
following thumbnail search screens, which allow
you quickly find the clips you want.

• Expand thumbnail screen

• Essence mark thumbnail screen (in HD mode
only)
Like the normal thumbnail screen and the OK clip
thumbnail screen, these screens allow you to
select clip thumbnails (see page 92) and to start
clip playback (see page 92).
To search for scenes in clips with the
expand thumbnail screen
The expand thumbnail screen is convenient when
you want to find and cue up a specific scene in a
long clip.
To display the expand thumbnail screen, select a
clip in the thumbnail screen and press the DISP
SEL/EXPAND button (see page 19) or select
THUMBNAIL >Thumbnail View >Forward
Expansion in the setup menu. The selected clip is
displayed as follows.
HD mode: The clip is divided into 12 equally-
sized blocks, and a thumbnail of the first
frame in each block is displayed.
SD mode: Only in the case of clips that have been
split into partial files because the file size was
larger than 2 GB, a thumbnail of the first
frame of each partial file is displayed.
This helps you to quickly cue up to a desired
scene in a clip of long duration.
See "Displaying the Expand Thumbnail Screen"
(page 102) for more information about the expand
thumbnail screen.
To search for essence marks in clips with
the essence mark thumbnail screen
UDF / FAT-HD
When a clip contains one or more essence marks,
you can easily find them with the essence mark
thumbnail screen. The essence mark thumbnail
screen displays a thumbnail of each essence mark
frame in the clip.
To display the essence mark thumbnail screen,
press the ESSENCE MARK button (see page 21)
or select THUMBNAIL >Thumbnail View >
Essence Mark Thumbnail in the setup menu.
See "Displaying the Essence Mark Thumbnail
Screen" (page 103) for more information about the
essence mark thumbnail screen.
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