Playback; Playback Operation - Sony PDW-HD1500 Operation Manual

Playback

This section describes playback of video and audio on the
unit.
Before starting playback, make the following settings and
adjustments.
Selection of time data to display: Select with CNTR SEL
on HOME page of the function menu.
Selection of audio channels to monitor: Select with
MONITR L and MONITR R on page P2 AUDIO of
the function menu.
Volume adjustment of the monitor audio: Adjust with
the LEVEL knob.
Remote/local setting: Set the remote control switch. If
you set it to REMOTE, also set setup menu item 214
REMOTE INTERFACE ("RM-" and the connector
used appear on the display).
Disc playback start position
Although this unit uses optical discs, it is designed to offer
the most convenient features of tape playback by VTRs.
One of these is the playback start position, which works in
the same way as tape, as described below.
After playback stop
The unit stops at the position where the STOP button was
pressed.
Press the PLAY button to resume playback at the stop
position.
After recording
The unit stops at the position where recording ended.
To play back a clip, press the PREV button to move to the
start frame of any clip or press the PREV button with the
PLAY button held down to move to any position.
After disc insertion
The unit stops at the position of the disc when it was most
recently ejected.
Press the PLAY button to resume playback at the most
recent position.
The playback position is saved to the disc when the disc is
ejected, which allows playback to start at that position
whenever it is loaded into any XDCAM player.
Note
This function is not available when the Write Inhibit tab of
the disc is set to the recording disabled position, and when
REC INHI on HOME page of the function menu is set to
"ON".
The REC INHI indicator may light when neither of the
above is true if the format of recorded sections on the disc
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Playback
is not the same as the recording settings of this unit. In this
case, the playback position can be saved to the disc.
To specify the frame to use as the
thumbnail image
You can display a list of thumbnails of all clips on a disc,
and use it to check the recorded content (see page 57)
When the unit is shipped from the factory, it is set up to
display the first frame of each clip as the thumbnail. As
required, you can select another frame to display as the
thumbnail.
For example, if there are several seconds of color bars
recorded at the start of the clip, selecting a frame several
seconds after the end of the recording of color bars can
make it easier to identify the clip.
The user interface screen allows you to select thumbnail
frames while viewing the video.
For details, see "Changing clip index pictures" (page 59).
You can also use setup menu item 143 INDEX PICTURE
POSITION to specify a different default frame. You can
specify the initial frame in any of the first few seconds
after the initial frame. The setting range is 0 seconds to 10
seconds.

Playback operation

This section describes the following types of playback:
Normal playback: Playback at normal speed
Playback in jog mode: Variable-speed playback, with the
speed determined by the speed of turning the jog dial
Playback in shuttle mode: Variable-speed playback, with
the speed determined by the angular position of the
shuttle dial
Playback in variable-speed mode: Variable-speed
playback, with the speed finely determined by the
angular position of the shuttle dial
Normal playback
First insert a disc.
For details of how to insert a disc, see "Loading and
unloading a disc" (page 44).