Starting A Shoot With A Few Seconds Of Pre-Stored Picture Data (Picture Cache Function) - Sony HDW-650 Operation Manual

Starting a shoot with a few
seconds of pre-stored picture data
(Picture Cache function)
This unit can continuously capture up to 8
seconds of the video and audio data currently
being shot by the camera to its internal memory.
This allows you to record a few seconds of pre-
stored video and audio when you press the REC
START button or the lens VTR button.
Setting the picture cache time/Picture
Cache mode
To record in Picture Cache mode, you need to
turn on Picture Cache mode and set the picture
data storage time (Picture Cache time) using the
OPERATION menu.
The Picture Cache time determines how many
seconds of pre-stored data are recorded when you
press the REC START button or the lens VTR
button. Note that the number of seconds that are
recorded may be shorter immediately after you
change the setting of the VTR SAVE/STBY
switch, and in the special cases described in the
following notes.
Picture Cache time setting and recording start
point
Picture Recording start point
Cache time
VTR STBY
mode
8 (seconds) About 8 seconds
(For 50i/ before
25PsF/
23.98PsF
format)
7 (seconds) About 7 seconds
(For 59.94i before
format)
6 (seconds) About 6 seconds
before
5 (seconds) About 5 seconds
before
4 (seconds) About 4 seconds
before
3 (seconds) About 3 seconds
before
2 (seconds) About 2 seconds
before
68 Recording
Picture
Cache time
1 (second)
0 (seconds)
a) For 50i/25PsF/23.98PsF format, you can record about
Notes
• The contents of the stored memory become unstable
for a few moments immediately after you select
Picture Cache mode or change the Picture Cache time,
and immediately after you carry out playback or
recording review. This means that pre-stored picture
data will not be recorded if you press the REC START
button or the lens VTR button immediately after one of
the above operations.
• During playback or recording review, the picture data
is not stored in the memory. Picture data corresponding
to the duration of playback or recording review will not
be in memory and will not be recorded on tape.
Setting procedure
(How to select an item in the menu screen: Turn
the MENU knob to move b to the desired item.)
1
VTR SAVE
mode
About 5 seconds
before
About 4 seconds
before
About 4 seconds
2
a)
before
About 4 seconds
3
before
About 4 seconds
before
About 3 seconds
before
About 2 seconds
before
Recording start point
VTR STBY
mode
About 1 seconds
before
About 0 seconds
before
5 second of picture data stored in the memory.
Display the REC FUNCTION page of
the OPERATION menu.
?O05 REC FUNCTION
DF/NDF
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CACHE/INTVAL REC:
For details on menu operations, see "Basic
menu operations" on page 117.
Select CACHE/INTVAL REC, and
press the MENU knob to display "ON".
Turn the MENU knob to select
CACHE, and press the MENU knob.
As you turn the MENU knob, the setting
changes in the following sequence: OFF y
CACHE y A. INT y M. INT.
When CACHE appears, the camcorder is in
Picture Cache mode, where picture, sound,
and timecode are constantly saved in
VTR SAVE
mode
About 1 seconds
before
About 0 seconds
before
TOP
: DF
: OFF
OFF