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Normal and Variable Speed Playback
Chapter 3 Recording and Playback
■Normal speed playback
Clips can be played back in the MCR mode.
The PLAY button provides monochrome playback
through the viewfinder and color playback on the
LCD monitor. Connecting a color video monitor to
the VIDEO OUT connector, SDI OUT connector and
COMPONENT OUT connector at the same time will
enable viewing of the playback video in color.
■Fast-forward/fast-reverse playback
The FF and REW buttons provide 32× and 4× fast
playbacks and fast reverse playbacks. In stop mode,
this function will play back video at 32× speed and in
playback mode, it will play back video at 4× speed.
■Clip cue up
When playback is paused, the FF button locates the
beginning of the next clip while maintaining the pause
mode.
When playback is paused, the REW button locates
the beginning of the current clip while maintaining the
pause mode.
<Note>
• When a P2 card has just been removed or inserted or
the MCR mode has just been engaged after turning
on the power, it may take some time for the camera to
read clip information. If this is the case, the thumbnail
screen displays “UPDATING”.
• If a P2 card is inserted while another P2 card is being
played back, the clips on the inserted P2 card will not
be played back. A P2 card inserted during playback will
be recognised after playback ends.
• If you perform variable speed playback on a clip split
across more than one P2 card, sound may disappear
for a moment. This is not a fault.
• To play back a clip in a format that differs from REC
FORMAT, set MCR FORMAT on the setting menu
RECORDING SETUP screen to the format of the clip to
be played back.
• Playback of the audio channels CH5 to CH8 recorded
on another device is not possible.
■Variable speed search
Pressing the PLAY button during playback starts
variable playback search at 1× speed.
In this mode, the PAGE/VAR button provides the
following playback speeds:
• -24×, -12×, -4×, -2×, -1×, -1/5×, 1/5×, 1×, 2×, 4×,
12×, 24×
Pressing the PLAY button returns the camera to
normal playback.
■Frame-by-frame playback
In playback pause mode, the PAGE/VAR button
provides frame-by-frame playback.
Frame-by-frame playback is performed at the following
increments:
• 720P: 1/60 or 1/50 increments
• 720P/24PN, 30PN, 25PN: 1/24, 1/30, 1/25
increments
• 1080i, 480i, 576i: 1/30 or 1/25 increments
Normal and Variable Speed Playback
