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Chapter 3 Recording and Playback
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3-4 Recording Video Signals from External Equipment
To escape from the thumbnail display to the full-
screen display
Press the THUMBNAIL button, turning it off.
2
Turn the SEL/SET dial or the MENU knob to select
the sub clip you want to cue up.
3
To cue up the selected sub clip, press the SEL/SET dial
or the MENU knob.
To start playback from the selected sub clip, press the
PLAY/PAUSE button.
3-4 Recording Video
Signals from
External Equipment
With this camcorder, you can select in the OPERATION
menu whether to record the video captured by the camera,
or whether to record a signal from an external video
device.
If this switching function is assigned to the ASSIGN 2
switch, regardless of the setting in the OPERATION
menu, you can make the selection with the ASSIGN 2
switch. While recording video from an external device, the
indication “EXT” appears on the viewfinder screen.
Notes
• You can switch the signals to be recorded using the
ASSIGN 2 switch or by a menu operation at any time
while recording on the disc. However, the signals
recorded at the point where the signal is switched may be
distorted. If the camera/external switching function is
assigned to the ASSIGN 2 switch, you cannot use the
following menu operations to switch between camera
and external source input.
• Even when the REC VIDEO SOURCE item is set to
“EXT”, if the external video signal is not input to the
i.LINK DV IN/OUT S400 connector or the GENLOCK
IN connector, the camcorder does not switch to EXT
mode, and the pictures being shot by the camcorder are
recorded on the disc.
3-4-1 Recording a DV Stream From
External Equipment
Notes
• As the i.LINK cable, use an S400-compliant cable which
is as short as possible (up to 1.5 m (5 feet)). It may not
be possible to establish a DV connection when a longer
cable is used.
• Recording a DV stream is possible only when the video
recording format is DVCAM.
If the currently set video recording format is other than
DVCAM, change it to DVCAM referring to 5-1-1 “Setting
the Video Recording Format” on page 75.
Proceed as follows.