Sony Ericsson PDW-530P - Manual (Page 16)

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1-1 Features
• With the optional CBK-FC01 Pull Down Board
installed, a 24 fps
3)
progressive scan video can be
recorded subjected to pull-down, providing imaging
quality close to that of film. (PDW-510/530 only)
1) Abbreviation of “Power Hole-Accumulated Diode.” “Power HAD” is a
registered trademark of Sony Corporation.
2) More precisely, 29.97 fps
3) More precisely, 23.98 fps
Camera signal processing for high image
quality shooting
• The 12-bit A/D converter provides high image quality,
stability, and reliability.
• The high-performance electronic shutter allows you to
select the extended clear scan mode (ECS
1)
) and high
vertical resolution mode (EVS
2)
), to obtain clear video
shooting.
1) ECS: Extended Clear Scan
2) EVS: Super Enhanced Vertical Definition System
Shooting functions to cope with different
shooting conditions
• The slow shutter function (up to
1
/
2
second) allows
shooting under very poor lighting conditions.
• You can easily recall sets of adjustment values from
memory, to match the particular lighting conditions.
• The ATW
1)
function provides automatic white balance
adjustment in response to changing lighting conditions.
• The TruEye TM 2) process yields distortion-free video,
even with high intensity colors.
• The TURBO GAIN button enables an instantaneous
boost of the video gain to the maximum 48 dB.
1) ATW: Auto Tracing White balance
2) TruEye: “TruEye” is a registered trademark of Sony Corporation.
Freeze mix function
This allows a still image from the previously captured
video to be aligned with the video output from the camera.
Thus you can adjust the camera position to get exactly the
same framing for new shooting.
Wide range of menu settings
The menus provide the following operations, amongst
others.
• Status display, message, and marker display settings
• Camera adjustment settings
• Switch function assignment
• “Memory Stick” operations
You can also assign any settings to the USER menu, to
create customized menus.
Saving and recalling settings in a “Memory
Stick”
Using an “Memory Stick”
1)
, you can save menu settings
for particular shooting conditions, for recall as required.
1) “Memory Stick” is a trademark of Sony Corporation.
High-functionality viewfinder
The 2-inch monochrome viewfinder allows accurate
focusing.
The switch settings, automatic black balance and white
balance items, status, warnings and so on appear on the
viewfinder screen.
1-1-3 Features of the Optical Disc
Drive (VDR)
Recording and playback in clip units
Each time you start and stop recording, this creates an
independent clip. During playback, you can jump to any
clip, to check the recorded video.
• During recording, material is always written to unused
parts of the disc. Therefore, even when playing back
between shooting sessions, there is no danger of
inadvertently overwriting the previous recording.
• Immediately after recording, you can delete clips you
decide not to keep, allowing efficient use of the available
disc capacity.
Wide range of metadata recording
Together with the recorded video and audio, a variety of
additional information is recorded as metadata on the disc.
• Using simultaneous recording of proxi AV data (low rate
video and audio: video around 1.5 Mbps, and each audio
channel 64 kbps), high-speed transfer to an external
editor or video and audio transfer over a low bandwidth
network is possible.
• It is also possible to record a variety of metadata such as
a camera ID, disc number, scene number, and so on.
Such metadata offers a great advantage when searching
for data in subsequent processes.
Picture cache recording
Video and audio for a maximum of 10 seconds is always
held in memory, so that when you start recording, it is
possible to record from just before the REC START button
was pressed.
Time-lapse video (intermittent recording)
function
You can record video intermittently, capturing any number
of frames at any desired time interval.