Thumbnail screen, Selecting thumbnails – Panasonic AG-HPX500E User Manual

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Thumbnail Operations

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Thumbnail Screen

Press the MODE button to engage the MCR mode and
open the thumbnail screen on the LCD monitor. When
switching is done from the regular screen display
to the thumbnail screen display, all the clips will be
displayed on the thumbnail screen.
Pressing the thumbnail menu button in the thumbnail
screen moves the pointer to the setting menu providing
access to allow thumbnail menu functions.

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Slot number

• The number of the slot with the P2 card

containing the selected clip is indicated here.
(The number appears in yellow.)

• If a clip extends over the P2 cards in two or

more slots, numbers will appear in yellow.

• The slot number is surrounded by a pink border

when a DIR location error or life end-up occurs.

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Thumbnails

This is where the initial images of the clips are
displayed.

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Thumbnail display status

The types of clips displayed as thumbnails
appear in this area.

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Clip numbers

• The clips are displayed in the order in which

they were shot.

• Clips in the wrong recording format or clips

which cannot be played back for other reasons
are shown in red.

• To play clips indicated by the red numbers, set

the format for the REC FORMAT/MCR FORMAT
option on the RECORDING SETUP setting
menu to the format

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below.

• Clips on the playlist which have been edited

and copied using the AJ-SPD850 memory card
recorder or other such unit and which have more
than one format (DVCPRO/DV or DVCPRO50)
are shown in red, and these clips cannot be
played back even when the REC FORMAT item
has been set.

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Menu display

• This is where the menu items are displayed.
• When EXIT is selected and the SET button is

pressed, the menu display is cleared, and the
original screen is restored.

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Recording mode/format display

This is where the recording mode and format of
the recorded images are displayed.

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Indicators

M

(Shot mark):

This indicates that a clip has a shot mark.

W (Wide):

This indicates that a clip has been recorded in
the 16:9 aspect ratio (wide screen). (480i/576i
recording)

! (Incomplete clip):

This indicator appears when the recording of a
clip extends over two P2 cards and one of the
cards is not found in the slot.

X (Defective clip):

• This indicator appears for a clip whose

recording was defective because the power
was cut off during the recording process, for
instance.

• Clips indicated by the yellow defective clip

indicator can be repaired.

• Clips indicated by the red defective clip indicator

cannot be repaired so delete them. If a clip
cannot be deleted, first back up its data, and
then format the P2 card. Clips in the wrong
format are indicated by ( ? ) instead.

V (Voice memo):

This indicates that a clip has a voice memo. (You
cannot perform recording/playback with this
camera.)

T (Text memo):

This indicates that a clip has a text memo.

E (Edit copy):

This indicates that this is an edit copy clip. (You
cannot perform editing with this camera.)

P (Proxy):

This indicates that a proxy has been added and
recorded. (You cannot perform recording with this
camera.)

<Note>
For detailed explanations on

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refer to the Operating Instructions supplied with
the devices used to record or edit the voice memo,
text memo, edit copy clip, and proxy respectively.

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Duration display

This displays the duration of the selected clip.

Selecting Thumbnails

Multiple thumbnails can be randomly selected in the
thumbnail screen.

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Use the cursor buttons to move the
pointer (yellow frame) to the desired
clip and press the SET button.

• The frame around the selected thumbnail

changes to a blueframe. Press the SET
button again to deselect the clip.

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