Panasonic 3-MOS P2 Hand-held Camcorder Advanced Operating Instructions - Page 46

Using special recording modes (continued) Loop recording (LOOP REC) • When two P2 cards are inserted in the P2 card slots, each card is recorded in succession. • When there is no longer any space left on the second cards, recording starts over from the first card by recording new clips over saved old clips. ·· "Splitting clips recorded on P2 cards" (Page 14) Before 1st card starting loop No recording recording Recording start 2nd card Recorded First loop A B recording Second loop C B recording Recording will be made on the areas with no recording consecutively (A, B, then C). When all areas on all cards are recorded, new recording (C) will be made by overwriting the area A. 1 Check that the SYSTEM SETUP screen is set up as described on page 43. • Refer to the section "Basic operations of setup menus" (Page 28 of Vol. 1) for menu operation. 2 Select LOOP in the menu option REC FUNCTION in the RECORDING SETUP screen. (Page 141) 3 Press the START/STOP button. • Recording starts. • Press the START/STOP button to stop recording. • To cancel this function, turn the camera- recorder off or select NORMAL in the REC FUNCTION item. • The following indications appear to the left of the operation status display. ·· During recording: "L-REC" stays lit. ·· During a pause: "L-PAUSE" stays lit. ·· When remaining memory is low: " P2 LACK" blinks. • Use two P2 cards with at least one minute of remaining recording time. • The mode check screen shows standard recording time depending on recording format as remaining P2 card time. When loop recording is stopped right after deleting old data, the time of recordings on the card may be shorter than indicated. • This function is not available when recording video input via IEEE1394. • The pre-recording and one-clip recording functions are not available. • Canceling this function may take some time. The succeeding operations are not available until the P2 card access lamp goes from blinking to steady lighting. • During loop recording, the P2 card access lamps for all P2 cards used in the recording light orange or blinks. Note that removing any of the P2 cards will terminate loop recording. • Irregularity in the input GENLOCK reference signal during loop recording may terminate recording. 46