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Front Panel

Chapter 2

Names and Functions of Parts

monitor connected to the unit. Press once more to return to

the original display.

See “GUI screen operations” (page 75) for more

information about how to use the thumbnail screens.

e

RESET/RETURN button

Functions as the RESET button or the RETURN button.

RESET button:

Reset counters or the setting values of the

timecode generator. This button is also used to abort

or cancel setup menu, scene selection, and thumbnail

search operations.

RETURN button:

In setup menu and GUI screens,

returns to the previous procedure.

f

SUB CLIP/DISC MENU button and indicator

When pressed alone, functions as the SUB CLIP button.

When pressed together with the SHIFT button, functions

as the DISC MENU button.

SUB CLIP button:

Press the button, lighting the

indicator, to carry out playback in clip list order

(see

page 87)

. Jog and shuttle operations are supported

during clip list playback. To return to playback in

recording order, press the button again, turning the

indicator off.

If no clip list is registered, this button does not light

when pressed. The operation is invalid.

DISC MENU button:

When pressed together with the

SHIFT button, displays the Disc Menu

(see page 94)

.

Press the button again, turning the indicator off, to

hide the Disc Menu.



g

THUMBNAIL button and indicator

To carry out a thumbnail search or create a clip list in the

GUI screen, press this button turning the indicator on.

Thumbnail images representing each clip or sub-clip

appear. Press once more, turning the indicator off, to return

to a whole-screen display.

To display the thumbnails of essence mark frames (frames

with an essence mark attached), hold down the SHIFT

button, and press this button. The essence mark selection

menu appears. Select the desired type of essence mark, and

the corresponding essence mark frames appear in

thumbnails. Press once more, turning the indicator off, to

return to a whole-screen display.



h

DISPLAY button

Each press of this button switches between the basic

operation display and video monitor display

(see page 23)

.

This button is disabled unless either the basic operation

display or the video monitor display is displayed.

i

SHIFT button

Switches between functions for any button with two

functions.

j

PAGE/HOME button

When pressed alone functions as the PAGE switching

button. When pressed together with the SHIFT button,

functions as the HOME button.

PAGE button:

Displays the function menu, if it is not

already visible. (The most recently displayed page of

the function menu appears.)

HOME button:

When pressed with the function menu

visible, returns to the HOME page of the function

menu.

k

EXPAND button

When pressed during thumbnail display, divides the

selected clip into 12 blocks and displays a list of

thumbnails of the first frame in each block (expand

function). The division is repeated with each press (up to 3

times, for a total of 1,728 blocks).

When this button is pressed together with the SHIFT

button, the unit returns to the previous division level.

Press the RESET/RETURN button to return to the

thumbnail screen.

This button also becomes a function button (F6) when the

function menu is visible.

See page 77 for more information about the expand

function.

l

CHAPTER button

When pressed during thumbnail display, displays a list of

thumbnails of the frames where essence marks are

recorded (chapter function). When this is pressed again,

returns to normal thumbnail display. The chapter function

can be useful when essence mark thumbnails provide more

information about the content of the clip than the index

pictures of the first frames. This can also be used to cue up

long clips.

This button also becomes a function button (F5) when the

function menu is visible.

See page 77 for more information about the chapter

function.

Note

Section	Page
Table of Contents	6
Chapter 1 Overview	11
Marks for Model-Specific Functions	11
Features	11
Features of this unit	11
System Configurations	15
Using the CD-ROM Manual	16
Preparations	16
Reading the CD-ROM manual	16
Chapter 2 Names and Functions of Parts	17
Front Panel	17
Display window	23
Rear Panel	28
Chapter 3 Preparations	32
Preparing Power Sources	32
Supplying power	32
Attaching a battery pack	32
Initial Setup	33
Front Panel Tilt Mechanism	35
Connections and Settings	36
Connections for using PDZ-1 Proxy Browsing Software	36
Connections for cut editing	37
Using the editing functions of the recorder (controlling through REMOTE(9P) connector)	41
Connections for pool coverage	41
Synchronization Reference Signals	42
Setting System Frequency	43
Setting Timecode	43
Superimposed Text Information	45
Basic Operations of the Function Menu	48
Function menu operations	48
Function menu settings	48
Handling Discs	52
Discs used for recording and playback	52
Notes on handling	52
Write-protecting discs	53
Loading and unloading a disc	53
Formatting a disc	53
Chapter 4 Recording and Playback	54
Recording	54
Mixed recording of clips in different formats on the same disc	54
Preparations for recording	54
Carrying out recording	55
Continuing recording while exchanging discs (disc exchange cache function)	56
Recording with the HDSDI remote control function	57
Recording with the Clip Continuous Rec function	57
Using the Live Logging function	58
Handling of discs when recording does not end normally (salvage functions)	58
Linear Editing	60
Overview	60
Connections	61
Preparations for editing	61
Editing operations	62
Playback	63
Playback operation	64
Playback operations using thumbnails	66
Chapter 5 Operations in GUI Screens	68
Overview	68
Switching between GUI screens	68
Information and controls in thumbnail screens	69
Displaying menus	72
GUI screen operations	75
Thumbnail Operations	76
Selecting thumbnails	76
Searching with thumbnails	77
Playing the scene you have found	79
Selecting clips by type (Filter Clips function)	79
Selecting the information displayed on thumbnails	81
Changing clip index pictures	81
Checking clip properties	82
Setting clip flags	84
Locking (write-protecting) clips	85
Deleting clips	85
Scene Selection (Clip List Editing)	87
What is scene selection?	87
Creating and editing clip lists	88
Managing clip lists	92
Disc Operations	94
Checking disc properties	94
Using planning metadata	94
Checking user-defined essence marks	96
Formatting discs	96
Displaying disc and clip properties in a web browser	96
Transferring Clips (Direct FTP Function)	99
Preparations for clip transfers	99
Uploading clips	100
Downloading clips	103
Copying clips directly between XDCAM devices	104
Shortcut List	105
Chapter 6 File Operations	106
Overview	106
Directory structure	106
File operation restrictions	107
Assigning user-defined clip titles	110
Assigning user-defined clip and clip list names	111
File Operations in File Access Mode (for Windows)	113
Making FAM connections	113
Operating on files	114
Exiting file operations	114
File Operations in File Access Mode (for Macintosh)	115
Making FAM connections	115
Operating on files	115
Exiting file operations	116
FTP File Operations	116
Making FTP connections	116
Command list	117
Recording Continuous Timecode with FAM and FTP Connections	122
Chapter 7 Menus	123
Menu System Configuration	123
Setup Menu	123
Items in the basic menu	124
Basic menu operations	128
Items in the extended menu	131
Extended menu operations	146
Maintenance Menu	148
Items in the maintenance menu	148
Maintenance menu operations	152
Chapter 8 Planning Metadata	155
Overview	155
Manipulating planning metadata	155
Setting clip names by using planning metadata	155
Setting essence mark names by using planning metadata	156
Setting volume labels by using planning metadata	157
Appendix	158
Important Notes on Operation	158
Condensation	158
About the LCD panel	158
Periodic Maintenance	159
Digital hours meter	159
Troubleshooting	161
Alarms	161
Error messages	172
To eject discs with the unit powered off	172
Specifications	172
Using PDZ-1 Proxy Browsing Software	175
Using UMID Data	176
Ancillary Data	178
Ancillary data in HDSDI/SDSDI signals	178
Ancillary data in MXF files	178
General MXF metadata	178
Closed caption data	179
Correspondence between Setting Items of the HKDV-900 and Setup Menu of This Unit	184
List of Supported USB Keyboards	185
Trademarks and Licenses	188
MPEG-4 visual patent portfolio license	188
MPEG-2 video patent portfolio license	188
About IJG (Independent JPEG Group)	188
Character display software “iType”	188
About net-snmpd	188
About libupnp	191
Glossary	192

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