Chapter 12 External Devices
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Control of VTRs, Extended VTRs, and Disk Recorders
When the [MENU] button is On: stop point of the timeline
When the [MENU] button is Off: stop point of Cueup & Play
VAR (variable speed playback): Pressing this button and turning the Z-ring
plays back the tape, disk or frame memory clip at a variable speed and
direction proportional to the rotation angle of the Z-ring. The variable
speed range is –1 to +3 times normal playback speed.
SHTL (shuttle): Pressing this button and turning the Z-ring plays back the
tape, disk or frame memory clip at a speed and direction proportional to the
rotation angle of the Z-ring.
JOG: Pressing this button and turning the Z-ring plays back the tape, disk or
frame memory clip at a speed and direction proportional to the rotation of
the Z-ring. You can set the Z-ring operation sensitivity to any of six levels,
in the setup menus.
You can also change the sensitivity by holding down this button during an
operation. You can select the sensitivity in this case from six levels.
For details of the settings, see “Setting Trackball, Joystick, Search Dial,
and Double-Click Sensitivity” in Chapter 19 (Volume 3).
CUE: Pressing this button cues the tape, disk or frame memory clip
automatically to the start point.
REW (rewind): Press this button to rewind the tape, disk or frame memory
clip.
PLAY: Press this button to play the tape, disk or frame memory clip.
FF: Press this button to fast forward the tape, disk or frame memory clip.
ALL STOP: Press this button to stop all tape transport/disk drive/frame
memory operations.
Selecting a VTR/Extended VTR/disk recorder
To select the VTR/Extended VTR/disk recorder to be controlled, in the device
selection buttons of the device control block, press a selection of those buttons
turning them on.
For details on frame memory clip operations, see “Frame Memory Clip
Operations” in Chapter 7 (Volume 1).
Controlling the tape/disk transport
Using the buttons in the device control block, you can control the tape transport
or the disk transport.
For more details of the effect of buttons in VTR/disk recorder operation mode,
see “Device Control Block (Trackball),” “Device Control Block (Joystick)”
and “Device Control Block (Search Dial)” in Chapter 2 “Menus and Control
Panel” (Volume 1).
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