Panasonic AG-HPX370 Operating Instructions Manual

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45Chapter RecordingandPlayback• The clip does not stop combining even when the STOPbutton is pressed in the Menu or on the thumbnail display.• Pressing the STOP or REC button on a remote control unit(AJ-RC10G) or extension control unit (AG-EC4G) does notstop the clip compiling process.To exit one-clip recording modeSet the menu option ONE CLIP REC to OFF.To cue to the start of the combinedsection of the clipA text memo can be automatically added to the start of therecording, the start of a section can be cued for playback,and the thumbnail of the location can be checked beforeeach recording.To automatically add a text memo to the start point of therecording, set the menu option START TEXT MEMO to ONin the RECORDING SETUP screen.Check and playback the location of the added text memoby selecting THUMBNAIL → TEXT MEMO CLIPS from theThumbnail Menu and moving the cursor over the desiredclip.Refer to [Playing back a clip at the position where a textmemo is recorded] (page 116) for details.To cue to the location of the text memo during playback,set the menu option SEEK SELECT to CLIP&T in theOTHER FUNCTIONS screen, and press the FF or REWbutton while playback is paused.Proxy recording in one-clip recordingmodeProxy recording is also possible in one-clip recordingmode.As proxy data is also compiled into combined clips,the data can be handled as a single clip in P2 Viewer.However, note the following precautions when recordingproxy data to an SD memory card.• If the SD memory card is removed and replaced whilecompiling to a clip is in progress, proxy data will notbe recorded to the new SD memory card until thecompiling process is stopped. Check that there issufficient space and confirm the number of files (upto 1000 clips can be recorded) before using an SDmemory card. If you want to continue proxy recordingafter an SD memory card has been replaced, press andhold the STOP button for about 2 seconds to stop thecompiling process, and start recording to a new clip.• If recording to an SD memory card is stopped mid-progress, the proxy data recorded on that card will beincomplete and will not match the clip data recorded tothe P2 card.Precautions for one-clip recording mode• This mode will not function when the interval recording,one-shot recording, loop recording, or VFR recordingfunctions are selected.• This mode will not function when the menu option RECSIGNAL is set to 1394.• The menu and thumbnail operations are restricted asfollows when combining to the clip. Press and hold theSTOP button for about 2 seconds to stop combining tothe clip when switching to this mode.• The following menu items cannot be changed.SYSTEM MODE, REC SIGNAL, CAMERA MODE,REC FORMAT, PC MODE, REC FUNCTION,25M REC CH SEL NOTEYou can change the VFR menu option to ON using thescene dial or menu, even while compiling to a clip isin progress. When you do so, the compiling processis stopped, and a new clip will be created with eachrecording operation thereafter.• The following Menu items, related to the reading/writing of the SD memory card and reading of thesettings file, cannot be executed.LOAD/SAVE/INIT in SCENE FILE, all options inCARD FUNCTIONS, CAC CARD READ in LENSSETUP, USER FILE and MENU INIT in OTHERFUNCTIONS• The following thumbnail menu items cannot beselected and executed.OPERATION→ COPYOPERATION → DEVICE SETUP → PROXY• The processing time to complete the recording maytake a little more time than normally to allow the clip tobe combined with subsequent recordings.• The fade process does not work on discontinuous audioduring playback where the recordings are combinedwithin the clip.• If non-linear editing software is used on clips withmultiple combined recordings, the software may notoperate normally (as of Apr. 2010).For the latest information on software that has beenconfirmed to work with these types of clips, visit thesupport desk at the following website.http://pro-av.panasonic.net/PROXY Recording Function(Optional)Installing an optional video encoder card (AJ-YAX800G) inP2 card slot 2 makes it possible to record MPEG4 formatvideo, time code data and other real-time data to P2 cardsor SD memory cards simultaneous with camera recordingof video and audio. NOTEInsert the video encoder card when the camera is turned off.For details, refer to the supplied User’s Guide of the videoencoder card.