42 Clip Management: Repairing and Reconnecting ClipsRepairing and Reconnecting ClipsThis section describes how to restore bad clips that havebeen damaged due sudden power outages during recordingor for other reasons. Such clips are marked by the bad clipindicator (yellow ). Use the following procedure to repairbad clips.1 Open the thumbnail screen.2 Select the bad clip to repair.3 Press the MENU button.4 Use the cursor buttons to choose [OPERATION] –[REPAIR CLIP].5 Select [YES] and press the SET button.6 Press the MENU button to end processing.◆ NOTE:• Some clips are so badly damaged they cannot be repaired.Such clips are indicated by a red .A clip spanning multiple P2 cards that cannot be recognizedas a complete clip is marked by the incomplete clip (indicator). The reconnection function allows you to reconnectrelated clips and restore the original clip.◆ NOTE:Incomplete clips occur under the following conditions.• When the individual clip segments on each P2 card that make up theclip are copied separately.• When the clip segments on each card that make up a clip recordedon multiple cards are separately copied to a hard disk drive andthen copied back to a P2 card.• When a 5-minute or longer DVCPRO HD clip (10-minute or longerDVCPRO50 and 20-minute or longer DVCPRO and DV clip) iscopied to a hard disk drive and later written back to a P2 card.1 Open the thumbnail screen.2 Select the incomplete clips to reconnect.◆ NOTE:• Normally, thumbnails with the incomplete clip mark are usuallygrouped together.3 Press the MENU button.4 Use the cursor buttons to choose [OPERATION] –[RE-CONNECTION].5 Select [YES] and press the SET button.6 Press the MENU button to end processing.◆ NOTE:• When some but not all the clip segments in a clip that consistsof three or more clip segments are reconnected, the incompleteclip mark will remain.Repairing Bad ClipsReconnecting Incomplete ClipsXX!
