Panasonic AG-HPX172EN User Manual

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Shooting
-slot continuous recording
If you insert two P2 cards into the two card slots, 
this function allows you to record continuously on 
the two cards.
You can also record continuously on three or 
more cards by replacing one card while data is 
being recorded on the other. (Hot swap recording) 
However, depending on when the P2 card is 
inserted into an empty slot (immediately after pre-
recording, or before or after continuous recording 
spanning two slots), there may be a delay in 
recognizing the P2 card. We recommend inserting 
the P2 card while there is at least one minute 
remaining on the card that is recording.
The SLOT SEL button offers a one-touch 
mechanism to select the slot whose card will be 
recorded.
You cannot change slots while recording so do 
this during recording standby.
Does not support hot swap playback.
Shot mark function
The marks attached to the thumbnails of clips 
are called shot marks. On the thumbnail screen 
monitor you can select only those clips with a shot 
mark and display them or play them back.
During recording, when you press the USER button 
to which the SHOT MARK function has been 
allocated, MARK ON appears in the LCD monitor 
or the viewfinder, and a shot mark is set for the 
thumbnail of the clip being recorded. If you press 
the button again, the shot mark is released.
You can also set or release the shot marks by 
performing the thumbnail operations for clips. 
(Page 65)
However, note that you cannot set or release shot 
marks during playback.
INVALID appears when you cannot set or release 
shot marks.
When the video data of a single shoot using 
hot swap recording is made up of multiple clips, 
you cannot set or release shot marks unless all 
the P2 cards that make up the video data are 
inserted into the slots.
You cannot set or release shot marks during loop 
recording.
Text memo recording
This function adds text memos at the video points 
on the clip now being recorded or played back.
When you press the USER button to which the 
TEXT MEMO function has been allocated, the text 
memo will be recorded at that point. (Page 41)
On the thumbnail screen you can select only those 
clips where text memos have been added, and 
then either display those clips or play them back.
You can record up to a hundred text memos per 
clip.
You will need the latest updated version of P2 
Viewer to edit the text memos. (Page 121)
You cannot record text memos during interval 
recording or one-shot recording.
INVALID appears when you cannot record text 
memos.
Time stamp function
Use the time stamp function to record date and 
time of shooting on the video. 
Select ON under TIME STAMP on the setting menu 
RECORDING SETUP screen.
“ 
R
 ” prefixes the date and time display in the 
viewfinder and the LCD monitor when the time 
stamp function is on.
“ 
R
 ” is not recorded on the video.
The size and location of the date and time 
characters will vary with the recording format.
The data recorded depends on the DATE/TIME 
setting on the setting menu DISPLAY SETUP 
screen. No data is recorded when OFF is 
selected.
Superimposed characters are output only during 
1394 output.