Sony DSR-450WSL User Manual

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Playing and Checking Recorded Contents

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By pressing the PLAY button, you can review any length 
of recording on the viewfinder screen in black and white or 
in color on the LCD monitor. There are two other ways to 
review the recording.
• Recording review: You can view the last two to ten 

seconds of the recording on the viewfinder screen in 
black and white or in color on the LCD monitor.

• Playback in external color video monitor: You can see 

the recording in color on a color video monitor without 
the need for any external adaptor.

For details about the switches and controls used to select 
the audio output signal and to adjust the audio level, see 
“Location and Function of Parts” on page 9.

With recording paused, press the RET button on the lens. 
The tape is automatically rewound over the last 
approximately 2 seconds of the recording (approximately 
10 seconds maximum if you press and hold the RET 
button), and then this last part of the recording is shown in 
the viewfinder and on the LCD monitor. Use this function 
to check whether recording went correctly.
By assigning the LENS RET function to the ASSIGN 
switch, you can use the switch in the same way as the lens 
RET button.

• During recording review, do not set the POWER switch 

to off. The camcorder may not be able to find the 
continue point.

• You cannot start recording until the recording review has 

finished.

Connect a color video monitor to the MONITOR OUT 
connector or the VIDEO OUT connector of the camcorder. 
By pressing the PLAY button, you can view the recorded 
picture.

For the DSR-450WS/450WSP, only the picture displayed 
through the camera is output to the CBK-SD01 SDI Output 
Board. Playback pictures cannot be output even during 
playback.

Setup add is a function that adds a setup to the playback 
video signal. To activate this function, set SETUP ADD to 
ON on the VTR MODE page of the MAINTENANCE 
menu.

• The video image that connects the DVCAM format and 

DV format is distorted during playback. 

• The camcorder can play video and audio that is recorded 

in DVCAM format or DV format (in SP mode).

• If two or more audio sampling frequencies are mixed on 

one tape, the part where the video images are recorded in 
different frequencies will be distorted.