Sony PDW-70MD User Manual

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To cancel the lock operation and return to the 
THUMBNAIL screen
Select “CANCEL”, and then press the SET button. 
Press the RESET or MENU button.

With OK selected, press the SET button.

You return to the thumbnail screen, and a lock icon 
appears on the thumbnail of the selected clip to show 
that it is locked.

Locked clips cannot be deleted or set the thumbnail 
image (index picture) and so on. Unlock the clip if you 
want to perform any of these operations.

To lock clips with a shortcut operation
After carrying out step 2 in the procedure, press the STOP 
button with the SHIFT button held down (shortcut
operation).
You can lock clips without displaying the CLIP MENU.

To unlock clips
Carry out step 2 of “Locking Clips” to select a locked clip 
(one with the lock icon displayed on its thumbnail). Then 
do one of the following.
• Carry out steps 3 and 4 of “Locking Clips”.
• Press the STOP button with the SHIFT button held down 

(shortcut operation).

Carry out steps 1 and 3 of “Locking Clips” to display 
the CLIP MENU.

Use the 

V/MARK1 or the v/MARK2 button to select 

LOCK OR DELETE ALL CLIPS, and then press the 
b/OUT button.

A submenu screen appears.

Select “LOCK ALL CLIPS”, and then press the SET 
button.

A confirmation screen appears.

With “OK” selected, press the SET button.

All clips are locked.

To unlock all clips
Carry out the procedure in “To lock all clips”, selecting 
UNLOCK ALL CLIPS in step 2.

You can delete selected clips while checking their content.

• Clips cannot be deleted when the Write Inhibit tab of the 

disc is set to the recording disabled position, or when 
“REC INH” on page P1 of the function menu is set to 
“ON”.

• Locked clips cannot be deleted.
• When the target clip is referenced in a clip list, the clip 

list that references the clip will also be deleted.

• If the deletion target clip is referenced by the current clip 

list, all of the referenced sub clips, and only those sub 
clips, are deleted simultaneously.

With the SUB CLIP button off, press the 
THUMBNAIL button, turning it on.

The thumbnails of the clips on the disc appear.

Select the clip to delete. (you can do this with the same 
operations as step 1 of “To select a thumbnail image 
and start playback” (see page 37)).

Press the MENU button.

The CLIP menu appears.

Use the 

V/MARK1 or the v/MARK2 button to select 

“DELETE CLIP”, and then press the SET button.

A deletion confirmation screen appears and then 
thumbnails of four frames (the first frame, 
intermediate frame 1, intermediate frame 2, and the 
last frame) in the target clip appear. At the same time, 
the clip name, title, date and time of creation, and 
duration appear.
One of the following messages appears, depending on 
whether the target clip is referenced in a clip list.
• When the target clip is not referenced in a clip list: 

“DELETE CLIP?”

• When the target clip is referenced in a clip list: 

“DELETE CLIP & CLIP LIST?” (The clip list that 
references the clip will also be deleted.)

Lock icon

Clip to be deleted