Sony J-10SDI User Manual

Chapter 4

Playback

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Chapter 4

Playback

Put the unit into noiseless mode and press the PF-1 or
PF-2 button.
When you are using the Betacam SX format, each
press of the PF-1 button steps 2 frames back, and each
press of the PF-2 button steps 2 frames forward. When
you are using the MPEG IMX format, the buttons step
1 frame in the same directions.

• To perform frame step playback, always press the

PLAY button once before pressing the PF-1 or PF-2
button. When you switch between FWD and REV,
the picture may not be updated until you press the
PF-1 or PF-2 button twice.

• During frame step playback, the picture and the LTC

may be up to 5 frames out of sync. We recommend
that you use VITC.

• Block noise may remain visible during frame step

playback. If this occurs, step in the reverse direction,
or press the PLAY button again.

You can use the repeat playback function to repeatedly
play back a section of the tape defined by setting the
start point and end point.

In the setup menu, set extended menu item 142
REPEAT MODE to PLAY. (The factory default
setting of this menu item is OFF.)
When a cassette is loaded in the unit, the REPEAT
indication is displayed in the time data display area for
one second at intervals of four seconds. When no
cassette is loaded, this indication keeps displayed.

When the unit is in jog or shuttle mode, the REPEAT
indication will not be displayed in the time data
display area.

When a cassette is loaded in the unit, you can specify
the current tape position as the start or end point of
repeat playback.

To set the start point
Holding down the STOP button, press the REW
button. The time code (LTC) value of the tape position
when the REW button was pressed is stored in
memory as the start point time data. When the start
point has been set, an asterisk (*) appears to the left of
the REPEAT indication in the time data display area.

Indicates that the start point is set.

If no start point is set, the beginning of tape is
automatically specified as the repeat playback start
point.

• Only LTC data can be stored in memory as start point

time data. Neither VITC nor CTL can be used as start
point data.

• If the end point has already been set, setting the start

point at a position after the end point results in
deletion of the end point data. (The time code value
of the start point cannot be greater than that of the
end point.)

Beginning of tape End point

Start point

End of tape

If you set the start point at a position after the end point,

Beginning of tape

Start point

End of tape

the end point data will be deleted.