Sony MKS-2010 User Manual

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Controlling External Devices

Select devices to control by pressing the Device1 to 
Device6 selection buttons in the utility control block.
You can select several devices. In this case, the device 
corresponding to the button which was pressed first 
becomes the reference device.
The button of the reference device lights in green. Manual 
operation buttons, assigned in the utility control block, 
light and go out according to the state of the reference 
device.

Press the Play button, as assigned in the Utility menu.
During play, the button lights in amber.
To change the speed, set a variable speed.

Press the Stop button, as assigned in the Utility menu.
The button lights in amber while the VTR/disk recorder/
Extended VTR is stopped.
To stop all devices that can be selected with the Device1 to 
Device6 buttons, press the button with the All Stop 
assignment.

Select jog or shuttle mode by pressing the Jog or Shuttle 
button, as assigned in the Utility menu. Then control the 
direction and speed of search with the joystick in the 
Effect/Wipe control block.
Push the joystick to the right to search in the forward 
direction, and to the left to search in the reverse direction.

Press the Start TC button, as assigned in the Utility menu.
The current timecode is set as the start point. The settable 
range is as follows, depending on the signal format.

00:00:00:00 to 23:59:59:xx  (xx: frames per second 
minus 1 frame)

Start points can also be set from a menu. See “Setting start 
points” (page 148) for details about operation.

Press the Cue Up button, as assigned in the Utility menu.
While the reference device is cued up, the CUE button 
flashes in amber. When the cue up ends, the button 
changes to lit in green.

The All Stop button, as assigned in the Utility menu, also 
flashes in amber when any of the devices assigned to the 
Device1 to Device6 selection buttons is cued up, and 
changes to lit in green when ends for all devices.

With the Rec button held down, press the Play button (both 
buttons as assigned in the Utility menu).
During recording, the Rec button lights in red and the Play 
button lights in amber.

• Recording is not possible to Extended VTRs.
• Recording is not possible to VTRs and disk recorders 

unless they are set to Recorder.

• Recording start and end points cannot be set.
• To record to disk recorders using the Video Disk 

Communications Protocol, set the disk recorder to 
Recorder.

Notes about recording to disk recorders
• Recording is not possible unless a new file name is 

assigned. 

• The maximum recording time in one operation is 30 

minutes.

• If recording is interrupted and restarted without 

changing the file name, recording results are saved in the 
same file from the point of interruption. If you want to 
record to a different file, create a new file (see page 150).

To stop recording
Press the Stop button or the All Stop button (both buttons 
as assigned in the Utility menu).

Use the Timecode Status menu to check VTR, disk 
recorder, and Extended VTR information.
To display the Timecode Status menu, select Misc>DDR/
VTR>TC Status from the top menu. When the menu 
appears, the status, current timecode, start timecode, and 
variable speed of each device (Device1 to Device6) appear 
in the status area.
You can change the settings of the start point timecode and 
the variable speed.