Справочник Пользователя для Sony PDW-1500

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1-1 Features

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The PDW-1500 Professional Disc Recorder is a half-rack 
sized recorder optimized for use with nonlinear editing 
systems. Despite its compact size, this unit offers high-
speed data transfers between compatible nonlinear 
devices, creating a powerful editing tool for video 
productions.
The features of the PDW-1500 include the following.

The PDW-1500 offers the capability to record and play 
back both MPEG IMX

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 and DVCAM

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 streams. Users 

have the flexibility to select from these formats according 
to their picture-quality needs, or to match their editing-
format requirements.

1) MPEG IMX and DVCAM are trademarks of Sony Corporation.

Proxy AV data is a low-resolution, MPEG-4 based version 
of a full-resolution MPEG IMX/DVCAM stream (a video 
bandwidth of 1.5 Mbps and an audio bandwidth of 64 kbps 
per channel). Whenever a recording is made, the unit 
automatically generates proxy AV data from the full-
resolution data and records it on the Professional Disc. 
Proxy AV data is much smaller in size than the full-
resolution IMX or DVCAM data. It can be transferred 
quickly over computer networks, easily edited in the field 
with laptop computers, and readily used in a wide variety 
of applications, such as content management on small-
scale servers.

The PDW-1500 has two optical heads enabling high-speed 
file transfer. For high-resolution (MPEG IMX and 
DVCAM) material, the maximum transfer speed is at 
about 5-times speed for DVCAM signals and about 2.5-

times speed for MPEG IMX signals. For low-resolution 
proxy AV data, a transfer speed of up to 50 times faster 
than real time is achieved.

Simply press the THUMBNAIL button and the PDW-
1500 instantly displays thumbnails on a connected 
monitor. You can easily cue up the desired scene by 
guiding the cursor to the corresponding thumbnail and 
confirming your selection with the SET button.

You can create and play back clip lists of selected clips 
from the disc, arranged in any order.
One disc can store up to 99 clip lists.
Clip lists make it simple to perform offline editing in the 
field for later use with full-scale nonlinear editing systems 
(XPRI

 1)

, etc.).

1) XPRI is a trademark of Sony Corporation.

You can perform insert editing on the audio tracks of a 
recorded clip, in the same way that you edit conventional 
VTR clips. You can also mix audio signals recorded on the 
disc with input audio.

The PDW-1500 has jog and shuttle dials as a conventional 
VTR to search picture in a clip. The jog dial is for frame-
by-frame search at –1 to +1 times normal speed and the 
shuttle dial is for high-speed search at ±35 times normal 
speed.

In the PDW-1500, clips are recorded as video and audio 
data files 

1)

. This file-based recording system also allows 

material to be viewed directly on a computer linked to the