Version: 110930
Sport-HD INSTRUCTION MANUAL Page 8 of 20
BASIC OPERATION
1.
To select a channel for control, press its F-key (F1 for ch-1, etc.). Double-tap the F-key to select all channels.
Hold the F-key and tap others to select some channels. The red LED lights above channels selected for
control, the green LED lights above the status channel (the channel shown on the STATUS display).
2.
Press REC to start recording. A cue point is automatically created. Cue points are tagged with time of day.
Always records on an unused part of the disk(s) so existing material cannot accidentally be recorded over.
3.
Stop recording and scan back at 6 times normal speed using the reverse scan (
) key. The forward scan
key (
) scans forward. Hold for scan, release for still. Turn the knob to fine tune the position (jog mode).
4.
Press PLAY to playback at normal speed (play mode) or press F7, F8, or F9 to playback in slo-mo at ¼, ½, or
¾ normal speed. Use the TBar to adjust slo-mo speed; the knob for jog.
No button pushes are needed to change between play, slo-mo, and jog modes. All the way up is play mode,
move down for slo-mo, still at the bottom. Then just turn the knob for jog, TBar back up to return to slo-mo.
5.
During recording or playback, press MARK to create a new cue point.
NEW: For better accuracy, hold down MARK to back-time the cue point by the amount of time it is held.
6.
Press CUE to cue playback to the location that MARK was hit, or press PREROLL to cue 2 seconds earlier. If
multiple channels are selected, they will all cue to the same point in time.
7.
To select any cue point, BUT NOT cue playback, enter the cue number on the keypad and press ENTER.
To select any cue point, AND instantly cue playback, enter the cue number on the keypad and press CUE.
8.
Hold ENTER and hit F1-F6* to store a quick cue. Anytime a quick cue key is hit, playback is instantly cued.
9.
To change the
current
cue’s out point (end), hold the OUT key and press MARK. Normal or slo-mo playback
will pause exactly at the out point. To resume playback, press PLAY or a slo-mo key. Playback will again stop
at the end of the recording. To cue to the out point, hold OUT while pressing CUE. Hold OUT and press
PREROLL to cue 2 seconds before the out point.
10.
To change the in point (beginning) of an existing cue, hold ENTER (or IN) and press MARK.
11.
Clip scan: To quickly scan a loaded clip from in to out, press both scan keys (
&
) together.
As the TBar is moved, playback continually cues to the point proportional to the TBar position.
End the clip scan mode by using any playback or record function (example: turn knob to enter jog mode).
12.
The STATUS display shows the time remaining before the out point. Slo-mo speed is taken into account so
the display shows the actual time it will take to finish playing. Hold IN or OUT to show timecode.
13.
Hold ENTER and press PLAY LIST to add the
current
cue to the end of the current playlist. To edit a playlist,
press SETUP, PLAYLIST. Use the arrow and number keys to insert cues anywhere in the playlist, to delete
cues, or to insert pauses (STL). Press HOME when done.
14.
To play a playlist, press PLAYLIST, CUE, then PLAY (or a slo-mo key). As playback reaches the out point of
each cue in the list, a clean cut is made to the in point of the next cue. While playing a playlist, the STATUS
display shows the time remaining in the entire list (or until the next pause), and is adjusted for slo-mo speed. A
pause (STL) stops playback and shows a still frame at the out point of the cue preceding the pause, press
PLAY to still frame at the in point of the next cue. Then resume playback as usual.
15.
There are ten playlists. To select a different playlist for setup or playback, press a keypad number (0-4)
immediately before the PLAYLIST key. To add the
current
cue to any playlist, hold its keypad number (0-4)
and press PLAYLIST. Each playlist holds up to 100 cues.
* Depending on number of channels, F1-Fx will select channels and not perform other functions.
COLD BOOT
If the Sport-EX controller is acting strangely or not communicating with the connected channels, normal operation
may be restored by performing a COLD BOOT. See COLD BOOT near the end of this manual for directions.
