Recording onto the Hard Disk
Various Settings and [Performance Check]
Camera and Picture Control Recording onto the Hard Disk Playback the Recorded Files
CONSOLE Windows
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Data Dropping
• If the hard disk is accessed while recording, a part of the data input from the camcorder may not be
written to the file (data dropping). This may happen also when the processing capacity of the
computer is insufficient.
• When the data dropping occurs, the number of data droppings occurred in a file will be displayed in
the [Information] tab of the [Camera Control] window. When recording in DV, a number of dropped
frames and when recording in HDV, a number of dropped blocks are displayed. Dropping one block
in HDV recording corresponds to dropping from a few frames to up to 20 frames in DV recording.
• When the data dropping occurs, [
] changes to [
] for a few seconds.
• When the file is created on the hard disk after recording, you can check the scenes where data
dropping occurred under [Recording history].
• If the [CPU usage] displayed in the [Performance Check] window (
3-19) shows 100%, change
the software settings using one or more of followings to reduce the rate. (90% or less is
recommended.)
- When recording in HDV standard, select [File] [Option] and click on the [HDV Rec] tab. Select a
smaller size in [Preview resolution] and/or select [I picture and P picture] or [I picture only] in
[Preview picture].
- Hide or reduce the window size of the [Rec Viewer] window.
- Hide or reduce the window size of the [Vector and Wave Monitor] window.
Recording History
When you stop recording the picture in [Standard] mode, or when a file is created after finalizing in
[Sequence] or [Frame] mode, the created file information will be displayed under [Recording history]
in the [Camera Control] window.
The recording history will disappear when you close CONSOLE. When you wish to review the
history after you have closed CONSOLE, open the “CONSOLE.LOG” file in the video folder
with a text editor. You can check the file name, recording date, file size, length, file type, and
the information about dropped data.
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File name
Shows the file name recorded with CONSOLE. The file information appears
when you leave the mouse pointer on the file name for a moment.
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Information on
dropped data
If data dropping occurred, the position and number of dropped data are
shown here.
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Playback
When a file name is selected: Clicking
starts the playback panel and
the file is played back from the beginning.
When information on dropped data is selected: Clicking
plays back the
file in the [Play Viewer] window from the point where the data dropping
occurred.
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