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# Playing back clips

In the [SYSTEM] menu → [FREQUENCY], select the system frequency to play back.

In the [SYSTEM] menu → [FILE FORMAT], select the file format to play back.

In the [SYSTEM] menu → [REC FORMAT], select the signal format and codec mode to play back.

Press the <THUMBNAIL> button.

The thumbnail screen is displayed.

Press the <MENU> button while the thumbnail screen is displayed.

The menu is displayed.

In the [THUMBNAIL] menu → [PLAYBACK] → [CLIP SEL], select the card slot of the memory card to play back.

[ALL SLOT]: Displays all the clips recorded on every memory card in each card slot.

Displays in the order of the clips in card slot 1, and then clips in the card slot 2 when MOV or AVCHD is selected as the recording file format.

Displays the clips in all the card slots in the order of the recording date and time when P2 is selected as the recording file format.

[SLOT1]: Displays only the clips recorded on the memory card in card slot 1.

[SLOT2]: Displays only the clips recorded on the memory card in card slot 2.

[SAME FORMAT]: Displays only the clips recorded in the same format as the system format.

Clips recorded in the same format match the current settings for each item of the [SYSTEM] menu → [FREQUENCY]/[FILE FORMAT]/[REC FORMAT]/[AUDIO SAMPLE RES.].

Select the clip to play back.

- is displayed on the clip that cannot be played back.

- To play back the clip with displayed, check the information of the clip with the clip information, and try operating from the beginning again.

## Playback from button operations and operation icons

Direct playback bar

Playback operation | Operating procedure
--- | ---
Playback/pause | Touch / or press the </> button.
Fast-reverse playback | Touch or press the <> button. Touch twice to increase the speed.
Fast-forward playback | Touch or press the <> button. Touch twice to increase the speed.
Stop (return to thumbnail screen) | Touch or press the <> button.
Skip playback (cue up of the clip) | Touch the LCD monitor while playing back, and slide from right to left (left to right). When sliding from left to right, the clip skips to the beginning of the previous clip if the current playback position of the clip is at less than three seconds from the beginning. The clip skips to the beginning of the current clip if the current playback position of the clip is at three seconds or more from the beginning. Skip playback is also possible by pressing the <> button or <> button while paused.
Slow playback | Touch and hold or press and hold <+> of the <AUDIO MON/ADV> button while paused. ( or <−> of the <AUDIO MON/ADV> button for reverse slow playback) Touch or press and hold the <+> of the <AUDIO MON/ADV> button for continuous frame-by-frame playback. Touch / or press the </> button to return to normal playback. The frame-by-frame interval and the display time for each frame for the reverse slow playback differ depending on the type of the clip.
Frame-by-frame playback | Touch or press <+> of the <AUDIO MON/ADV> button while paused. ( or <−> of the <AUDIO MON/ADV> button for reverse frame-by-frame playback) Touch / or press the </> button to return to normal playback. The frame-by-frame interval for reverse frame-by-frame playback differs depending on the type of the clip.
Direct playback | Touch the direct playback bar, or slide it while touching. The playback video is paused during the operation. Playback is started by releasing the finger.

NOTE

- Operations of the camera or some performance may become slow for the clip with large file size.

- Operations of the camera or some performance may become slow when there are large number of clips on the memory card.

- Playback will stop once by switching the card slot when MOV or AVCHD is selected as the recording file format, and the [THUMBNAIL] menu → [PLAYBACK] → [CLIP SEL] → [ALL SLOT]/[SAME FORMAT] is set, and then the clips of all the memory cards are displayed. Playback is not possible across two memory cards.

- If selecting P2 as recording file format and playing back a clip that was recorded over two memory cards by relay recording, playback will pause and a black screen will be displayed when switching the card slot. Playback will automatically restart after the switch.

- Playback stops when the memory card is removed during playback.

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