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# Loop recording

- This function successively records to two P2 cards inserted in the card slots.

- When there is no more free space on the card, recording returns to the first card, and recording is continued while erasing existing data already saved on that card.

  For details, refer to “Dividing clips recorded on P2 cards”.

1st card

2nd card

Before loop recording starts

No recorded content

Content recorded

Start recording

Recording cycle 1

Recording cycle 2

Check the settings of each item in the main menu → [SYSTEM] → [SYSTEM MODE].

For details on system modes in which the loop recording function can be used, refer to the table in “System modes and recording functions”.

For details on menu operations, refer to “Setting menu basic operations”.

Set [LOOP] in the main menu → [REC/PB] → [REC FUNCTION] → [RECORDING].

Set the following related items in the main menu → [REC/PB] → [REC FUNCTION].

- [HOLD]: Holding the [REC FUNCTION] setting after the power is turned off

Press the <REC> button.

- Recording is started.

- To stop recording, press the <REC> button.

- When [OFF] is set in the main menu → [REC/PB] → [REC FUNCTION] → [HOLD], turning off the camera clears the loop recording settings.

- To clear the settings, set [NORMAL] in the main menu → [REC/PB] → [REC FUNCTION] → [RECORDING].

- [LOOP] is displayed in the P2 remaining card capacity at the bottom of the status display and top of the viewfinder. When loop recording cannot be performed due to memory shortage, etc., [LOOP] flashes.

NOTE

- When this function is used, each P2 card must have at least one minute of free space.

- The standard recording time in accordance with the recording format is displayed as the P2 card remaining capacity displayed in the mode check screen of the status display or viewfinder. When loop recording is stopped immediately after an old recording is erased, the time recorded on the card is sometimes less than the indicated time.

- When set [SDI] in the main menu → [SYSTEM] → [SYSTEM MODE] → [REC SIGNAL], loop recording will not function.

- Pre-recording and one-clip recording do not operate.

- It may take time for recording to stop. The subsequent operation is not accepted until the P2 card access LED stops flashing and stays illuminated.

- During loop recording, all P2 card access LEDs on the P2 cards used for recording are illuminated or flash orange. Note that loop recording stops when these P2 cards are removed.

- Loop recording may stop when the input reference signal of the generator lock is disrupted during loop recording.

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