Panasonic Memory Card Portable Recorder AG-HPG10P Operating Instructions

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Playback
Changing the displays on the thumbnail display screen
You can customize the thumbnail display screen to better suit your operating needs for more efficient 
operation.
1 Display the thumbnail display screen.
2 Press [MENU].
3 Using [STOP], [PLAY] and [STILL], select 
the item to be set at the lower level of 
“THUMBNAIL” – “SETUP”, and press 
[STILL].
ALL CLIP:Select this to display all the clips.
SAME FORMAT 
CLIPS:Select this to display the clips whose format is the same as the recording format.
SELECTED CLIPS:Select this to display the clips selected by the STILL button.
MARKED CLIPS:Select this to display the clips to which shot marks have been added.
TEXT MEMO 
CLIPS:Select this to display the clips with text memo data.
SLOT CLIPS:Select this to display the clips on the P2 card of slot number “n”.
EXITSelect this to return to the previous menu. 
						

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Thumbnail display (continued)
Setting the items to be displayed
You can customize how the thumbnails are to be displayed to better suit your intended application. Switch 
to the indicator or data setting for the thumbnail display.
1 Display the thumbnail display screen.
2 Press [MENU].
3 Using [STOP], [PLAY] and [STILL], select 
the item to be set at the lower level of 
“THUMBNAIL” – “SETUP”, and press 
[STILL].
ALL HIDE:ON None of the indicators 
are displayed.
OFF The indicators are 
displayed in line with the 
settings of the menus 
below.
MARKER 
IND.:ON The shot mark indicator 
is displayed.
OFF The shot mark indicator 
is not displayed.
TEXT MEMO 
IND.:ON The text memo indicator 
is displayed.
OFF The text memo indicator 
is not displayed.
WIDE IND.:ON The wide indicator is 
displayed.
OFF The wide indicator is not 
displayed.
PROXY IND.:ON The proxy indicator is 
displayed.
OFF The proxy indicator is not 
displayed.
D ATA 
DISPLAY:This menu item enables you to 
select what is to be displayed in the 
time display (see 3 in “Names of 
thumbnail display screen parts and 
their functions”).
TC Time code
UB User’s bit
TIME Time of recording 
DATE Date of recording 
DATE 
TIMEDate/time of recording 
USER 
CLIP 
NAMEClip name which was set 
by the userD ATA 
FORMAT:This menu item enables you to select 
the format in which the date/time of 
the recording is to be displayed.
Y-M-D Year/month/day
M-D-Y Month/day/year
D-M-Y Day/month/year
NOTE:
This setting will also be reflected 
in the date of the recording which 
is displayed as one of the clip 
properties, the date/time of the 
recording which is displayed when 
DATE has been selected as the 
DATA DISPLAY item setting, the date 
of the recording which is displayed 
by the clip information on the event 
property screen of playlists, and the 
preparation date/time of the media 
data loading and other file displays.
THUMBNAIL 
SIZE:This menu item enables you to select 
the size of the thumbnails which will 
be displayed on one page of the LCD 
monitor screen.
LARGELarge size
NORMAL Standard size
PLAYBACK 
RESUME:When the cursor was not moved from 
the clip where playback was stopped, 
this is used when next playing back a 
clip from its stopped position.
ON Select “ON” to play back 
from the stop position.
OFF Select “OFF” to play 
back the clip from its 
beginning.
THUMBNAIL 
INIT:This menu item enables you to return 
the above thumbnail display settings 
to the factory statuses (default 
values).
YES The settings are returned 
to the factory statuses 
(default values).
NO The settings are not 
returned to the factory 
statuses (default values).
EXITSelect this to return to the previous 
menu.
        
The underlined settings are the factory mode settings. 
						

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Clip management
Selecting clips
When performing operations on the thumbnail display screen, select the clip which will be the target of 
these operations as follows.
1  Using [FF] or [REW], move the yellow frame 
(cursor) to the target clip.
2 Press [STILL].
A bluish-green frame now appears at the clip 
where the cursor is positioned to indicate that 
the clip has been selected.
To release the selection
1  Move the cursor to the selected clip, and 
press [STILL] again.
The selection is released.
•  By repeating steps 1 and 2, you can select a multiple number of clips.
 
Deleting clips
You can delete unwanted clips from the P2 by proceeding as follows.
1  Display the thumbnail display screen.
2  Select the clips to be deleted.
3 Press [MENU].
4  Using [STOP], [PLAY] and [STILL], select 
“OPERATION” – “DELETE”, and press 
[STILL].
5  Select “YES”, and press [STILL].
6  When the completion message has 
appeared, press “OK” ([STILL]). 
						

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Clip management (continued)
Repairing and connecting clips
Repairing defective clips
The defective clip indicator (yellow X) appears 
in order to indicate that there is a problem in the 
clip such as the power having been suddenly cut 
off while it was being recorded. You can repair 
problem clips by proceeding as follows.
1  Display the thumbnail display screen.
2  Select the clip to be repaired.
3 Press [MENU].
4  Using [STOP], [PLAY] and [STILL], select 
“OPERATION” – “REPAIR CLIP”, and press 
[STILL].
5  Select “YES”, and press [STILL].
6  When the completion message has 
appeared, press “OK” ([STILL]).
•  It is not possible to repair clips with some types 
of damage. These kinds of clips are identified by 
the red 
X.
 
Connecting incomplete clips
In some cases, clips recorded on a multiple 
number of P2 cards may not be recognized as 
a single continuous clip and may be recognized 
as an incomplete clip (
! indicator) instead. At 
times like this you can use the connecting function 
to restore the “incomplete” clip to a continuous 
(originally connected) clip.
1  Display the thumbnail display screen.
2 Select the incomplete clip to be connected.
3 Press [MENU].
4  Using [STOP], [PLAY] and [STILL], select  
“OPERATION” – “RE-CONNECTION”, and 
press [STILL].
5  Select “YES”, and press [STILL].
6  When the completion message has 
appeared, press “OK” ([STILL]).
A clip is recognized as incomplete when:
•  A clip recorded on a multiple number of P2 cards 
has been copied separately from one card and 
then from another or other cards.
•  A clip recorded on a multiple number of cards 
has first been copied separately from one card 
and then from another or other cards onto a hard 
drive and then written back onto the P2 cards.
•  A long clip lasting more than 5 minutes in the 
DVCPRO HD format (10 or so minutes in the 
DVCPRO50 format or 20 or so minutes in the 
DVCPRO DV format) has first been copied to 
a hard drive and then written back onto the P2 
cards.
 
•  Normally, thumbnails with the incomplete clip 
mark are displayed side by side.
•  If only parts of incomplete clips separated into 3 
or more have been connected, the incomplete 
clip marks will remain on the screen until all 
the clips which make up the original clip are 
connected.
  
						

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Playback
Copying clips
Clips can be copied onto the P2 cards in either of the P2 card slots.
•  While clips are being copied, do not turn off the power or eject the card. Otherwise, defective clips will be 
produced. If defective clips are produced, delete them, and copy the original clips again.
•  Copy incomplete clips after having connected them.
1  Display the thumbnail display screen.
2  Select the clip to be copied.
3 Press [MENU].
4  Using [STOP], [PLAY] and [STILL], select 
“OPERATION” – “COPY” – “SLOT n” (where 
“n” is the number of the P2 card slot into 
which the copy destination P2 card was 
inserted), and press [STILL].
5  Select “YES”, and press [STILL].
Clip copying now starts.
•  To stop the copying process at any time, press 
[STILL] to cancel the copying. The partially 
copied clip at the copy destination will be deleted.
•  If there is a clip with the same GLOBAL CLIP 
ID--one which, for instance, was previously 
copied to the copy destination--OVER WRITE 
will appear. To overwrite the existing clip, select 
YES or to cancel the overwriting, select NO, 
and press [STILL]. (OVER WRITE also appears 
when copying onto the P2 card a different clip 
which has been recorded on a multiple number of 
cards.)
 
6  When the completion message has 
appeared, press “OK” ([STILL]).
Clips cannot be copied when any of the following 
error messages are displayed.
•  “LACK OF REC CAPACITY!”
Clips will not be copied because there is 
insufficient memory at the copy destination.
•  “UNKNOWN CONTENTS FORMAT!”
Clips will not be copied because the selected 
clips include defective clips.
•  “NO COPY TO SAME CARD!”
Clips will not be copied because an attempt is 
being made to copy clips to the same card.
•  “TOO MANY CLIPS!”
Clips will not be copied because too many clips 
have been selected.
  
						

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Clip management (continued)
Displaying the clip information
You can display detailed information about clips on the screen, and check it.
1  Display the thumbnail display screen.
2  Using [FF] or [REW], move the cursor to the 
target clip.
3 Press [MENU].
4  Using [STOP], [PLAY] and [STILL], select 
“PROPERTY”, and press [STILL].
5  Select “CLIP PROPERTY” on the sub-menu 
displayed, and press [STILL].
Information on the selected clip now appears on 
the screen.1)  Information added to clips
   The indicators or numbers of text memos or 
voice memos, which have been inserted into 
clips, are displayed. In addition, when a P2 card 
on which clips have been recorded has been 
write-protected, the 
 mark is displayed.
• 
V Voice memo indicator
  This is displayed on clips to which voice memos 
have been added. It appears only in the clip 
property mode.
•  Voice memos cannot be recorded or played back 
using this unit.
 
2) Clip number
3) Thumbnail
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4) Clip information
The following information is displayed.
CLIP NAME:Clip name
START TC:Time code when recording was 
started
START UB:User’s bit when recording was 
started
DATE:Date on which the clip was 
recorded
TIME:Time at which the clip was 
recorded
DURATION:Length of the clip
V_FORMAT:Recording format of the clip
FRAME RATE:Playback frame rate
REC RATE:Recording frame rate (displayed 
on clips specially recorded by the 
camera recorder)
5) Clip meta-data
Items for referencing the detailed information 
on the clips (clip meta-data) are displayed.
6  If necessary, reference the clip meta-data 
contents.
When the clip meta-data item is selected using 
[STOP] and [PLAY], and then [STILL] is pressed, 
the following information is displayed.
GLOBAL CLIP 
ID:Global clip ID
(a unique number which is not 
assigned to any other clips in the 
world)
USER CLIP 
NAME:Clip name which can be assigned 
by the user
Normally, the GLOBAL CLIP ID is 
provided as the clip name.VIDEO:Video signal system, etc. (frame, 
pull-down, aspect ratio)
AUDIO:Audio channel system, etc. 
(sampling rate, bit rate)
ACCESS:Last update date, etc. 
(name of the person who created 
the clip and date on which it was 
created, date on which the clip 
was last updated and name of the 
person who last updated the clip)
DEVICE:Serial number of device used to 
record the clip (name of the device 
manufacturer, serial number, 
model number)
SHOOT:Recording start and end dates, 
etc.
(name of person who shot the clip, 
date on which shooting started, 
date on which shooting ended, 
shooting location information, 
altitude, longitude, latitude, 
shooting location information 
source, shooting location)
SCENARIO:Program name, scene number, 
etc.
(program name, scene number, 
take number)
NEWS:Reporter, news-gathering object, 
etc.
(reporter, purpose of news 
gathering, object of news 
gathering)
MEMO:TEXT MEMO number, position, 
name, text content (no., recording 
position, person who input the 
memo, text information)
•  An OFFSET is indicated by 
the number of frames from the 
beginning. On a thumbnail text 
memo display, this OFFSET is 
indicated as a time code instead.
•  Texts consisting of up to 1,000 
characters can be attached, but 
only the first 100 characters will 
actually be displayed.
•  The left and right cursors are 
used to move from one text 
number to another.
THUMBNAIL:Information on the thumbnail 
images
7  Press [MENU], and select EXIT to exit. 
						

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Clip management (continued)
Editing the clip information
You can edit the clip information.
1  Display the thumbnail display screen.
2  Using [FF] or [REW], move the cursor to the 
target clip.
3 Press [MENU].
4  Using [STOP], [PLAY] and [STILL], select 
“PROPERTY” – “CLIP PROPERTY”, and 
press [STILL].
•  The clip information is displayed.
5  Using [STOP] and [PLAY], select the item to 
be edited, and press [STILL].
6  The window of the item to be edited now 
appears. Select the item name using 
[STOP], and then press [STILL].
7  The editing keyboard window now appears. 
Using [FF], [REW] and [STOP], select the 
keys, and while entering them using [STILL], 
edit the information.
060A2B340101010501010D4313000000C2A90ADE46
1505F00080458200000002
1234567890SP BS
qwer tyuiop-Caps
abdfghjkl ._OK
EXIT
zxcvbnm
USER CLIP NAME : 05F00080458200000002
USER CLIP NAME  :
8  Select “OK” and press [STILL] to exit the 
editing.
9  Press [MENU], and select “EXIT” to exit.
You can edit the following information.
USER CLIP NAME This displays the name of the clip which 
has been set by the user; the global clip ID 
is set as the default value.
ACCESS CREATOR Name of the person who did the recording
SHOOT SHOOTER Name of the person who did the shooting
LOCATION ALTITUDE Altitude of the shooting location 
LONGITUDE Longitude of the shooting location 
LATITUDE Latitude of the shooting location 
PLACE NAME Place name
SCENARIO PROGRAM NAME Program name
SCENE NO Scene number
TAKE NO Take number
NEWS REPORTER Name of the reporter
PURPOSE Purpose of the news gathering
OBJECT Object of the news gathering
MEMO PERSON Name of the person who recorded the text 
memo which was added to the clip
TEXT Content of the text memo 
						

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Inserting shot marks into clips
You can differentiate one clip from all the other clips by inserting shot marks.
1  Display the thumbnail display screen.
2  Using [FF] or [REW], move the cursor to the target clip. 
3  Press [USER] in which the shot mark function was allocated. (page 25)
To release a shot mark, repeat the above steps.
•  If the video data created by a shooting session consists of a multiple number of clips, it will not 
be possible to set or release the shot marks unless all the P2 cards containing the video data are 
inserted into the slots.
•  Shot marks cannot be inserted into the clips on a card whose write protect switch is at the PROTECT 
position.
Displaying the P2 card status
The statuses of the P2 card slots, operation statuses of the P2 cards and other card information can be 
displayed on the screen, and checked.
1  Display the thumbnail display screen.
2 Press [MENU].
3  Using [STOP], [PLAY] and [STILL], select 
“PROPERTY” – “PROPERTY SETUP” – “P2 
CARD CAP”, and press [STILL].
4  Use [STOP] and [PLAY] to select the item to 
be set, and press [STILL].
REMAIN:Remaining memory display 
(default value)
USED:Used memory display
5 Press [MENU].
6  Using [STOP], [PLAY] and [STILL], select 
“PROPERTY” – “CARD STATUS”, and press 
[STILL].[When REMAIN has been selected]
1
4
2
3
[When USED has been selected]
1
4
2
3
7  Press [MENU] - [EXIT] to exit the procedure. 
						

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Clip management (continued)
1) Write-protect mark
The  mark is displayed when a P2 card is 
write-protected.
2)  P2 card status
With the remaining memory display, the P2 
card’s remaining memory is indicated using 
a meter and as a percentage. With the used 
memory display, the P2 card’s used memory is 
indicated using a meter and as a percentage.
Depending on the status of the card, one of the 
following messages may be displayed.
FORMAT 
ERROR:An unformatted P2 card has 
been inserted.
NOT 
SUPPORTED:A card which is not supported 
by the unit has been inserted.
NO CARD:A P2 card has not been 
inserted.
3)  P2 card remaining memory (or used 
memory) and total memory
The remaining memory (or used memory) and 
total memory of the P2 card are converted 
into minutes and displayed. Fractions of a 
minute are discarded so that the total of the 
remaining memory (or used memory) on each 
P2 card may not exactly correspond to the total 
memory.4)  Slot remaining memory (or used memory) 
total
A figure representing the total for the remaining 
memory (or used memory) of the cards in the 
two P2 card slots is displayed.
•  The free memory of a write-protected P2 card 
is not included in the total free memory.
 
5)  P2 card details display
When the cursor is moved to the slot whose 
P2 card status is displayed and [STILL] is 
pressed, the model number of the P2 card and 
other detailed information on the card will be 
displayed. When [STILL] is pressed again, the 
detailed information is cleared.
The card statuses are displayed as follows.
Displaying the P2 card status (continued)
BRAND
MODEL NO.
SERIAL NO.
USED ID:  Panasonic
:  AJ-P2C004HG
:  AEC06H0371
: 
OK