Playback Mode

One of the key elements of the Sumo19 REC PLAY MONITOR EDIT is the ability to utilize the monitor recorder as a play back and play out device for the content that has been recorded whilst maintaining the same visually lossless high quality images.

Pressing the Play button switches the device into playback mode and the last clip recorded on to the drive will instantly begin to playback.

Once within Play mode the complete Monitoring tool set is available allowing you to analyse the content. This is key for establishing if takes are out of focus, lighting has changed or previewing content with LUTs applied.

Clips can be selected for play back by tapping the clip name at the top of the screen, with the ability to skip to the next or previous clip via the on screen controls.

Once the file name had been pressed a menu displaying the clips available on the drive will be displayed showing clip name (with Scene shot Take numbers) as well as resolution, codec and duration. Tapping to highlight a clip will show a preview of the first frame in the back ground and tapping again will play this clip or by pressing the play button.

When the playback content list menu is open play back will automatically stop.

Whilst a Clip is playing you can play or pause the clip by using the main play button in the center of the menu controls at the bottom of the screen. Above the Monitor tools icons are also a Play and Pause button along with additional play back controls.

By tapping this icon you can put the clip in to loop play back. In and out markers for loop you can be placed and cleared using the following buttons :

Press to turn on and mark loop starting point, press again to remove both in and out loop markers. When loop in is pressed the loop out point will automatically be set to the end of the clip.

Press to place the loop out marker and replace the marker at the end of the clip, press again to reset it to the end of the clip.

Whilst a clip is playing these buttons have the ability to play the clip back at 2 x or 4x speeds both forward and in reverse.

Whilst a clip is Paused these buttons have the ability to step the clip by 1 second either forward or reverse to give you chance to analyse the clip in more detail, this is especially useful when combined with the 2:1 zoom function.

Playlist

To increase the functionality and flexibility of the playback mode there is also the ability to create a Playlist.

To start to build a Playlist press on the file name in the top menu and open the content list. Then press the Playlist button,

which will turn green and reveal the options available.

It’s important to note that all clips in the Playlist must be in the same codec, resolution and frame rate.

The Order Arrow allows you to choose order in which clips playback. The clips are stored based on the order they were recorded with the last clip recorded at the top of the list. You can either play down the list (newest to oldest) or up the list (sequential order).

This icon can be pressed to scroll through the Playlist options. All will play all clips on the disk.

Will play only the clips that are tagged as favorites.

Will allow the clips for the Playlist to be selected using the tick boxes.

Will include the favorites and also allow the ability to selected additional clips to be played back.

The duration of each clip is combined together and are shown on the scrub bar in play pack controls. A white vertical line indicates the start and end points and clips will seamlessly playback across those selected to be in the play lost.

These are accessed via the green flag tagging menu

The Genlock input can accept a standard composite video signal such as a Black Burst bi-level reference signal and Tri-level reference signal. Once connected, playback output is synchronized to this common reference source. This can be done across multiple units and ensures proper deck use with Switchers and Vision Mixers in live events

& mobile production studios. Having all the inputs synchronized at the video Switcher allows the Switcher to operate glitch free when making transitions, cuts, and graphic overlays between those synchronized.

Metadata tagging and cut edits

In playback mode the ability to tag clips is extended beyond simply applying a single tag to a clip. With a clip selected and either ready to play or playing you can set in and out points for tags. This allows you to make Timecode accurate clips and even subclips with those tags. The tagscan be applied by tapping the appropriate icon to mark in and out points at the desired play head positions.

This can be done whilst the clip is playing or by simply dragging the scrub bar toto the position wanted. Favorites will be displayed as a green section on the scrub bar, a red section indicates rejected areas and white is used for the other tags.

Creating smart cut tags via this method is non destructive to the clips and the information can be exported to a separate XML file. These markers are ideal for creating an Edit Decision List (EDL) to go with the clips. This allows for edit preparation to take place on set, whilst traveling or with a client to save time in post production.

Creates and saves the metadata tags in to XML in FCPX format.

Tapping reset will remove the all tags from the current clip.