Sony Multi Interface Shoe Adapter User Manual

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Control of VTRs, Extended VTRs, and Disk Recorders

Chap

Variable mode

Press the [VAR] button, lighting the button amber, to switch the dial to variable
mode. In this mode, the playback speed varies according to the rotation angle
of the dial from –1 to +3 times normal speed. The dial indicates the positions
where the playback speed is –1 times normal speed, +1 times normal speed,
and +3 times normal speed by making a clicking sound at those positions. To
show a still image (playback speed 0%), return the dial to its home position,
where it stops with a clicking sound.

×–1: –1 times normal speed
×+3: +3 times normal speed
×+1: +1 times normal speed

To disable the search dial and end variable mode, press the [STOP] button.
Additionally, pressing any of the [REW], [PLAY], [FF], [STB OFF], and
[ALL STOP] editing buttons ends the variable mode. For shuttle mode and
variable mode, you can set the valid range of the operating angle in the
Engineering Setup >Panel >Operation >Sensitivity menu to either of the
followings.

Narrow operating angle

• Shuttle mode: approx. –150 to +150°
• Variable mode: approx. –120 to +210°(+1 times normal speed is +120°)

Reverse direction

Forward direction

Low
speed

Maximum
speed

Still image

Reverse direction

Forward direction

Low
speed

×–1

Still image

Ч+1

Ч+3