Operating Instructions

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Chapter 8 Connecting to External Devices
5
Select OPERATION  FORMAT (HDD) in the
menu and use a cursor button and the SET
button to select YES.
• Select YES in the confirmation message that
appears again to start hard disk drive formatting.
• Handled as a “TYPE S” hard disk drive after
formatting.
 NOTE
All data on a hard disk drive is deleted when the disk is
formatted. It is not possible to select part of a partition
to delete.
Writing to hard disk drive
1
Switch to the USB host mode.
For details, refer to [Switching to USB Host Mode]
(page 140).
2
Connect a hard disk drive via USB.
If the hard disk drive has not been formatted by
the camera, format it according to the instructions
provided in [Formatting Hard Disks] (page 142).
3
Insert a P2 card.
4
Press the THUMBNAIL button to open the
thumbnail screen.
5
Press the THUMBNAIL button and select HDD
 EXPORT from the thumbnail menu and
specify the slot of the P2 card with the data you
want to write to the hard disk drive.
6
Select YES.
• This starts the write process.
• A progress bar appears during the write process.
To interrupt writing, press the SET button.
Selecting YES in the cancel confirmation that
appears will stop the write process.
• COPY COMPLETED! announces the end of the
write process.
 NOTE
• To turn off the verify phase in a write operation, select
HDD  SETUP in the thumbnail menu and set VERIFY
to OFF. This speeds up the write time but does not
verify the written data.
• Selecting ALL SLOT writes the data on all inserted P2
cards inserted in the camera to the hard disk drive.
 NOTE
• A TYPE S hard disk drive can write data in card units. Up
to 23 P2 cards can be saved to a hard disk drive.
The P2 card data recorded on a hard disk drive are
recognized as separate drives.
• To write P2 cards with bad clips, it is a good idea to repair
these clips before writing them to a hard disk drive.
• Ending a recording during the verify phase will end writing
of data from the P2 card to the hard disk drive.
Writing back data to P2 cards
This allows you to select a clip from the hard disk drive and
write it back to a P2 card.
1
Switch to the USB host mode.
For details, refer to [Switching to USB Host Mode]
(page 140).
2
Connect a hard disk drive via USB.
3
Insert the P2 card to which data will be written
back to.
4
Press the THUMBNAIL button, select HDD 
EXPLORE from the thumbnail menu, move to
the partition with the data that will be read and
press the SET button.
5
Select the clip to be written to the P2 card from
the thumbnail on the hard disk drive.
6
Press the THUMBNAIL button, select
OPERATION  IMPORT  SELECTED CLIPS
from the thumbnail menu and select the slot of
the P2 card to write the data to.
7
Select YES.
• This starts the data write to the P2 card.
• When the write process ends, “COPY
COMPLETED!” appears.
 NOTE
• When clips are selected for writing, verify is not performed.