6.7 Text Menu

The IVS can insert additional text into the video image, for example the production name or a scene number. As there is no text input possibility on the camera or on the IVS, it is necessary to enter that text on a computer and to send it to the IVS via the RS 232 interface into the CCU connector of the data cable ZV4.

The latest versions of the Laptop Camera Controller provide corresponding possibilities.

If information is stored in the text memory, it will remain there until the memory is cleared or new information overrides the old one, even if the IVS or the camera is switched off or disconnected from the power supply. This enables for example a camera rental house to store information which is then available to the production team. This might for example be the production name.

Like all man-readable information, the data is inserted as a window on the monitor image. The window can be switched on and off independently. Background, position and character format can be altered without affecting the settings of other windows.

Prod. Name

Unit A

Take 35

Scene 11/III

SUB MENU

 

> TEXT

ON

POSITION

 

SIZE

SMALL

BACK-

 

GROUND

BOXED

EXIT

 

T.V. SAFE / TRANSMITTED

This additional line shows an example of the text information:

Prod. Name

Unit A

Take 35

Scene 11/III

The adjustment of the white level of the inserted data, an inverse display and a fine adjustment of the vertical position are described in chapter 6.9

• Enter the TEXT Menu from the Main Menu.

All settings are immediately activated by changing them.

Check all settings on the connected monitor.

Inserter Facilities

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