Menus and Indications Screen Viewfinder 4 Chapter

Viewfinder Basic Menu

4 Press the UP/ON button to select the required character.

Each time you press the UP/ON button, the character cycles through the following sequence.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ?;x/0123456789: -.,￿

(Space)

To reverse the character sequence

With the UP/ON button held down, press the DOWN/OFF button.

5 Press the DOWN/OFF button to confirm the character selection.

The cursor advances to the next character position.

To change a character after confirming it

Return to step 3, and input the character again.

6 Repeat steps 4 and 5 until the title is complete.

7 When the title is complete, press the MENU/ STATUS switch as necessary to return to the normal viewfinder indications.

The title created is retained, even when you power the camera off.

To record a title (page 8)

1 Press the MENU/STATUS switch as necessary to access basic menu page 8 (title display).

2 Press the UP/ON button once.

The title is superimposed to the picture displayed on the viewfinder screen.

3 Start shooting.

4 To stop the title recording, press the MENU/ STATUS switch to clear the title display.

Note on using the CCU-M5/M5P Camera Control Unit

When the CCU-M5/M5P has a function switch setting of “TITLE ON”, the title display takes precedence, and the status display (see page 57) do not appear in the normal incidations. However, when you press the MENU/STATUS switch up, for as long as you hold it up the status indications appear in place of the title.

When “CHECK DIAG” is displayed

The “CHECK DIAG” indication appears in the status display area whenever the camcorder’s automatic self diagnostic function detects an abnormality. Access this page and perform error checking. (This page is displayed as basic menu page 1.)

“CHECK DIAG” will also be displayed if there is a problem on the sync signal input to the GEN LOCK IN connector. Input a proper sync signal and then perform error checking.

To perform error checking

Press the UP/ON button.

The error checking performs on the digital signal processing (DSP) and memory circuits and the results are displayed.

When no error is detected, “OK” appears.

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