Color Bars/Audio Reference Signal

Color Bars/Audio Reference Signal

You can have the camcorder output and record color bars and a 1 kHz audio reference signal and output them from the HDMI OUT terminal, AV OUT terminal, and ×(headphone) terminal (audio reference signal only).

Operating modes:

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Recording Color Bars

You can choose between SMPTE standard-definition color bars and ARIB multi-format HDTV color bars.

1Open the [Color Bars] menu.

[FUNC.] >[MENU] >>[Color Bars]

2Touch the desired option and then touch [X].

• The selected color bars appear on the screen and will be recorded when you press Y.

Recording an Audio Reference Signal

The camcorder can output a 1 kHz audio reference signal with the color bars.

1Open the [1 kHz Tone] submenu.

[FUNC.] >[MENU] >>[1 kHz Tone]

2Select the desired level and then touch [X].

Available levels are -12 dB, -18 dB and -20 dB.

Select [jOff] to turn off the signal.

The signal is output at the selected level and will be recorded when you press Y.