Setting the Time Code

1 Switch the menu option TC MODE on the RECORDING SETUP screen to DF or NDF using the menus. (In 59.94 Hz mode)

For details on menu operation, refer to [Using the Menus] (page 106).

•Select DF to advance time code in drop frame mode and NDF in non-drop frame mode. Note that the unit always operates in NDF mode when 50 Hz is selected in SYSTEM MODE (1080-50i or 720- 50P), or 24PN is set when 60 Hz is selected (1080- 59/94i or 720-59.94P).

2

Use the COUNTER button to switch to time

 

 

code display.

 

 

 

3

Position the TCG switch at SET.

 

 

4

Use the cursor buttons to set the time code.

 

 

• Range of available time code settings:

In case of 60 Hz

00:00:00:00 to 23:59:59:29 (other than 24PN) 00:00:00:00 to 23:59:59:23 (24PN)

In case of 50 Hz 00:00:00:00 to 23:59:59:24

TC PRESET

REC RUN

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+/- : PUSH /

SEL : PUSH/

PRESET : PUSH SET

 

 

5

Press the SET button to confirm the time code

 

setting, and use the TCG switch to select a time

 

code.

• F-RUN steps the time code in free run mode, and R-RUN set it in recording run mode.

NOTE

•The time code is adjusted to multiples of four for 24PN and to even numbers for 720/30PN. It is adjusted so that the seconds plus the frames are an even number for 720/25PN. The time code cannot be set during recording.

•The set value is not valid if you change the TCG switch position without pressing the SET button.

Time code function during battery replacement

Even during battery replacement the backup mechanism keeps the time code generator functioning.

NOTE

When the POWER switch has been switched ON OFF

ON, the backup accuracy of the time code in free run mode is about ±2 frames.

Adjustments ChapterandSettings 4rding  rfoRec

Q button: Shifts the target (highlighted) digit to the right.

W button: Shifts the target (highlighted) digit to the left.

E button: Increases the highlighted number by one.

R button: Decreases the highlighted number by one.

•Pressing the RESET button will reset any time code setting to 0.

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