Using the Counter

Counter display

You can display a counter that indicates how much time has elapsed during shooting or playback.

1 Press the COUNTER button.

Each time you press the button, the display changes as follows. (Page 86)

0 : 00. 00 (CAM mode only)

Counter value

CLIP 0 : 00. 00

(When CLIP is selected for the REC COUNTER item on the DISPLAY SETUP screen)

The value is automatically reset at start of shooting and the counter value appears during each shooting session.

TC XX:XX:XX:XX

Time code value (display time code frame digits in 25 frames.)

UB XX XX XX XX

User information

FR --- -

Frame rate (25P) and frame sequence in progressive mode shooting.

No display:

Data is not displayed.

Resetting the counter

Press the COUNTER RESET button while the counter is displayed.

1394TC preset mode

When shooting using a multi-camera, you can synchronously set the initial values of TC. The camera used for synchronization is the MASTER and the camera being synchronized is the SLAVE.

1 Connect a second camera with a 1394 cable and turn both cameras on.

• For connection (Page 77)

2 Put the MASTER camera in CAMERA mode and output a video signal from the 1394 terminal.

•Set both cameras to the same recording format.

Do the remaining steps on the SLAVE camera.

3 Switch the SLAVE camera to MCR mode, set 1394TC REGEN on the RECORDING SETUP screen of the setup menu to OFF and then set the counter so that it shows the TCG display.

•You cannot do this if you have selected

REGEN.

4 In the setup menus, RECORDING SETUP screen, set 1394 IN PRESET to ON. (Page 105)

• 1394TC appears on the screen.

5 Stop the media.

6 Press the COUNTER RESET/TC SET button. The TCG value is preset with the TC value from the input 1394 signal.

•“TC SET OK” is displayed for about 2 seconds in the center of the screen.

7 Reset the SLAVE camera to CAMERA mode.

Shooting

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