Using time data (continued)

Setting the time code

1 Switch the menu option TC MODE and TCG on the RECORDING SETUP screen to set the mode of the time code.

•TC MODE (in the case of 59.94 Hz) (Page 141)

Sets DF/NDF.

Time code

Setting

Drop frame mode

DF

Non-drop frame mode

NDF

24P, 24PA, and 24PN always operate using NDF.

•TCG (Page 141)

Sets FREE RUN/REC RUN.

2 Select CHANGE for TC PRESET on the setting menu RECORDING SETUP screen and press SET on the Operation lever to open the time code setting screen.

3 Use the Operation lever to set the time code.

•Range of available time code settings: 00 : 00 : 00 : 00 to 23 : 59 : 59 : 29 (60i, 60P), 00 : 00 : 00 : 00 to 23 : 59 : 59 : 23 (24PN),

00 : 00 : 00 : 00 to 23 : 59 : 59 : 24 (50i, 50P)

TC PRESET

REC RUN

00

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frm

+/- : PUSH /

SEL : PUSH/

PRESET : SET ( )

PUSH MENU TO RETURN

►direction: Shifts the target (highlighted) digit to the right.

◄direction: Shifts the target (highlighted) digit to the left.

▲direction: Increases the highlighted number by one.

▼direction: Decreases the highlighted number by one.

SET: Use to confirm set time code value.

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

4 Press SET on the Operation lever and confirm the time code setting value and you leave the time code setting screen.

5 Select TC display using the COUNTER button, and confirm that the value set is displayed.

•When 24P or 24PA is used, the time code is adjusted every 5 frames. It 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.

•If you leave the time code setting screen without pressing the SET button on the Operation lever, the set value is not retained.

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

When the POWER/MODE switch has been switched ON → OFF → ON, the backup accuracy of the time code in free run mode is about ±2 frames.

VFR (variable frame rate) time code

•In 24PN mode, recording is performed at

24-frame time code, and output is performed at 30-frame time code to match the 2:3 pull-down scheme used for video output.

•At a frame rate (capture frame rate) of 24P in 24PN mode, the speed of recording and the output time code matches actual time, but not at any speed other than 24P. (Example: at 60P recording progresses at 60/24 speed)

•Then the camera-recorder operates in Rec Run mode and the time code output at start of recording matches the recording time code.

•This is also the same when shooting in modes other than 30P in 30PN, and 25P in 25PN.

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