Setting the Camera ID
The camera ID can be set at the CAMERA ID page of the setting menu.
A camera ID of up to 9 characters including English letters, symbols and spaces can be used. The camera ID is recorded when the OUTPUT/AUTO KNEE switch is set to BARS and the color bar signal is being recorded. It is also displayed on the viewfinder screen.
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When the setting menu is displayed, the camera ID is not displayed even if the color bar signal is output.
1 Set the MENU SET/OFF switch to SET.
The page on which the previous setting menu operations were completed appears on the viewfinder screen. (When the menu is used for the first time, the first page appears.)
2 Press the PAGE button until the CAMERA ID page shown below appears. (This operation can also be performed using the PAGEoUP/DOWN function.)
- CAMERA I D -
I D : E E E E E E E E E
:The cursor is moved to the right (max. 10 spaces) by the SHIFT/ITEM button.
:English letters, symbols and space are switched by the UP and DOWN buttons.
Camera ID
(“F” indicates a space. This indication is only used at this menu page.)
3 Press the UP (or DOWN) button until the desired character appears.
Each time the UP button is pressed, the character display changes in the order of English letters (A to Z)¢numbers (0 to 9)¢symbols [space, {, , ), (, ’, ‘, ,,
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5 When menu operations have been completed, set the MENU SET/OFF switch to OFF.
The setting menu disappears from the viewfinder screen and the displays indicating the unit’s current status appear at the top and bottom of the viewfinder screen.
<Note>
The area under the SMPTE color bars in which the CAMERA ID is mixed automatically changes to gray if CAMERA ID on the VF DISPLAY page is set to ON when SMPTE color bar has been selected for the COLOR BAR selection on FUNCTION page 2 of 5 of the setting menu. Although some minor flickering will occur at the boundary between the SMPTE color bars and the gray, this is not indicative of any trouble.
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