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Setup menus (continued)

USER menu <TIME CODE>

No./Item		Description
500	For selecting whether to output the
	VITC signal at the positions selected
VITC BLANK	by setup menu items No. 501 (VITC
	POS-1) and No. 502 (VITC POS-2).
	0000	BLANK :
	VITC signals are not output.
	0001	THRU :
	VITC signals are output.
501	This sets the position where the VITC
	signal is to be inserted.
VITC POS-1	(For AJ-SD255P)		(For AJ-SD255E)
	0000	10L	0000	7L
	:	:	:	:
	0006	16L	0004	11L
	:	:	:	:
	0010	20L	0015	22L
	Notes:
	• The same line as the one used for the
	setup menu items No. 502 (VITC POS-
	2) and No. 662 (UMID POS) setting
	cannot be set.
	• The default settings are not restored
	even if the RESET button is pressed
	while holding down the SEARCH button.
502	This sets the position where the VITC
	signal is to be inserted.
VITC POS-2	(For AJ-SD255P)		(For AJ-SD255E)
	0000	10L	0000	7L
	:	:	:	:
	0008	18L	0006	13L
	:	:	:	:
	0010	20L	0015	22L
	Notes:
	• The same line as the one used for the
	setup menu items No. 501 (VITC POS-
	1) and No. 662 (UMID POS) setting
	cannot be set.
	• The default settings are not restored
	even if the RESET button is pressed
	while holding down the SEARCH button.
503	This	selects the signal to be
	regenerated when the time code
TCG REGEN	generator (TCG) in the REGEN mode.
	0000	TC&UB :
	Both the time code and user bit are
	regenerated.
	0001	TC :
	Only the time code is regenerated.
	0002	UB :
	Only the user bit is regenerated.

The underlined items indicates the initial setting.

No./Item		Description
505	This selects the time code to be used
	when an external time code is to be
EXT TC SEL	used.
	0000	LTC :
	The LTC of the TIME CODE IN
	connector is used.
	0001	VITC :
	The VITC of the input video signal or
	the timecode of the IEEE1394 digital
	input signal is used.
506	This sets the usage status of the user
	bit of the time code generated by the
BINARY GP	TCG.
	0000	000 :
	NOT SPECIFIED (character set not
	specified)
	0001	001 :
	ISO CHARACTER (8 bits character set
	based on ISO646, ISO2022)
	0002	010 : UNASSIGNED 1 (undefined)
	0003	011 : UNASSIGNED 2 (undefined)
	0004	100 : UNASSIGNED 3 (undefined)
	0005	101 : PAGE/LINE
	0006	110 : UNASSIGNED 4 (undefined)
	0007	111 : UNASSIGNED 5 (undefined)
507	This selects whether to control the
	phase correction of the LTC which is
PHASE	output from the TIME CODE OUT
CORR	connector.
	0000	OFF :
	Phase correction control is not
	performed.
	0001	ON :
	Phase correction control is performed.
508	This selects whether the CF flag of the
	TCG is to ON.
TCG CF	0000	OFF : CF flag is OFF.
FLAG
	0001	ON : CF flag is ON.
509	This selects the DF or NDF mode for
	CTL and TCG.
DF MODE	0000	DF :
(For AJ-SD255P)
	The drop frame mode is used.
	0001	NDF :
	The non-drop frame mode is used.
	Note:
	DF/NDF switching is valid only when the
	CONTROL switch is set to LOCAL or the
	setup menu No. 001 (LOCAL ENA) is set
	to ENA.

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