Information Text and Data Time Setting/Displaying 2 Chapter

Setting Time Code and User Bits

1 Press the COUNTER SEL button and select TC.

Time data type indicator TC lights in the display section of the lower control panel.

2 Press the HOLD button.

The first digit of the time counter display (hours:minutes:seconds:frames) in the display section begins to flash.

To set all digits to 0

Press the RESET button.

3 Confirm the JOG indicator in the display section is lit. If not lit, press the search dial to select jog mode.

4 Select the digit to set by rotating the search dial.

The flashing digit changes to the digit on the right when you rotate the search dial clockwise, and to the digit on the left when you rotate it counterclockwise.

5 Set the value for the flashing digit by rotating the search dial while pressing the SEARCH button.

6 Repeat steps 4 and 5 until you finish setting all digits. 7 Press the SET button.

If the FREE RUN/REC RUN switch is set to FREE RUN, the time code starts to advance immediately.

To set time code to the current time

1 Set the FREE RUN/REC RUN switch and DF/NDF switch (for DSR- 2000 only) on the subsidiary control panel to FRR RUN and DF, respectively.

2 Carry out steps 1 to 6 of the previous section “Setting an initial time code value” to set the time code to a time slightly ahead of the current time.

3 Press the SET button at the instant when the current time matches the displayed time code.

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Chapter 2 Setting/Displaying Time Data and Text Information