•Recording based on the UTC. The UTC is used when recording the UMID. This enables uniform control of source material recorded all over the world based on the universal time code.

•Calculating the date difference among source materials. The source material is recorded based on the MJD (Modified Julian Date), which enables easy calculation of date difference among source materials.

UMID menu setup

The UMID SET page of the OPERATION menu allows you to make settings for UMID data.

Proceed as follows:

1 Holding down the MENU knob, set the MENU ON/ OFF switch from OFF to ON.

The TOP menu appears.

2 Turn the MENU knob to move the b mark to “OPERATION,” and press the MENU knob.

If this is the first time the OPERATION menu has been displayed, the CONTENTS page appears.

If the menu has been used before, the last accessed page appears.

3 If the CONTENTS page is displayed, turn the MENU knob to move the b mark to “UMID SET,” and press the MENU knob.

If a different page is displayed, turn the MENU knob until the UMID SET page appears, then press the MENU knob.

The current settings appear on the right side of each item.

UMID SET page

?20 UMID

SET

 

 

EX-OWNERSHIP

REC:

OFF

COUNTRY CODE

:

sss

ORGANIZATION

:

sssss

USER CODE

 

:

sssss

INSTANCE

NO

:

RND

TIME ZONE

: 00 : +00:00

MACHINE :

sssssssssssss

 

 

 

 

Proceed as follows:

Item

Contents

EX-OWNERSHIP

Specifies whether to record the

REC

user data.

 

 

COUNTRY CODE

Sets the country code.

 

 

ORGANIZATION

Sets the organization code.

 

 

USER CODE

Sets the user code.

 

 

INSTANCE NO.

Specifies how to generate the

 

instance number.

 

 

Item

Contents

TIME ZONE

Sets the time difference from UTC.

 

 

MACHINE

Displays the machine-specific

 

number.

 

 

4 Turn the MENU knob to move the b mark to the item you want to set, and press the MENU knob.

The b mark to the left of the selected item changes to a z mark, and the z mark to the left of the setting changes to a ? mark.

5 Turn the MENU knob to change the setting of the selected item or to display the desired value, and press the MENU knob.

The z mark returns to a b mark, and the ? mark returns to a z mark.

6 To end the menu operation, set the MENU ON/OFF switch to OFF.

Additional information on the UMID SET menu items

EX-OWNERSHIP REC

Specify whether to record the user data. ON: The user data (COUNTRY CODE,

ORGANIZATION, and USER CODE) are recorded on the tape.

OFF: The user data are not recorded.

COUNTRY CODE

When you select this item, the character table appears.

20 UMID SET

 

TOP

EX-OWNERSHIP REC:

 

OFF

COUNTRY CODE

: sss

ORGANIZATION

: sssss

USER CODE

: sssss

INSTANCE NO

:

RND

-0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKL MNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghij klmnopqrstuvwxyz

INS DEL RET

ESC END

Enter an abbreviated alphanumeric string (4-byte alphanumeric strings) according to the values defined in ISO 3166-1.

There are about 240 country codes.

Find your own country code on the following home page.

Refer to ISO-3166-1: http://www.din.de/gremien/nas/nabd/iso3166ma/codlstp1/ en_listp1.html

When the country code is less than 4 bytes, the active part of the code will occupy the first part of the 4-bytes and the remainder must be filled with the space character (20h).

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