Menus Setup 12 Chapter

12-3 Items in the Basic Setup Menu

Item number

Item name

Settings

 

 

 

 

 

 

009a)

CHARACTER TYPE

Determines the type of characters such as time code output from the

 

 

COMPOSITE VIDEO OUTPUT 3 (SUPER) connector and the SDI OUTPUT 3

 

 

(SUPER) connector for superimposed display on the monitor.

 

 

 

WHITE

: White letters on a black background

 

 

BLACK: Black letters on a white background

 

 

W/OUT: White letters with black outline

 

 

B/OUT: Black letters with white outline

 

 

 

 

 

 

011a)

CHARACTER V-SIZE

Determines the vertical size of characters such as time code output from the

 

 

COMPOSITE VIDEO OUTPUT 3 (SUPER) connector and the SDI OUTPUT 3

 

 

(SUPER) connector for superimposed display on the monitor.

 

 

 

⋅1 : Standard size

 

 

⋅2: 2 times standard size

 

 

 

 

 

 

012b)

CONDITION DISPLAY

Specifies whether to add an indication of channel condition and tape time to

 

VIDEO MONTOR

superimposed text, when “⋅1” is selected in menu item 011.

 

 

 

disable

: Do not display.

 

 

enable: Display.

 

 

 

 

 

 

a)When setting items 009 and 011, watch the monitor screen, and adjust to the required state.

b)The channel condition indication appears under the timer or status line (under the video playback level indication during playback of an analog tape), in the format “V–A–”, where the symbol following the “V” indicates the rotating head condition for video channels and the symbol following the “A” indicates the rotating head condition for audio channels.

The following three symbols appear: “–” (good)

“*” (fair) “x” (poor)

The tape time is displayed as follows in the time data display area 2 of the time data/menu display section.

BOT: Displayed when the tape has returned to the top.

EOT: Displayed when the tape has reached the end.

TTL: 00: 00: Displays a time representing the total length of the tape.

REM: 00: 00: Displays a time representing the remaining length of the tape.

“00:00” means “hours:minutes” for both TTL and REM.

The setting of item F5 (T INFO) on page 3 of the function menu determines whether TTL or REM is displayed.

For more information about page 3 of the function menu, see “Page 3” in Section 11-2 “Function Menu Item List” (page 11-6).

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