8-3 UMID Output and Display

This section explains how to output and display UMIDs.

Note

When the number of active scan lines for HD SDI output is set to 720P, output and displaying of UMID are not carried out.

UMID display on the video monitor

The video monitor connected to the COMPOSITE VIDEO OUTPUT 3 (SUPER) connector or the SDI OUTPUT 3 (SUPER) connector on the connector panel displays all UMID items at once. The display of each line is explained below.

8-3-1 UMID Output Settings

You can choose to output UMIDs or not, and select either Basic UMID or Extended UMID when you choose to output UMIDs. Make these settings using setup menu item 651 UMID OUTPUT.

(UMID information is added to HD SDI output.)

See page 10-22 for more information about setup menu item 651.

UMID INFORMATION INSTANCE 24PRS XX-XX-XX MATERIAL SMPTE XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX DATE/TIME 20XX/XX/XX

XX:XX:XX:XX +XX:XX ALTITUDE XXXXXXXXm

LONGITUDE EXXX XX'XX.XX LATITUDE SXXX XX'XX.XX ORGANIZATION XXXX

USER XXXX COUNTRY XXXX

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8-3-2 UMID Display

During recording and playback, UMID data appears in the menu display section of the control panel and on the video monitor.

To display the UMID

In function menu page 5, press the F2 (UMID) button.

See Section 9-1-2 “Using the Function Menu” (page 9-2) for more information about function menu operations.

The UMID appears in the menu display section of the control panel and on the video monitor.

First item in UMID displayed in menu display section

UMI

INSTANCE 24PRS XX-XX-XX

 

 

 

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EXIT

HOME

F1

F2

F3

F4

F5

F6

See the next section “UMID display on the video monitor” for examples of the UMID displayed on the video monitor.

To switch the displayed UMID item in the menu display section

Rotate the MULTI CONTROL knob.

To exit from UMID display

Press the F6 (EXIT) button.

1Instance Number generation method and Instance Number

The generation method is displayed as follows. CP+16: “16-bit PRS (pseudo-random sequence)

+Copy No.” method 24PRS: 24-bit PRS method others: Other than the above

When menu item 656 MATERIAL NO. is set to NEW, the SMPTE method is used.

2Material Number generation method SMPTE: SMPTE method

IEEE 1394 ZONE: IEEE 1394 ZONE method

IEEE 1394 RND: IEEE 1394 RND method

others: Other than the above

3Material Number

The material number is displayed in hexadecimal across two lines.

The following items, 4 through 9, are contained in the Source Pack.

4Date/Time

Date/Time data is displayed across two lines.

The upper line shows the MJD (Modified Julian Date) contained in the Source Pack, converted to UTC.

The lower line shows the data in unit count format (hours : minutes : seconds : frame) converted to UTC.

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