•The time code and user bits cannot be displayed properly if the tape does not have time code and/or user bits recordings or if the time code was recorded using a non-compatible method.

•When you input HDV format signal via i.LINK connection, the user-bits of the input video are written on this camera, however, they are not displayed during dubbing.

TC FORMAT

You can set up the recording mode for the time code.

AUTO

Select the mode automatically in accordance with the inserted cassette.

DF

Select the drop frame mode.

NDF

Select the non-drop frame mode.

•If you record onto a new cassette with the camcorder in [AUTO] (the default setting), the recorded time code is [NDF].

•If [TC MAKE] is set to [PRESET] with the camcorder in [AUTO] (the default setting), the recorded time code is [NDF] regardless of the previously recorded method.

TC RUN

You can set how the time code advances mode.

REC RUN

Advance the time code value only while recording. Select this when making the time code continuous at backspace editing.

FREE RUN

Advance the time code freely regardless of the camcorder’s current operation mode.

The time code starts running once this setting is selected.

TC MAKE

REGENERATE

Make the time code continuous at backspace editing. Regardless of the [TC RUN] setting, the running mode is automatically set to [REC RUN].

PRESET

You do not want to make the time code continuous at backspace editing.

UB TIME REC

OFF

You do not want to set the user bits to the real time clock.

ON

Set the user bits to the real time clock.

Drop frame mode

In the NTSC standard, the time code value is

 

based on 30 frames per second, but the exact

 

video frame frequency is in fact 29.97 frames

 

per second. Consequently the time code value

 

will deviate from the real time when recording

 

 

for long time. Drop frame mode corrects for this

Using

by skipping 2 frame counts at the beginning of

 

every minute which is not a multiple of 10. In

the

non-drop frame mode, however, no frame counts

 

are omitted, and there is a gradual deviation of

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the time code from the real time.

 

• If you start recording when there is no video

 

input signal via an i.LINK connection, the time

 

code may not proceed correctly.

 

• If you record HDV and DVCAM (DV)

 

mixed, the time code may be initialized at the

 

backspace editing.

 

• If you play back the tape recorded in HDV and

 

DVCAM (DV) mixed, the time code may not

 

match the picture at the backspace editing.

 

• When recording in the HDV format,

 

discrepancy of 3 frames at the maximum may

 

occur.

 

• User-bit values appear at every 3 frames for the

 

tape recorded in the HDV format.

 

• When you input HDV format signal via i.LINK

 

connection, the user-bits are copied, however,

 

they are not regenerated.

 

MARKER SET

You can select the type of marker to be displayed on the screen. Select whether each type is displayed or not by selecting [ON] or [OFF]. You can display more than one type of marker at the same time.

•The marker display does not affect recording in any way.

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