Sony MAV-555SS Display indicators panel, Time data indication, Status indication, Indicators

All the LED indicators light when reading from or saving to the memory card.

For details, refer to Section 2-2, “System Setup Panel” (page 2-6).

gDisplay indicators panel

The display panel provides four sets of identical information, for each of the ports which can be used. The following figure shows one of these displays.

	Status indication					Time data indication
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Names		E	OVER	E	E	OVER	E	E	OVER	E	E	OVER	E
		0		20	0		20	0		20	0		20
		dB		2	dB		2	dB		2	dB		2
		-10		10	-10		10	-10		10	-10		10
	REC INHI			1			1			1			1
and		-20		0	-20		0	-20		0	-20		0
	LTC VITC UB	-30		-1	-30		-1	-30		-1	-30		-1
Functions of	TM1 TM2			-10			-10			-10			-10
		-40		-20	-40		-20	-40		-20	-40		-20
	REMOTE LOCAL			-2			-2			-2			-2
		-60		-40	-60		-40	-60		-40	-60		-40
	READY		CH15	dB		CH26	dB		CH37	dB		CH48	dB
	Indicators					Audio level meters
Parts

Time data indication

This shows time data value for the corresponding port. When you press the MENU button it also shows setup menu items, and information about Error/ Warning states.

Status indication

This shows the operating status of the port, as follows.

Play	B
Stopped	x
Recording	z
Variable speed playback (FWD)
at less than 1× speed	B
Variable speed playback (REV)
at less than 1× speed	b
Fast forward or variable speed playback
exceeding 1× speed	BB
Rewind or variable speed reverse playback
exceeding 1× speed	bb

Indicators

These show the type of timecode displayed, the remote/local setting, whether recording is inhibited, and so forth.

• REC INHIBIT

This appears when recording is inhibited on a recording port. The recording inhibit setting is carried out by a setup menu item.

• Time data type

This appears as LTC, VITC, TM1, or TM2, according to the type of time data currently being displayed. When user bits from LTC or VITC are displayed, the UB indicator also appears.

• Remote/local setting

This shows whether the port is set to LOCAL or

REMOTE.

• Port status

When the port is operating normally, the READY indicator appears.

Audio level meters

These show the audio levels for each of the channels for the currently displayed port (either recording levels or playback levels as appropriate). When playing back material recorded with emphasis on, the “E” indicator appears for the corresponding channel. Either the FULL mode display (with two possible range selections) or the FINE mode display is available. To change the FULL/FINE selection, use the FULL/FINE button in the display selection section (c). Setup menu items determine the scale and headroom settings.

hSET button

Press this button after changing a setup menu item.

iMENU button

Pressing this button lights the indicator, and displays a setup menu item. Press once again to clear the menu display without changing the setting.

jVIDEO INPUT SELECT buttons

Press one of these buttons, turning it on, to select the video input signal to the currently selected port. SDI: Selects the serial digital video signal input to the

SDI INPUT connector.

COMPOSITE: Selects the analog composite video signal input to the VIDEO INPUT (COMPOSITE) connector.

kPORT SELECT buttons

These select the port used for time data display, audio/video input source selection, and other settings. The port selected by these buttons also determines the port output from MONITOR OUTPUT.

lAUDIO INPUT SELECT/MONITOR SELECT section

AUDIO INPUT SELECT/MONITOR SELECT buttons

Select the input audio signals or monitor output signals for the selected port. When the INPUT SELECT button is lit select the input audio signals, and when the MONITOR SELECT button is lit select the monitor output signals.

INPUT SELECT button

Select the type and channel of the audio signal input to the currently selected port. Press this button, turning it on, then press the required AUDIO INPUT/

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