MAINTENANCE menu

This menu includes contains items for making settings for audio, timecode, essence marks, and battery.

FILE menu

This menu is for saving the adjusted data in the camcorder memory or in a “Memory Stick”. The following files can be saved.

User file

In the user file, the setting items and setting data of the customized USER menu are saved. Once you save the user file in a “Memory Stick”, you can easily set the USER menu to your preference by loading the data from the “Memory Stick”.

For details on the user file, see “Saving and Loading User Files” on page 145.

ALL file

In the ALL file, the setting data of all of the menus are saved. Once a camcorder is set according to your preferences and you save its ALL file in a “Memory Stick”, you can easily set other camcorders to the settings of the camcorder that you already set by loading the data from the “Memory Stick”.

Items included in the ALL file are marked with an “A” in the “File” column on the menu list.

Scene file

In the scene file, the setting values of event items adjusted to shoot a particular scene are saved. You can save up to five scene files in the camcorder memory and up to 100 scene files in a “Memory Stick”. For example, first adjust the settings to shoot a particular scene at the rehearsal and then save them as a scene file. Then load this file before the actual shooting so that you can quickly recreate setup conditions that are the same as those in rehearsal.

Items included in the scene file are marked with an “Sc” in the “File” column on the menu list.

Lens file

In the lens file, the setting data used to compensate for the characteristics of lenses, such as flare, white shading, and auto iris gain, is saved. You can save up to 32 lens files in the camcorder memory and up to 100 lens files in a “Memory Stick”.

Items included in the lens file are marked with an “L” in the “File” column on the menu list.

DIAGNOSIS menu

This menu shows the digital hours meter, and disc and clip status information.

ADVANCED menu

This menu contains items for making advanced settings and adjustments, for example settings related to auto iris and gamma correction.

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Menu List

For settings registered on a USER menu page at the factory, the “USER menu page” colomn in the following list indicates the number of that page.

The USER MENU CUSTOMIZE menu allows you to add and delete pages to and from the USER menu to suit your requirements.

Note

When the setting range in the “Settings” column is surrounded by parentheses ( ), the setup value is a relative value. The setting range shown on the menu screen may differ from what is shown in this manual.

“File” column

The letters in the “File” column stand for the following.

A:Items saved in the ALL file Sc: Items saved in the scene file

L:Items saved in the lens file

St: Items whose setting is changed by the STANDARD operation

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