All bars turn on.

These bars turn on.

Normal input level Excessive input level

To adjust manually the level of audio channel 1 without using the AUDIO LEVEL knob on the front of the camcorder

Set AUDIO CH1 LEVEL to SIDE1 on the AUDIO-1 page of the MAINTENANCE menu.

The setting of the AUDIO LEVEL knob on the front of the camcorder is disabled.

Setting the Time DataTo set the timecode

The timecode setting range is from 00:00:00:00 to 23:59:59:29 (hours: minutes: seconds: frames).

(When the frame frequency is 23.98P: from 00:00:00:00 to 23:59:59:23)

SUB CLIP

 

 

 

5

 

 

CLIP MENU

4,6

 

 

SEL/SET

 

PRESET

F-RUN

 

 

REGEN

SET

 

 

CLOCK

R-RUN

 

1

2

 

3

 

 

1 Press the DISPLAY/EXPAND button of the LCD monitor so that the status display appears.

2 Press the COUNTER/CHAPTER button of the LCD monitor to display TCG on the time counter display section.

3 Set the PRESET/REGEN/CLOCK switch to PRESET. 4 Set the F-RUN/SET/R-RUN switch to SET.

The first (leftmost) digit of timecode flashes.

5 Use the SEL/SET button (four-way arrow key) to set the timecode value including the last (rightmost) digit of the timecode.

To reset the timecode value to 00:00:00:00, press the RESET button on the right side of the LCD monitor.

Note

When the frame frequency of this unit is 23.98P, a timecode frame count can only be set to a multiple of 4 (0, 4, 8, 12, 16, or 20).

6 Set the F-RUN/SET/R-RUN switch to the desired operating mode for the timecode generator.

F-RUN: Free run. The timecode generator keeps running.

R-RUN: Recording run. The timecode generator runs only while recording.

To set the DF (drop-frame)/NDF (non-drop-frame) mode

You can select the drop-frame (DF) mode or non-drop- frame (NDF) mode on the TIME CODE page of the MAINTENANCE menu.

Note

When the frame frequency of this unit is 23.98P, recorded timecode is always non-drop-frame (NDF).

To make the timecode consecutive

When the F-RUN/SET/R-RUN switch is set to R-RUN, recording a number of scenes to the disc normally produces consecutive timecode. However, once you remove the disc and record to another disc, the timecode will no longer be contiguous even when you use again the original disc for recording.

In this case, by setting the PRESET/REGEN/CLOCK switch to REGEN, the timecode can be made continuous.

To save the actual time in the timecode

Setting the PRESET/REGEN/CLOCK switch to CLOCK saves the actual time in the timecode. When it is necessary to set the actual time, use the TIME/DATE page of the OPERATION menu.

For details, see “Setting the Date and Time of the Internal Clock” on page 34.

Note

When the frame frequency of this unit is 23.98P, the recorded timecode does not coincide with real time.

Playback and Recording 3 Chapter

Recording – Basic Operations

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