Sony PMW-EX3 manual Outputting the Color Bars and Reference Tone, Press the BARS/CAM button

Outputting the Color

Bars and Reference

Tone

The camcorder can output a color-bar signal in place of the camera picture.

A 1-kHz reference tone is output with the color bar signal if “1kHz Tone” of “Audio Input” (page

121)is set to “On” with the AUDIO SET menu. The color-bar signal is also fed out from the SDI OUT, COMPONENT OUT, MONITOR OUT and S VIDEO connectors, and the reference-tone signal is fed from the AUDIO OUT connectors.

•The color bar mode cannot be selected in Slow & Quick Motion mode and EX Slow Shutter mode.

Recording

16:9 WIDE SCR EEN

	IRIS
	MANU AUTO
10	MACRO
8.5
	FOCUS

ND FILTER

OFF

STATUS

2

1

MENU

- +

FULL	AUTO
FRAME

-EX3 PMW

-FULL AUTO FRAME

+

GAIN	WHITE BAL BARS/CAM
L	ATW	B
M		A
H		PAST

BARS/CAM button

Press the BARS/CAM button.

The camera picture is switched to color bars. To return to the camera picture, press the button again.

You can select the type of color bars with “Color Bar Type” (page 118) of the CAMERA SET menu.

Multi: ARIB multiformat color bars

75%: Vertical stripes of 75% luminance

100%: Vertical stripes of 100% luminance

Notes

•When recording of the camera image is in progress, it cannot be switched to the color-bar picture even if you press the BARS/CAM button. (You can switch the color-bar picture to the camera picture.)

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