Sony HVR1500A Product Manual (HVE-1500A Operating Manuals) - Page 33

Chapter 2 Preparations Displaying the Time Data and Operating Mode You can display time data and the operating mode on the monitor screen. You can also display the desired time data in the time counter display of the LCD monitor. Displaying on the LCD monitor and an external video monitor 1 In the DISPLAY INFO menu item (see page 78), set the time data display mode. Display mode Information displayed TIME DATA & STATUS TIME DATA & UB TIME DATA & CNT Time data and the operating mode of this unit Time data selected with the COUNTER SELECT button and user bit data. However, when the user bit display is selected, user bit data and timecode. Time data selected with the COUNTER SELECT button and CNT. However, when the CNT display is selected, CNT and timecode. TIME DATA & TIME TIME DATA ONLY TC and VITC Only time data selected with the COUNTER SELECT button. REC DATE & TIME REC DATE (recording date) and REC TIME (recording time) recorded on the tape. 2 With the TC SELECT menu item (see page 80), select the type of timecode when displaying timecode or user bit data. Setting TC VITC Data displayed LTC timecode value or user bit data VITC timecode value or user bit data Note When the internal timecode generator of this unit operates in external regeneration mode (see page 54), the setting in step 2 also determines the target timecode for synchronization of the internal timecode generator. 3 Set the CHARA. DISPLAY menu item (see page 77) to ON (factory default setting is ON). The set items are displayed on the monitor screen. You can set the display content of the superimposed text information, the type and positioning of the characters in the DISPLAY CONTROL menu item (see page 77). When the SUB STATUS menu item (see page 78) is set to anything other than OFF, you can display the supplementary status information relating to the editing mode and timecode generator. For details of the contents of the text information, see "Superimposed Text Information" (page 29). For details of supplementary status information, see "Displaying Supplementary Status Information" (page 30). To change the time data display Time data type indicator POWER EJECT INPUT SELECT HD VIDEO SD VIDEO CH1 1/2 CH2 3/4 REC/PB LEVEL 1 2 3 4 LEVEL PHONES VARIABLE REC PRESET PB CONTROL-S MONITOR SELECT REW LOCAL 9PIN i.LINK OVER OVER 60i 0 720 30p 720 60p -12 -20 -30 -40 -60 CH1 CH2 EDIT MODE REPEAT TC VITC 48K 01:23:45:15 DISPLAY COUNTER SELECT MENU TC PRESET HDV DVCAM (DV) ASSIGN RESET(NO) SET(YES) PLAY F FWD STOP REC A B 21 Time counter display 1 Press the DISPLAY button to set the LCD monitor display to status display mode or small screen display mode (see page 16). 2 Press the COUNTER SELECT button. Each press of the button changes the time data type indicator in the following way. 33 Displaying the Time Data and Operating Mode