When an auto exposure mode that effects the iris is enabled, a small “A” will appear next to the
iris indicator at the top of your URSA Broadcast touchscreen.
Duration Display
At the top of your URSA Broadcast LCD touchscreen, you’ll see your camera’s duration display.
Your URSA Broadcast's duration display. This will turn red while recording
The duration display provides a timecode counter for checking the duration of your clips and
monitoring timecode during recording and playback. The counter displays a time sequence
showing Hours:Minutes:Seconds:Frames and will progress through the sequence as you record
or play back clips. The timecode will turn red during recording.
The displayed duration of each clip starts from 00:00:00:00 for each clip. The clip duration of
the current, or last recorded, clip is displayed on the touchscreen. Time of day timecode is
embedded into clips for easier post production.
To see the timecode, simply tap the duration display. Tap the duration display again to return to
clip duration.
Additional status indicators may appear around the duration display:
Appears to the left of the duration display when your
URSA Broadcast is using a windowed sensor mode.
Appears to the right of the duration display when
showing timecode.
Appears to the right of the duration display if an external
timecode is connected and valid.
Appears to the right of the duration display if the camera is
running off an internal timecode after being ‘jam synced’
and disconnected.
Appears when a valid reference source is connected
and locked, based on the reference input settings.
Gain
The ‘Gain’ indicator displays your URSA Broadcast's current gain setting, or light sensitivity.
Tapping this indicator lets you adjust your gain to suit varying lighting conditions.
The optimum setting for URSA Broadcast is 0dB.
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Automatic exposure works smoothly with compatible B4 or PL lenses which are
designed for video or film production. EF lenses may produce noticeable ‘steps’ in
exposure when changing aperture. For this reason, we recommend using only ‘shutter’
auto exposure mode if shooting with EF lenses.
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