Chapter
Adjustments
and
Settings
for
Recording
• Now the built-in time code generator is locked to the
reference time code.
• When locked to an external time code generator, the
time code is at all times locked to the external time code,
which is displayed as a highlighted value on the counter
indicator. Do not engage the recording mode during the
few seconds it takes for the sync generator to stabilize.
• Once a slave relationship is established, the TC IN and
GENLOCK IN connectors stay in slave status.*
Note that the following events release slave status.
• When TC PRESET is performed
• When the REC SIGNAL option in the SYSTEM SETUP
screen is set to 1394.
• The power is turned off
• The time code mode is switched
• The TCG switch is set to R-RUN
• When REC FORMAT and CAMERA MODE have been
switched
* The slave function locks the time code to the TC IN
input and the device will use this time code even if time
code input should subsequently cease.
Setting the user bits when the time code
is externally locked
To externally lock user bits, set the setting menu UB MODE
(RECORDING SETUP screen) to EXT.
Regardless of an F-RUN or R-RUN setting of the TCG
switch, the time code is slaved to user bit values input to
the TC IN connector.
For details, refer to [Setting Time Data] (page 56) and
[Setting user bits] (page 58).
To unlock the externally locked time code
Discontinue external time code supply, then position the
TCG switch at [R-RUN].
Cautions in switching the power source
from battery to external power supply
Connect the DC IN socket with the external power supply
before removing the battery, in order to keep the time code
generator energized. If the battery is removed first, there is
no guarantee that the time code will stay externally locked.
External synchronisation of the camera
when the time code is externally locked
When the time code is externally locked, the reference
video signals input through the GENLOCK IN connector
gen-lock the camera.
NOTE
• To lock other devices externally to the AG-HPX300P, as the
master device, make sure that the other devices are in the
same camera mode as the AG-HPX300P. Note that if some of
the connected devices use interlaced scanning while other
devices use progressive scanning, there may be breaks in the
video and time code.
• When 24P, 24PA or 24PN (native) is selected and the time
code is externally locked, be sure to select a non-drop frame
time code. The time code cannot be externally locked when
drop frame mode is selected. When the time code is externally
locked, the video may be distorted, but this is because of
adjustment to 5-frame segments and not a malfunction.
Outputting the time code externally
To output time code from the camera’s TC OUT connector
to a VTR or other recording device in sync with camera
picture or playback picture, set the setting menu TC VIDEO
SYNCRO (OUTPUT SEL) to VIDEO OUT.
Set the menu option GL SELECT to SDI or COMPOSITE
as required by supplied video output in the OTHER
FUNCTIONS screen and the menu option TC OUT to TCG/
TCR in the OUTPUT SEL screen.
TC OUT
VIDEO IN
SDI IN
HD SDI IN
TC IN
AG-HPX00P
VTR,etc.
SDIOUT
or
VIDEOOUT
NOTE
When the setting menu TC VIDEO SYNCRO is set to VIDEO
OUT, the time code is output via TC OUT in tune with VIDEO
OUT delay.
