Chapter
Adjustments
and
Settings
for
Recording
Setting user bits
Use the setting menu UB MODE on the RECORDING
SETUP screen to select the user bits to record in the
subcode area.
•USER:
Records internal user values.
To set user values, set the TCG switch to SET to open
the setting menu UB PRESET screen.
Set values are retained after the power is turned off.
See also [Entering the User Bits] (page 63).
•TIME:
Records the time calculated by the internal clock.
•DATE:
Records the year, month and day time digits from the
internal clock.
•EXT:
Records the user bits input to the TC IN connector.
Recording of 1394 input also records user bits input to
the DVCPRO/DV connector.
•TCG:
Records the time code value.
•FRM.RATE:
Records the frame rate information of camera capture.
A native recorded clip is played back at the same frame
rate as the VITC UB regardless of recorded values. Use
this setting when a PC or other editing device is to use
the user bit frame rate.
For details, see [Frame rate information recorded in
user bits] (page 64).
• To slave lock to the user bits input to the TC IN connector,
set to EXT.
• In slave mode, the UB indicator is highlighted.
• A slave relationship, once started, continues even after
input from the TC IN or DVCPRO/DV connector ends.
Note that the following events release user bit slave
status.
• When a UB MODE option is set to something other than
EXT.
• When UB PRESET is performed
• Switching to 1394 in the menu option REC SIGNAL in
the SYSTEM SETUP screen.
• Turning the power off.
The internal user value retains the slave values even after
slave release.
Entering the User Bits
The user bits allow information, including memos that use
up to eight-digit hexadecimal numbers (date and time), to
be recorded in the Subcode area.
b
d
a
c
a RESET button
b COUNTER button
c TCG switch
d CURSOR and SET buttons
1
SettheCOUNTERbuttontoUB.
2
PositiontheTCGswitchatSET.
