Monitoring The Audio; Outputting The Color Bars And Reference Tone - Sony PMW-F3K Operating Instructions Manual

Monitoring the Audio

You can monitor the sounds being recorded with
the headphones connected to the headphone
connector (stereo mini jack).
MONITOR
VOLUME
MONITOR VOLUME buttons
Note
The built-in speaker is disabled in E-E Display/
Recording mode.
To adjust the audio monitoring volume
Use the MONITOR VOLUME buttons.
Pressing the + button increases the volume, and
pressing the – button decreases it. To muffle the
sound, set it to the minimum level.
While you adjust the volume, the level is
displayed as a bar on the screen.
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Outputting the Color Bars and Reference Tone

Headphone connector
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
115) is set to "On" with the AUDIO SET menu.
The color-bar and reference-tone signals are fed
out from the HD SDI (A/B), SDI OUT, HDMI
OUT, and i.LINK (HDV/DV) connectors. The
VIDEO OUT connector outputs the color-bar
signal only.
BARS/CAM button
BARS/CAM
THUMBNAIL
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 111) of the CAMERA SET
menu.
Multi: ARIB multiformat color bars
75%: Vertical stripes of 75% luminance
100%: Vertical stripes of 100% luminance
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