Umid Menu Setup - Sony Digital betacam DVW-970 Operation Manual

• Recording based on the UTC. The UTC is used when
recording the UMID. This enables uniform control of
source material recorded all over the world based on the
universal time code.
• Calculating the date difference among source materials.
The source material is recorded based on the MJD
(Modified Julian Date), which enables easy calculation
of date difference among source materials.

UMID menu setup

The UMID SET page of the OPERATION menu allows
you to make settings for UMID data.
Proceed as follows:
1
Holding down the MENU knob, set the MENU ON/
OFF switch from OFF to ON.
The TOP menu appears.
2
Turn the MENU knob to move the
"OPERATION," and press the MENU knob.
If this is the first time the OPERATION menu has been
displayed, the CONTENTS page appears.
If the menu has been used before, the last accessed
page appears.
3
If the CONTENTS page is displayed, turn the MENU
b
knob to move the mark to "UMID SET," and press
the MENU knob.
If a different page is displayed, turn the MENU knob
until the UMID SET page appears, then press the
MENU knob.
The current settings appear on the right side of each
item.
UMID SET page
?20 UMID SET
EX-OWNERSHIP REC:
COUNTRY CODE
ORGANIZATION
USER CODE
INSTANCE NO
TIME ZONE : 00 : +00:00
MACHINE : sssssssssssss
Proceed as follows:
Item Contents
EX-OWNERSHIP Specifies whether to record the
REC user data.
COUNTRY CODE Sets the country code.
ORGANIZATION Sets the organization code.
USER CODE Sets the user code.
INSTANCE NO. Specifies how to generate the
instance number.
b
mark to
OFF
: sss
: sssss
: sssss
: RND
Item Contents
TIME ZONE Sets the time difference from UTC.
MACHINE Displays the machine-specific
number.
4
Turn the MENU knob to move the
you want to set, and press the MENU knob.
b
The mark to the left of the selected item changes to
a z mark, and the z mark to the left of the setting
changes to a ? mark.
5
Turn the MENU knob to change the setting of the
selected item or to display the desired value, and press
the MENU knob.
The z mark returns to a
returns to a z mark.
6
To end the menu operation, set the MENU ON/OFF
switch to OFF.
Additional information on the UMID SET
menu items
EX-OWNERSHIP REC
Specify whether to record the user data.
ON: The user data (COUNTRY CODE,
ORGANIZATION, and USER CODE) are recorded on
the tape.
OFF: The user data are not recorded.
COUNTRY CODE
When you select this item, the character table appears.
20 UMID SET
EX-OWNERSHIP REC:
COUNTRY CODE
ORGANIZATION
USER CODE
INSTANCE NO
-0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKL
MNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghij
klmnopqrstuvwxyz
INS DEL RET
Enter an abbreviated alphanumeric string (4-byte
alphanumeric strings) according to the values defined in
ISO 3166-1.
There are about 240 country codes.
Find your own country code on the following home page.
Refer to ISO-3166-1:
http://www.din.de/gremien/nas/nabd/iso3166ma/codlstp1/
en_listp1.html
When the country code is less than 4 bytes, the active part
of the code will occupy the first part of the 4-bytes and the
remainder must be filled with the space character (20h).
Adjustments and Settings from Menus
b
mark to the item
b
mark, and the ? mark
TOP
OFF
: sss
: sssss
: sssss
: RND
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