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  • Page 1 HCM-700 Monitor ON CAMERA User Manual...
  • Page 3 Product Information Model: HCM-700 ON CAMERA Monitor Version: V010002 Release Date: May 18th, 2018 Company OSEE TECHNOLOGY LTD. Contact Information OSEE TECHNOLOGY LTD. No.22 Building, No.68 zone, Beiqing Road, Haidian District, Address: Beijing, China 100094 Post Code: (+86) 010-62434168 Tel:...

  • Page 4: Contents

    The safety matters or operations that user must pay attention to when using this product. Contents The user manual applies to the following device types:  HCM-700 The images and descriptions of HCM-700 are adopted as examples in the following document. Before reading the manual, please confirm the device type.

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    Contents Contents ......................I Chapter 1 Safety ..................... 1 Chapter 2 Unpack and Installation ............... 5 Chapter 3 Locations and Function of Parts and Control ......7 3.1 Parts and Functions ................7 3.2 Buttons and Functions ............... 9 3.3 Operations ................... 9 3.4 ZOOM ....................
  • Page 6 6.2 Optional Accessories ................ 63 6.3 Dimensions ..................66...

  • Page 7: Chapter 1 Safety

    Safety Chapter 1 Safety FCC Caution Any Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user's authority to operate the equipment. This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.
  • Page 8 Safety Warnings: Read, keep and follow all of these instructions for your safety. Heed all warnings. Device  Install in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions.  Do not beat with a hard object or scratch the LCD display.  Do not make the freeze picture displaying on the screen time too long, otherwise, it will leave the afterimage on the screen.
  • Page 9 Safety  The panel used in this produce is made of glass. Therefore, it can break when it is dropped or applied with impact. Be careful not to be injured by broken glass pieces.  Specifications are subject to change without notice. ...

  • Page 11: Chapter 2 Unpack And Installation

    Chapter 2 Unpack and Installation Unpack: When unpacking the HCM-700 monitor, please verify that none of the components listed in Table 3.1 are damaged or missing. If there are any components missing, please contact your distributors or OSEE for it.

  • Page 13: Chapter 3 Locations And Function Of Parts And Control

    Parts and Control 3.1 Parts and Functions The parts of HCM-700 is shown as below, there are various input and output interfaces at the rear panel of HCM-700 monitor, as shown in Figure 3.1-1. Figure 3.1-1 Parts in Rear Panel Power Switch Press this part to switch on or switch off the power.
  • Page 14 Locations and Function of Parts and Control  It lasts about one minute for starting operation, and please don’t do any operations during starting the device. Power Input Plug the power supply to this interface to provide power to the device. The DC input voltage range is 11 to 17V.

  • Page 15: Buttons And Functions

    Locations and Function of Parts and Control SD Card Slot One SD card slot at position, using general SD card to upload or save LUT files or others.  Only use the adapter and the power cord specified by the manufacture for your safety！...
  • Page 16 Locations and Function of Parts and Control The four shortcut buttons are LOOK, SCOPE, PEAKING, BL, achieving swift operations for some designated functions. The details are as below: LOOK: load or close a LUT table on scene Click this button to load or close the first LUT file added in current scene.
  • Page 17 Locations and Function of Parts and Control Figure 3.3-1 Backlight Adjustment Menu Joystick Use the joystick as a navigation tool to scroll between scenes pages and set features. The joystick provides multiple functions with five operation directions, Up Down, Left, Right, and Straight Down, as shown in Figure 3.3-2.
  • Page 18 Locations and Function of Parts and Control Direction Operation  In scene tool menu, scroll down to select the next item or decrease the item value;；  In scene page, scroll down to select the delete scene command.  Without any menu, scroll leftmost to enter into the monitor settings menu;...

  • Page 19: Zoom

    Locations and Function of Parts and Control The power switch is on the left corner of the rear panel of HCM-700. Use it to power the HCM-700 on or off. Figure 3.3-3 Power Switch 3.4 ZOOM You can get closer view to your image in ZOOM mode. It provides 2X ZOOM mode and 4X ZOOM mode, that is you can double(2X) or quadruple(4X) the image, and move the starting position of the enlarged image.
  • Page 20 Locations and Function of Parts and Control Figure 3.4-1 Zoom 2X Mode  Zoom 2X Editing Mode After entering into the Zoom 2X Mode, press straight down the joystick to move the starting position of the enlarged image. There will be a Zoom 2X Editing icon at the bottom right of the screen, as shown in Figure 3.4-2.
  • Page 21 Locations and Function of Parts and Control Figure 3.4-3 Zoom 4X Mode  Zoom 4X Editing Mode After entering into the Zoom 4X Mode, press straight down the joystick to move the starting position of the enlarged image. There will be a Zoom 4X Editing icon at the bottom right of the screen, as shown in Figure 3.4-4.

  • Page 22: Supported Signal Format

    Locations and Function of Parts and Control vertical direction.  In ZOOM 4X mode, you need scroll the joystick 40 times from the origin of coordinate to the maximum in horizontal direction, and you need scroll the joystick 20 times from the origin of coordinate to the maximum in vertical direction.

  • Page 23: Chapter 4 Monitor Settings

    Figure 5-1 Monitor Settings Menu The features on the screen are as shown in Figure 5-2: Figure 5-2 Tools for HCM-700 Monitor And there could be multiple accessorial objects on screen, such as status display information, aspect area, safe area, crosshair, waveform, audio meter, histogram,...

  • Page 24: Menu Operations

    Monitor Settings focus assist, false color and so on. Please refer to the corresponding sections for the details in this chapter. 4.1 Menu Operations Display the Monitor Settings Menu Scroll leftmost the Joystick to display the monitor settings Menu at the left side of the screen, as shown in Figure 4.1-1: Figure 4.1-1 the Structure of the Monitoring Settings Menu The menu interface is divided into two parts: Level one menu and Level two menu.

  • Page 25: Monitor Menu

    Monitor Settings  The control icon is displayed as a highlight white rectangle at the background of the current active item. 4.2 Monitor Menu The following will introduce the contents and functionality of these menu items in sorts. 4.2.1 INPUT and OUPUT The INPUT and OUPUT menu items are used to select signal source, and enable or disable the output interfaces.

  • Page 26: Controls

    Monitor Settings Enable an output interface After setting the input source, it will be output to the two output interfaces: SDI OUTPUT and HDMI OUTPUT. Whether you can get the signal source from the SDI OUTPUT interface or the HDMI OUTPUT interface, it is determined by the subitem setting of input outputOUTPUT.
  • Page 27  NONE cameras to fill the screen  CANON 5D DSLR SCALE OPTIONS NONE of HCM-700. MARK II This item is particularly  CANON 7D CANON/NIKON DSLR. Adjust Volume Select controlVOLUME item, scroll straight down to confirm the selection and display the VOULME menu, as shown in Figure 4.2-5.
  • Page 28 Monitor Settings Figure 4.2-6 Backlight Menu Set Anamorphic Ratio This feature enables you to de-squeeze HD-SDI, and 3G-SDI signals coming from camera utilizing anamorphic lenses that may not have a built-in de-squeeze feature of their own. This is quite useful in applications, such as outdoor post production, onset monitoring, real-time de-squeezing, etc.
  • Page 29 Monitor Settings Image Rotate  Vertical Rotate Set controlImage Rotate Rotate Screen item to be ON, the input image will reverse vertically, as shown in Figure 4.2-8: Figure 4.2-8 Vertical Rotate DSLR SCALE This function is designed for some DSLR cameras (CANON 5D MARK II, CANON 7D).

  • Page 30: User

    Monitor Settings DSLR SCALE Item INPUT RESOLUTION OUTPUT RESOLUTION NONE 1920X1080 1920x1080 CANNON 5D MARK II (1920X1080)x0.85 1920x1080 CANNON 7D (1920X1080) x0.85 1920x1080 4.2.3 User The User menu items are used to set the status display bar, Fast mode, multiple images display mode and settings, backlight, auto standby mode, aperture, language mode, horizontal flip, and uniformity, the menu items are as shown in Figure 4.2-10: Figure 4.2-10 User Settings Menu...
  • Page 31 Monitor Settings  INPUT FORMAT The Signal Format usually displays as the following situations:  UNKNOWN: appears if an unsupported signal is input.  NO SIGNAL: appears if no signal is detected.  Normal: the signal format is displayed as HDMI 1080i59.94, SDI 1080i59.94, etc.
  • Page 32 Monitor Settings Figure 4.2-13 Process of Saving Data It will pop up a prompt after successful saving data, as shown in Figure 4.2-14, press the joystick straight down to confirm the completion. Figure 4.2-14 Prompt for Successful Saving Data If detecting no SD card during the saving operation, it will prompt ”SD Card does not exist!”;...
  • Page 33 Monitor Settings Figure 4.2-15 Backup File Selection List Scroll the joystick up or down to the target file name, then press the joystick straight down to confirm the selection, it will prompt as shown in Figure 4.2-16: Figure 4.2-16 Prompt for Loading Profile Select LOAD command, then press the joystick straight down to confirm the load operation, please don’t cut off the power during loading, as shown in Figure 4.2-17:...

  • Page 34: System

    Monitor Settings If detecting no SD card during the loading operation, it will prompt ”SD Card does not exist!”. 4.2.4 System The system menu provides calibration, language selection, firmware check and factory reset operations, as shown in Figure 4.2-18: Figure 4.2-18 System Menu Table 4.2-5 Description of System Menu Items Menu Items...
  • Page 35 Monitor Settings Menu Items Default Domain Range Description Enable/Disable WIFI WIFI ON/OFF function AUTO/ 1(2412 MHz)/ 2(2417 MHz)/ 3(2422 MHz)/ 4(2427 MHz)/ 5(2432 MHz)/ communication CHANNEL AUTO 6(2437 MHz)/ channel 7(2442 MHz)/ 8(2447 MHz)/ 9(2452 MHz)/ 10(2457 MHz)/ 11(2462 MHz)/ MAC address WIFI SSID...
  • Page 36 Monitor Settings Figure 4.2-19 Calibration Menu Set system CALIBRATION  DISABLE CALIBRATION item as ON, it will be able to load LUT file. Set system CALIBRATION  DISABLE CALIBRATION item as OFF, it will be disable to load LUT file. Load LUT File(1D LUT) Select system...
  • Page 37 Monitor Settings Figure 4.2-21 Load a LUT After loading a LUT file, it will be loaded to the output image immediately, as shown in Figure 4.2-22: Figure 4.2-22 Output Image Loading a LUT File  Refer to “5.1.4 Look Tools” for the details about loading the 3D LUT file. RESET CALIBRATION LUT Select system...
  • Page 38 Monitor Settings BRIGHTNESS Set system CALIBRATION BRIGHTNESS item to adjust the brightness. Scroll left to decrease the brightness, or scroll right to increase the brightness. R/G/B GAIN Set system CALIBRATION R-GAIN/G-GAIN/B-GAIN item to adjust the gain values. Scroll left to decrease the gain, or scroll right to increase the gain. WIFI SETTINGS Set system...
  • Page 39 Monitor Settings minute. The device will be in black screen mode for a short time after confirming reset operation, then it will display the Boot Screen for successful reset operation, as shown in Figure 4.2-26. At last, please restart the device by manual. Figure 4.2-25 Prompt for Factory Reset Figure 4.2-26 Boot Screen ...

  • Page 41: Chapter 5 Scenes And Tools

    You can create customized scenes pages with different features and settings in HCM-700. In a scene, press the joystick straight down, and select ADD NEW TOOL command, and press the joystick straight down again, it will display the Tools Menu, as shown in Figure 5.1-1.

  • Page 42: Frame Tools

    Scenes and Tools Figure 5.1-3 Tool Settings Menu It will introduce the tools and their attributes in the following section, and refer to “5.2 Tools Operations” for the details about tools operation. 5.1.1 Frame Tools Frame tools assist to set viewing frame, including: aspect area, safe area, crosshair and crosshatch.
  • Page 43 Scenes and Tools Tool Items Default Domain Range Description area in CUSTOM mode Set the mat area type is 50% STYLE MATTE MATTE / LINE darken area or line Enable/Disable safe ENABLE OFF / ON marker display safe marker FORMAT 16:9 16:9/14:9/4:3 position safe...
  • Page 44 Scenes and Tools Marker Marker Illustration Description ASPECT This marker identifies an area (AREA with a specified aspect ratio. MARKER) This marker displays a rectangle SAFETY to identify the safety area with a MARKER specified percentage in Area Marker. CROSSHAIR This marker enables...

  • Page 45: Expose Tools

    Scenes and Tools 5.1.2 Expose Tools Expose tools provide exposure assist (False Color), zebra, histogram, waveform and vectorscope, as shown in Figure 5.1-6: Figure 5.1-6 Expose Tools Table 5.1-2 Description of Expose Tools Tool Items Default Domain Range Description Enable/Disable false ENABLE OFF/ON color function...
  • Page 46 Scenes and Tools Tool Items Default Domain Range Description luminance histogram histogram  RGB: RGB histogram  TOP RIGHT  MID RIGHT  BOT RIGHT  MID BOT Set the position of LOCATION  RIGHT BOT LEFT the histogram  MID LEFT ...
  • Page 47 Scenes and Tools Tool Items Default Domain Range Description Set the transparency 0 ～ 3 OPACITY of the vectorscope FALSE COLOR EXPOSURE ASSIST is also known as FALSE COLOR, this function generates an artificial luminance map of the input signal that can be useful to identify over exposed areas(exposure).
  • Page 48 Scenes and Tools Figure 5.1-8 RED Mode- Mapping of Color and Luminance  ARRIR Mode Figure 5.1-9 ARRIR Mode- Mapping of Color and Luminance For example: Set EXPOSURE ASSIST ENABLE item as ON, set EXPOSURE ASSIST STYLE item as NORMAL, EXPOSURE ASSIST IRE item as ON, and EXPOSURE ASSIST IRE LOCATION item as ON, as shown in Figure 5.1-10:...
  • Page 49 Scenes and Tools Figure 5.1-10 Comparison Mode- Original Image and Normal Mode Image The LOOK tool is incompatible with the False Color( EXPOSURE ASSIST ) tool.  That is, enable the LOOK tool, the False Color tool will be disabled automatically, and enable the False Color tool, the LOOK tool will be disabled automatically.
  • Page 50 Scenes and Tools Histogram assists in judging the distribution of luminance in the image.  Histogram Type Set EXPOSEHISTOGRAMSTYLE item as LUMA or RGB, the two histogram types are as shown in Figure 5.1-12: Figure 5.1-12 RGB Histogram and LUMA Histogram WAVEFORM ...
  • Page 51 Scenes and Tools VECTORSCOPE Set EXPOSEVECTORSCOPEENABLE item to display or hide the vectorscope. Figure 5.1-14 VECTORSCOPE LOCATION There are 8 positions for display the histogram, waveform and vectorscope on the screen, they are TOP RIGHT, MIDDLE RIGHT, BOTTOM RIGHT, MIDDLE BOTTOM, BOTTOM LEFT, MIDDLE LEFT, TOP LEFT, and TOP MIDDLE, as shown in Figure 5.1-15.

  • Page 52: Focus Tools

    Scenes and Tools  3: 25%, when opacity set to 3, the assistant element (histogram, waveform or vectorscope) is proportional to 25% opacity. For example: set EXPOSEHISTOGRAM OPACITY as 0, 1, 2, 3 separately, the comparison are as below: Figure 5.1-16 Different Opacity for Histogram 5.1.3 Focus Tools Focus tools provide the focus assist function and the peaking function.
  • Page 53 Scenes and Tools Tool Items Default Domain Range Description intensified edges highlight in white. Set the edge difference value between the edges in an image, SENSITIVITY 1 ～ 10 and take this value as the reference value. Larger value means more detail detection. OFF: COLOR MODE...

  • Page 54: Look Tools

    Scenes and Tools Figure 5.1-18 Illustration for FOCUS ASSIST Function Figure 5.1-19 Illustration for FOCUS ASSIST Function 5.1.4 Look Tools Look tools provides loading 3D LUT profile, adding audio meter or SDI metadata to current scene, as shown in Figure 5.1-20 Figure 5.1-20 Look Tools Table 5.1-4 Description of Look Tools Tool...
  • Page 55 LUT profiles:  Internal：9 camera log, as shown in Table 5.1-5;  SD Card: HCM-700 monitor is capable of loading customized calibration 3D LUTs from SD card. Select LOOK LOOK LOOK FILE item to choose a 3D LUT file from SD card or internal files.
  • Page 56 SONY  The internal LUT files are constantly under development.  HCM-700 supports color management software CalMAN currently, the customized 3D LUT profiles(*.cube) produced by these softwares could be loaded to SD card by a control computer.  You can place the customized 3D LUT profiles(*.cube) directly on an SD card, either on the root directory or organize them by folders.

  • Page 57: Scale Tools

    Scenes and Tools Select SDI METADATATimecode item to enable the display of embedded timecode on screen, only valid for SDI input signal. Timecode is displayed as the format of “HH:MM:SS:FF” at the bottom center of the screen, and if there is no available timecode, it will not appear. Figure 5.1-22 Timecode 5.1.5 Scale Tools Scale tool is used to adjust the horizontal and vertical size of the screen, as shown in...

  • Page 58: Tools Operations

    Scenes and Tools Set SCALE SCALE ENABLE item as ON, the image scale is activated. The image size could be adjustable by SIZE item.  Image Size Set SCALE SCALE SIZE item from 20 to 100 to change the image size. After scaling down, the blank area will be filled with black, as shown in Figure 5.1-24: Figure 5.1-24 Scale Illustration...

  • Page 59: Add A Scene

    Scenes and Tools 5.2.1 Add a Scene You can customize up to 8 scenes in HCM-700 for various requirement, and switch swiftly among these scenes by joystick operations. Scroll the joystick right to add a new scene, it will prompt “Add New MySet ”...

  • Page 60: Add A Tool

    Scenes and Tools 5.2.3 Add a Tool After creating a scene, add some tools to assist in composition, for example, add a marker, waveform, histogram or audio meter, etc.  Each scene supports up to 8 scene tools.  You can add more than one of the same tool in a scene. Scroll the joystick down, it will pop up the “ADD NEW TOOL”...

  • Page 61: Load/Close Tool Bar

    Scenes and Tools the joystick straight down to confirm the selection, the HISTORGRAM，tool will be added in the tool bar, as shown in Figure 5.2-6: Figure 5.2-5 Choose Histogram Tool Figure 5.2-6 Histogram in the Tool Bar Continue to add other tools for the scene, you can add up to 8 tools in a scene. 5.2.4 Load/Close Tool Bar In a scene, after added the tools, you can load the tool bar or close the tool bar.
  • Page 62 Scenes and Tools  Load Tool Bar First, scroll the joystick right to enter into a scene; Second, press the joystick straight down to load the tool bar for the current scene, the tool bar will be displayed the leftmost of the screen, as shown in Figure 5.2-7. The bar labeled in the red rectangle are the tool bar for the current scene.

  • Page 63: Open/Close A Tool

    Scenes and Tools Figure 5.2-8 Tool Setting Menu Press BACK button to return to the tool bar and close the tool setting menu. 5.2.5 Open/Close a Tool Follow the instructions below to open or close a tool swiftly:  Open a Tool First, press the joystick straight down to load the tool bar of the current scene;...
  • Page 64 Scenes and Tools Scroll the joystick left or right to switch among different scenes. The tool bar is hidden when switching to a scene by default. You should press the joystick straight down to display the tool bar for the current scene. Operate the tool bar to display each tool settings menu, and set the style, location or size of the tool.

  • Page 65: Delete A Tool

    Scenes and Tools Scroll the joystick right to enter into the next level menu, it will display the histogram settings menu, as shown in Figure 5.2-11. It lists the characteristics of histogram in this menu, such as STYLE, LOCATION, OPACITY and ENABLE switch. After finish the parameter settings, press BACK button to return to the tool bar.
  • Page 66 Scenes and Tools Figure 5.2-12 Delete a Tool Press the joystick straight down to confirm the selection, and it will pop up a prompt to confirm the deletion, as shown in Figure 5.2-13, press straight down to delete, then the tool will be deleted from its tool bar. Figure 5.2-13 Prompt for Deleting a Tool ...

  • Page 67: Chapter 6 Specifications

    Specifications Chapter 6 Specifications 6.1 Product detailed information Specification Values Model HCM-700 Display 7” Dimension Aspect Ratio 16:10 178° Viewing Angle (HxV) Color Depth 8bit Resolution 1920×1200 Contrast 1200:1 Brightness 1100nits Input/Output Signal Formats 3G-SDI(Input/Output) 1080P60, 1080P59.94, 1080P50 1080p30, 1080p25, 1080p24, 1080p23.98,...
  • Page 68 Specifications Specification Values Power Consumption 12W Typ. 15W Max. Battery Types Canon LP-E6/ Sony L Series Environmental 30F ～ 90F/ 0°C~35°C Operating Temperature 0F ～ 120F/ -20°C~50°C Storage Temperature Screen Protection 1mm Acrylic 4.56’’(11.57cm) 7.61’’(19.32cm) × × Dimensions(Bare Monitor ） 1.01’’(2.57cm) Weight （...

  • Page 69: Optional Accessories

    6.2 Optional Accessories You can select the following accessories for LCM-E series monitors optionally: Type Model Description Battery Plate HCM-BM-SC Battery plate Sunhood suit HCM-700-HOOD Sunhood Protective screen HCM-700-Cover Protective screen Protective Case HCM-700-PB Protective Case Battery Plate If you want to use battery as your backup power supply, you can choose the battery plate listed in the optional accessories table above: as shown in Figure 6.2-1:...
  • Page 70 Figure 6.2-1 AB-mount Battery Plate in Landscape Sunhood In case of diffusion light and direct illumination, we can use sunhood for the HCM-700 monitor when supervising images. Mount the sunhood as shown in Figure 6.2-2, and Figure 6.2-3: Figure 6.2-2 Mount a Sunhood...
  • Page 71 Figure 6.2-4: Figure 6.2-4 Mount a Protective Screen Protective Case Each monitor and its accessories can be set in an OSEE protective case for better protection and easy carry, as shown in Figure 6.2-5, and Figure 6.2-6:...
  • Page 72 Specifications Figure 6.2-5 Adapter C-Stand to LCM-E Monitor Figure 6.2-6 Connecting to Light Stand 6.3 Dimensions The description of the HCM-700 dimensions are as shown in the following figures(Unit: mm):...
  • Page 73 Specifications Figure 6.3-1 Front View(Unit: mm) Figure 6.3-2 Back View(Unit: mm)
  • Page 74 Specifications Figure 6.3-3 Side View(Unit: mm) Figure 6.3-4 Top View (Unit: mm)  Specifications are subject to change without notice. ------------------No Text Below------------------...
  • Page 75 FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT: http://www.osee-dig.com.cn/ OSEE TECHNOLOGY LTD. Address: No.22 Building, No.68 zone, Beiqing Road, Haidian District, Beijing, China (+86) 010-62434168 Tel: Fax: (+86) 010-62434169 FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT: http:/www.oseeamericas.com OSEE AMERICAS, LTD. Address: 43218 Christy Street Fremont, CA. 94538...

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