Sony BETACAM SX Operation Manual page 16

2-1 Control Panels
2 Monitor/menu/display setting section
1 PREREAD button
2 CONFI button
3 PB.EE button
4 PB button
5 MENU button
PREREAD CONFI PB EE PB MENU
7 HOLD button
8 CTL/TC/UB button
9 TOTAL/REMAIN button
0 RESET button
1 PREREAD button
When this is lit, a preread (read-before-write) is carried
out in insert editing.
2 CONFI (confidence) button
When this is lit, the CONFI indicator appears in the
display, and during recording the video and audio
signals are simultaneously played back by the special-
purpose confidence heads. This enables you to check
the signals being recorded.
3 PB.EE (playback E-E) button
To select E-E mode input signals for the video/audio
signals output during fast forward, rewind, still, and
standby, press this button, turning it on.
Either one of this button and the PB button 4 is
always lit.
4 PB (playback) button
To select playback signals for the video/audio signals
output during fast forward, rewind, still, and standby,
press this button, turning it on.
Either one of this button and the PB.EE button 3 is
always lit.
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6 SET button
HOLD RESET
SET CTL/TC/UB TOTAL/REMAIN
5 MENU button
Use this button for setup menu operations.
Pressing this button, turning it on, displays setup
menus in the fluorescent display of the display section
3. Press the button once more to exit from the menu
display.
For details of setup menu operations, see Chapter 7, "Menu
System".
6 SET button
Use this button for setting time code and user bit
values and in setup menu operations.
For details of setup menu operations see Chapter 7, "Menu
System", and for details of setting time code and user bit
values see Section 4-1-2, "Recording Time Code and User
Bit Values" (page 4-2).
7 HOLD button
To stop updating of the time code or user bit value in
the fluorescent display (that is, to hold the display),
press this button, turning it on. To set a time code or
user bit value, first press this button to hold the value.
8 CTL/TC/UB button
This selects the value displayed in the fluorescent
display in the following sequence: CTL, TC, UB.
As the display changes, the corresponding indicators
over the fluorescent display also show the status.
Time code display value selection and display contents
Display Value displayed
selection
CTL Tape running time (hours,
minutes, seconds,
frames) computed from
the CTL (control) signal
recorded on the tape
during playback, or a
count of the CTL signal
pulses during recording.
TC Playback time code read
by the internal time code
reader or time code
during recording.
UB
User bit value inserted in
the playback time code or
time code during
a)
recording.
a) The selection of LTC or VITC is made by the TC switch.
When VITC is selected, the VITC indicator over the TC
switch lights.
Indicator status
TC and UB
indicators are
both off.
The TC indicator
lights and the UB
indicator goes off.
a)
The UB indicator
lights and the TC
indicator goes off.