Chapter 6 : Menu And Detailed Settings; Setup Menu Organization And Levels; Setup Menu Organization; Setup Menu Levels - Sony PMW-500 Operation Manual

6 Menu and Detailed Settings
Chapter
Setup Menu
Organization and Levels
On this camcorder, settings for shooting and
playback are made in the setup menu, which
appears in the viewfinder.
The setup menu can also be displayed on an
external video monitor (see page 167).

Setup Menu Organization

The setup menu consists of the following menus.
Us: USER menu
Menu items added in any order from other menus
(see page 111)
Op: OPERATION menu
Settings related to shooting, except settings
related to picture quality (see page 112)
Pa: PAINT menu
Settings related to picture quality (see page 129)
Th: THUMBNAIL menu
Settings related to clip thumbnails (see page 96)
Note
The THUMBNAIL menu is used only when a thumbnail
screen (see page 91) is displayed. It is disabled when no
thumbnail screen is displayed.
Ma: MAINTENANCE menu
Settings related to audio and timecode (see
page 135)
Fi: FILE menu
Settings related to file operations (see page 150)

Setup Menu Levels

See "THUMBNAIL Menu Configuration" (page 96)
for the organization of the THUMBNAIL menu.
USER menu (see page 111)
USER
Format Media
Rec Function
Input/Output
Clip
Assignable SW
Camera Config
OPERATION Menu (see page 112)
OPERATION
Format
Format Media
Input/Output
Super Impose
LCD
Rec Function
Assignable SW
VF Setting
Marker
Gain Switch
TLCS
Zebra
Display On/Off
"!" LED
Auto Iris
Shot ID
Shot Display
White Setting
Offset White
Shutter
Time Zone
Clip
Plan.Metadata
USB

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