Setting The Time Code - Panasonic AGHPX255 Operating Instructions Manual

Using time data (continued)

Setting the time code

1
Switch the menu option TC MODE and TCG
on the RECORDING SETUP screen to set
the mode of the time code.
• TC MODE (in the case of 59.94 Hz) (Page
141)
Sets DF/NDF.
Time code
Drop frame mode
Non-drop frame mode
24P, 24PA, and 24PN always operate using
NDF.
• TCG (Page 141)
Sets FREE RUN/REC RUN.
2
Select CHANGE for TC PRESET on the
setting menu RECORDING SETUP screen
and press SET on the Operation lever to
open the time code setting screen.
3
Use the Operation lever to set the time
code.
• Range of available time code settings:
00 : 0 0 : 0 0 : 0 0 to 23 : 5 9 : 5 9 : 2 9 (60i, 60P),
00 : 0 0 : 0 0 : 0 0 to 23 : 5 9 : 5 9 : 2 3 (24PN),
00 : 0 0 : 0 0 : 0 0 to 23 : 5 9 : 5 9 : 2 4 (50i, 50P)
PUSH MENU TO RETURN
► direction: S hifts the target (highlighted)
◄ direction: S hifts the target (highlighted)
▲ direction: I ncreases the highlighted
▼ direction: D ecreases the highlighted
SET: Use to confirm set time code value.
• Pressing the RESET button will reset any
time code setting to 0.
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Setting
DF
NDF
TC PRESET
REC RUN
+/- : PUSH /
SEL : PUSH /
PRESET : SET ( )
digit to the right.
digit to the left.
number by one.
number by one.
4
Press SET on the Operation lever and
confirm the time code setting value and
you leave the time code setting screen.
5
Select TC display using the COUNTER
button, and confirm that the value set is
displayed.
• When 24P or 24PA is used, the time
code is adjusted every 5 frames. It is
adjusted to multiples of four for 24PN
and to even numbers for 720/30PN. It
is adjusted so that the seconds plus
the frames are an even number for
720/25PN. The time code cannot be set
during recording.
• If you leave the time code setting
screen without pressing the SET button
on the Operation lever, the set value is
not retained.
Time code function during battery replacement
Even during battery replacement the backup
mechanism keeps the time code generator
functioning.
When the POWER/MODE switch has been
switched ON → OFF → ON, the backup
accuracy of the time code in free run mode is
about ±2 frames.
VFR (variable frame rate) time code
• In 24PN mode, recording is performed at
24-frame time code, and output is performed at
30-frame time code to match the 2:3 pull-down
scheme used for video output.
• At a frame rate (capture frame rate) of 24P, the
speed of recording and the output time code
matches the actual time, but not at any speed
other than 24P. (Example: at 60P recording
progresses at 60/24 speed)
• Then the camera-recorder operates in REC
RUN mode and the time code output at start of
recording matches the recording time code.
• This is also the same when shooting in modes
other than 30P in 30PN, and 25P in 25PN.