Displaying Color Bars/Outputting A Test Tone; Color Bars] - Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH4 Owner's Manual

8. Recording Motion Pictures

Displaying color bars/Outputting a test tone

Applicable modes:
You can display color bars, which is convenient for adjusting settings such as the picture
quality of an external monitor. When you display color bars, a test tone will also be output.
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The brightness and color tone that appear on the camera's monitor or viewfinder may differ
from those that appear on another device such as an external monitor. Check the final picture
quality on another device such as an external monitor.
1
Select the menu.
>
MENU
2
Press 3/4 to select an item and then press [MENU/SET].
[SMPTE]
[EBU]
[ARIB]
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Color bars will be displayed and a test tone will be output.
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You can set the test tone level from among three options (s12 dB, s18 dB, and s20 dB)
by rotating the control dial.
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If you press the motion picture button, the color bars and the test tone will be recorded as
a motion picture.
3
Press [MENU/SET].
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The color bars will disappear and the test tone will stop.
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If you press [MENU/SET] while recording color bars as a motion picture, the color bars will
disappear, but you can continue the recording. This operation allows you to record color bars in
the beginning of a motion picture.
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If you assign [Color Bars] to [Fn Button Set]
the function button to which the setting is assigned, you can display or hide color bars. In this
operation, the color bars you used last time will be displayed.
(P54)
[Motion Picture] > [Color Bars]
Color bars compliant with SMPTE
Color bars compliant with EBU
Color bars compliant with ARIB
(P317) in the [Custom] menu, each time you press
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