How To Input User Bits; Setting The Time Code - Panasonic AJ-PX270 Operating Instructions Manual

t The internal [USER] value retains the slaved value even after slave lock is released.
t To input external time codes from the <TC IN/OUT> terminal, set the <IN/OUT> switch to the <IN> side.

How to input user bits

By setting user bits, information such as memos (date, time) up to eight digits long (hexadecimal) can be recorded.
1
Select [USER] in the main menu → [RECORDING SETUP] → [UBG MODE].
2
Select the main menu → [RECORDING SETUP] → [UB PRESET].
3
Set the user bits using the control stick.
f Screen display
- Push it to the right to move right the digit to be set.
- Push it to the left to move left the digit to be set.
- Push it upward to increase the value of the digit to be set by one.
- Push it downward to decrease the value of the digit to be set by one.
4
Press the control stick, enter the values of user bits, and exit the user bits settings screen.
5
Use the <COUNTER> button to display [UBG] and confirm that the set value is displayed.
@ NOTE
t If you exit the user bits setting screen without pressing the control stick, the set values are disabled.
Retention of user bits in memory
User bit settings are automatically recorded and are retained even if the power is turned off.
Frame rate information recorded on user bits
Saving the frame rate values for the image information shot/saved according to the frame rate set in the main menu → [SYSTEM MODE] to user bits
allows you to use the editor (personal computer editing software).
Information is always saved in VITC UB.
In addition, selecting [FRAME RATE] in the main menu → [RECORDING SETUP] → [UBG MODE] saves the information in user bits (LTC UB) as well.
The same value as in the frame rate information obtained from VITC UB playback is also output as LTC UB during playback of clips recorded in native
format.
Frame rate information
The relationship between frame rates, image pull-down, and time codes/user bits is as follows.
Verification information on the right-hand six digits

Setting the time code

1
Set the mode for time code in the main menu → [RECORDING SETUP] → [DF MODE]/[TCG].
f [TC MODE] (When 59.94 Hz)
Sets [DF] (Drop frame mode)/[NDF] (non-drop frame mode).
In 24PN, the camera always operates in [NDF].
f [TCG]
Sets [FREE RUN] (free run)/[REC RUN] (recording run).
2
Set to [TC PRESET] in the main menu → [RECORDING SETUP].
Chapter 4 Shooting — Setting the time data
Fixed values
Sequence No.
24P: 0-4
Other than above: F-fixed
Camera image mode
Example)
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Media management information
Updated frame flags and valid frame flags
REC mark
60i 600
60P 608
30P 308
24P 248
24PN 24C
(During shooting)
50i 502
50P 50A
25P 25A
P 9
(VFR 30PN or over 60P)
P 1
(VFR over 60P)
P D
(VFR24PN during shooting)
P B
(VFR25PN or over 50P)