Useful Functions
Color Bars/Reference Tone
By setting “Camera/Bars” in “Color Bars” (page
81) in the CAMERA SET menu to “Bars,” you
can output a color-bar signal in place of the
camera picture. When this item is set to
“Camera,” the output returns to the camera
picture.
A 1-kHz reference tone is output with the color
bar signal if “1KHz Tone” in “Audio Input” (page
87) in the AUDIO SET menu is set to “On.”
The color-bar signal and reference-tone signal are
also fed out from the SDI OUT, HDMI OUT,
i.LINK, VIDEO OUT (color bars only), and A/V
OUT connectors.
You can select the type of color bars with “Bars
Type” in “Color Bars” in the CAMERA SET
menu.
Notes
• The color bar mode cannot be output in Slow & Quick
Motion mode and SLS/EX SLS mode.
• You cannot switch to “Color Bars” while recording.
(Switching from “Color Bars” to “Camera” is
available.)
Shot Marks
When you record shot marks for important scenes
of a clip recorded in UDF or FAT HD as
subsidiary data, you can access the marked points
easily on a Shot Mark screen (page 72), which
only displays scenes with shot marks only. This
increases editing efficiency.
The camcorder permits you to record two types of
shot marks: shot mark 1 and shot mark 2.
Shot marks can be recorded as needed during
recording or can be added after recording while
checking the playback pictures on the thumbnail
screen.
Inserting a shot mark during recording
Activate the IR Remote Commander (page 24),
and press the SHOTMARK 1 or SHOTMARK 2
button where you want to insert a shot mark. If the
Shot Mark1 or Shot Mark2 function is assigned to
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