Sony 500WSPL User Manual

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Chapter 3 Shooting

Use the TC mode switch 2 to set the desired
running mode.

If you select F-RUN, the time code starts
advancing immediately.

Drop-frame mode (for DSR-500WSL only)

In the NTSC standard, the time code value is based on
30 frames per second, but the exact video frame
frequency is in fact 29.97 frames per second and the
real time, or 18 frames per 10 minutes.
Drop-frame mode corrects for this by skipping two
frame counts at the beginning of every minute which is
not a multiple of ten.

Example: When the minute value is changing from
11 to 12

In non-drop-frame mode, however, no frame counts
are omitted, and there is a gradual deviation of the time
code from real time.

Making the time code continuous at back
space editing

Set the TC mode switch 2 to R-RUN and start back
space editing.

For operation of back space editing, see “Back Space
Editing” on page 58.

Restarting an interrupted recording

Perform the following steps to make the time code
continuous when the recording has been interrupted or
when the cassette tape has been removed from the
camcorder between shootings.

Set the TC mode switch 1 to REGEN.

Time code advance is automatically set to R-RUN
even if the TC mode switch 2 has been set to F-
RUN.

Perform steps

of “Starting Back Space

Editing at Any Tape Position” on pages 58 and 59.

When the camcorder is at the recording pause
state, the recorded time code is read from the tape
and synchronized to the internal time code
generator.

Press the VTR button on the camcorder or lens to
restart back space editing.

Setting the time code to the real time
clock bU calendar

Set the TC mode switch 1 to DATE/TIME.

You can record the real time set in menu 101 as the
time cord, and the calendar set in menu 101 as the user
bits.

Once you set this switch to DATE/TIME position, it is
not possible to retrieve the previous value (user bits
and time code) in the time code generator.

For how to set the real time clock and calendar, see “Menu
101 Setting the Real Time Clock and Calendar” on page
105.

Operation

Setting

Time code advances freely regardless of
the VCR’s current operation mode.

F-RUN

Time code value advances only while
recording.

R-RUN

00:05:11:29

00:05:12:02

00:05:12:00 and
00:05:12:01
These two are dropped.