Sony DVW-250 - Manual (Page 9)

2-1 Front Panel
Status indications
Status indication panel
This displays warnings, the tape remaining, the battery
capacity remaining, the operating status, and time
indications.
Status indication panel
The details of these indications are as follows:
Warning indications
The following indications appear in the event of a fault
in the unit:
RF: Recording or playback is not possible because
the video heads are clogged, or there is a fault in
the circuit.
SERVO: The drum servo or capstan servo lock is
lost.
HUMID: There is condensation on the head drum.
Alternatively, the humidity is high.
SLACK: The tape winding is not correct.
For more details, see the section "Warning Indications"
(page A-1).
Operating status indications
These show the operating status of the unit, as follows:
DIAG: in diagnosis mode
PB: when the playback time code is displayed.
VITC: when the time code displayed is the VITC
(Vertical Interval Time Code)
NDF: in non-drop frame mode (DVW-250 only) (see
the footnotes on page 4-9)
EXT-LK: when the time code on this unit is locked
to the time code on an external unit
2FLD: when the internal time code generator is not
color frame locked"
1) Color frame lock
This forces the time code frame number to be even for information in the input video signal and the time code is
the first and second color fields and odd for the third and not locked to an external time code, then in the F-RUN
fourth color fields. When there is color frame mode the color frame lock is automatically applied.
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