Instruction manual

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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO WM-3001
1.1 Outline of WM-3001
The WM-3001 is an HDTV waveform monitor which is compact, lightweight, and portable and
which is designed to monitor the pictures being shot during live broadcasts, on location or in
studios, etc.
The monitor can also be powered by the camera battery pack, so pictures can be viewed
absolutely anywhere.
The monitor comes with a number of modes: the picture mode in which the input video is
displayed in color, the waveform mode which displays it as waveforms, the vectorscope mode
that displays it as vectors, and the status mode in which the data is dumped.
A low-temperature polysilicon thin-film transistor (TFT) LCD panel is used for the monitor's
display.
The input signals support 20 different video formats in all, including 19 HDTV formats and one
SDTV format. HDTV SDI and SDTV SDI digital signals and HDTV analog signals can easily be
selected. An HDTV SDI signal refers to a 1.485 Gbps NRZ serial digital signal, while an SDTV
SDI signal refers to a 270 Mbps NRZ serial digital signal. The formats supported for HDTV are
1080/60i, 1035/60i, 720/60p, 720/24p, 1080/24p, 1080/24sF, 1080/30p, 1080/30sF, 1080/25p,
1080/25sF and 1080/50i. For SDTV, the WM-3001 supports the 525/60i format with frequency
rates of 1.000 and 1/1.001. The field frequencies (60/59.94 Hz, 24/23.98 Hz, etc.) of each format
are automatically supported.
 Six-inch low-temperature polysilicon TFT LCD panel
 Lightweight and compact size (3U half-size)
 12 V DC power supply (10 to 18 V)
 Operable on camera battery
 Supported standards of HDTV SDI input: SMPTE 292M, BTAS-004B, and BTAS-006B
(1.485 Gbps SDI input)
 Supported standards of HDTV SDI audio input: SMPTE 299M
 Supported standards of SDTV SDI input: SMPTE 259M (270 Mbps SDI input)
 Supported standards of HDTV analog input and its format: SMPTE 274M, SMPTE 296M,
and BTAS-001B
1.2 Functions of WM-3001
 Compatible with HDTV SDI and SDTV SDI digital input and HDTV analog input
(Y/Pb/Pr) signals
♦ HDTV SDI input: Signals compatible with SMPTE 292M, etc. are input to and viewed
on the monitor (with MONITOR OUT terminal).
• No-signal/CRCC error count readings (0 to 999999999, or ********* for higher
counts)
• Readings of time for last CRCC error detection (LAST) (up to 99 hours 59 minutes 59
seconds, or * for longer times)