User`s manual

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4 Menu & Option Selections
From the front panel, you have access to three different sets of menus. Pressing the MENU key will
provide access to the “Standard Menu” and pressing OPTION MENU (hold the OPTION key while
pressing MENU) will allow access to the “Options Menu”. Pressing the ESC and MENU key will
provide access to the “Controller Menu”. If you don’t have a front panel controller, you can either use
the VToolsPro utility or the RCV2 stand-alone controller.
4.1 Standard Menu
The MENU key will call up the menus allowing the user to define the set-up of the V1 unit. The up
arrow key
! (or down arrow key ") will allow the user to get to the next (or previous) menu selection.
The TOGGLE button generally sets the parameters for the selected menu. Press TOGGLE to increase
the parameter and hold OPTION and TOGGLE to decrease the parameter.
Once menus are set-up, pressing the ESC key will save the settings and quit the menu mode. All the
settings related to the recording i.e. Remote/Local, Time Mode, Sync Source, Input Source, etc. are
automatically saved on the current disk when you exit the menu mode
Menus (00), (01), (02), (04), (05), (06) and (10) are saved on the active drive. So if this drive is mounted
on another V1 unit, all these settings will be recovered.
(00) Control Selects the mode of control for the V1. The TOGGLE key will switch between:
Local
For front panel control of the V1
Remote
For control of the V1 by an external edit controller or workstation
via the rear panel RS-422 connectors
(01) Time Mode Selects the Time Code source of the V1 during playback. Regardless of the setting
for this option, the V1 will record the time code present on the video input on the
VITC track, and the time code present on the LTC input on the time code track.
This menu option will allow you to choose the time code during playback. The
TOGGLE key will switch between:
A Time
Absolute Time, the time code displayed on the V1 front panel
and present on the TIME CODE OUT connector during
playback or record is generated internally by the V1. A Time
represents the time elapsed since the start of the recording unless
a time code offset has been set. See Section 5.1.4, “Time Code
Offset”.
Time
Code
During record the time code present on the TIME CODE IN
connector will be recorded on the time code track (guide track)
of the V1 active drive, a valid LTC signal should first be fed to
the V1 LTC IN connector. The time code displayed on the V1
front panel and present on the TIME CODE OUT connector
during playback or record is the same time code recorded on the
time code track, unless a time code offset has been set. See
Section 5.1.4 "Time Code Offset".
A Time as
LTC
If you are using A Time (with or without an offset) as your time
code and if your controller requires time code, you should
choose this option, which will make the A Time look like Time
Code on the RS422 connection.