Instruction manual

HDE-3000 - 110 -
Sony HD VTR’s
Many of our customers had issues with getting a Sony VTR to record captions.
This is some of the steps that people have to do to get some Sony HD recorders to hold
captions. You may have to call Sony to have them step you thru the menus it get their
recorders setup properly.
Here are the basic steps described.
Set up your Sony HD VTR according to these instructions.
1. Go to the "maintenance menu" and set the "metadata settings" for "CC" to:
line 1 = 9, line 2 = 572, DID = 61, SDID = 01.
2. Save the changes. This is a separate step that you have to perform before
you exit the "maintenance menu".
3. Go to the "system menu" and set "metadata" to "CC".
Then follow these instructions to configure the HDE-3000:
There are two problems that we have run into with some Sony HD VTR's.
The "vanc lines setup menu" was added to the HDE-3000 software to work
around these problems.
1. For 1080i, some Sony VTR's can't record ancillary data packets on line
571. The caption data packets normally are encoded on lines 9 and 571 (line
571 = field 2 line 8). To work around this problem, use the "vanc lines setup
menu" to encode on lines 9 and 572 (the Sony VTR can record ancillary data
on line 572).
2. For 1080PsF (progressive segmented frame), some Sony VTR's can only
record data packets on line 9. They can't record any data packets in field 2.
To work around this problem, use the "vanc lines setup menu" to disable
encoding into field 2. Leave field 1 set to line 9, and set field 2 to "disabled".
This forces the HDE-3000 to encode all the caption data into line 9 only.