Chapter 2 Locations and Functions of Parts and Controls 2-31
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5 HOLD (display hold) button
Pressing this button instantly freezes the time data displayed in the
counter display section. (The time code generator continues normal
operation.) Pressing this button again releases the hold. One use of this
feature is to determine the exact time of a particular shot.
See Section 2-8 “Warnings and Indications on the Display Panel” (page 2-37) for
more information about the counter display.
6 RESET (counter reset) button
This button resets the time data displayed on the counter display section
to “00 : 00 : 00 : 00” and the user bit data to “00000000”.
7 DISPLAY switch
Depending on the settings of the F-RUN/SET/R-RUN switch and the
REAL TIME switch, this switch selects data to display in the counter
display section, as follows:
CTL: CTL
TC: Time code
DATA: The item selected by the DATA DISPLAY switch
For more information, see “Time code displays” (page 2-39).
8 ADVANCE button
For setting the time code or user bits, each press of this button
increments the flashing digit selected by the SHIFT button. Pressing this
button while holding down the HOLD button decrements the flashing
digit.
Hold down this button and press the SHIFT button to enter the VTR
menu mode.
For details about the VTR menu, see Section 4-10, “VTR Menu Display in the
Display Panel” (page 4-87).