Chapter 7
UMID Functions
7-2
Chapter 7
UMID Functions
This section explains how to output and display
UMIDs.
Note
When the number of active scan lines for HD SDI
output is set to 720P, output and displaying of UMID
are not carried out.
7-2-1 UMID Output Settings
You can choose to output UMIDs or not, and select
either Basic UMID or Extended UMID when you
choose to output UMIDs. Make these settings using
setup menu item 651 UMID OUTPUT.
(UMID information is added to HD SDI output.)
See page 9-18 for more information about setup menu item
651.
7-2-2 UMID Display
During recording and playback, UMID data appears in
the menu display section of the control panel and on
the video monitor.
To display the UMID
In function menu page 5, press the F2 (UMID) button.
See Section 8-1-2 “Using the Function Menu” (page 8-2)
for more information about function menu operations.
The UMID appears in the menu display section of the
control panel and on the video monitor.
See the next section “UMID display on the video monitor”
for examples of the UMID displayed on the video monitor.
To switch the displayed UMID item in the
menu display section
Rotate the MULTI CONTROL knob.
To exit from UMID display
Press the F6 (EXIT) button.
UMID display on the video monitor
The video monitor connected to the COMPOSITE
VIDEO OUTPUT 3 (SUPER) connector or the SDI
OUTPUT 3 (SUPER) connector on the connector
panel displays all UMID items at once. The display of
each line is explained below.
1
Instance Number generation method and
Instance Number
The generation method is displayed as follows.
CP+16:
“16-bit PRS (pseudo-random sequence)
+Copy No.” method
24PRS:
24-bit PRS method
others:
Other than the above
When menu item 656 MATERIAL NO. is set to NEW,
the SMPTE method is used.
2
Material Number generation method
SMPTE:
SMPTE method
IEEE 1394 ZONE:
IEEE 1394 ZONE method
IEEE 1394 RND:
IEEE 1394 RND method
others:
Other than the above
3
Material Number
The material number is displayed in hexadecimal
across two lines.
The following items,
4
through
9
, are contained in
the Source Pack.
4
Date/Time
Date/Time data is displayed across two lines.
The upper line shows the MJD (Modified Julian Date)
contained in the Source Pack, converted to UTC.
The lower line shows the data in unit count format
(hours : minutes : seconds : frame) converted to UTC.
7-2 UMID Output and Display
UMI
D
EXIT
INSTANCE 24PRS XX-XX-XX
HOME
F1
F2
F3
F4
F5
F6
First item in UMID displayed in menu display section
INSTANCE 24PRS XX-XX-XX
XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX
UMID INFORMATION
XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX
XX:XX:XX:XX +XX:XX
DATE/TIME 20XX/XX/XX
ALTITUDE XXXXXXXXm
LONGITUDE EXXX XX'XX.XX
LATITUDE SXXX XX'XX.XX
ORGANIZATION XXXX
USER XXXX COUNTRY XXXX
MATERIAL SMPTE
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