Panasonic Multi Format Digital Hd Video Cassette Recorder Ajhd3700b Sw Operating Instructions

							Multi Format Digital HD
Video Cassette Recorder
Operating Instructions (Software)
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AJ-Model No.
VQT0F76
Before operating this product, please read the instructions carefully and save this manual for 
future use. 
						

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Contents
Menu screen transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Turning on the power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
HOME menu displays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
HOME menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
HOME SET UP menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
VIDEO IN menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
VIDEO OUT HD menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
VIDEO OUT HD SET UP menu . . . . . . . 26
VIDEO OUT HD SET UP STATE 
menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
VIDEO OUT SD menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
VIDEO OUT SD SET UP COMPOSITE
menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
VIDEO OUT SD SET UP CMPST 
STATE menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
VIDEO OUT SD SET UP SDI menu . . . 36
VIDEO OUT SET UP LINE BLK 
(video output line blanking) menu . . . . 38
VIDEO OUT SD SET UP SDI STATE
menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
VIDEO OUT CONVERT menu . . . . . . . 42
VIDEO OUT CONVERT HD_TO_SD
menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
VIDEO OUT CONVERT SD_TO_HD
menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
VIDEO OUT CONVERT HD_TO_HD
menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
AUDIO IN menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
AUDIO IN PCM INPUT SELECT menu. . . 50AUDIO IN CUE INPUT SELECT 
menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
AUDIO IN SET UP menu . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
AUDIO IN CH-MIX SELECT menu . . . . 58
AUDIO OUT menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
AUDIO OUT MONITOR menu . . . . . . . . 63
AUDIO OUT SET UP menu . . . . . . . . . . 65
AUDIO OUT SET UP STATE menu . . . 70
AUDIO OUT SDI ASIGN menu . . . . . . . 72
TC/CHR menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
TC/CHR SET UP menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
TC/CHR SET UP VITC.L menu . . . . . . . 83
TC/CHR CONVERT menu . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Audio insert editing function with 23.98 Hz
VTR system and 30 Hz external
operating environments . . . . . . . . . . . 88
LTC output selection when playing back a
25P (23.98P/24P) tape with a 23.98/24
(25) Hz VTR system added . . . . . . . . 90
MULTI CUE menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
MULTI CUE SET UP menu . . . . . . . . . . 95
INSERT/ASSEMBLE MANUAL EDIT
menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
INSERT/MANUAL EDIT CH SELECT
menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
INSERT/ASSEMBLE MANUAL EDIT 
SET UP menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
INSERT/ASSEMBLE AUTO EDIT 
menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
INSERT AUTO EDIT CH SELECT 
menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
INSERT/ASSEMBLE AUTO EDIT 
SET UP menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
The underlining of functional description with
each menu denotes the initial setting. 
						

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Contents
SET UP menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
INTERFACE SET UP menu . . . . . . . . 122
PANEL SET UP menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
PANEL SET UP (OP MAP REMOTE)
menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
PANEL SET UP (OP MAP LOCAL) 
menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
USER SET UP menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
SYSTEM SET UP menu . . . . . . . . . . . 140
ENGINEER SET UP menu . . . . . . . . . 146
RF ENGINEER SET UP menu . . . . . . 147
OPERATION ENGINEER SET UP 
menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
TEST menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
RF TEST menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
RF adjustment value display menu . . . 156
AUDIO TEST menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
MECHA TEST menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
SYSTEM TEST menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
SERVO TEST menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
TEST FRONT menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
TEST FRONT PANEL menu . . . . . . . . 165
TEST FRONT KEY CHECK IN menu. . . 166
Inserting the IC card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
TEST IC CARD menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
TEST IC CARD USER menu . . . . . . . . 171
TEST IC CARD MULTI CUE menu . . . 172
TEST IC CARD MULTI CUE SELECT
menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
TEST IC CARD MULTI CUE MONITOR
menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174TEST IC CARD ERROR LOG 
menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
TEST IC CARD ERROR LOG 
MONITOR menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Error messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
DIAG menu error messages . . . . . . . . 178
DIAG ACTIVE menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
DIAG MASKED menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
DIAG LAST menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
DIAG error messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
AUTO OFF error messages . . . . . . . . . 186
SYSTEM error messages . . . . . . . . . . 188
Operation messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Operation messages (in AUTO EDIT
mode) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Screen saver function . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 
						

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Menu screen transitions
HOME F8 HOME SET UP
AUDIO IN F6
AUDIO IN PCM INPUT
SELECT
AUDIO IN CUE INPUT
SELECT
F7
F8 AUDIO IN SET UP
AUDIO OUT F7
AUDIO OUT MONITOR
VIDEO IN
F7
F7
F10F9
F9 F10F11
F12
F1
F2
F3
VIDEO OUT CONVERT
HD_TO_SD
VIDEO OUT CONVERT
SD_TO_HD
VIDEO OUT CONVERT
HD_TO_HD
F9F11
F12 F8 VIDEO OUT VIDEO OUT HD
VIDEO OUT HD SET UP
TC/CHR F8
F9TC/CHR SET UP VITC.L
TC/CHR CONVERTVIDEO OUT SD
VIDEO OUT CONVERT
VIDEO OUT SD SETUP
CMPST
VIDEO OUT SD SETUP
SDILINE BLK
S TAT E
S TAT EF12 F8
AUDIO OUT  SET UPF12AUDIO OUT  SET UPS TAT E
F9
AUDIO OUT  SDI ASIGN
F9AUDIO IN CH-MIXSELECT 
						

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Menu screen transitions
MULTI CUE
F8MULTI CUE SET UP
ASSEMBLEASSEMBLE MANUAL
EDITF8ASSEMBLE MANUAL
EDIT SET UP
F12
F12
F1
F2
F3
F4
F5
F6
F7
F10
F11F11
F13
F12HOME SET UP
INSERT/ASSEMBLE
MANUAL EDIT SET UP
INSERT/ASSEMBLE
AUTO EDIT SET UP
SYSTEM SET UP
TC/CHR SET UP
AUDIO IN SET UP
AUDIO OUT SET UP
INTERFACE SET UP
PANEL SET UP
USER SET UP
F13ENGINEER RF
OPERATION
ASSEMBLE AUTO EDITASSEMBLE AUTO EDIT
SET UP F8
F8
F8
F13 F13 INSERTINSERT MANUAL
EDITINSERT MANUAL
EDIT SET UP
INSERT MANUAL
EDIT CH SELECT
INSERT AUTO EDITINSERT AUTO EDIT
SET UP
INSERT AUTO EDIT
CH SELECT
SET UP
OP MAP LOCAL
OP MAP REMOTE 
						

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Menu screen transitions
TESTF2
RF
DIAG
F2DIAG MASKED
F3DIAG LAST F3AUDIO
F4 MECHA
F5 SYSTEM
F6 FRONT
F7
F1
F1SERVO
F13 IC CARDF1 USER
MULTI CUE
ERROR LOG F2
F1TEST FRONT PANEL
F2TEST FRONT KEY
CHECK IN
F1
F2SELECT
MONITOR
MONITOR F3
F3
F2 F3 
						

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Turning on the power
Turn on the power.
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The HOME menu is displayed.
This VTR comes already programmed with menus that correspond to specific operating objectives, and the
operations performed on each differ from one menu to another. When a menu is selected using a menu se-
lection button, what appears on the display changes, and the function keys (F1 to F13) also implement the
function corresponding to the respective menu items.
SET UP menus are provided in order for the user to have settings on hand for the seldom used functions, etc.
among the various menu items.
The HOME menu is provided as the VTR’s basic menu. It automatically appears on the display when the
power has been turned on. (However, the IC CARD menu will automatically appear if an IC card has been in-
serted.)
ONoteN
The animation display of a cassette tape appears after the cassette tape has been inserted.
F13
F12
F11
F10
F9
F8 F7 F6 F5 F4 F3 F2 F1 
						

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How to display the≥AUDIO IN menu:≥AUDIO IN PCM INPUT SELECT menu:
menus:
# 
≥AUDIO OUT menu:≥AUDIO IN CUE INPUT SELECT menu:
# 
F7
AUDIO OUTAUDIO OUT
F6AUDIO INAUDIO IN
HOME menu displays
∑Audio signal display area (Either 8 or 4 channels will be automatically displayed depending on the
format used.)
Use this to adjust the level of the input audio signals on the AUDIO
IN menu.  Alternatively, it is used to adjust the level of the audio
playback output signals on the AUDIO OUT menu.
Press the L/R buttons to select the audio channel whose signals
are to be output from the AUDIO MONITOR L/R connectors and
HEADPHONES jack.
These display the type of input signals of each channel.
The F1 (CH-1) to F6 (DIGITAL) [or F1 (CH-1) to F13 (CH-8) for 8
channels] on the AUDIO IN PCM INPUT SELECT menu are se-
lected using the F9 (CH-MIX) key on the AUDIO IN CUE INPUT
SELECT menu.
[----
ANA:Signals from the ANALOG INPUT connectors.
CH1 AES:
Signals from the DIGITAL AUDIO INPUT connectors.
CH1 SER:Signals from the serial V/A input connectors.
{----INT:Signals from the internal signal generator.
[----
LINE:Signals from the CUE IN connector.
CUE MIX:CH1 to CH8 signals selected by CUE MIX setting.
{----AUTO:This is always used for digital channel backup pur-
poses.
∑Display lamps
SYSTEM:This indicates the video system format which was set
on the SETUP/SYSTEM menu.
1080_59i, 525_59i, 1080_23psf, 1080_23p, 1080_24psf,
1080_24p, 720_59p, 1080_50i, 1080_25p, 625_50i
TAPE:This indicates the format of the playback tape.
“¢¢¢¢¢¢¢¢” appears in the EJECT mode.
If a section is unrecorded or if the format of a section
cannot be identified, the lamp blinks while the display
of the format identified up to the section concerned is
retained.
1080_59i, 1080_60i, 1035_59i, 1035_60i, 525_59i, 
1080_23p, 1080_24p, 720_59p, 720_60p, 1080_50i, 
1080_25p, 625_50i
ONoteN
A tape recorded with the system format set to 1080/23.98psf or
1080/23.98p is recorded in the same tape format, and “1080_23p”
is displayed on the front panel when it is played back. Similarly,
“1080_24p” appears on the front panel with a tape recorded using
the 1080/24psf or 1080/24p system, and “1080_25p appears
when a tape recorded using the 1080/25psf or 1080/25p system.
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HOME menu displays
REF: This indicates the status of the output reference signal
which has been selected by the VTR.
HD REF59: HD REF with a field frequency of 59.94 Hz is
selected.
HD REF47: HD REF with a field frequency of 47.96 Hz is
selected.
HD REF48: HD REF with a field frequency of 48.00 Hz is
selected.
HD REF50: HD REF with a field frequency of 50.00 Hz is
selected.
SD REF59: The NTSC signal is selected as the SD REF
signal.
SD REF50: The PAL signal is selected as the SD REF sig-
nal.
HD IN59: The HD serial input with a frame frequency of
29.97 Hz is selected as the REF signal.
HD IN47: The HD serial input with a frame frequency of
23.98 Hz is selected as the REF signal.
HD IN48: The HD serial input with a frame frequency of
24.00 Hz is selected as the REF signal.
HD IN50: The HD serial input with a frame frequency of
25.00 Hz is selected.
SD IN59: The SD serial input with a field frequency of
59.94 Hz is selected.
SD IN50: The SD serial input with a field frequency of
50.00 Hz is selected.
HD FREE: The HD internal signal generator is used since
no REF signal has been selected using the
OUT REF setting.
SD FREE: The SD internal signal generator is used since
no REF signal has been selected using the
OUT REF setting.
*DUAL: HD REF47 and SD REF59 have been selected
simultaneously.
This setting takes effect when 1080/23psf has
been selected as the VTR’s system format,
AUTO has been selected by the OUT REF set-
ting, and two of the above REF signals have
been input.
°This VTR uses the HD REF and SD REF sig-
nals as a reference for entering the 24 
#60
conversion inside the unit. 
						

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HOME menu displays
∑Setting mode display area
The displays appearing in this area indicate the modes which
have been set.
CUT:Appears when the audio cut editing mode is set.
XFADE:Appears when the audio cross-fade editing mode
is set.
VFADE:Appears when the audio V fade editing mode is
set.
INTRP:Appears when the time code interpolation mode (in
which the time code cannot be read out accurate-
ly) is established.
DF:Appears when the drop frame mode is set.
F1/F2:Indicates the field numbers for VITC.
EMPHASIS:Appears when pre-emphasis is applied to the
audio signals.
TRACK VAR:Appears when an adjustment has been made with
the tracking deviated from the fixed position.
TRACK OPT:Appears when an optimizing adjustment has been
made for the tracking.
∑Remaining tape time
This indicates the remaining tape time as the tape travels.
∑User file display
This indicates the number of file which is called when the power is
switched on or the currently called user file. If there is a discrep-
ancy between the contents of the user file displays and even one
current setting, “¢” will appear in front of the file number.
∑Time code displays
These indicate the time code values.
CTL1:Normal control signal
CTL2:Control signal (which cannot be reset)
LTCR:LTC readout
LUBR:LTC user bit readout
VTCR:VITC readout
VUBR:VITC user bit readout
TCG:Value generated by generator
LUBG:Value of LTC user bit generated
VUBG:Value of VITC user bit generated
E-TC:External time code
E-UB:External user bit
∑Checking the value generated by generator
Press the INPUT CHECK key. While the key is held down, the
value generated by the generator is displayed.INPUT CHECK
TCG
00 : 41 : 07 : 04