What it Does Lets you change the playback frame rate when you’ve recorded in 24p (in certain modes) but wish to play it back on an HDMI-connected device
Recommended Setting 60p
Constraints Appears only in NTSC mode; AVCHD and XAVC S HD only
This feature is not intuitive. Basically, if MENU --> 
3 --> NTSC / PAL Selector is set to NTSC, and MENU --> 4 --> HDMI Settings --> HDMI Resolution is set to either 1080p or 2160p/1080p, and you’ve recorded your video in 24p mode via either AVCHD or XAVC S, THEN this feature will let you play it back at either 24p or 60p when you have a display attached to the camera’s HDMI port.
How can it play back at 60 frames per second if you’ve recorded your video at 24 frames per second? The answer is “the camera feeds your HDMI display duplicate frames to mimic 60 fps in this mode”.
What it Does When you’re shooting video, and you have an external monitor attached via the HDMI cable, do you want a “sanitized” version of the Live View image to appear on the monitor?
Recommended Setting Mine is set to OFF, but your needs may vary
Normally, whenever you plug in an external monitor to the camera, all the information which normally appears on the EVF or LCD is instantly re-routed to the external monitor, leaving the EVF and LCD blank.
When HDMI Info Display is OFF it keeps your EVF or LCD display information intact when you’re shooting movies (not stills!) and the HDMI port is occupied. If you have a monitor hooked up to that port, then only the live video feed will be seen on the monitor and none of the operator’s annunciators (such as battery life, exposure settings, audio levels, or whatever you have the DISP button configured to show). If an external video recorder is attached, then uncompressed video is sent out via the HDMI port when this setting is OFF.
TIP: If you’re shooting 4K video, this feature is set to OFF. |
What it Does Adds the timecode information to the signal going to the HDMI port
Recommended Setting Mine is set to OFF, but your needs may vary
If you have the timecode function enabled (Section 11.16), this specifies whether you want that time code to be added to the video signal exiting the HDMI port.
If you’re outputting to a digital recorder and you’re using the time code, you will probably want this feature ON. On the other hand, if you’re just connecting a consumer HDTV to the HDMI port, it will likely not know how to handle the embedded time code, producing a noisy image at best. In that instance, turn this feature OFF.
TIP: This function does NOT control whether a visible time code appears in the corner of the image; rather, this refers to the invisible time code that your video editing software knows how to read. |