QuickTC Display

QuickTC Display Modes #

The QuickTC has an onboard OLED display. Cycle through the pages by pressing on the OLED display on the right side, closest to the BNC port. The pages let you:

• Confirm you are receiving timecode
• Freeze timecode to read it out over intercom or radio
• Read the user bits
• Confirm the frame rate, including drop frame
• Check the timecode signal level
• Check the battery

Auto return to Timecode Readout #

After 30 seconds without a button press, QuickTC returns to the Timecode Readout page (or to No Signal when no timecode is connected).

Timecode Readout #

• Shows the incoming timecode as hours : minutes : seconds : frames
• Drop-frame timecode is marked with a ; between seconds and frames:

• Below 20 % battery a gauge appears in the top-right corner:

Timecode Freeze #

• Freezes the readout at the moment the button is pressed. The frame around the numbers means “frozen”.
• Press again to move on; the readout resumes live on the next lap.

User Bits #

• The eight user-bit groups as hexadecimal digits, group 8 on the left through group 1 on the right (the same order as earlier QuickTC firmware).

Timecode Framerate #

• 23.98 and 24, and 29.97 and 30, are shown as pairs:

• DF is shown for drop-frame timecode; otherwise the rate is non-drop.
• -- is shown for the first two seconds after timecode appears, while the rate is being identified:

Timecode Signal #

• The first line shows the timecode signal amplitude, peak to peak.
• The second line rates it against the SMPTE preferred range: Valid, Low, or High.

• Most generators run hotter than SMPTE prefers and will read High. QuickTC still decodes; if a device has an output-level control, bringing it into the Valid range is the better setting.

Battery #

• Remaining charge in 5 % steps, with the gauge.
• usb appears while a USB cable supplies power:

Firmware version #

• Shown for two seconds at power-on and available as a page. Quote this version when reporting a problem.

No Signal #

• Shown when no valid timecode is present. The LED double-blinks about once a second.

Powering down #

• Shown for a moment before the unit switches itself off (see Powering Off under QuickTC Setup).

• At 5 % battery the unit switches off to protect the cell and wakes only for a USB cable.