Sony 4-296-436-11 (2) User Manual

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Importing and Exporting Images

  

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You can use a USB flash drive to import images to the unit 
as frame memory, and export the frame memory saved in 
the unit.

File formats supported for import
• TGA
• TIFF
• BMP

• Enter up to 25 single-byte alphanumeric characters 

(including the extension) for file names. A file with a 
name of 26 characters or more will not be displayed.

• If an image is too large, the protruding portions will be 

cut. If an image is too small, the missing portions will be 
filled with black.

• Import operations are not guaranteed for TGA and TIFF 

files that include layer information.

Copy the images you want to import to the following 
folder on a USB flash drive, and then insert the USB 
flash drive into the USB connector of the unit.

Folder name: \Sony\MCS\FM

Display the [Frame Memory] menu, turn the V1 knob 
to select [Import], and press this knob.

The data in the USB flash drive is read and the files 
that can be imported are displayed.

Turn the V1 knob to select the first file to import, turn 
each knob to specify the frame memory and the 
number of files to import, and press the V4 knob to 
start importing.

When the V4 knob is pressed, the specified number of 
files are imported.

• If you import TGA files or TIFF files that include 

alpha channels, a frame memory that includes a key 
source will be created.

• You can import RLE-compressed TGA files.
• Compressed TIFF files cannot be imported.
• If you import BMP files, or TGA or TIFF files that 

do not include alpha channels, a frame memory with 
an all-white key source will be created.

• If a frame memory is registered to the specified 

frame memory number, it will be overwritten by the 
imported image.

You can export the frame memory stored in the unit to a 
USB flash drive.

Insert the USB flash drive into the USB connector of 
the unit.

Display the [Frame Memory] menu and turn the V1 
knob to select [Export].

Turn each knob to select the frame memory to export, 
and then press the V4 knob to start exporting.

When the V4 knob is pressed, the specified number of 
frame memory is exported.

• Only BMP format files can be exported. Alpha 

channels cannot be added.

• The folder to which the files are exported and the file 

names are as shown below.
Folder name: \Sony\MCS\FM
File name: YYMMDD-HHMMSS-##.bmp

 (# is the frame memory number [01 to 12])

V2

Dest

Selects the first 
frame memory 
to import

FM1, FM2, FM3, 
FM4, FM5, FM6, 
FM7, FM8, FM9, 
FM10, FM11, 
FM12

V3

Num

Number of files 
to import

1 to 12

V2

Source

Selects first 
frame memory 
to export

FM1, FM2, FM3, 
FM4, FM5, FM6, 
FM7, FM8, FM9, 
FM10, FM11, 
FM12

V3

Num

Number of 
frame memory 
to export

1 to 12