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Managing the Disc
Protecting the Disc
You can protect the whole disc to prevent
the accidental erasure of important
recordings. Follow the same procedure to
remove the protection of a protected disc.
IMPORTANT
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erase all recordings, even if the disc is
protected.
POINTS TO CHECK
Disc type:
DVD-RW • VR mode
Initializing the Disc
You need to initialize a DVD-RW disc
when first inserting it into the camcorder
and you may have to initialize a disc if you
get the message “UNABLE TO
RECOGNIZE THE RECORDING MODE
OF THE DISC”. You can also choose to
initialize the disc if you wish to erase all
the recordings on the disc or in order to
change the disc specification.
IMPORTANT
Initializing the disc will permanently erase all
recordings, even if the disc is protected. The
lost original recordings cannot be recovered.
Initialize all DVD-RW discs before using them
with this camcorder.
POINTS TO CHECK
Disc type:
DVD-RW •
VIDEO or VR mode
Options
Managing the Disc
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MENU
DISC OPERATIONS
DISC PROTECT
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[VIDEO] mode
Most DVD players will play the disc, but
except for the disc title, the recordings
cannot be edited with the camcorder.
[VR] mode
You will have the option to edit the
recordings with the camcorder, but the disc
can only be played in VR mode-compatible
DVD players and computer DVD drives.
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