Recording
05
50
En
6
The recorder will now start finalizing
the disc.
Du
r
ing finalization:
• If the finalization
pr
ocess of a DVD-R/
-RW disc is going to take mo
r
e than
a
r
ound fou
r
minutes, you can
pr
ess
ENTER
to cancel. A
r
ound fou
r
minutes
befo
r
e com
p
letion, the o
p
tion to cancel
disa
pp
ea
r
s.
• You can’t cancel the finalization of a
DVD+R/+RW disc.
• How long finalization takes de
p
ends on
the ty
p
e of disc, how much is
r
eco
r
ded
on the disc and the numbe
r
of titles on
the disc. A disc
r
eco
r
ded in VR mode can
take u
p
to one hou
r
to finalize. DVD-R/
-RW (Video mode) and DVD+R/+RW
discs can take u
p
to 20 minutes.
Initializing recordable DVD
discs
DVD-R/-RW discs can be initialized fo
r
eithe
r
Video mode
r
eco
r
ding o
r
VR mode
r
eco
r
ding.
1
When you fi
r
st load a blank DVD-RW o
r
DVD+RW disc, the
r
eco
r
de
r
initializes it fo
r
r
eco
r
ding automatically. By default, blank
DVD-RW discs a
r
e initialized fo
r
VR mode
r
eco
r
ding. See
DVD-RW Auto Initialize
on
p
age 51 if you want to change the default to
Video mode.
DVD-R discs a
r
e
r
eady fo
r
Video mode
r
eco
r
dings out of the box; if you want to use
a DVD-R fo
r
VR mode
r
eco
r
ding, you must
initialize it befo
r
e
r
eco
r
ding anything on the
disc.
DVD+RW and DVD-RAM discs can also be
initialized in o
r
de
r
to e
r
ase the contents of
the disc.
Important
• Initializing a DVD-RW, DVD+RW o
r
DVD-RAM disc will e
r
ase eve
r
ything
r
eco
r
ded on it. Make su
r
e the
r
e is
nothing on the disc that you want to
kee
p
!
• You may not be able to
r
e-initialize a
DVD-RW disc in a diffe
r
ent fo
r
mat if it
was o
r
iginally initialized on an olde
r
DVD
r
eco
r
de
r
.
• Once initialized fo
r
VR mode
r
eco
r
ding,
you can’t
r
e-initialize a DVD-R back to
Video mode.
1
Display the Home Menu.
2
Select ‘Setup’ > ‘Disc Setup’.
3
Select ‘Initialize’ > ‘Video
Mode’, ‘VR Mode’ or ‘Initialize DVD+RW’.
4
Select ‘Start’.
It takes about 30 seconds to initialize the
disc (exce
p
t DVD-RAM discs, which can take
u
p
to an hou
r
).
Note
1 If a disc was
pr
eviously finalized on an olde
r
DVD
r
eco
r
de
r
, you may not be able to
r
e-initialize and/o
r
initialize it
fo
r
Video mode
r
eco
r
ding.
DVD-R DVD-RW DVD+RW DVD-RAM
HOME
MENU
ENTER
ENTER
Basic
Initialize
Finalize
Optimize HDD
Disc Setup
VR Mode
Video Mode
Initialize DVD+RW
Start
Start
Start
Initialize
ENTER
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