Chapter 1
Overview
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(GB)
Chapter 1 Overview
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Tape transport control section
1
REW (rewind) button/indicator
When you press this button, the indicator lights and the
tape starts rewinding. During rewind, the picture does
not appear on the monitor (except EE pictures
1)
). If you
keep pressing this button during playback, rewind or in
playback pause mode, the contents of the tape will be
shown in reverse on the monitor while it is rewound
(picture search). When operation has stopped, if you
press the PLAY button while holding this button
down, the tape is rewound to the beginning and
automatically played.
You can change the tape transport mode in FF/REW
SPD on the VTR SET menu.
For details on VTR SET menu, see “VTR SET menu” on
page 90 (GB).
Notes
• If you set the FF/REW SPD on the VTR SET menu
to SHUTTLEMAX, you can display the picture while
rewinding the tape.
• If you set PB in EE/PB SET on the DISPLAY SET
menu, the EE pictures are not output while rewinding
the tape.
2
INDEX button
Press to mark an index while recording. An index is
useful when you search for the scene later.
For details on index, see “Other Recording Functions” on
page 52 (GB).
3
KEY INH (key inhibit) switch
Turning on this switch disables the tape transport
control buttons to prevent invalid button operations.
4
STOP button/indicator
Press to stop the tape. If there is a tape in the unit and
the tape has been stopped, the indicator lights.
5
PLAY button/indicator
Press to play back the tape. When the tape is being
played, the indicator lights.
Notes
• When the unit is playing the part of the tape where
the format has been changed between the DVCAM
format and the DV format, the picture and sound may
be distorted.
• The unit cannot play back a cassette recorded in LP
mode of the consumer DV format.
5
PLAY button/indicator
6
F FWD button/indicator
7
END SEARCH button
8
DUP button/indicator
9
AUDIO DUB button/indicator
0
REC button/indicator
qa
PAUSE button/indicator
2
INDEX button
3
KEY INH switch
1) EE pictures
“EE” stands for “Electric to Electric”. In this EE mode, the
video and audio signals that are input to the VCR’s
recording circuitry do not pass through any magnetic
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conversion circuits but instead are output via electric circuits
only. This mode is used to check the input signals and adjust
input levels. The pictures output in EE mode are referred to
as EE pictures.
4
STOP button/indicator
1
REW button/indicator