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7. AV recording Camcorder ➜ video recorder

In the „AV recording“ menu, you can define which of the connected peripheral AV devices are to be used for copying a recording.

AV device is a generic term for all external video units, such as video recorders, camcorders,video disk players, photo CD players, etc which can be connected to a TV.

Example: You wish to copy a film recorded with an S-VHS/Hi8 camcorder to an LogicVTR video recorder which is also connected to the TV set.

Press this key on the remote

control....

1. Call the AV menu

AV

The screen displays

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AV-recording

	Input	Output
blue	Camcorder	Camcorder
yellow	Logic VTR	Logic VTR

Pr. 1: RTL 2

no recording

6 0 0 + 0 7 A - G B

A Device connection

Explanation

In the „AV recording“ menu , you can select how the AV devices connected to your TV set (see Section 14, „Equipment configuration/Connecting external devices“) are to be used for copying a recording.

The left side of the menu (Input) shows the devices which supply picture and sound for the copy operation.

Selection of an input for a programme is meaningful only for SAT or decorder operation.

The right side of the menu (Output) shows the devices capable of recording the picture and sound.

2.Select the desired AV devi- ces (in this example: Cam- corder and LogicVTR)

blue

3.Store the settings and clear the menu

OK

TV

4.Terminate or abort the copy operation

AV OK

TV

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AV-recording

	Input	Output
blue	Camcorder	Camcorder
yellow	LogicVTR	LogicVTR
	Pr: RTL 2
EURO1:		EURO2:
Video	Camcorder ➜ LogicVTR Video
6 0 0 + 0	7 B - G B	record ?
		OK
	A Device connection

After calling this menu, you must first select the input device, i.e. the device which is to supply the picture.

After selection of an input, the menu automatically returns to the output page, where the AV device for recording is selected.

Back to the example:

You want to copy the film from the camcorder to Logic VTR.

Press the blue key to display the signal from the cam- corder on the screen.

The copy operation with the selected devices is now active.

If any subsequent switching operations could interfere with copying, a warning box with the text „AV recor- ding“ will be displayed and the requested switching operation will not be executed.

To check the progress of the operation, press the AV key to display the picture from the input device on the screen.

If you wish to execute the copy operation in standby mode, you can switch the TV set to this mode by pres-

sing the key.

If this setting is not stored, the programme position must be selected again in order to display the TV programme.

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