Dubbing with Digital Video Equipment

MV500

Digital video equipment fitted with the DV terminal lets you edit, copy and transfer data digitally, with virtually no generation loss in image and sound quality.

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Preparations

1.Connect the camcorder and the other digital device.

Connect the Canon CV-150F DV cable (optional) with the side of the plug marked with the arrow facing as shown above.

2.Prepare the other device.

Load a blank cassette, and put the other device in record pause mode.

See its instruction manual for details.

3.Turn the camcorder’s POWER switch to PLAY (VCR).

4.Load a recorded cassette.

Dubbing

1.Find a point on your recorded cassette slightly before the section you want to dub.

2.Press the camcorder’s play button.

Playback starts.

3.Start recording on the other device as the section you want to copy appears on the screen.

4.When you get to the point where you want to stop dubbing, press the stop button or the pause button.

Playback stops.

Note:

Blanks between recordings on the playback tape are recorded as anomalous images on the tape that is being recorded to.

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Canon 7561A001, MV500i Dubbing with Digital Video Equipment, Connect the camcorder and the other digital device

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