•Depending on the type of disc and the disc specification, after finalizing the disc you may not be able to initialize the disc, edit your recordings or add new recordings to the disc.

•Do not finalize with this camcorder discs that were not recorded using it.

Finalizing the Disc

The time required to finalize the disc depends on the scenes recorded and the remaining free space on the disc.

POINTS TO CHECK

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Power the camcorder using the compact power adapter.

FUNC.

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FUNC.

MENU*

DISC OPERATIONS

FINALIZE

FUNC. ** YES

*Only when using a DVD-RW recorded in HD quality, or in SD quality (VR mode). Otherwise, pressing FUNC. will open the

menu directly on the setup menus screen.

**During the disc finalization a progress bar is displayed. Close the menu only after the screen display returns to the [DISC OPERATIONS] menu.

Restrictions after Disc Finalization

 

Additional

Editing

Initializing

Unfinalizing

 

Recordings

Recordings

the Disc

the Disc

 

 

 

 

 

DVD-R/DVD-R DL

–

–

–

–

 

 

 

 

 

DVD-RW

*

*

 

 

HD quality

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DVD-RW

*

–

 

 

SD quality (VIDEO mode)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DVD-RW

–

SD quality (VR mode)

* You will need to unfinalize the disc first.

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