Canon ZR40 instruction manual Recording from a VCR, TV or Analog Camcorder Analog Line-in

Recording from a VCR, TV or Analog Camcorder (Analog Line-in)

You can record a video played on your VCR or analog camcorder (for digital camcorders, see p. 77) or a TV program onto a tape in the ZR40, if the TV or other device has audio/video outputs.

•If an anomalous signal is sent from the TV or VCR, the images recorded on the tape may also be anomalous (although it may not appear so on the TV image), not recorded at all, or COPYRIGHT PROTECTED DUBBING RESTRICTED may appear in the display.

•You are unable to dub tapes recorded with the copyright protective signal.

			REC	SEARCH
REC	REC	FOCUS	PAUSE	SELECT
			AE SHIFT
SEARCH	SEARCH
			ZERO SET			: Signal flow
				REW	PLAY
			MEMORY
		S	AUDIO	– /	STOP
			DUB.
			AV	PAUSE	SLOW
			INSERT

E

S-150 S-video Cable (optional)

AV

STV-250N Stereo Video Cable

OUTPUT

S(S1)-VIDEO

VIDEO

AUDIO

L

R

MIC

You cannot use headphones while doing analog line-in recording. If you have the AV/headphones terminal set to headphones, it will automatically switch to AV for analog line-in recording. PHONES disappears from the display.

Preparations

Example recording from a VCR

1.Connect the camcorder to the VCR.

2.Prepare the device.

•Set the TV/Video selector on the television to Video. For further details, see “Connections for Playback on a TV Screen” on p. 33.

•Turn on the VCR. Load your recorded cassette, and put the VCR in playback pause mode.

•See your TV and VCR instruction manuals for details.

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

4.Load a blank cassette.

Editing

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