Miscellaneous

Symptom

Cause and Correction

Reference

 

page

 

 

 

 

The camcorder does

Is a fully charged battery attached?

 

 

not work.

Is the camcorder powered from an AC outlet?

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Connect a power source.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Power does not come

Press RESET, then turn on the power again.

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on, or no operation

 

 

 

Has the camcorder been subjected to impact?

 

 

occurs by pressing

—

 

The camcorder could be damaged. Consult your dealer.

 

any button.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The date and time

Has the camcorder been left unused for a long period of

 

 

are incorrect.

time?

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The internal backup memory battery may be discharged.

 

 

 

 

 

Connect the AC power adapter/charger to recharge it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pressing QUICK

• The camcorder enters sleep mode when QUICK

 

 

START does not

START is pressed only while in record pause mode.

 

 

enter sleep mode.

• Check the following causes:

 

 

 

- there is no disc in the camcorder while the power

 

 

 

switch is set to “DVD”.

 

 

 

- there is no SD memory card in the camcorder while

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the power switch is set to “SD”.

 

 

 

 

 

- the HDD, disc, or card does not have sufficient

 

 

 

remaining free space.

 

 

 

- An usable disc or card is inserted.

 

 

 

- the disc navigation screen is appearing.

 

 

 

- during playback

 

 

 

 

 

 

No scene can be

Is the cursor placed on the scene to be deleted?

 

 

deleted.

If the selected scene is framed in red, it can be deleted,

 

 

 

even if you use yellow cursor to select the scene. Check

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the colors of the cursor and bar graph on the thumbnail

 

 

 

screen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Disc cannot be

Attach a fully-charged battery or connect the AC adapter/

 

 

removed.

charger to the camcorder. Turn the power switch to “Off”.

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(Lid will not open.)

Remove the disc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

DVD-RW (VF

Finalize the DVD-RW (VF mode)/DVD-R/+RW using

 

Additional

mode)/DVD-R/+RW

the camcorder.

 

 

 

recorded/dubbed on

 

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the camcorder is not

 

 

 

playable.

 

 

Information

 

 

 

 

 

 

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