Disc Management

Verifying Remaining Free Space on Disc (Capacity)

You can find out how long you will be able to record on one side of disc.

1 Press the MENU button.

The Disc Navigation menu screen will appear.

2 Use the joystick to choose “Capacity” on the “Disc” menu screen, and then press the button.

The screen for checking “Capacity” will appear.

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(When using DVD-RAM disc)

*With DVD-R disc: The quality mode first used for re- cording with disc will appear.

The XTRA mode will appear only with the DZ- MV230A.

**With DVD-R disc: This will not be displayed.

3 Press the button.

The Disc Navigation screen will be restored.

Note: With a write-protected or finalized disc, the remaining space will always be displayed as “0”. Note: The displayed remaining free space is only for the side being currently recorded.

Initializing DVD-RAM Disc

If you want to erase all data on a recorded disc and reuse it, you can initialize it rather than deleting the data: Initialization is useful in this case since it takes less time than deleting all data.

1 Press the MENU button.

The Disc Navigation menu screen will appear.

2 Use the joystick to choose “Format Disc” on the “Disc” menu screen, and then press

the button.

The screen for verifying “Format Disc” will ap- pear.

3 If you are sure that you wish to format the disc, use the joystick to choose “YES”, and then press

the button.

When initializing one side of the disc is com- plete, the DVD video camera/recorder will re- turn to the recording pause status.

Note: When initializing the other side of disc, turn it over and start again from step 1.

Note: Choosing “NO” in step 3 will cancel initiali- zation.

Note: Initializing a disc will delete all the r ecorded

contents on disc: Be careful not to delete data by mistake.

Note: Be sure to use the AC adapter when initial- izing disc so that the DVD video camera/recorder is not turned off midway. If initialization is inter - rupted by power off, the disc will not be initialized

correctly, or it may be damaged.English Note: It may not be possible to initialize a disc with

many scratches or dirt: Such a disc cannot be used.

Note: If you use a brand-new DVD-R disc, mes-

sage “Disc is not formatted” will appear: Initialize the disc, following the subsequent messages (see page 99).

Note: Pressing the button on the screen for veri- fication will restore the thumbnail display screen.

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