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Changing Styles for Title & Chapter Menus

The DVD MENU screen can be used to change the styles used for displaying title and chapter menus. One of eight different types
of style can be selected for each of the title and chapter menus.
This DVD recorder can also store a total of six different display patterns for title and chapter menus. At the time of purchase, this
DVD recorder will contain five different template files. Any of the stored display patterns can be selected to change the styles
applied to each of the title and chapter menus.
DVD MENU screen
1.
Open the DVD MENU screen.
This screen allows patterns to be modified for the style indicated by the STYLE
parameter.
TITLE PATTERN : Shows the pattern number for the current title-menu
display style as indicated by the STYLE parameter.
CHAPTER PATTERN: Shows the pattern number for the current chapter-
menu display style as indicated by the STYLE
parameter.
When the STYLE parameter’s number setting is changed, the patterns
used for title and chapter menus in the new style will be displayed by
TITLE PATTERN and CHAPTER PATTERN respectively.
2.
Change the display patterns for the title and chapter menus asrequired.
For example, let’s change the title menu’s display pattern from 1 to 4.
Select TITLE PATTERN from the DVD MENU screen and press the SET
button.
●The TITLE PATTERN screen will appear.
3.
Use the cursor buttons (t,8,6, and 7) to select the fourthpattern on the TITLE PATTERN screen, and then press the SETbutton.
●The title menu’s display pattern changes to No. 4, and the BACK button
becomes highlighted.
4.
With the BACK button highlighted, press the SET button and returnto the DVD MENU screen.
If BACK is used to exit the TITLE PATTERN screen without the SET button being
pressed for the newly selected pattern, the pattern setting will not be updated.
To change the display pattern for chapter menus, select CHAPTER
PATTERN from the DVD MENU screen and then proceed in the same way
as described above.
MENU
STYLE TYPE1
THUMNAIL FORM NORMAL
CAPTER PATERN 1
TITLE PATERN 1
DISC IN ACTION TITLE
TITLE END NEXT TITLE
DVD MENU TYPE TOP
EDIT MENU DISABLE
DVD MENU
TITLE PATTERN screen
Note
The TITLE PATTERN screen and CHAPTER PATTERN screen show the
patterns that are currently stored in this DVD recorder.
Display pattern:A combination of thumbnail characteristics (i.e., position,
quantity, and size) and the type of menu background used.
Settings & Controls for Recording

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Recording

Recording Sequence

Use the following sequence as a reference when performing recording.
●Input settings: ☞ Page 62.
●Video and audio quality settings: ☞ Page 31.
●Navigation settings (i.e., DISC IN ACTION , TITLE END and DVD MENU TYPE): ☞ Page 63
*1 It is possible to select whether to automatically insert a chapter mark when there is a pause in the recording using the AUTO
CHAPTER (REC PAUSE) item of the RECORDER MENU (1/2) screen.
*2 Title and chapter menu modification will be possible when EDIT MENU from the DVD MENU screen has been set to ENABLE.
*3 It is possible to playback a disc that has been recorded on this machine even before finalizing it.
*4 When the INDEX CREATION item on the RECORDER MENU (2/2) screen is set to AUTO, indexes will be inserted automatically
together with chapters at the record start point and recording pause point.
REC button + PLAY button
PAUSE button
*1
PLAY button or PAUSE button
PAUSE button
*1
STOP button
Start of recording
Resumption of recording
Recording Pause
Recording Pause
End of recording
REC button
REC button
Chapter 1
Index 1 *4
Index 2
Index 3
Index 4 *4
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Title closing
Finalizing
Recording of a new title
Chapter menu modification possible*2 (
☞
Page 43)
Title menu modification possible*2 (
☞
Page 49)
Processing time:
30 seconds maximum
Processing time:
several seconds ~ several minutes
Processing time:
20 minutes maximum
Playback possible (Other DVD player)
*3
Title 1