PLAYBACK Basic Playback

You can watch what you’ve recorded in the LCD monitor.

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Tape running indiator

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LCD monitor

Power lamp

 

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Power Dial

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Lock button

Volume switch

MENU

Speaker

1 SELECT OPERATION MODE

Turn the Power Dial to “PLAY” while pressing down the lock button located on the dial. The Power lamp comes on.

2 OPEN LCD MONITOR Open the LCD monitor.

•When the viewfinder is pulled out, the LCD monitor cannot be used.

3 REWIND TAPE

Press 2. 2 is displayed. If you rewind all the way to the end of the tape, it stops automatically.

4 VIEWING RECORDING

Press 6/4. 4appears and the recorded footage can be viewed. The sound is heard from the speaker.

5 END PLAYBACK

Press 5. Set the Power Dial to “OFF”.

•When turning to “OFF”, it is not necessary to press down the lock button.

To Perform High-Speed Search . . .

..... press 2 or 3 after pressing 6/4. The tape

will move at approximately 9 times the normal playback speed. Watch in the LCD monitor and, when you reach the spot you want to see, press 6/4 and normal playback resumes.

..... during playback, press and hold 2or 3. The

search continues as long as you hold the button. Once you release it, normal playback resumes.

..... a slight mosaic effect appears on screen during

High-Speed Search. This is not a malfunction.

Playback Sound

You can hear sound from the speaker or using headphones connected to the headphones connector during playback. To adjust the sound volume, press the VOL. switch. The sound volume indication is displayed. Slide the VOL. switch towards “+” to turn up the volume, or towards to turn it down.

Still Playback

To temporarily stop playback, press 6/4. Press again to resume playback. If still playback contin- ues for more than about 3 minutes, the camcorder’s Stop mode is automatically engaged. After 5 minutes in the stop mode, the camcorder’s power is automatically turned off.

Slow-Motion Playback

To perform Slow-motion playback, the remote control is necessary.

To change from normal to slow-motion playback, press the Pause button at the point where you want to start playback in slow motion, and press the Slow Rewind or Slow Forward button on the remote control unit. After playing back in slow motion for about 10 to 20 seconds, normal playback resumes. Speed is 1/10 times normal. To stop slow-motion playback in progress, press the Play button.

During slow-motion playback, due to digital image processing, the picture may take on a mosaic effect.

After the Slow Rewind or Slow Forward button is pressed, the still image may be displayed for a few seconds, then the screen may become blue back for a few seconds. This is not a malfunction.

There may be a small margin between the slow- motion playback start point you chose and the start point at which the camcorder actually begins playback in slow motion.

NOTES:

The sound is not available during High-Speed Search.

Copy guarded tapes cannot be played back. The screen becomes blue back.

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JVC GR-DVX manual Rewind Tape, Viewing Recording, END Playback, To Perform High-Speed Search, Volume switch

GR-DVX specifications

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