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How to Use the Scroll Bar

You can use the vertical scroll bar on the index screen to find the desired files quickly. The scroll bar is useful when deleting files ( pg. 39), creating play list ( pg. 42), etc.

Locating the start point of the file or skip the file

Press to locate the start point of the next file. Pressing repeatedly skips files in forward direction.

Press to locate the start point of the current

1 Slide the zoom lever towards W to select the scroll bar on the index screen.

2 Press / to display the next or previous page.

Scroll bar

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file. Pressing repeatedly skips files in reverse direction.

●If you press or during normal playback or search, playback resumes after locating the start point of a file.

Frame-by-frame playback

While playback is paused, press or .

PLAYBACK

●If you press and hold /

, the high speed search starts.

●If you find the desired file, slide the zoom lever towards T, then select the file.

Date Index Screen

You can also find the desired file by the date index screen. The files are sorted according to their recorded date.

1 Slide the zoom lever

●Pressing or repeatedly advances or reverses the still picture frame by frame.

●To resume normal playback, press 49.

Slow motion playback

While playback is paused, press and hold or for over 2 seconds.

●To stop slow motion playback, press 49.

Playback Zoom

You can magnify the playback image up to 5x.

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twice towards W. The date index screen appears.

DATE INDEX

1 During normal playback, at the point you want to zoom in, press 49 to pause playback.

2 Press / to select the desired date. The

files recorded on the selected date are displayed on the right side of the screen.

●To display the next or previous date, select the scroll bar by sliding the zoom lever towards W, and press / .

3 Press 49. The files recorded on the selected date are displayed in the index screen.

Various Playback Operations

Still playback (Pause)

Press 49 during normal playback.

●To resume normal playback, press 49 again.

Search playback

During normal playback, press for forward search, or for reverse search.

●Pressing or repeatedly increases the search speed for each direction. (–60x to +60x)

●To resume normal playback, press 49.

2 Slide the zoom lever towards T to zoom in.

●The full view of the image is displayed in the small screen on the lower right side. The * mark indicates the centre point of the magnified area.

3 Press / / / to move to the magnified area you want to view.

4 To zoom out, slide the zoom lever towards W.

●When the zoom is set all the way to W (wide- angle) side, sliding the zoom lever to W switches the display to the index screen. ( pg. 25)

Deleting Video Files

Press , then press / to select [EXECUTE] and press 49.

●You can select the desired file to be deleted by pressing / .

●To delete multiple files at once, see page 39.

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JVC GZ-MG20EK, GZ-MG40EK, GZ-MG30E How to Use the Scroll Bar, Date Index Screen, Playback Zoom, Various Playback Operations
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GZ-MG50EK, GZ-MG20E, GZ-MG50E, GZ-MG30EK, GZ-MG30E specifications

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