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F Locate the end point.

Press 4 to start playback. Find the edit-out point where you want the edited scene to end by pressing 9, then press IN/OUT.

● The edit-out point is registered in memory and appears on the screen.

●The total time of the edited scenes is displayed to the right

of “TOTAL”.

● Repeat steps 5 and 6 for each additional scene.

G Prepare the source tape.

Rewind the tape in the DV deck to the beginning of the scene you want to edit.

H Prepare the VHS deck for dubbing.

APress VHS.

BSearch for the point where you want to start dubbing by pressing 4, 5 or 3 then press 8.

CPress 7, then the VHS deck enters the Record Pause mode.

I Start Random Assemble Editing.

Press START (or OK).

●Automatic editing begins; all the specified scenes are copied to the VHS deck in the order they were registered.

●The on-screen display remains while your recorder searches for each scene (blinking cursor indicates scene currently being searched for), but disappears during actual editing.

●During scene search, the VHS deck automatically enters its Record-Standby mode.

●When all registered scenes have been edited, the DV deck enters the Pause mode, the VHS deck enters its Record Pause mode, and the arrow blinks at the next available number.

J End Random Assemble Editing.
To Make Corrections ...

... in step 5 or 6, you can cancel registered in and out points by pressing &. Each time you press, the preceding point is erased.

●If, for example, you have registered 5 sets of in and out points and want to reset the first set, you have to press & until all points after the first set have been erased. Reenter them after you have repaired the first set of points.

NOTES:

●When Random Assemble Editing does not work, press , then perform Random Assemble Editing again.

●To cancel the registered scene, press &. Each time & is pressed, the latest registered scene is erased.

●When the source tape has more than 2 identical time codes

( pg. 35), the recorder may not find the edit-in point you set and a malfunction may occur.

●When choosing a scene, set edit-in and edit-out points so that there's a relatively large difference between them.

●If the search time for an in-point exceeds 5 minutes, the VHS deck's Record-Pause mode will be cancelled and editing will not take place.

●If there are blank portions before or after the edit-in and edit- out points, a blue-backed screen may be included in the edited version.

●Since time codes register time only as accurately as seconds, the time code total time may not match the total programme time exactly.

●To use Random Assemble Editing consecutively for two or more programmes, press START for each programme. When dubbing from another Mini DV cassette, change the Mini DV cassette first, and then press START.

Press R.A.EDIT twice to return to the normal screen. Press 8 to stop the VHS deck’s Record Pause mode. Press DV, then press 8 to stop the DV deck’s Pause mode.