Searching a recording by date – Date search

Note

If one day’s recording is less than two minutes, your camcorder may not accurately find the point where the recording date changes.

In the mark

The bar in the mark indicates the present point on the tape.

The mark in the indicates the actual point you are trying to search.

If a tape has a blank portion between recorded portions

The date search function may not work correctly.

Searching for the date without using cassette memory

(1) Set the POWER switch to VCR.

(2) Set CM SEARCH in to OFF in the menu settings (p. 104). If using a tape without cassette memory, skip this step.

(3) Press SEARCH MODE on the Remote Commander repeatedly, until the date search indicator appears.

The indicator changes as follows:

INDEX SEARCH t DATE SEARCH t PHOTO SEARCH t PHOTO SCAN t no indicator

(4) Press .on the Remote Commander to search for the previous date or press

>on the Remote Commander to search for the next date. Your camcorder automatically starts playback at the point where the date changes. Each time you press .or >, your camcorder searches for the previous or next date.

To stop searching

Press x.

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