Recording video or TV programs

Using the A/V connecting cable

You can record a tape from another VCR or a TV program from a TV that has video/ audio outputs. Use your camcorder as a recorder.

(1) Insert a blank tape (or a tape you want to record over) into your camcorder. If you want to record a tape from the VCR, insert a recorded tape into the VCR.

(2) Set the POWER switch to VCR on your camcorder.

(3) Set DISPLAY in to LCD in the menu settings (p. 104).

(4) Press MENU to erase the menu display.

(5) Press zREC and the button on its right simultaneously on your camcorder, then immediately press Xon your camcorder.

(6) Press Non the VCR to start playback if you record a tape from a VCR. Select a TV program if you record from a TV. The picture from a TV or VCR appears on the LCD screen or in the viewfinder.

(7) Press Xon your camcorder at the scene from which you want to start recording.

5

REC

PAUSE

S VIDEO

 

 

(not supplied)

OUT

 

 

VIDEO

 

S VIDEO

 

VIDEO

AUDIO

 

 

 

CH1/CH2

 

AUDIO

 

 

: Signal flow

Editing

When you have finished recording

Press xon both your camcorder and the VCR.

Using the Remote Commander

In step 5, press zREC and MARK simultaneously, then immediately press X. And in step 7, press Xat the scene from which you want to start recording.

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