NAMES AND FUNCTIONS OF VARIOUS PARTS

– Front panel –

 

 

2

 

POWER

 

 

 

 

 

 

EJECT

1

 

 

 

 

 

 

MENU

 

A.DUB

REC

PLAY PAUSE

 

 

DVCAM NTSC PAL REC INH.

 

AG-DV2500

 

 

 

 

 

1 / 3

SET

MIC REMOTE

INPUTCH

REW

FF

OFF

LINE

2 / 4

STOP

 

 

AUDIO

 

9PIN WIRELESS

DV S-VIDEO

 

 

 

4 3

 

 

1 [POWER] Power button/LED

3 [A. DUB] Audio dubbing button/LED

●Press this button to turn on the power and op- erate the unit. (Power ON)

Press this button again to turn off the power. (Power OFF)

●The POWER LED lights up as follows.

Power ON

: the LED lights up green

Power OFF

: the LED lights up red

VTR error

: the LED blinks in red

Memo

●When the DC IN MODE item of the SYS- TEM menu is set to “POWER ON” and power is supplied to the 1DC IN terminal located at the rear panel, the unit goes into the POWER ON state even if this button is not pressed.

●Even when the power has been turned off with this button, a small amount of electric- ity will still be channeled into the unit.

Therefore, if the unit is not going to be used for a long period of time, please remove the AC adapter to reduce energy consumption.

2Cassette slot

●Load a cassette into or unload it from the slot. Please insert a standard DV or a mini DV cas- sette. (☞ Page 29)

●When the unit is in the POWER OFF state and if a cassette is loaded, it goes into the ON state.

●Press this button for audio dubbing (after-re- cording).

For audio dubbing, set the AUDIO MODE item of the AUDIO/VIDEO menu to “32K”.

Sound produced by the 6 MIC terminal or the 9 AUDIO IN terminal at the rear panel (☞ Page 15) is recorded on CH3 and CH4 channels.

●During audio dubbing, the A. DUB LED lights up red.

●If the INPUT switch is set at “DV”, audio dub- bing is not possible.

(☞ Page 39, “Audio dubbing”)

4[INPUT] Input video signal selection switch

●Select the video signal input with this switch. S-VIDEO :YC separate video signals from the S-VIDEO IN terminal

LINE

: Composite video signals from the

 

LINE IN terminal

DV

: DV signals from the DV IN/OUT

 

terminal (IEEE1394)

Note

During recording, manipulating this switch will not bring about any effect.

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