Operation

Repeat playback

Setting the BEGIN point and END point

1 Set the VTR to the menu mode.

(By setting the LOCAL/MENU/REMOTE switch to the MENU position.)

2 Select setup menu item No.161 (BGN PRESET) or No.162 (END PRESET), and press the DATA+ button (PAUSE/STILL button) or DATA– button (PLAY button).

<Note>

A setting or no setting can be selected by operating the DATA+ and DATA– buttons. “--:--:--:--” appears on the display with no setting. When repeat playback is performed in this status, the beginning of the tape serves as the BEGIN point and its end serves as the END point.

3 Use the COUNTER button to select TC or CTL. <Note>

The display is reset to 00:00:00:00 when the RESET button is pressed.

4 Select the digit (indicated by the flashing display) to be changed using the UP button (FF button) or DOWN button (STOP button).

The frame digits cannot be selected. “00” is displayed for the frame at all times.

5 The value is changed by the DATA+ button (PAUSE/STILL button) and DATA– button (PLAY button).

6 Upon completion of the setting, press the SET button (REC button).

The setting is now stored in the memory.

<Note>

If the MODE button (SEARCH button) is pressed without pressing the SET button upon completion of the setting, the setting will not be stored in the memory, and the status existing prior to the setting will be restored.

7 Set the LOCAL/MENU/REMOTE switch to the LOCAL or REMOTE position.

Setting the repeat playback mode

1 Set the VTR to the menu mode.

(By setting the LOCAL/MENU/REMOTE switch to the MENU position.)

2 Select setup menu item No.160 (MEMORY MODE), and select the repeat playback mode.

Setting

Operation

 

 

OFF

Normal operation

 

 

M-STOP

The tape stops near the BEGIN point when it is

fast forwarded or rewound.

 

 

 

REPT1

When the tape is played back to the END point, it

is rewound to the BEGIN point where it stops.

 

 

 

 

When the tape is played back to the END point, it

CONT

is rewound to the BEGIN point and played back

 

again, and this process is repeated.

 

 

3 Set the LOCAL/MENU/REMOTE switch to the LOCAL or REMOTE position.

<Notes>

O The images will deteriorate when the same tape is played back in the repeat playback mode over and over again. After about 100 playback operations, replace the tape with a new one.

O The output image which appears when the tape returns to the BEGIN point in the repeat playback mode can be set using setup menu item No.163 (REPT MODE).

When “FREEZE” has been selected as the REPT MODE setting and if the END point is set at the tape end, the playback image will not freeze properly. Set this point on a part of the tape where images have been recorded.

O If the counter display mode (TC or CTL) established when the mode setting was selected by setup menu item No.161 (BGN PRESET) or No.162 (END PRESET) and the counter display mode (TC or CTL) for repeat playback do not match, the REPEAT lamp flashes, and the repeat playback operation is not performed.

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