Error messages (continued)

Displaying the warning information

•A warning message appears when a warning has occurred. “NO WARNING” appears when a warning has not occurred.

•When more than one warning has occurred simultaneously, move the joystick up or down to check the description of each warning.

Warning messages

Priority

Monitor display

Description

Corrective action

VTR operation

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

High

E-04

 

This appears when the signals supplied from the

Check

that

the

1394

No recording

 

 

 

IEEE1394 digital interface are not DVCPRO/DV

input

has

been

o p e r a t i o n s

 

 

(UNKNOWN SIG)

 

 

format signals.

connected properly.

 

 

are possible.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

E-11

 

This appears when the signals supplied from the

Check the 1394 input

No recording

 

 

(NOT 1x 25M SIG)

IEEE1394 digital interface are not DVCPRO/DV

signals.

 

 

 

 

o p e r a t i o n s

 

 

 

 

(25 Mbps) format 1x transfer signals.

 

 

 

 

 

 

are possible.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

E-14

 

This appears when a DV cassette has been inserted,

Check the 1394 input

No recording

 

 

(NO MATCH SIG)

and then the signals from the IEEE1394 digital

o p e r a t i o n s

 

 

(For AJ-SD255E)

interface are not DV format 1x transfer signals.

signals.

 

 

 

 

are possible.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This appears when the compressed video signals

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

supplied from the IEEE1394 digital interface are

Check the 1394 input

 

 

 

 

E-16

 

irregular signals.

signals. It is possible that

O p e r a t i o n

 

 

(INVALID

VIDEO

• This warning appears only during recording

playback signals of an

cannot

be

 

 

SIG)

 

operations. In such cases, no signals are

unrecorded

tape

 

are

continued.

 

 

 

 

 

recorded on the tape, and only erasure of

being input.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

existing signals is performed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This appears when the audio signals supplied

Check the 1394 input

 

 

 

 

E-17

 

from the IEEE1394 digital interface are irregular

signals. It is possible that

O p e r a t i o n

 

 

(INVALID

AUDIO

signals.

signals

other than

1x

cannot

be

 

 

SIG)

 

• This warning appears only during recording

playback signals

are

continued.

 

 

 

 

 

operations. In such cases, the signals are

being input from a VTR

 

 

 

 

 

 

recorded with the audio signals muted.

or other device.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This appears when the time code information

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

E-18

 

supplied from the IEEE1394 digital interface is

Check the time code of

O p e r a t i o n

 

 

 

irregular information.

the

device

which

is

cannot

be

 

 

(INVALID TC SIG)

• This warning appears only during recording

 

 

 

 

operations. In such cases, the internally

supplying the time code.

continued.

 

 

 

 

 

generated time code is recorded.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The copy protect information which has been input

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

from the IEEE1394 digital interface is copy

Check the tape.

 

 

 

 

 

 

E-91

 

protected when a DV cassette has been inserted.

This

signal

can

be

No recording

 

 

(COPY

 

• This warning is displayed at all times. When it appears, a

recorded

when

a

operations

 

 

PROTECTED)

recording operation cannot be initiated from any mode

DVCPRO cassette has

are possible

 

 

 

 

other than recording. When it appears during a recording

been inserted.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

operation, the mode is transferred to stop.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If a loop-through format has

Signal input

 

 

 

 

 

been adopted for the cable

and output

 

 

E-92

 

This appears when the connection status of the

connections, re-connect

through

the

 

 

(1394 INITIAL

each of the cables on a 1:1

I E E E 1 3 9 4

 

 

ERROR)

 

IEEE1394 digital interface is irregular.

basis. If such a format has

d i g i t a l

 

 

 

 

 

not been adopted, set the

interface

is

 

 

 

 

 

POWER switch to OFF and

stopped.

 

 

 

 

 

 

then back to ON.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

E-10

 

This appears when the fan motor has shut down.

Check the fan for foreign

O p e r a t i o n

 

 

(FAN STOP)

 

matter.

 

 

 

 

continues.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This appears when a blank section lasting for

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

more than one second on the tape has been

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

detected during playback.

Check the tape. It is

 

 

 

 

E-09

 

A blank section is identified as such when all the

possible

that

 

an

O p e r a t i o n

 

 

(NO RF)

 

following conditions are met:

unrecorded

tape

has

continues.

 

 

 

 

 

• There are no output signals from any of the heads.

been loaded.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• The playback data cannot be read.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Low)

 

 

• There is no CTL signal (DV/DVCAM tapes excluded).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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