Panasonic DMR-E20 Finalize-Creating DVD-Video, Use Joystick Select Finalize and press Enter

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Disc setting

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TV/AV

³The disc cannot be formatted if the disc is protected with the write-protect tab.

Release the protection to continue (➡ page 99).

POWER OPEN/CLOSE

³Formatting cannot be performed on DVD-R or CD-R/RW.

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to protect the disc, the message “Contents on the disc have been protect-

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ed. Is it OK to start formatting the disc?” appears in step 5. Select “Start” if

TOP WINDOW

STATUS

you want to format the disc. The contents will be erased even if they have

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been protected.

SKIP

SLOW/SEARCH

TOP

Finalize—Creating DVD-Video

STOP

PAUSE

PLAY

[DVD-R]

DVD, TV

1		2	3
4		5	6
7		8	9
VCR Plus+		0	100
			DVD
REC	REC MODE CANCEL		CH
TIME SLIP	CM SKIP	INPUT
		SELECT
ADD/DLT	V.S.S.	LAST	AUDIO
		MARKER

MARKER

DVDTV ACTION WRITE

You can play DVD-R on compatible DVD players by finalizing them on this unit, effectively making them into DVD-Video.

The titles you entered with this unit appear as menus when you play the finalized disc.

Preparation

³Switch [DVD, TV] to “DVD”.

³Insert the disc you want to finalize.

1 While stopped

Press [TOP WINDOW].

2 Use the joystick [3, 4, 2, 1] to select “DISC SETTING” and press [ENTER].

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TOP WINDOW

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ENTERENTER

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ENTER ENTER

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ENTERENTER

3	DISC SETTING					operations
	Use the	joystick		[3, 4] to	select
	“Finalize” and press [ENTER].					Advanced
	DISC SETTING Prog #	7	Free	0 : 42 (SP)
	Used	0 : 58	Total Mark 10
		Enter Title
	SELECT		Finalize

4 Use the joystick [2, 1] to select “Yes” and press [ENTER].

DISC SETTING Prog #	7	Free	0 : 42 (SP)
Used	0 : 58	Total Mark	10
		Finalize
This will take appoximately 10 minutes.
Is it OK to start finalizing the disc?
SELECT	Yes		No

ENTER

RETURN

5 Use the joystick [2, 1] to select “Start” and press [ENTER].

DISC SETTING Prog #	7	Free	0 : 42 (SP)
Used	0 : 58	Total Mark	10
		Finalize

Finalize will make this disc playback only.

Is it OK to start finalizing the disc?

SELECT

Start Cancel

ENTER

FinalizingRETURNstarts.

The message “Finalizing is finished” appears when finalizing is finished.

ºTo stop finalizing

Press [RETURN] in steps 4 and 5, or select “No” in step 4, “Cancel” in step 5 and press [ENTER].

Note

Do not turn the unit off or disconnect the AC power supply cord while the
message “Finalizing” is on the television.
This will render the disc unusable.
³You can only finalize DVD-R that were recorded on this unit.
³You cannot record on DVD-R that have been finalized.	55
³The markers you entered (➡ page 36) will be lost.
³Finalizing takes up to 15 minutes.	RQT6035