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4 Select ‘Finalize’.
5 Select Finalize ‘Start’.
6
Video mode only:
All the titles on the disc are
displayed.
7 The recorder will now start finalizing the disc.
during finalization:
• How long finalization takes depends on the type of
disc, how much is recorded on the disc and the
number of titles on the disc. A disc recorded in VR
mode can take up to one hour to finalize. A disc
recorded in Video mode can take up to 20 minutes.
Initializing a DVD-RW disc
When you first load a blank disc, the recorder will
initialize it automatically for recording. You can also
manually initialize DVD-RW discs.
You can initialize a disc for either Video mode recording
or VR mode recording.
Important
•Initializing a disc will erase everything recorded on it.
Make sure there is nothing on the disc that you want
to keep!
•You may not be able to re-initialize a disc in a different
format if it was originally initialized on an older DVD
recorder.
1 Press HOME MENU and select ‘Initial Setup’.
2 Press
to select ‘Disc’.
3 Select ‘Initialize’
4 Select ‘Video Mode’ or ‘VR Mode’ from the
initialize options.
5 Select ‘Start’.
It takes about 30 seconds to initialize the disc.
Note
• By default, the recorder initializes blank DVD-RW
discs for VR mode recording. See
DVD-RW Auto Init.
on page 54 if you want to change the default to Video
mode.
• If a disc was previously finalized on an older DVD
recorder, you may not be able to re-initialize and/or
initialize it for Video mode recording.
Disc
Basic
Disc
Video
Audio
Recording
Playback
Lock Disc Finalize
Undo Finalize
Initialize
Finalize
Finalize
Finalize
Undo Finalize
Start
Start
Title Menu 01/02
01 02 03
04
TUE 29/06
11:00
WED 30/06
11:00
THU 01/07
11:00
SAT 03/07
11:00
SUN 04/07
11:00
FRI 02/07
11:00
05 06
Finalizing
Please wait a moment.
1 min left
DVD-RW
Basic
Disc
Video
Audio
Recording
Playback
Lock Disc
Initialize
Finalize
Initial Setup
Disc
Basic
Disc
Video
Audio
Recording
Playback
Lock Disc VR Mode
Video ModeInitialize
Finalize
Initialize
VR Mode
Video Mode Start
Start
Initializing disc
Please wait a moment.
1 min left
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