08Playing and recording from a DV camcorder

Chapter 8

Playing and recording from a DV camcorder

You can play back and record video from a DV camcorder connected to the DV IN jack on the front panel of this recorder.

Important

•If you connect a second recorder using a DV cable, you cannot control the second unit from this one.

•You can’t control this recorder remotely from a component connected to the DV IN jack.

Recording from a DV camcorder

•The source signal must be DVC-SD format.

•You can’t record date and time information from DV cassette.

•During DV recording, if a part of the tape is blank, or has copy-protected material on it, this recorder will pause recording. Recording will restart automatically when there is a recordable signal. However, if there is more than two minutes of blank tape, this recorder will stop recording and the camcorder should stop (depending on the camcorder).

Playing from a DV camcorder

1Make sure your DV camcorder is connected to the front panel DV IN jack.

2From the Initial Setup menu, check that the DV audio input is setup as you would like.

See DV Input on page 155 for more on this.

•Check also that the Audio In settings for External Audio and Bilingual Recording are as you want them (see Audio In on page 155).

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MENU

3SETUP Select ‘DV’, then ‘DV Video Playback’ from the Home Menu.

4Start playback on the camcorder.

Images from the camcorder should appear on your TV.

•To record the incoming video, press HDD/DVD (LCD page 1) to select the HDD or a DVD for recording, then press REC (LCD page 1). Press STOP REC (LCD page 1) to finish recording.

If there is no signal from the device connected to the DV jack, or the signal is copy-protected, recording will pause. It will automatically restart once there is a recordable signal.

•The recorder will only start recording from the DV IN jack if there is a valid signal. Recording will pause if the signal is interrupted during recording.

•If your source is copy-protected using Copy Guard, you will not be able to record it. See Restrictions on video recording on page 92 for more details.

Copying from a DV source

Using the recorder’s remote, you can control both the camcorder and this recorder.

Important

•Some camcorders cannot be controlled using this recorder’s remote.

•For best results when recording from a DV camcorder to this recorder, we recommend cueing the camcorder to the place you want to start recording from and setting the camcorder to play-pause.

1Make sure your DV camcorder is connected to the front panel DV IN jack.

Also, set the camcorder to VTR mode.

REC

2

MODE (LCD page 1) Set the recording quality.

 

• See Setting the picture quality/recording time on

 

page 95 for detailed information.

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From the Initial Setup menu, check that the DV

audio input is setup as you would like. See DV Input on page 155 for more on this.

• Check also that the Audio In settings for External Audio and Bilingual Recording are as you want them (see Audio In on page 155).

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MENU

4SETUP Select ‘DV’, then ‘Copy from a DV Source’ from the Home Menu.

•DV recording only works when the DV camcorder is in VTR mode with a tape loaded.

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