Trouble Checks

Trouble

Checks and Adjustments

 

 

The Picture Wipe

• Select Picture Wipe or Dissolve before recording.

The effects are then automatically activated (pages

and/or Dissolve

29-30).

functions do not

• The camcorder automatically shuts off after five

work.

 

minutes in Record-Standby mode. Make sure you

 

continue using the camcorder within five minutes

 

after pausing a tape (page 26).

 

• Disengage Slow Shutter mode (page 31) or set

 

WIDE MODE to OFF (page 36-37) before using

 

Picture Wipe effects.

 

 

The Video Echo

• Set WIDE MODE to CINEMA or OFF

mode does not work.

(pages 36-37).

 

• Do not use Video Echo during a fade-in or fade-

 

out (page 31).

 

 

Even when Slow

• If you want the lighting to look more natural, set

Shutter is not

selected, the image

GAIN UP to AGC or OFF (page 39).

looks like it is.

 

 

 

There is no strobe

 

when the Classic

• Do not try to use the Classic Film or Strobe

Film or Strobe mode

modes during a scene transition (page 31).

is activated.

 

 

 

White Balance

• Turn off Sepia or Monotone before setting White

cannot be activated.

Balance (page 31).

 

 

During recording,

• Set DATE/TIME to ON (page 42).

the date/time does

• When the LCD monitor is turned to face forward,

not appear.

(page 22) date and time do not appear.

 

 

 

The indicators and

• In the Menu screen, set ON SCREEN to LCD or

messages do not

LCD/TV (page 41) and set TIME CODE to ON

appear.

(page 42).

 

 

Images on the LCD

• Adjust the brightness and angle of the LCD

monitor appear dark

monitor (page 22).

or whitish.

 

 

 

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