RCA VR270 owner manual Pause During Recording, Pause for Stop-Action Playback, =Picture Search

-Pause During Recording

•Press the PAUSE button when you are recording

to prevent recording short passages of unwanted material.

•Press the PAUSE button again ",','henyou are ready to resume recording.

Cauli0n: Avoid pausing for more than three or four

minutes, because			the	spinning		heads that do the
recording	are	still	in	contact		with the tape and will
eVentual!_	w_	off	the	active	material_ This can cause
Streaks 0r	Spots in the			picture	when you play the worn

part of the ta_ (called	dropouts).
For this reason the VCR	wil! automatically	Switch from
Pause tO Stop after about five minutes:		.......

-Pause for Stop-Action Playback

Press the PA USE button during playback to stop the action. This lets ",on examine all the details of the

scene-similar to looking at a single frame of a movie film. When you are ready to resume normal playback. press the PAUSE button again.

The following suggestions will help you get the most out of this feature:

•Stop Action is designed to work best at the SLP speed. For the best special effects performance and

the longest recording time, SLP speed is recommended.

•The stop-action picture may tend to jump up and down slightly. Adjust the control marked V.LOCK on the back of the VCR to reduce this jitter. Once

you have made this adjustment, you probably won't have to do it again unless you use stop- action on a tape that was recorded on a different VCK. (A small amount of vertical jitter is normal.)

•Using stop-action on a single frame of the picture for a long time can wear the tape, as explained in "'Pause During Recording". For this reason you should use STOP instead of PAUSE to interrupt playback for an extended time. The VCR will

automatically switch from Pause to Stop after about five minutes.

=Picture Search

•The buttons for rewind (REW) and fast forward (F.FWD) become the picture-search buttons when you are playing a tape.

•When you press F.FWD/SEARCH while playing a tape. tl_e VCR plays at a higher speed than normal play. TO return to normal playback, press F.FWD/ SEARCH again or press the PLA Y button.

•When you press REW/SEARCH, the VCR reverses from the normal direction and plays the

tape backward at high speed. Press REW!

SEARCH again or press the PLAY button to return to normal playback.

•The sound is turned off during picture search because it would not be understandable at the high speed.

•Expect to see some horizontal lines or bars in the picture when you are searching. The picture ",','illbe best for tapes recorded at SLP speed, although it can be viewed from tapes recorded at the other speeds.

Note: During picture search noise bars mav interfere I with the tape counter display, press the TfL4CKING

• or • button to move the noise bar up or down.

Be sure to reset the TRACKING for the best picture when you go back to play.

- Tracking Control

•When you play tapes that were not recorded on the same ;€CR. streaks may appear in the picture.

Adjust the TRACKING• or • button to move the bars up or down and out of the picture.

•The TRACKING buttons only affect tape playback. They have no effect during recordings.

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