Appendix

Symptom

Possible cause

No image appears

Video input channel on TV or TV

on connected TV

channel is not selected properly.

screen.

Audio/video/S-video cable is not

 

 

properly connected.

No image from an ex- DV cable or audio/video/S-video

ternal source ap- cable is not properly connected. pears on the

camcorder screen.

Suggested solution

Select video input channel or TV channel properly (p. 31).

Connect audio/video/S-video cable properly (p. 31).

Connect DV cable or audio/video/S- video cable properly (pp. 68, 70, 72).

Appendix

Playback mode

 

The cable connection does not

Set the S-VIDEO IN menu item to

 

match the S-VIDEO IN menu setting.

“ON” for S-video connection, or

 

 

“OFF” for video connection (p. 69).

Cannot rewind or fast

Position at beginning or end of tape.

Rewind or fast forward tape to de-

forward tape.

 

sired point (p. 29).

 

Using a cleaning tape

The cleaning tape will automatically

 

 

rewind after cleaning finishes (p.

 

 

viii).

Video noise in image. Dirty video heads.

Call for service or use a commer-

 

 

cially available cleaning tape (p.

 

 

viii).

 

Old or worn tape.

Use a new cassette.

No sound.

Using a 12-bit recording tape with

Set the AUDIO menu item to “AU-

 

AUDIO menu item set to “AUDIO 2”.

DIO 1” or “AUDIO 1L2” (p. 73).

Tape does not work.

Power switch is set to Camera

Set the Power switch to Playback

 

mode.

mode (p. 22).

 

Media Selection switch is set to

Set the Media Selection switch to

 

Card mode.

Tape mode (p. 22).

 

Battery pack is depleted.

Charge battery pack or replace it

 

 

with a fully charged one (pp. 6–8).

 

 

 

Still images in Card

The images are recorded in self re-

Transfer the data to PC (pp. 89–94),

mode are rotated

cording with reversed grip.

and rotate the images 180° back by

180° upside down.

 

using a commercially available edit-

 

 

ing software.

 

 

 

Motion images are

Improper self recording.

Turn on Rotate Playback (p. 53).

rotated 180° upside

 

 

down.

 

 

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