Erasing and Editing

Before Editing

This recorder offers various edit options for different disc types. Before you edit, check the disc type in the front panel display, and select the option available for your disc (page 8).

Notes

•You may lose the edited contents if you remove the disc or a timer recording starts while editing.

•DVD discs created by DVD video cameras cannot be edited on this recorder.

Edit options for the HDD and DVD- RWs (VR mode)

HDD -RWVR

You can enjoy advanced edit functions. First you have two options for the HDD and DVD-RWs (VR mode): editing either the original recording (called the “original”), or the playback information created from the original (called a “Playlist”). Since each is different in nature and offers different merits, read the following and select the one that better suits your needs.

To edit original titles

Edits made to the original titles are final. If you plan to retain an unaltered original recording, create a Playlist to edit (see below). The edit functions available for original titles are:

–Labelling a title (page 72).

–Setting protection against erasure (page 72).

–Erasing a title (page 72).

–Erasing multiple titles (page 74).

–Erasing a section of a title (A-B Erase) (page 73).

–Erasing all titles on the disc (page 75).

–Erasing a chapter (page 73).

–Dividing one title into two titles (HDD only) (page 74).

To create and edit Playlist titles

A Playlist is a group of Playlist titles created from the original title for editing purposes. When you create a Playlist, only the control information necessary for playback, such as the playback order, is stored on the disc. Since the original titles are left unaltered, Playlist titles can be re-edited.

Example: You have recorded the final few matches of a football tournament on a DVD-RW (VR mode). You want to create a digest with the goal scenes and other highlights, but you also want to keep the original recording.

Original

 

Playlist

Erasing

 

and

In this case, you can compile highlight scenes as a

Editing

 

Playlist title. You can even rearrange the scene

 

order within the Playlist title (“Creating and

 

Editing a Playlist” on page 76).

 

The advanced edit functions available for Playlist

 

titles are:

 

–Setting protection against erasure (HDD only) (page 72).

–Labelling a title (page 72).

–Erasing a title (page 72).

–Erasing multiple titles (page 74).

–Erasing a section of a title (A-B Erase) (page 73).

–Rearranging the title order (DVD-RWs (VR mode) only) (page 77).

–Dividing a title into multiple titles (page 74).

–Combining multiple titles into one title (page 77).

–Erasing a chapter (page 73).

zHint

You can display the disc’s Playlist titles in the Title List (Playlist), or the original titles in the Title List (Original). To switch the two Title Lists, press TOOLS while a Title List is displayed, and select “Original” or “Playlist.”

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