Types of trouble and corrective action

During playback of a disc on other players

Symptom

Cause and/or Corrective Actions

Can not be played back or the disc can not be recognized.

•The disc may be dirty.

c Clean it with the supplied cleaning cloth.

•The disc is not finalized. c Finalize it. (page 64)

•You are tryng to play back a disc recorded in VR mode with an equipment which is not compatible with the VR mode.

c You cannot play back the disc with this equipment.

The picture is distorted.

• The disc may be dirty.

 

c Clean it with supplied cleaning cloth.

Playback freezes for an instant

• The image may freeze for an instant between scenes

between the scenes.

depending on the DVD player being used.

Playback does not move to the

• If playback crosses 2 titles made automatically by your

previous scene when you press

camcorder when . is pressed, playback may not move

..

to the previous scene.

 

c Select the desired scene from the menu screen. Refer to

 

the instruction manual for further information.

During editing

Symptom

Cause and/or Corrective Actions

Troubleshooting

The edit display is not displayed even though you press EDIT.

•The mode dial is set to (Movie) or (Still).

cSet the mode dial to (Play/Edit).

•A DVD-R is inserted.

cDVD-R cannot be edited. Insert DVD-RW.

•The inserted DVD-RW is formatted in VIDEO mode.

cFormat the DVD-RW in VR mode. Note that all the recorded data are deleted if you format the disc.

Scenes cannot be registered in the

• The registered scenes exceed 999.

Playlist.

c Delete unnecessary scenes or register all the still images

 

by converting them to a movie. (pages 79, 80)

 

• The disc is full.

 

c Delete unnecessary scenes. (page 89)

A movie cannot be divided.

• A movie that is too short cannot be divided.

 

• Still images converted to a movie cannot be divided.

 

• A movie protected on another device cannot be divided.

 

c Cancel the protection of the movie on the device used to

 

protect the movie.

A scene cannot be deleted.

• A scene protected on another device cannot be deleted.

 

c Cancel the protection of the scene on the device used to

 

protect the scene.

Editing is disabled.

• Another device was used for editing the disc.

 

c Another device may not be able to edit a disc recorded

 

on your camcorder.

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