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.

cClean it with the supplied cleaning cloth.

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

•You are trying to play back a disc recorded in VR mode with 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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