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Table of contents

Main features ...............................................

3

Checking supplied accessories ..................

5

Quick Start Guide ...............................

10

Frame by frame recording

 

– Frame recording ..............................

73

Superimposing a title ...............................

75

Making your own titles ............................

78

Inserting a scene ........................................

80

Getting Started

 

 

Advanced Playback Operations

Using this manual .....................................

14

 

 

Playing back tapes with picture effects

 

Step 1 Preparing the power supply

17

 

82

 

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Installing the battery pack ................

17

 

Playing back tapes with digital effects ..

84

Charging the battery pack .................

18

 

Enlarging recorded images

 

Connecting to a wall socket ..............

22

 

– Tape PB ZOOM ...............................

86

Step 2 Setting the date and time .............

23

 

Quickly locating a scene

 

Step 3 Inserting a cassette ........................

25

 

– ZERO SET MEMORY .....................

88

 

 

 

Searching a recording by date

 

Recording – Basics

 

 

...............................– DATE SEARCH

89

 

 

Searching for a photo

 

Recording a picture ...................................

27

 

 

 

– PHOTO SEARCH/PHOTO SCAN

91

Shooting backlit subjects

 

 

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– BACK LIGHT ............................

35

 

 

 

Shooting in the dark

 

– NightShot/Super NightShot/

 

Colour Slow Shutter ....................

36

Self-timer recording

 

(DCR-TRV340E only) ..................

39

Checking recordings – END SEARCH/

 

EDITSEARCH/Rec Review ..............

41

Playback – Basics

 

Playing back a tape ...................................

43

To display the screen indicators

 

– Display function .......................

44

Viewing recordings on TV .......................

49

Editing

 

Dubbing a tape ..........................................

93

Dubbing only desired scenes

 

– Digital program editing (on tapes)

...............................................................

97

Viewing images recorded on a tape on

 

your computer

 

(Windows users only) ......................

114

Customizing Your Camcorder

 

Changing the menu settings ..................

127

 

“Memory Stick” operations
Advanced Recording Operations(DCR-TRV340E only)

 

 

Recording still images on a tape

 

 

– Tape Photo recording .....................

51

 

Using the wide mode ...............................

55

 

Using the fader function ..........................

57

 

Using special effects – Picture effect ......

60

 

Using special effects – Digital effect .......

62

 

Using the PROGRAM AE function ........

65

 

Adjusting the exposure manually ..........

68

 

Focusing manually ....................................

69

6

Interval recording .....................................

71

Using “Memory Stick”– Introduction .. 149

Recording still images on “Memory

 

Stick”s

 

– Memory Photo recording .............

158

Superimposing a still image in the

 

“Memory Stick” on an image

 

– MEMORY MIX ..............................

165

Recording images from a tape as still

 

images ................................................

172

Copying still images from a tape

 

– PHOTO SAVE ................................

174