Troubleshooting and Maintenance 6 Chapter
Troubleshooting
If an alarm message appears on the monitor screen, or if the unit appears to be malfunctioning, please check the following before contacting your Sony dealer.
Tape problems
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Recording is not | The cassette’s REC/SAVE switch is set | Set the REC/SAVE switch to REC, or use another cassette. | |
possible. | to SAVE. |
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The unit’s tape | The REMOTE indicator in the display | Set the LOCAL/REMOTE switch to LOCAL to turn the | |
transport control | section is lit and the LOCAL ENABLE | REMOTE indicator off, or change the setting of the LOCAL | |
buttons (PLAY, F FWD, | menu item is set to STOP & EJECT or | ENABLE menu item (see page 67) to ALL ENABLE. | |
REW, etc.) do not | ALL DISABLE. |
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No cassette is loaded. | Insert a cassette (see page 31). | ||
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The NO EDIT indicator | The audio recording mode selected on | • When your current purpose is editing, set the LOCAL/ | |
on the front panel lights | this unit does not coincides with that of | REMOTE switch to LOCAL to turn the REMOTE indicator | |
up. | the loaded tape. | off and set the unit for the same audio recording mode as | |
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| with the tape using the REC MODE menu item (see page | |
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| 73), then set the switch to REMOTE to light the REMOTE | |
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| tape currently loaded in the unit. | |
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| The recording format of the currently | Replace the tape with one recorded in the DVCAM format. | |
| loaded tape is DV or DVCPRO. |
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| The recording format selected on this | Select the DVCAM format. | |
| unit is DV (SP). |
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Time data problems |
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Cannot freely set the | The TC MODE menu item is set to EXT | Change the setting of the TC MODE menu item (see page | |
initial time data value. | REGEN. | 70) to INT PRESET. | |
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| CNT is selected as the time data type | Press the COUNTER SELECT button to make the TC or U- | |
| to be displayed (the COUNTER time | BIT time data type indicator light up (the CNT value cannot | |
| data type indicator is lit). | be set freely). | |
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| The REMOTE indicator in the display | Set the LOCAL/REMOTE switch to LOCAL to turn the | |
| section is lit and the LOCAL ENABLE | REMOTE indicator off or change the setting of the LOCAL | |
| menu item is set to STOP & EJECT or | ENABLE menu item (see page 67) to ALL ENABLE. | |
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The tape is running, | The MENU button or TC PRESET | Press the button once again to exit the menu control mode, | |
but the time data is not | button in the menu control section has | time code preset mode, or digital hours meter display mode. | |
shown in the time | been pressed. | (In either of the menu control mode and time code preset | |
counter display. |
| mode, the time data is not shown in the time counter display.) | |
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| The | Press the COUNTER SELECT button to make the | |
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| COUNTER or TC time data type indicator light up. | |
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Input problem |
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It is not possible to | No SDTI signal is input to the unit, or | Connect an SDTI signal to the SDI/SDTI (QSDI) IN | |
record an SDTI (QSDI) | the SDTI format has not been selected. | connector, or set the DIGITAL OUTPUT menu item (see | |
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