2Tape transport control section

 

5 PLAY button/indicator

1 REW button/indicator

6 F FWD button/indicator

2 INDEX button

7 END SEARCH button

 

8 DUP button/indicator

3 KEY INH switch

9 AUDIO DUB button/indicator

 

4 STOP button/indicator

0 REC button/indicator

 

qa PAUSE button/indicator

Overview 1 Chapter

1REW (rewind) button/indicator

When you press this button, the indicator lights and the tape starts rewinding. During rewind, the picture does not appear on the monitor (except EE pictures1)). If you keep pressing this button during playback, rewind or in playback pause mode, the contents of the tape will be shown in reverse on the monitor while it is rewound (picture search). When operation has stopped, if you press the PLAY button while holding this button down, the tape is rewound to the beginning and automatically played.

You can change the tape transport mode in FF/REW SPD on the VTR SET menu.

For details on VTR SET menu, see “VTR SET menu” on page 90 (GB).

Notes

If you set the FF/REW SPD on the VTR SET menu to SHUTTLEMAX, you can display the picture while rewinding the tape.

If you set PB in EE/PB SET on the DISPLAY SET menu, the EE pictures are not output while rewinding the tape.

2INDEX button

Press to mark an index while recording. An index is useful when you search for the scene later.

For details on index, see “Other Recording Functions” on page 52 (GB).

3KEY INH (key inhibit) switch

Turning on this switch disables the tape transport control buttons to prevent invalid button operations.

4STOP button/indicator

Press to stop the tape. If there is a tape in the unit and the tape has been stopped, the indicator lights.

5PLAY button/indicator

Press to play back the tape. When the tape is being played, the indicator lights.

Notes

When the unit is playing the part of the tape where the format has been changed between the DVCAM format and the DV format, the picture and sound may be distorted.

The unit cannot play back a cassette recorded in LP mode of the consumer DV format.

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1) EE pictures

conversion circuits but instead are output via electric circuits

“EE” stands for “Electric to Electric”. In this EE mode, the

only. This mode is used to check the input signals and adjust

video and audio signals that are input to the VCR’s

input levels. The pictures output in EE mode are referred to

recording circuitry do not pass through any magnetic

as EE pictures.

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