Maintenance and precautions

About the Disc

See page 14 for the details of discs which you can use with your camcorder.

Notes on use

•Hold the disc by its edge while supporting the center hole lightly. Do not touch the recording side (the opposite of the printed side when using a single-sided disc).

•Before shooting, be sure to remove dust and fingerprints from the disc with a soft cloth. Otherwise you may not be able to record or play normally in some situations using that disc.

•When you set the disc in your camcorder, press firmly until it clicks. When the message [C:13:ss] appears on the LCD screen, open the disc cover and set the disc again.

•Do not attach any adhesive material such as a sticker on the surface of a disc. If you do so, the disc may become unbalanced, and this may cause a malfunction of the disc or your camcorder.

Use of double-sided discs

Double-sided discs allow you to record both sides of a disc.

xRecording on the A side

Place the disc in your camcorder with the side with the symbol at the center facing outwards until it clicks.

symbol

Place the symbol facing outwards.

Recording is made on the rear side.

•When using a double-sided disc, take care not to smudge the surface with fingerprints.

•When a double-sided disc is used in your camcorder, recording/playback are performed on that side only. You cannot switch to record on or play back the other side with the disc set to the camcorder. When recording/playback of one side is complete, remove the disc and turn it over to access the other side.

•Perform the following operations on each side of a double-sided disc:

–Finalizing (p. 44)

–Unfinalizing (p. 60)

–Formatting (p. 59)

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