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 possible. | The cassette’s REC/SAVE | Set the REC/SAVE switch to REC, or use another cassette. |
| switch is set to SAVE. |
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The unit’s tape transport | The remote control switch is | Set the remote control switch to LOCAL, or change the setting |
control buttons (PLAY, F FWD, | set to other than LOCAL and | of the LOCAL ENABLE menu item (see page 74) to ALL |
REW, etc.) do not work. | the LOCAL ENABLE menu | ENABLE. |
| item is set to STOP & EJECT |
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| No cassette is loaded. | Insert a cassette. |
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The NO EDIT indicator on the | The audio recording mode | • When your current purpose is editing, set the remote control |
LCD monitor lights up. | selected on this unit does not | switch to LOCAL and set the unit for the same audio |
| coincides with that of the | recording mode as with the tape using the REC MODE menu |
| loaded tape. | item (see page 81), then set the switch to 9PIN or i.LINK. |
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| tape currently loaded in the unit. |
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| The recording format of the | Replace the tape with one recorded in the DVCAM format. |
| currently loaded tape is HDV, |
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| DV or DVCPRO. |
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| The recording format selected | Select the DVCAM format. |
| on this unit is HDV or DV |
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Time data problems |
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Cannot freely set the initial | The TC MODE menu item is | Change the setting of the TC MODE menu item (see page 77) |
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time data value. | set to EXT REGEN. | to INT PRESET. |
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| CNT is selected as the time | Press the COUNTER SELECT button to make the TC or UB |
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| data type to be displayed (the | time data type indicator light up (the CNT value cannot be set |
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| CNT time data type indicator | freely). |
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| The remote control switch is | Set the remote control switch to LOCAL to turn the remote |
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| set to other than LOCAL and | indicator off or change the setting of the LOCAL ENABLE |
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| the LOCAL ENABLE menu | menu item (see page 74) to ALL ENABLE. |
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| item is set to STOP & EJECT |
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| or ALL DISABLE. |
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The tape is running, but the | The MENU button or TC | Press the button once again to exit the menu control mode, |
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time data is not shown in the | PRESET button has been | timecode preset mode, or digital hours meter display mode. |
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time counter display. | pressed. | (In either of the menu control mode and timecode preset mode, |
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| the time data is not shown in the time counter display.) |
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| The UB time data type | Press the COUNTER SELECT button to make the CNT or TC |
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| indicator is lit. | time data type indicator lights up. |
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