When a ? appears on the left of “P00” at the top left of the page, you can change the page. Up to 20 pages, from P00 to P19, can be used to save user files in the “Memory Stick”. Each page can hold up to 5 files.
4 Turn the MENU knob until the page which contains the desired file number appears, and press the MENU knob.
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5 Turn the MENU knob to move the b mark to the desired file number, and press the MENU knob.
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6 To carry out the save, move the b mark to “YES” and press the MENU knob.
To cancel, press the MENU knob leaving the b mark pointing to “NO”.
When the saving is completed, the message “COMPLETE” appears and the access indicator goes off.
If no “Memory Stick” has been inserted, the message “NO MEMORY STICK” will appear. Insert a “Memory Stick”.
If you select a file number where data has already been saved
The message “OVERWRITE OK? YES b NO” appears. In this case, the b mark appears on the left of “NO”, which is flashing.
•To stop overwriting, press the MENU knob.
•To overwrite, move the b mark to “YES” and press the MENU knob.
You can select the information displayed on each USER SAVE or USER LOAD page.
For details, see “Selecting the display contents” on page 106.
7 To end the menu operation, set the MENU ON/OFF switch to OFF or close the cover of the menu operating section.
The menu disappears from the viewfinder screen, and the display indicating the current status of the camcorder appears along the top and bottom of the screen.
USER menu settings to be saved in the “Memory Stick”
Settings for items on all pages of the USER menu are saved in the “Memory Stick” as a user file. However, you can select the items which are not to be saved in the “Memory Stick”.
For details, refer to the Maintenance Manual.
If data cannot be saved
If one of the following error messages appears during or after the save operation, then the data was not saved.
Data save error messages
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LOCKED | switch on the | to the write enable |
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ERROR | “Memory Stick” | replace the “Memory |
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Before data is saved to a “Memory Stick”, it is useful to set a file ID for the “Memory Stick” to identify it.
When data is saved to a “Memory Stick”, the file ID is saved to the “Memory Stick” together with the data.
Note
Set the file ID before saving data in the “Memory Stick”. Otherwise, the file ID is not saved with the other data.
To set the file ID, proceed as follows.
1 On the USER FILE page, turn the MENU knob to move the b mark to “F. ID”.
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