Contents

IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS ......

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Precautions ..................................................

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Preparations for Use: Basic Information ...

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Features .....................................................

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Example of System Composition and

 

Recording Component Setup ...............

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Names of Parts ..........................................

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Front Panel Facilities ..............................

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Rear Panel Facilities ...............................

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Remote Control Unit ..............................

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Video Clip Management and Disc

 

Authoring Procedure .............................

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Basic Operations .......................................

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Functions ...................................................

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Status Confirmation Using Onscreen

 

Display (OSD) .........................................

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System Default Settings ..........................

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Mouse/Keyboard ....................................

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Network .................................................

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UPS Support ..........................................

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System Information ...............................

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HDD Tools ..............................................

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Background Color ...................................

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Composite Video/Audio RCA Output .....

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GUI Language Setting ............................

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Recording ...................................................

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Selecting the TV System Mode .............

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Selecting Input .......................................

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Selecting Recording Destination ............

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Other Recording Settings ......................

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Video Encode Rate Settings ..................

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Video Filter Level Setting .......................

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Audio Encode Setting ............................

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Audio Level Setting ................................

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Methods for Setting Chapter

 

Mark Insertion ....................................

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Preview Function ...................................

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Starting and Stopping Recording ...........

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Settings for Automatic Recording ..........

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Eject Setting ...........................................

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Editing the Edit List ................................

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Recording to DVD Discs ........................

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Recording from HDD to DVD .................

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Playing Discs .............................................

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Selecting Playback Source .....................

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Playing DVD-Video Discs

 

(including commercially available

 

software titles) ...................................

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Clip Playback (HDD) ...............................

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Basic Operations ....................................

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Playback Monitoring during Recording ..

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Other Playback Settings .........................

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External Sync Function ..........................

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Other Functions .....................................

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Regarding Progressive Scan Output ......

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DVD Menu Editing ....................................

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DVD Menu Type Selection .....................

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Font Selection ........................................

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DVD Menu Selection .............................

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Thumbnail Selection ...............................

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Button Text.............................................

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Selecting Opening Clip ...........................

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Setting an Idle Clip .................................

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Setting Navigation Commands ..............

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Customizing the DVD Menu ..................

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Deleting and Initializing Menu Library ....

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DVD Menu Preview ...............................

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DVD Disc Emulation ...............................

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Load / Save to Default Menu .................

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Title Editing / Chapter Editing .................

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Editing Chapter Names ..........................

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Title Trimming .........................................

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Chapter Editing ......................................

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Dividing Clips .........................................

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Title Order Edit .......................................

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DVD Disc Emulation ...............................

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Recording to DVD Disc ..........................

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Project Editing ...........................................

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Copying a Project ...................................

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Copying Clips .........................................

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Renaming a Clip .....................................

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Exporting VOB Files ...............................

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Deleting a Project ...................................

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Disc Duplication ........................................

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Disc-to-disc Duplication ..........................

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Creating Image Files from a Disc ...........

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Creating Discs from Image Files ............

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Deleting Image Files from a Hard Disk ..

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Importing Image Data, Edit Lists .............

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DVD Menu Layout

 

Image File Format ..............................

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DVD Menu Background

 

Image File Format ..............................

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Edit List File Format ...............................

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Edit List Example ...................................

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Backing Up/Restoring USB HDDs ...........

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Connecting a USB HDD .........................

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Formatting ..............................................

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Backing Up .............................................

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Restoring ................................................

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Deleting Backup Data ............................

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Removing a USB HDD ...........................

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Backing up and Restoring System Settings ...

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Recording Time .........................................

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Function Menu Table ................................

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Shortcut Key Information ........................

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Message Display .......................................

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TROUBLESHOOTING ................................

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Specifications ............................................

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Language Code List ..................................

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Country Code List ...................................

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Regarding the GNU General

 

Public License .......................................

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