Sony sl-hf600 Owner's Manual page 42

ADDING A SOUND TRACK
Adding a Mund
uvck
mhsncca
the
drama of your
W.
By adding
narrationstosamarreordeddthabycynaorfromtbeTV,orby
putting
in
background music, you can make your tapes far more in-
tNESting.
Tbe SL-HFWO's audio
inrert
function lets you record ova the original
sound track ou your
taps
to m r d just the sound you want. If your
original tape was rccordcd in Beta hi-fi, you can listen to either the
onginal track or the inscnedfrack, or both at the same time.
Uu
the llEC (rrr0rdl.l)
LEVEL
c o ~ t m l to b a b m
lhe
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M P k i the k t possible live recordings is an impatant part of video.
However, when you record sound whik
shooting. mmyhg a-
traneous m n d s rmy bc mdudcd, or you may
discova
while editing.
that a quiet scme is quickly foUowcd by jarringly noisy one. Unfor-
tunately, thae problem
occurs
all loo often. But by using
tbe
S L
H F W
or any other VCR with a
REC
(rrcording) LEVEL mnwol
pr
the recording VCR, you can adjust the
sound
level t e a with the
vidw
signal
during editing. To do this, ure
headphones
while editing
@lug into the VCR's HEADPHONES jack) and
red= thc
volume
with
the
REC LEVEL eoatrol whar unwanted ~ u n d or static is
heard.
FOR MORE ENJOYABLE EDITING
Whilevariousvoints~editinghavcbccndiseusscd,thcim-
patant p a is how to d n t e your h a g h r i o n
a8
a producer. With
somei~tion,youcanmjoympkingdLindrotmpa,sucbas:
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Create a "bat hits"
m a
of your favorite baseball
team.
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a
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camera
tbm add a narration
to
erew
origind p h m b o o k vidms.
Imitate pmple's v & a md dub t h m over the original sound track
to
Create surprise d f s t s .
IntaaDarc samr t a k a from tbe TV with
m n e ~
taken
bv camera
to
maire
yo^ the "W of your favorite TV
Thac
arc
just
a
few aamoka. o f - . The SLHF900's insert func-
tion, & n b l c function.md JOG dial
a h
).ou
to achieve a full
range of playback effstr to create mique
videos.
Why not give it a
uyl
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VCR
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VCR
If you arc a
video
mthusiart who
enjoys
d u b b i i sound onto
tapes,
sldllfullv m a w UK sound und
vicIurc
lognba, or recardinn from
a tap
h ,
miaopbon+
or G o or mire sound sourccCat the
m e
time,
you'll
get
b a l
results using a sound mixer. Using
a
mixer,
you can easily blmd sounds from different sourn, such
as
narratioar
and backgmund music, when ad* audio to
tapes.
Sound
mira
4 Remrdian VCR
Tln
components you conned will depend on
the typs
of sound you
want to record, but the
gmeral
m n f m t i o n will look like tbat in tbe
above d i m . In the
&
of editingthe video
signal
and sound at
tbe
same time, as the arrows indicate. the video
signal
oniy is mIlMaed
directlv to the m r d i n n VCR. while
tbe
audio
siPasl
is co& to
the auhio output
&
ou'the playback
V C R ~ ~
Uuough the
sound mixer. and wnnsted to the
RFordins
VCR's audio
inwt
ter-
.
mjals.
When m r d h . plw
headphones
into the remmliw VCR to monitor
the sound l & o f
the
audio sourns tobeused, andandadjust the levd of
each
using
the appmpriete button
or
kver on the mixer. To familiarize
yourself with ad&sound usinga mixer, it is
s u g g d
that you start
with
background
music.
then
add narration, spxial effects,
and
ad-
just the sound of each s o u m for baI results.