Pioneer DVR-745H-S Operating Instructions Manual page 65

Playing and recording from a DV camcorder
• For best results when recording from a
DV camcorder to this recorder, we
recommend cueing the camcorder to
the place you want to start recording
from and setting the camcorder to play-
pause.
1 Make sure your DV camcorder is
connected to the front panel DV IN jack.
Also, set the camcorder to VTR mode.
REC MODE
2 Set the recording quality.
• See Setting the picture quality/recording
time on page 36 for detailed information.
3 From the Initial Settings menu, check
that the DV audio input is setup as you
require.
See DV Input on page 109 for more on this.
• Check also that the Audio In settings for
External Audio and Dual Mono
Recording/Bilingual Recording are as
you want them (see Audio In on
page 108).
HOME
MENU
4 Select 'DV', then 'Copy from a DV
Source' from the Home Menu.
• DV recording only works when the DV
camcorder is in VTR mode with a tape
loaded.
ENTER
5 Select 'Record to Hard Disk
Drive' or 'Record to DVD'.
6 Find the place on the camcorder tape
that you want to start recording from.
For best results, pause playback at the point
from which you want to record.
• Depending on your camcorder, you can
use this recorder's remote to control the
camcorder using the
, and
, , , ,
buttons.
ENTER
7 Select 'Start Rec'.
Stop
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Control with these
buttons
• You can pause or stop the recording by
selecting Pause Rec or Stop Rec from
the on-screen display. You cannot
control the camcorder from this remote
control during recording.
• If you restart recording after stopping the
camcorder, the first few seconds of the
camcorder tape will not be recorded.
Use the pause button on your camcorder
instead and recording will start
immediately.
• HDD, DVD (VR Mode) and DVD-RAM only:
A chapter marker is inserted every time
there is a break in the timecode on the
DV tape. This happens when the
recording is stopped or paused then
restarted, for example.
• If you don't want to see the DV recording
screen during recording, press DISPLAY
to hide it (press again to display).
• While recording, you cannot exit the DV
recording screen using the HOME
MENU or RETURN button.
07
Stop
Start Rec
Pause Rec
Stop Rec
HDD
SP (2h00m/DVD)
Rem. 32h45m
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