Fostex DV40 Supplement Owner's Manual page 3

<2> "Auto New File?" menu is added to the setup mode.
The "Auto New File?" menu allows you to select whether creating a new file or not when the DV40
detects a discontinuous external timecode during recording in the following condition;
The "New File mode" is selected for the DV40 recording mode and an external timecode is simulta-
neously being recorded (i.e. TC READY indicator is lit and the TC GEN MODE is set to "EXT-RUN").
By setting this menu appropriately, the DV40 automatically creates a new audio file when detect-
ing timecode discontinuity then receiving a new continuous timecode. When a new audio file is
created in the above condition, the continuous timecode value is recorded as the start time of the
new audio file.
<Note>
If the timecode the DV40 is recording has a large amount of speed deviation, the DV40 may create a
new file after detecting the timecode dropped out and then recovered.
How to set the "Auto New File?" menu
1. After entering the setup mode by pressing the [SETUP] key, select "Auto New File?" menu using
the jog dial, then press the [ENTER/YES] key.
The currently selected option starts flashing and you can now select a desired option (by default,
"Off" flashes).
SETUP
2. After selecting the desired option, press the [ENTER/YES] key to confirm the setting.
You can select "Off" (default) or "TC".
Off
TC
3. Press the [EXIT/NO] key (or the [STOP] key) to exit the setup mode.
<3> The record buffer memory increased, and the recording error message is
not automatically dismissed.
To cope with the feature expansion, the recording buffer memory increased by 4 times.
In the previous version, "Time Out Err!" flashes for a second when writing is not correctly executed
because of the writing error or timeout.
With the new version, when writing is not correctly executed, any of the following three error
messages flashes depending on the condition, which are not automatically dismissed until any of
the [CLEAR], [EXIT/NO] and [STOP] keys is pressed.
As with the previous version, you can know when and where the error occurred from the text
data of the "* * * */dia" file in the "Info" folder.
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A new file is not created. This is the default setting.
A new file is created when detecting timecode discontinuity then receiving a
new continuous timecode when recording an external timecode.
Writing has failed.
Writing may have failed.
Timeout has occurred in the writing process and the data has not
been recorded. A noise may be generated if you play back the file.
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