Audio Dubbing - Panasonic NV-HS960 Operating Instructions Manual

Audio Dubbing

The audio dubbing function lets you record new sound onto
the normal (mono) audio track. Although this erases the
original sound on the normal audio track, the sound on the
Hi-Fi audio tracks remains unchanged. Use this function to
add narration or background music to a previously made
recordings.
< EJECT
Í/I
AV3
S-VIDEO IN
AUDIO IN
Audio equipment or
Video movie camera
1 2
3
ADUB
5
ADUB
38
TBC
S-VHS/S-VHS ET
DIRECT
A.DUB
TV REC
INSERT
6
Preparations
≥ Connect the audio equipment or a video movie camera to
this VCR with an audio cable.
≥ Display the VCR picture on the TV.
≥ Insert the cassette on which the audio dubbing is to be
performed, and make sure that its erasure prevention tab is
not broken out.
As soon as the cassette is inserted, the Cassette Number
Check starts. Wait a few moments until it is completed.
(See page 16.)
≥ Press the INPUT SELECT button
(external input) "A1", "A2" or "A3" according to the socket(s)
on the VCR to which you have connected the source unit.
A1: When connected to the AV1 21-pin Scart socket
[AV1 (TV)]
A2: When connected to the AV2 21-pin Scart socket
[AV2 (DECODER/EXT)]
≥ Make sure that "AV2" is set to "EXT".
(See page 55.)
A3: When connected to the Audio Input sockets
[AUDIO IN (AV3)] on the front panel of this VCR
≥ When connecting a mono type movie camera or
VCR to this VCR's front AV sockets, connect to the L
(white) audio socket.
Operations
1 Press the Play button
search for the point from which you want to start audio
dubbing.
2 At the point from which you want to perform audio
dubbing, press the Pause/Still button
put it in the still playback mode.
3 Press the A.DUB button
recording pause mode.
4 Start playback on the source unit
so that you can hear the sound.
5 When you reach the point from
which you want to start audio
dubbing, press the Pause/Still button
again to start recording the new sound or start your
narration.
6 At the point where you want to stop audio dubbing, press
the Stop button to finish recording.
Hints:
≥ The new sound is recorded on the normal audio track. The
original sound remains on the Hi-Fi audio tracks. The
sound recorded on the normal audio track is always in
mono.
≥ For audio dubbing with narration, you can use the built-in
microphone of the connected video movie camera.
≥ If you want to change the audio recording level, adjust it.
(See page 22.)
≥ To listen to the sound recorded with audio dubbing, press
the AUDIO button during playback to select the normal
audio track. (For details, refer to page 17.)
≥ To listen to the sound recorded with audio dubbing together
with the original sound, first set "Audio mode" to "MIX" (for
details, refer to page 56) and then press the AUDIO button
during playback to select the mixed sound.
to select the AV Input
on this VCR to start playback to
on this VCR to
on this VCR to put it in the
ADUB 0:00.29
on this VCR