Searching For A Photo - Photo Search/Photo Scan - Sony Handycam DCR-PC3 Operating Instructions Manual

Searching for a photo – Photo search/
Photo scan
You can search for a still picture you have recorded on a mini DV tape (photo search).
You can also search for still pictures one after another and display each picture for five
seconds automatically regardless of cassette memory (photo scan). Use the Remote
Commander for these operations.
Use this function to check or edit still pictures.
Searching for a photo by using cassette memory
You can use this function only when playing back a tape with cassette memory (p. 111).
(1) Set the POWER switch to VTR.
(2) Press FN to display PAGE1 (p. 15).
(3) Press MENU, then set CM SEARCH in
Default setting is ON.
(4) Press SEARCH MODE on the Remote Commander repeatedly, until the photo
search indicator appears.
The indicator changes as follows:
TITLE SEARCH t DATE SEARCH t PHOTO SEARCH t PHOTO SCAN
t no indicator
(5) Press . or > on the Remote Commander to select the date for playback.
Your camcorder automatically starts playback of the photo having the date
that you selected.
4
PHOTO SEARCH
1 SEP / 5 / 99 1 7 : 30
SEARCH
2 SEP / 6 / 99
MODE
3 DEC / 24 / 99 1 0 : 30
4 JAN / 1 / 00 23 : 25
5 FEB / 11 / 00 1 6 : 11
6 APR / 29 / 00 1 3 : 45
5
= +
To stop searching
Press x on the Remote Commander.
In the
•The bar in the
•The mark in the
If a tape has a blank portion between recorded portions
The photo search function may not work correctly.
The number of data to search displayed on the LCD screen
Up to 12 data can be displayed to search on the LCD screen. Use photo scan function to
search the one among more than 12 photos.
8 : 50
PHOTO SEARCH
1 SEP / 5 / 99 1 7 : 30
2 SEP / 6 / 99 8 : 50
3 DEC / 24 / 99 1 0 : 30
4 JAN / 1 / 00 23 : 25
5 FEB / 11 / 00 1 6 : 11
6 APR / 29 / 00 1 3 : 45
mark
mark indicates the present point on the tape.
indicates the actual point you are trying to search.
to ON in the menu settings (p. 76).
2 1
FN
OFF
POWER
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