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NOTE:
Oun:ng Copy Tape, pressing
the Copy
button pauses the copying process.
To
resume copying, press t,_e Copy Tape
button again. To stop Copy Tape,
press Deck Two Stop.
NOTE:
When assembling several scenes on one
target tape, you can make more accurate
edits bYfirst ptaying the target tape to 2
second'_atter the end of a scene, press
Pause, t,ffenRecord to put Deck Twointo
Record Pause. W, b enyou then re-start
CoEy Tapethe target tape will be in
position for t,ffebest edit.
3. Press Deck Select to select Deck One. At the end of
the scene press Stop, (Deck Two will automatically
pause), If desired, you can now change the source
tape in Deck One at this time. Using Play, Fast
Forward
or Rewind, locate the next scene you want
to edit in. When the tape is positioned
at the
beginning
of the edit scene, press Pause.
4. Press the Copy Tape button and the VCR will
automatically
perform the synchronized
edit.
5. To add the next scene, start over with Step 3.
You might find manual
editing easier if you program
both AUTO PLAY in the Set-up menu and EZ-COPY in
the Features
menu to OFF, and perform your edit with
the On-Screen
Display turned
on.
SNp EdR
During
Copy Tape, you can quickly
by-pass
commer
cials by pressing
the Skip button
one to five times,
The
Dual-Deck
will atJtomaticaHy
edit out the next one to
five mim_tes
then
resmne
copying
the tape.
NOTE:
For making quality edits, turn on
HQ Copy (Features menu) to get better
quality tape copy and edits. 'Glitches'
may occur during a manual assembly
edit, usually at the end of a scene that is
being recorded
over old material.
This
happens because the VCR% full erase
head (which erases the video, audio, and
control tracks) is always a tew seconds
behind the recording
heads. You may see
a vibrating rainbow
ot color in the middle
of t,ge picture, and sound can become
unstable for a few seconds.
Tape Counter
Your Dual-Deck
VCR Tape Counter
allows you to note
the location of specific sections of your tapes and find
them quickly later. This tape counter counts in real
time - hours, minutes,
and seconds.
You can see the tape counter lk_rboth decks on the
On-Screen
Display. You can also see the tape counter
for the active deck on the Front Panel Display (press-
ing the CLK/CTR key repeatedly
switches the display
between the clock and the counter).
To reset the tape counter to zero on the active deck
press @.
You can do this anywhere on a tape.
Any time you insert a tape into your Dual-Deck
VCR,
the tape counter will automatically
reset to zero. It is
recommended
that the counter be reset to zero aRer
a f@l rewind.
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