Canon UC-V30 Hi8 Instruction Manual page 11

Before you start recording
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Have you completed the following steps?
• Attached a power source (p. 6).
• Loaded a cassette (p. 9).
• Adjusted the LCD screen (p. 15) or viewfinder, fastened the grip belt and taken
off the lens cap (p. 63).
You may also want to install the backup battery (p. 67) in order to set the date and
time display (p. 31).
To record
1. Press down and turn the POWER switch to CAMERA.
• PAUSE appears in the display — the camera is now in "record pause
mode."
2. Press the red start/stop button to begin recording.
• The tally lamp flashes and REC appears in the display.
3. Press the start/stop button again to pause recording.
• The camera returns to record pause mode and PAUSE reappears in the
display.
• You can stop and restart recording as often as you like by pressing the
start/stop button.
• The camera will turn itself off if you leave it in record pause mode for more
than about five minutes. To return to record pause mode, repush the
start/stop button, or set the power switch to OFF and then back to
CAMERA.
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