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Disc Management
Verifying Remaining Free Space on Disc (Capacity)
You can find out how long you will be able to record on one side of disc.
1
Press the MENU button.
The Disc Navigation menu screen will appear.
2
Use the joystick to choose "Capacity" on the
"Disc" menu screen, and then press the
button.
The screen for checking "Capacity" will appear.
**
With DVD-R disc: The quality mode first used for re-
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cording with disc will appear.
The XTRA mode will appear only with the DZ-
MV238E(AU) and DZ-MV230E(UK).
** With DVD-R disc: This will not be displayed.
Initialising DVD-RAM Disc
If you want to erase all data on a recorded disc and reuse it, you can initialise it rather than deleting the
data: Initialisation is useful in this case since it takes less time than deleting all data.
1
Press the MENU button.
The Disc Navigation menu screen will appear.
2
U s e t h e j o y s t i c k t o
choose "Format Disc"
on the "Disc" menu
screen, and then press
the
button.
The screen for verifying "Format Disc" will ap-
pear.
3
If you are sure that you wish to format the disc,
use the joystick to choose "YES", and then press
the
button.
When initialising one side of the disc is complete,
the DVD video camera/recorder will return to
the recording pause status.
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(When using DVD-RAM disc)
3
Press the
button.
The Disc Navigation screen will be restored.
Note: With a write-protected or finalised disc, the
remaining space will always be displayed as "0".
Note: The displayed remaining free space is only
for the side being currently recorded.
Note: When initialising the other side of disc, turn
it over and start again from step 1.
Note: Choosing "NO" in step 3 will cancel
initialisation.
Note: Initialising a disc will delete all the recorded
contents on disc: Be careful not to delete data by
mistake.
Note: Be sure to use the AC adapter when
initialising disc so that the DVD video camera/
recorder is not turned off midway. If initialisation is
interrupted by power off, the disc will not be
initialised correctly, or it may be damaged.
Note: It may not be possible to initialise a disc with
many scratches or dirt: Such a disc cannot be used.
Note: If you use a brand-new DVD-R disc, mes-
sage "Disc is not formatted" will appear: Initialise
the disc, following the subsequent messages (see
page 100).
Note: Pressing the
fication will restore the thumbnail display screen.
button on the screen for veri-
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