-- Getting started --
Using this manual
As you read through this manual, buttons and settings on your camcorder are shown in
capital letters.
e.g. Set the POWER switch to CAMERA.
When you carry out an operation, you call hear a beep or a melody sound to indicate
that tile operation is being carried out.
Your camcorder is based on tile DV format. You carl only use mini DV cassettes with
yore _camcorder. We recommend that you use a tape with cassette memory (Ill.
Tile flmctions which require different operations depending on whether or not tile tape
has cassette rllerllory aFe:
• Searching the end point of the recording end search (p. 25, 29)
• Searching a recording by index index search (p. 64)
• Searching a recording by date date search (p. 67)
• Searching fbr a photo photo search (p. 69).
Tile fimctions you carl operate only with cassette memory are:
• Searching the boundaries of recorded tape by title title search (p. 66)
• Superimposing a title (p. 97)
• Making your own titles (p. 101)
• Labeling a cassette (p. 103).
For details, see page 143.
You see this mark in tile introduction of tile featm'es that are operated only with
cassette rllerlloFy.
Tapes with cassette memory are marked with (Iq (Cassette Memory).
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