Sony DSR 45A Operating Instructions - Page 39

Chapter 2 Playback and Recording Signals that can be recorded on this unit are as follows. Signals for Index search* Title search Date search Photo search In cassette memory Yes No No No On tape Yes No Yes No * If AUTO INDEX on the VTR SET menu is set to ON and the unit is in the stop mode, when you start recording, the unit automatically marks a signal for Index search. If AUTO INDEX is set to OFF, the unit does not mark it. During recording, pressing the INDEX button on the unit or the INDEX WRITE button on the Remote Commander marks a signal for Index search regardless of the AUTO INDEX setting. Notes • If you record another program over the beginning of the search signals, you will not be able to locate the original program. Search signal ABC ADB C If D is recorded over the beginning of B... B cannot be searched for • You cannot add search signals after recording. To add a search signal for Auto Repeat, start recording from the point where you want to add it. • When recording on this unit, signals for Index search do not have information on the day of the week. • Searching may not be done correctly if the tapes were not recorded on Sony-brand digital video equipment. About the cassette memory • A tape with the mark has cassette memory. When using the 16 kbit cassette memory, you can store up to 135 search signals. (The number changes depending on the memory capacity of various cassettes. It also changes depending on the data size combination of index, title, date, photo, and tape label data stored on a tape.) This unit is capable of storing and retrieving up to 16 kbits of information in cassette memory. • To locate scenes that did not fit in the cassette memory, or to locate scenes in order of their position on the tape, set CM SEARCH on the CM SET menu to OFF. You can use the same procedure to search for a scene on a tape without cassette memory. For details on the CM SET menu, see "CM SET menu" on page 81 (GB). Note The number of search signals that you can record is limited by the cassette memory space available when you start recording. When you use a previously recorded tape for repeated recordings, make more memory space available by erasing unwanted items using ITEM ERASE or ERASE ALL on the CM SET menu before you start recording. Automatically playing back a tape repeatedly (Auto Repeat) This unit can repeat the playback of all or a part of the tape. 1 Set the TIMER selector on the front panel of this unit to REPEAT. 2 Press the REW button. (If the tape is already rewound, press the PLAY button.) The unit rewinds the tape to its beginning, and starts playback automatically. The unit repeats the playback from the beginning to the first index (if there is no signal for Index search on the tape, to the next unrecorded portion; if there is no unrecorded portion, to the end of the tape). (Continued) 39 Chapter 2 Playback and Recording (GB)