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DSR-25
3-073-884-12(1)
Digital
Videocassette
Recorder
GB
Operating Instructions
FR
Mode d’emploi
DSR-25
2002 Sony Corporation
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WARNING To prevent fire or shock hazard, do not Important Safety Instructions expose the unit to rain or moisture. • Read these instructions. • Keep these instructions. To avoid electrical shock, do not open the • Heed all warnings. • Follow all instructions. cabinet. Refer servicing to qualified • Do not use this apparatus near water. personnel only. • Clean only with dry cloth. • Do not block any ventilation openings. Install in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions. THIS APPARATUS M
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English For the customers in the Netherlands CAUTION Voor de klanten in Nederland • Dit apparaat bevat een vast ingebouwde batterij die niet You are cautioned that any changes or modifications not vervangen hoeft te worden tijdens de levensduur van het expressly approved in this manual could void your authority apparaat. to operate this equipment. • Raadpleeg uw leverancier indien de batterij toch vervangen moet worden. De batterij mag alleen vervangen worden Notes door vakbekwaam servicepersone
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Table of Contents Table of Contents Chapter1 Features .................................................................... 6 (GB) Overview DVCAM Format ......................................................... 6 (GB) Other Features ............................................................ 7 (GB) Location and Function of Parts .............................. 9 (GB) Front Panel ................................................................. 9 (GB) Rear Panel ...................................
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Chapter5 Operating the Menus ............................................. 54 (GB) Adjusting and Menu Organization ................................................... 55 (GB) Setting Through Menu Contents ......................................................... 56 (GB) Menus Chapter6 Troubleshooting ..................................................... 68 (GB) Maintenance Alarm Messages ..................................................... 72 (GB) Notes on Use ..................................
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Chapter 1 Overview Features Chapter1 Overview Features The DSR-25 is a digital videocassette recorder using High picture quality, high stability 1 /4-inch tape. Offering the DVCAM™ digital recording format, the DSR-25 produces stable, superior picture Video signals are separated into color difference quality by digitally processing and separating image signals and a luminance signal, which are encoded and signals into color difference signals and a luminance compressed to one-fifth size before
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Chapter 1 Overview DV format compatibility Digital slow playback The unit can perform recording and playback in the The unit has a frame memory function that allows slow 1 DV-format (SP mode only). (Recording/playing an playback without noise. This is available only at + /3- 1 image in LP mode is not available.) time speed and – /3-time speed. NTSC/PAL systems compatible Time code and user bits The unit is compatible with NTSC and PAL systems. On this unit, you can use time code and user bits.
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Chapter 1 Overview Features Menu system for functionality and operation settings The unit provides a menu system to make its various functions easier to use and set up. Superimposition function Time code, warnings, menus, and other text data can be output as analog video signals and can be superimposed on the image output to the LCD monitor. Easy maintenance functions • Self-diagnostics/alarm functions: The system automatically detects an invalid operation, an invalid connection or a malfuncti
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Chapter 1 Overview Location and Function of Parts Front Panel 1 Cassette compartment 4 Display window (see page 16 (GB)) 2 KEY INH switch qa EJECT button 3 ON/STANDBY DSR-25 switch and 1 lamp FIX VAR KEY INH ON OFF 4 TIMER selector AUDIO OUTPUT CH-1 SELECT (DUB CH-3) CH- CH- 1/2 3/4 3 Audio control section NTSC 5 AUDIO OUTPUT (see page 15 (GB)) PAL SELECT selector MIN MAX CH-2 (DUB CH-4) 6 PHONE LEVEL control knob 7 PHONES jack 2 Tape transport control section (see page 13 (GB)) 8 RESET button
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Chapter 1 Overview Location and Function of Parts OFF: Auto Repeat or timer recording is released. 9 CHARACTER DISPLAY (data items REC: Recording begins the moment the power is superimposed on an external monitor) switch connected to the unit. Set this switch to ON to superimpose data items on the analog video output. Even if you set it to OFF, the tape Note label, title and data codes (camera data and date/time This selector setting has a higher priority than the KEY recorded by a camera) are
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Chapter 1 Overview 1 Monitor display section 2 CHARACTER DISPLAY (LCD) selector 3 DISPLAY SELECT selector 1 LCD monitor 4 EXEC button 5 J / j buttons 1 LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) monitor Notes 1) Displays the playback or EE pictures. Also, • To choose whether or not the tape label, title, or data superimposed time data, status information, menus, codes are displayed, use the menu items. Also, you audio level meters, etc. are displayed. can select the data code items to be displayed by pressi
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Chapter 1 Overview Location and Function of Parts Notes •You can use the Remote Control Unit (DSRM-20, not supplied) or the supplied Remote Commander to search for a scene using search signals on the tape. In this case, you can search for the scene regardless of this selector setting. To display the “–/+” which indicates the direction to search, set this selector to DATA. • If you change the selector setting during a search with the cassette memory, the search aborts. 4 EXEC (execute) button P
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Chapter 1 Overview 2 Tape transport control section 7 AUDIO DUB button/indicator 8 DUP button/indicator 6 REC button/indicator 5 PAUSE button/indicator 4 FF button/indicator 3 PLAY button/indicator 2 REW button/indicator 1 STOP button 1 STOP button 3 PLAY button/indicator Press this button to stop the current tape transport When you press this button, the indicator lights and operation. playback begins. Notes 2 REW (rewind) button/indicator • If the unit is playing a part of the tape where the
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Chapter 1 Overview Location and Function of Parts • If you set FF/REW SPD on the VTR SET menu to 8 DUP (duplicate) button/indicator SHUTTLEMAX, you can display the picture while Use to duplicate a tape, including the time code. fast-forwarding the tape. During duplication, the indicator lights. For details on the tape transport speed of the For details on the duplicate function, see “Duplication SHUTTLEMAX setting, see “FF/REW SPD” in the “VTR (generating a work tape with the same time code)”
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Chapter 1 Overview 3 Audio control section During normal recording, sounds are recorded onto channels 1 and 2; they cannot be recorded onto channels 3 and 4. During audio dubbing, sounds are dubbed onto channels 3 and 4. FIX VAR 1 AUDIO INPUT switch CH-1 (DUB CH-3) 2 AUDIO REC LEVEL control knobs CH-2 (DUB CH-4) 1 AUDIO INPUT (FIX/VAR) switch 2 AUDIO REC LEVEL control knobs (CH-1 Switches the audio recording level adjustment mode. (DUB CH-3), CH-2 (DUB CH-4) ) FIX: With reference to the level
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Chapter 1 Overview Location and Function of Parts 4 Display window 1 END SEARCH button 2 INDEX button 0 RESET button 3 q (cassette) indicator 9 COUNTER SELECT selector 4 DVCAM indicator 8 Time counter display NTSC PAL 5 NTSC indicator Drop frame indicator 6 PAL indicator 7 Remote control detector 1 END SEARCH button 5 NTSC indicator When you press this button, the unit searches the tape Lights when: and plays back the last five-second recorded picture. • In the EE mode or during recording and
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Chapter 1 Overview switch is set to PAL. Notes •TC RUN on the TC/UB SET menu is set to FREE • In the playback mode, if the tape has a portion where RUN. recorded signals are not continuous: – The count value of the counter may not advance 0 RESET (counter reset) button correctly from that portion. When the COUNTER SELECT selector 9 is set to – The displayed value of the time code or user bits COUNTER, pressing this button resets the value may be temporarily inaccurate. indicated on the time co
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Chapter 1 Overview Location and Function of Parts Rear Panel 1 OUTPUT connectors 2 INPUT connectors 8 LANC jack 7 CONTROL S IN jack 6 AC IN connector 3 AUDIO INPUT LEVEL 5 DV jack selector 4 NTSC/PAL select switch For details on text data, see “Displaying Various Data” 1 OUTPUT connectors on page 23 (GB). Used to output analog video and audio signals. To For details on the CM SET menu, see “CM SET menu” on connect a device equipped with S-video input, use the page 58 (GB). S VIDEO connector on
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Chapter 1 Overview 2 INPUT connectors •When this switch is set to PAL, the unit works as a PAL model. Therefore, the time code generated by Use to input analog video and audio signals. To the unit during recording in the DVCAM format is connect a device equipped with S-video output, use the S VIDEO connector on the unit. During normal that of the non-drop frame mode. Even if an NTSC formatted signal is input to the DV jack, the time recording, sounds are recorded onto channels 1 and 2; code ge
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Chapter 1 Overview Location and Function of Parts Notes 8 LANC jack Use when controlling the tape transport operation of • If video signals have been input to the DV jack and 1) the unit using a device that has a LANC jack. you output these video signals to the S VIDEO or VIDEO connectors, the sync and burst of the Notes corresponding EE pictures are not synchronized. • The LANC jack on the unit has only LANC-S • i.LINK and the i.LINK logo “ ” are trademarks and functions. The unit has no LANC
