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Precautions and maintenance

About the Disc
symbol
See page 14 for the details of discs
which you can use with your
camcorder.
Notes on use
• Hold the disc by its edge while supporting
the center hole lightly. Do not touch the
recording side (the opposite of the printed
side when using a single-sided disc).

• Before shooting, be sure to remove dust
and fingerprints from the disc with a soft
cloth. Otherwise you may not be able to
record or play normally in some situations
using that disc.
• When you set the disc in your camcorder,
press firmly until it clicks. When the
message [C:13:ss] appears on the LCD Place the symbol facing
screen, open the disc cover and set the outwards.
disc again. Recording is made on the rear side.
• Do not attach any adhesive material such • When using a double-sided disc, take care
as a sticker on the surface of a disc. If you not to smudge the surface with
do so, the disc may become unbalanced, fingerprints.
and this may cause a malfunction of the
• When a double-sided disc is used in your
disc or your camcorder.
camcorder, recording/playback are
performed on that side only. You cannot Additional Information
switch to record on or play back the other
side with the disc set to the camcorder.
When recording/playback of one side is
complete, remove, then insert it again and
Use of double-sided discs turn the disc over to access the other side.
Double-sided discs allow you to record • Perform the following operations on each
both sides of a disc. side of a double-sided disc:
– Finalizing (p. 71)
x Recording on the A side
– Formatting (p. 77)
Place the disc in your camcorder with the side
– Unfinalizing (p. 78)
with the symbol at the center facing
outwards until it clicks.
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