Panasonic Vdr M50pp Operating Instructions Manual

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LCD Setup
Setting Brightness of LCD Screen (Brightness)
1Press the MENU button, 
choose “Brightness” on the 
“LCD Setup” menu screen, 
and then press the A 
button. 
The brightness adjustment 
bar will appear on the screen.
2Use the joystick for 
adjustment.
Tilt left : The screen 
becomes 
dimmer
Tilt right : The screen 
becomes 
brighter
3Press the MENU button to end setting.
Note:The brightness setting will be stored in memory even when 
the DVD Video Camera is turned off.
Setting Color Density...

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Initial Settings
Switching Operating Sound On or Off (Beep)
1Press the MENU button, 
choose “Beep” on the 
“Initial Setup” menu screen, 
and then press the A 
button.
2Select “On” or “Off”, and then press the A button.
3Press the MENU button to end setting.
Note:The “Beep” setting will be stored in memory even when the 
DVD Video Camera is turned off.
Turning DVD Video Camera Off Automatically (Power Save)
1Press the MENU button, 
choose “Power Save” on the 
“Initial Setup” menu screen, 
and then...

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Turning Record LED On or Off (Record LED)
You can switch off the recording indicator on the front of DVD Video Camera even during recording.
1Press the MENU button, 
choose “Record LED” on 
the “Initial Setup” menu 
screen, and then press the  
A button.
2Select “On” or “Off”, and then press the  A button.
3Press the MENU button to end setting.
Note:•The Record LED setting will not appear in the on-screen 
information display.
•The Record LED setting will be stored in memory even 
when the DVD Video...

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Resetting Menu Settings to Defaults (Reset)
You can restore menu settings to defaults [initial settings at the factory (P. 164)].
1Press the MENU button, 
choose “Reset” on the 
“Initial Setup” menu screen, 
and then press the A 
button.
The screen for verifying 
reset will appear.
2If you are sure that you wish 
to reset, use the joystick to 
choose “YES”, and then 
press the A button.
The settings have now been 
reset to defaults.
3Press the MENU button to end setting.
Note:To cancel resetting...

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Disc Navigation
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Using Disc Navigation
Starting or Terminating Disc Navigation
Disc Navigation is a tool for editing scenes recorded on this DVD Video Camera.
Following is an explanation of “scene” and “program” so that you will be able to make the most use of the Disc 
Navigation function.
The screens in this operating manual are basically those that will appear when DVD-RAM disc is used: Some items 
will not appear when DVD-R disc or card is used, but the operations are the same.
1Press the DISC...

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The following screen will appear when DVD-RAM disc is used: Some display components will not appear when 
DVD-R disc or card is used.
*1Scene number refers to display number on thumbnail display screen.*2No still icon will appear for card.*3The operation guide will vary depending on the operation status of DVD Video Camera.*4Appears when 13 scenes or more have been recorded.*5“ R” appears for DVD-R disc. “  ” will appear for card.
Note:•The background color of screen allows you to identify 
whether...

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Playing Back from Disc Navigation Screen
1Press the DISC NAVIGATION button.
2Use the joystick to select the desired scene.
The selected scene will be framed: This is called a 
“cursor”.
3Press the A button.
Playback will start from the selected scene.
Note:Tilting the joystick to left or right will move the cursor to 
the preceding or following scene.
Tilting it up or down will move to preceding or following 
page.
lWhen playback ends
The DVD Video Camera will 
enter playback pause mode at 
the last...

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Selecting Multiple Scenes
1Press the DISC NAVIGATION button.
2Use the joystick to select the desired scene.
3Press the SELECT button once:
The selected scene will be framed in red and yellow.Repeat steps 2 and 3 to randomly select multiple 
scenes.
To cancel a selected scene, select the scene to be 
canceled, and then press the SELECT button.
To cancel all selected scenes, press the g button.
Note:Although scenes can be randomly selected, playback will 
always start from the lowest scene number....

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Disc Navigation Menu
Functions Available with Disc Navigation
Disc Navigation allows you to do the following:
Note:Editing functions (thumbnail, skip, fade) are unique to this DVD Video Camera. When a disc edited on this DVD Video 
Camera is directly played back on a DVD-RAM recorder or read into PC, the editing results will not be reflected in the 
playback or reading. To reflect the editing results, connect both devices using the AV/S input/output cable and then perform 
recording (dubbing)....

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Understanding Flow of Disc Navigation Menu
Press the MENU button on the Disc Navigation screen: The menu screens for Disc Navigation and menu screens for 
disc and card will appear.
See pages 78-79 and 95 for how to interpret the screen.
Refer to pages indicated for details.
lWhen using DVD-RAM disc
lWhen using DVD-R disc
lWhen using card
Delete (P.101)
Edit 
Copy (P.108)
Select (P.111)
Detail (P.112)Thumbnail (P.103)
Skip (P.104)
Fade (P.105)
Combine (P.106)
Divide (P.107)
Move* (P.104)
Start →...