RCA VR270 - Manuel (Page 22)

Special Effects and Features
-Pause During Recording-------------------------------
• Press the PAUSE button when you are recording
to prevent recording short passages of unwanted
maieriai.
• Press the PA USE button again w hen you are ready
to resume recording.
Caution; Avoid pausing for more than three of four
minutes, because the spinning heads that do the
recording are still in contact with the tape and wili
eventually off the active material. This can cause
streaks pr spot! in the picture when you play the worn
part of the tape (called dropouts).
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For this re^n the VCR will automatically switch from
Pause to Stop after about five minutes.
-Pause for Stop-Action Playback----------------------
Pre.ss the PA USE button during playback to slop the
action. This lets you examine all the details of the
scene-similar to looking at a single frame of a movie
film. When you are ready to resume normal playback,
press the PAUSE button again.
The following suggestions will help you get the most
out of this feature:
• Stop Action is designed to work best at the SLP
speed. For the best special effects performance and
the longest recording lime, SLP speed is
recommended.
• The stop-action picture may tend to jump up and
down slightly. Adjust the control marked V.LOCK
on the back of the VCR to reduce this jitter. Once
you have made this adjustment, you probably
won't have to do it again unless you use stop-
action on a tape that was recorded on a different
VCR, (A small amount of vertical jitter is normal.)
• Using stop-action on a single frame of the picture
for a long time can wear the tape, as explained in
“Pause During Recording". For this reason you
should use STOP instead of PAUSE to interrupt
playback for an extended time. The VCR will
automatically switch from Pause to Stop after
about five minutes.
r Picture Search
• The buttons for rewind (RfW'T and fast forward
(F.FiT'D) become the picture-search buttons when
you are playing a tape.
• When you press F.FWD/SEARCH while playing a
tape, the VCR plays at a higher speed than normal
play. To return to normal playback, press F.FWDf
SEARCH again or press the PLA 1' button,
• When you press REW/SEARCH, the VCR
reverses from the normal direction and plays the
tape backward at high speed. Press REW/
SEARCH again or press the PLAY button to
return to normal playback.
• The sound is turned off during picture search
because it would not be understandable at the high
speed.
• Expect to see some horizontal lines or bars in the
picture when you are searching. The picture will be
best for tapes recorded at SLP speed, although it
can be viewed from tapes recorded at the other
speeds.
Note: During picture search noise bars may interfere
with the tape counter display, press the TRACKING
T or A button to move the noise bar up or down.
Be sure to reset the TRA CKING for the best picture
w'hen you go back to play.
P Tracking Control
When you play tapes that were not recorded on the
same VCR. streaks may appear in the picture.
Adjust the TRACKING V or A button to move the
bars up or down and out of the picture.
The TRACKING buttons only affect tape
playback. They have no effect during recordings.
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