Datavideo DN-600 Instruction Manual

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19How to prepare to record from a DV25 inputWired ConnectionsConnect the video source to the DV25 IEEE1394 6pin input on the rear of the recorder. Audio will betaken from the same DV25 IEEE1394 6pin input source.Set the unit to record from a digital source [DIG]Press the MENU button and use the right hand soft key to navigateto the SELECT SOURCE option. Use the left hand soft key toENTER the menu option. Use the right hand soft key to select theDIG source setting. An asterix symbol will be displayed next to DIGwhen selected. Press the MENU button to exit the option. The topline of the LCD panel should now display DIG also.See Set the signal type on page 17 also.Choose the file type for video editingThe recording should be made in a file type that your editing software can handle. The choices forrecording are Microsoft .AVI type II, Canopus .AVI, both commonly used in Windows basedcomputers. QuickTime .MOV files used in Macs and .MXF [OP1a] a file format which can besupported by a growing number of editing software packages. Avid being the most well known.Note: The file format started with one bin will apply to all subsequent recordings in that bin and canonly be changed after the bin is erased or emptied.Press the MENU button and use the right hand soft key to navigate to the RECORD SETUP option.Use the left hand soft key to ENTER the menu option. Use the right hand soft key to navigate to theSET RECORD FILE TYPE option. Use the left hand soft key to ENTER the menu option. Use theright hand soft key to navigate to the file type required. Use the left hand soft key to select file setting.An asterix symbol will be displayed next to file type when selected. Press the MENU button to exitthe option. The second line of the LCD panel should now display the recording file type chosen.Audio sampling rateWhen the video source is digital [DIG] the DN-600 recorder will match the audio sampling rate of thesource equipment.Set the record dateThe date attribute of the created file is set to this date value when the source is analogue. Each filerepresenting a clip gets it own date. If the source is digital then the record date is taken from thesource digital stream. If that date is invalid or corrupt then the current record date set by this option isused instead.Press the MENU button and use the right hand soft key to navigate to the RECORD SETUP option.Use the left hand soft key to ENTER the menu option. Use the right hand soft key to navigate to theSET RECORD DATE option. Use the left hand soft key to ENTER the menu option. Use the left handsoft key to ENTER the SET YEAR option. Use the right hand soft key to navigate to the SET MONTHor SET DAY option. Once an option is selected use the soft keys to change the value to the daterequired. Once correctly set press the MENU button twice to exit the SET RECORD DATE option.