3 - basic principles, The “home” screen, Naming files, projects, marks, etc – Teac DV-RA1000 User Manual

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TASCAM DV-RA1000 Owner’s Manual

3 – Basic principles

The “home” screen

The DV-RA1000 has two types of “home screen”,
depending on whether a CD or DVD disc is being
used.

TIP

These screens are often accessible from other screens by
pressing the

key (which is then marked as HOME on

the display).

Naming files, projects, marks, etc.

Using a keyboard

When recording on DVD, the

easiest way to name files (“Renaming a file” on
page 36) and projects (“Changing the name of a
project” on page 34), and create project notes (“Add-
ing notes to a project” on page 33), etc. is using a
computer PS/2 keyboard (US standard layout) con-
nected to the front panel of the DV-RA1000.

WARNING

Do not connect or disconnect such a keyboard to or
from the DV-RA1000 with the power turned on as this
may damage the DV-RA1000 and/or the keyboard.

Basically, you can use this keyboard in the usual way,
including some punctuation characters for notes, but
punctuation is not available for titles of projects and
files. The [Delete] and [Backspace] keys work as you
expect.

Start editing titles with the keyboard by pressing the
keyboard’s left or right cursor key (or

on the

DV-RA1000).

Finish by pressing the keyboard’s [Enter] key.

NOTE

You may experience a few small incompatibilities with
punctuation symbols, etc. if you use a keyboard that
does not conform to the standard 101-key US layout (or
the Japanese 106-key layout).

Working without a keyboard

However, if

such a keyboard is not available, you can use the
front panel to name disc items.

When a screen allowing you to name an item (project
or file) is shown on the display, highlight it so that it
is shown in inverse video.

Press the

(right) key to start the naming process.

Use the dial to scroll through the set of currently
available characters.

The available character sets are changed using the

(up) and

(down) keys. These cycle through

CAPS

(all UPPERCASE letters from

through

and

space),

SMALL

(lowercase letters from

through

and

space) and

NUM

(digits from

through

and space).

Move backwards and forwards using the

and

keys. Press

ENTER

when done.

NOTE

Accented characters and punctuation are not available
for names.

Adding project notes

Notes are done in the

same way, except that here there are no character sets
which can be selected, and punctuation, etc. is avail-
able.

The arrow keys act as cursor keys to navigate around
the text block.

Use the

ENTER

key to add carriage returns and the

CANCEL

key as a delete key.

Use the wheel to scroll through the numbers, punctu-
ation characters and uppercase and lowercase letters
available for the text.

Note that the text can contain more lines than the size
of the screen, and can be scrolled up or down.

When you’ve finished entering text, press and hold
the

ENTER

key for about a second to confirm the

entry before writing it to disc (see “Important note on
the file system” on page 31).

Figure 3.1: The CD home screen

Figure 3.2: The DVD home screen