CONTROLS AND CONNECTORS. Panasonic AG-TL950

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2 CONTROLS AND CONNECTORS

2-1 Front Panel

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REC

POWER STOP

/REW REV PLAY

PAUSE/

STILL PLAY FF/

REV ADV FWD ADV

TRACKING

POWER

HDR

V. LOCK TIMER SEARCH COUNTER LOCK CNT RESET

EJECT

RESET /

CANCEL ON SCREEN

MENU

SHIFT

TIME MODE

SET

REC REVIEW REC

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[POWER] power on/off button

Press to turn the operating mode ON/OFF. When this button is POWER indicator

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lights and the unit can be operated. When a cassette is loaded, operating mode is switched on and the POWER indicator lights automatically.

The POWER button does not completely shut off the mains power to the unit, but switches the operating current on and off.

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[STOP] button

Press this button to stop the tape.

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Cassette loading slot

Insert a cassette in this slot. Use a VHS cassette tape.

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[EJECT] button

Press to eject the cassette.

5

[REC] indicator

This indicator lights during recording if menu switch <REC

TALLY> on the <F. DISP> screen is set to “ON”.

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[REC] button

Press this button in the Stop mode to engage the Record mode.

Press to engage the Record mode in the Rec-Pause mode.

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[REC REVIEW] button

Use this button to check recording.

When pressed in the Record mode, the VCR will rewind the tape for about 5 seconds of tape time and then play back the rewound section in the 2H/6H mode to check recording quality. Recording is resumed automatically after playback at the point where recording was interrupted.

• If picture quality is judged to be inferior during recording check, the heads are cleaned automatically and the error code “E-09” is shown on the display for about 10 seconds.

Recording will continue regardless of the results of the recording check.

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[POWER] indicator

Lights when the

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[POWER] button is turned on.

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Display section

For details, refer to page 11.

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[ON SCREEN/SHIFT

7

/

t

] buttons

• Use these buttons on the normal screen to move the display position or recording position of on-screen information. The position can be moved down by pressing the

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button and to the right by pressing the t

button.

• Use these buttons on the menu screen to select the desired item in date/time setting, timer program setting and menu switch setting.

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[TIME MODE/SET +/–] buttons

• Use to select the recording and playback speed mode.

Available recording/playback speed modes vary depending on the setting of menu switch <HIGH DENSITY

REC> on the <VTR MODE> screen.

Each time these buttons are pressed, the recording/ playback speed mode changes as follows. The recording/ playback speed mode is shown on the display.

S-VHS tape

HDR recording

On Off

48H

72H

84H

120H

2H*

6H

L18H

24H

168H

240H

480H

960H

72H

84H

120H

168H

2H

6H*

L12H

L24H

24H

48H

240H

480H

960H

VHS tape

HDR recording

On Off

48H

72H

84H

120H

2H*

6H

24H

168H

240H

480H

960H

Playback speed

2H

6H*

24H

48H

Standard

3x

12-hour SP linear slow

18-hour EP linear slow

24-hour SP linear slow

24-hour SP timelapse

24-hour EP timelapse

48-hour SP timelapse

72H

84H

48-hour EP timelapse

72-hour SP timelapse

72-hour EP timelapse

84-hour SP timelapse

— 84-hour EP timelapse

120H 120-hour SP timelapse

— 120-hour EP timelapse

168H 168-hour SP timelapse

— 168-hour EP timelapse

240H 240-hour SP timelapse

— 240-hour EP timelapse

480H 480-hour SP timelapse

— 480-hour EP timelapse

960H 960-hour SP timelapse

— 960-hour EP timelapse

• The speed selection display - when a cassette tape is not yet inserted - becomes a display when the S-VHS tape is being used. If the VHS cassette tape is inserted after setting the speed that can only be selected during the time the S-VHS tape is used, it automatically changes over to the speed that can be selected when the VHS tape is being used.

Example: If the VHS tape is inserted - when a cassette tape is not yet inserted - after selecting L18H, the recording speed comes to 24H mode.

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[MENU] button

Press to display the date/time, timer program, and various other menu setting screens, as well as the hour meter, on the monitor. Press again to cancel the menu or hour meter display.

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2 CONTROLS AND CONNECTORS

2-1 Front Panel

REC

POWER

STOP

/REW REV PLAY

PAUSE/

STILL PLAY FF/

REV ADV FWD ADV

TRACKING

POWER

HDR

V. LOCK TIMER SEARCH COUNTER LOCK CNT RESET

EJECT

RESET /

CANCEL

ON SCREEN

MENU

SHIFT

TIME MODE

SET

REC REVIEW REC

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[RESET/CANCEL] button

• In the Timer Program Setting mode, press this button to cancel the program settings. For details, refer to “Timer

Recording” on page 36.

• Also press this button to interrupt alarm recording or to reset the alarm input data or power loss (power failure) data. For details, refer to pages 21 and 39.

• Resets the seconds in the currently displayed time to 00 when pressed together with the

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[CNT RESET] button

(except in menu setting mode).

- When the seconds value is 29 or less, the minutes value is the same but the seconds value is reset to 0. (eg.

12:34:29 [ 12:34:00)

- When the seconds value is 30 or more, the seconds value is reset to “00” and the minutes value is increased by one.

(e.g. 12:34:30 [ 12:35:00)

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[CNT RESET] button

When the display shows the control tape counter or reel tape counter, press this button to reset to “00

H

00

M

00

S

” or “0000”.

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[LOCK] button

Press to activate the operation lock function.

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[COUNTER] button

Selects which data — current time, control tape counter

(00

H

00

M

00

S

— 23

H

59

M

59

S

) or reel tape counter (0 —

9999) — is displayed. Each time this button is pressed, the display switches to the next item.

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[SEARCH] button

Use to search the alarm recorded section or a section recorded at a specified date and time. In the Stop mode, select the search mode by pressing this button.

• Press once to engage the Alarm Search mode.

• Press twice to engage the Alarm Scan mode.

• Press three times to engage the Date/Time Search mode.

• Press four times to release the search mode.

After the search mode is selected with this button, press the [FF] or [REW] button to execute the search operation in the selected mode.

For details, refer to page 49.

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[TIMER] button

Normally use this button for timer recording. For details, refer to “Timer Recording” on page 31.

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[V. LOCK +/–] buttons

Press to reduce vertical picture jitter in the Still, Field

Advance Playback and Linear Slow Timelapse Play modes.

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[TRACKING +/–] buttons

If picture noise appears during play or field advance, press these buttons to adjust tracking so that noise is reduced.

When the [+] and [–] buttons are pressed simultaneously, tracking is reset to the preset level.

* You cannot make any tracking adjustment at L12H and

L24H Linear Slow Time-lapse Playback modes.

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[FF] button

Press to fast-forward the tape.

• Starts fast-forward search when pressed in the Play mode.

• Starts forward alarm search or date/time search when the

Search mode is specified with the

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[SEARCH] button.

• Also controls field-by-field playback in the forward direction.

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[PLAY] button

• Press to play back the tape.

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[PAUSE/STILL] button

• Engages the Record-Pause mode when pressed in the

Record mode.

• Displays a still picture when pressed in the Play mode.

• Field advance or reverse playback is executed each time the [FF] or [REW] button is pressed while pressing this button in the Still mode. (When the [FF] or [REW] button is pressed for more than 2 seconds, Continuous Field

Advance Playback mode is engaged. After about 3 minutes, the Stop mode is engaged.) r

[REV PLAY] button

Starts reverse playback when pressed in any mode except

Record, Record-Pause and Record Check.

t

[REW] button

• Press this button to rewind the cassette.

• Starts rewind search when pressed in the Play mode.

• Starts reverse alarm search or date/time search when the Search mode is specified with the

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[SEARCH] button.

• Also controls field-by-field playback in the reverse direction.

y

[HDR] indicator

Lights in the HDR recording and HDR playback modes.

* HDR: High Density Recording

• For details on HDR recording, refer to page 28.

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2 CONTROLS AND CONNECTORS

2-2 Display

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7

8 9 10 11 12

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1

Operation mode display

Shows the operation modes.

Playback Recording Rewind

Still

2

Recordpause

3

Fastforward

Timelapse playback

Rewind search

Fast-forward search

Reverse playback

Field-by-field playback

Reverse step slow playback

* ( ) mark in the Rec/Pause mode is shown in red.

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Cassette indication

Lights when a cassette is loaded. Blinks when a cassette is being ejected.

3

[SP/EP] indication

Shows the standard (SP) mode or extended (EP) mode during recording/playback. During ordinary timelapse recording/playback, the [SP] indication is shown.

The [EP] indication is shown during recording in the HDR

(High-Density Record) mode or during playback of a tape section recorded in the HDR mode.

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Tape counter/clock indication

• Shows the current time (hour: minute: second), tape control counter (00H 00M 00S — 23H 59M 59S) or tape reel counter (0 — 9999) when the operating mode is on.

The display can be selected with the [DISPLAY] button.

Shows the current time when the operating mode is off.

When a cassette is ejected, the tape control counter and tape reel counter are reset automatically.

• When the cassette is rewound to the beginning in the

Repeat Recording or Auto Rewind mode using the counter end output function, the tape control counter and tape reel counter are reset.

• The control and reel counter counts slowly in the Timelapse mode.

• In the timelapse mode, the control counter shows the time equivalent to that shown when a tape is played back in the

2H or 6H mode.

(Example: The control counter advances 1 second for about 8 minutes in the 960H ordinary timelapse mode.)

• During date/time search setting and operation, “td” is shown in place of the seconds.

• Shows the setting item during menu switch setting.

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5

5

Recording/playback speed display

• Normally shows the recording/playback speed mode set with the [TIME MODE] button.

• Shows the following indications in the Alarm Search mode.

During alarm search: Shows the specified alarm number

(example: AL12)

During alarm scan: Shows the alarm scan mode (ALSC).

During date/time search: Shows the specified date and time (example 2310).

• Shows setting details in menu switch setting.

• When an error occurs, the error indication “E-**” blinks (if the menu switch <WARNING> on the <FRONT DISPLAY> screen is set to “ON”).

For error indications, refer to page 53.

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[TIMER] indication

Lights during timer recording programming/operation.

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[REPEAT] indication

When <REPEAT REC> in the <VTR MODE> menu is set to “ON”, this indication is shown. When <TAPE END

MODE> in the <ALARM/SENSOR MODE> menu is set to

“STOP” and the Repeat Record mode is engaged, the

[REPEAT] indication goes out if alarm recording or sensor recording takes place.

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[OVERLAP] indication

Blinks when programs scheduled for timer recording overlap.

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Timer program number

All programmed timer recording numbers light.

During timer recording, the number of the program being recorded blinks. When the timer recording ends, this number goes out.

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[AL] (alarm) indication

Shown during alarm recording or sensor recording.

Blinks when alarm recording or sensor recording ends.

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[S-VHS] indication

Lights when a S-VHS cassette is loaded. In the playback mode, it lights during playback of a tape recorded in the S-

VHS mode.

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[LOCK] indication

Lights when the operation lock function is activated.

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[AL REC] (alarm recording) indication

Lights when the menu switch <REC MODE> on the <ALARM/

SENSOR MODE> screen is set to “ALARM” or “AL/

SENSOR”.

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[SENSOR REC] (sensor recording) indication

Lights when the menu switch <REC MODE> on the <ALARM/

SENSOR MODE> screen is set to “SENSOR” or “AL/

SENSOR”.

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2 CONTROLS AND CONNECTORS

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1

R S - 2 3 2 C

SPARE MIC

AUDIO

IN

OUT

VIDEO

S-VIDEO

AC~IN

CAM SW

OUT

ALARM

COM

IN

ALARM

REC OUT

ALARM TAPE

RESET

COM

END OUT

CLOCK

RESET IN

WARNING

OUT

SERIES

REC IN

CLOCK

RESET OUT

SERIES

REC OUT

2 3 5 7

9

10

CAM SW

OUT

ALARM

IN

COM

ALARM

REC OUT

ALARM

RESET

TAPE

COM

END OUT

CLOCK

RESET IN

WARNING

OUT

SERIES

REC IN

CLOCK

RESET OUT

SERIES

REC OUT

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[AC IN] connector

Connect to an AC 120 V, 50 Hz/60 Hz socket using the

AC mains cable.

2

[SPARE] spare connector

This connector is not used now and thus has on function.

3

[MIC] mic input connector

Connect a microphone with 3.6-mm dia. plug. When signals are input from both the microphone connector and the audio input connector, audio signals are mixed and recorded.

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[AUDIO IN] audio input connector (Phono)

Receives audio signals from a connected audio source.

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[AUDIO OUT] audio output connector (Phono)

Outputs audio signals. No signal is output in the

Timelapse Recording/Playback mode.

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[VIDEO IN] video input connector (BNC)

Receives composite video signals from a connected camera or other video source.

• For composite video signal input, set the <INPUT> menu switch in <VIDEO MODE> to LINE.

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[VIDEO OUT] video output connector (BNC)

Outputs composite video signals. Even when the power is not supplied to this unit, input signals (composite video signals) from a camera can be output through this connector (Operating mode-Off Video Throughout function).

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[S-VIDEO IN] S-VIDEO input terminal (4 pin)

Inputs separate Y/C signals.

• For separate Y/C signal input, set the <IN> menu switch in <VIDEO MODE> to “S-VIDEO”.

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[S-VIDEO OUT] S-VIDEO output terminal (4 pin)

Outputs separate Y/C signals.

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Signal ground terminal

This ground terminal is not provided for safety purposes.

It is used to ground signals. Connect this terminal to ground the signal between VCRs.

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[CAM SW OUT] camera switching signal output terminal

When a sequential switcher is connected, this terminal outputs camera switching timing control signals. For details on these signals, refer to page 56.

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[COM] common ground terminal

Connect to the signal ground terminal of a connected unit.

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[ALARM IN] alarm signal input terminal

Receives signals to start alarm or sensor recording.

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[ALARM RESET] alarm signal reset input terminal

Receives signals to cancel alarm recording.

* Alarm input data is not reset.

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[ALARM REC OUT] alarm recording mode signal output terminal

Outputs +12 V signals during alarm recording.

2 CONTROLS AND CONNECTORS

2-3 Rear Panel

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[TAPE END OUT] tape end signal output terminal

Outputs a signal when the tape ends during recording.

If the menu switch <CNT TAPE END> on the <SRI/EXT

MODE> screen is set, signals are output when the specified tape reel counter value is exceeded.

• Outputs a +12 V signal during recording. When the tape ends or the specified counter value is passed, a 0 V (GND level) signal is output.

• When the tape ends during auto repeat recording or auto rewind recording, 0 V signal is output for about 2 seconds.

• Connect an external alarm or buzzer via an external interface.

• To cancel the output, press the [EJECT] button,

[PLAY] button, [FF] button or [REW] button.

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[COM] common ground terminal

Connect to the signal ground terminal of a connected unit.

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[WARNING OUT] warning signal output terminal

Outputs warning signals (+12 V) when a tape running or mechanism problem occurs.

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[CLOCK RESET IN] clock reset input terminal

Connect to a master clock or another AG-TL950P’s

[CLOCK RESET OUT] terminal. When the clock reset signal is input, the time is automatically synchronized with the master clock or another AG-TL950P’s clock.

However, the time difference between VCRs should be within ±30 seconds.

When the clock reset signal is input, the clock in this unit is reset as shown below.

• When the seconds value is 29 or less, the minutes value is the same but the seconds value is reset to 0.

(eg. 12:34:29 —> 12:34:00)

• When the seconds value is 30 or more, the second value is reset to 00 and the minutes value is increased by one. (e.g. 12:34:30 —> 12:35:00)

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[CLOCK RESET OUT] clock reset output terminal

Outputs the clock reset signal.

The clock reset signal is output in the following cases.

• When the internal clock is at 0:00 or 12:00

When this unit is connected to another AG-TL950P’s

[CLOCK RESET IN] terminal, the other VCR’s clock can be set to the clock in this unit. However, the time difference should be within ±30 seconds.

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[SERIES REC IN] series recording/VCR activation signal input terminal

Receives series recording signal or VCR activation signal from an external control device.

Select the input signal with the menu switches in the

<SRI/EXT MODE> menu.

5 Series recording input

A series recording signal is input when [SRI/EXT

REC] is set to “SERIES”.

• Connect to another VCR’s series recording signal output terminal.

• When the tape in the preceding VCR ends, a signal is delivered to this terminal and recording starts automatically.

When the menu switch <CNT TAPE END> on the

<SRI/EXT MODE> screen is set, the signals are delivered when the specified tape reel counter value is reached. Recording starts automatically.

5 VCR activation signal input

When [SRI/EXT REC] is set to “EXT”, recording is started and stopped with an external signal.

• Connect to an external control device.

If a VCR activation signal (ground input) is input to this terminal, the VCR starts recording automatically and continues recording for as long as the VCR activation signal is input.

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[SERIES REC OUT] series recording signal output terminal

Outputs series recording signals.

A series recording signal is output when [SRI/EXT REC] is set to “SERIES”.

• Connect to another VCR’s series recording signal input terminal.

• Outputs a signal when the tape being recorded in this unit ends.

When the menu switch <CNT TAPE END> on the

<SRI/EXT MODE> screen is set, the signals are output when the specified tape reel counter value is reached.

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