Manual for DCR-SC100

Welcome!

Congratulations on your purchase of this Sony Handycam Vision camcorder. With your Handycam Vision you can capture life's precious moments with superior picture and sound quality.

Your Handycam Vision is loaded with advanced features, but at the same time it is very easy to use. You will soon be producing home video that you can enjoy for years to come.

As you read through this manual, buttons and settings on the camcorder are shown in capital letters. e.g., Set the POWER switch to CAMERA.

As indicated with ♫ within the illustrations, you can hear the beep sound to confirm your operation.

Note on TV color systems

TV color systems differ from country to country. To view your recordings on a TV, you need an NTSC system-based TV.

Note on Cassette Memory

This camcorder is based on the DV format. You can only use mini DV cassettes with this camcorder.

We recommend you to use a mini DV cassette tape with cassette memory.

The functions which depend on whether the tape has the cassette memory or not are: End Search (p. 26), Date Search (p. 51), Photo Search (p. 54).

The functions you can operate only with the cassette memory are: Title Search (p. 53), Superimposing Titles (p. 66), Making a custom title (p. 69), Labeling a cassette (p. 71).