Canon DC20 EN - Manual (Page 107)

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• If the (print/share) button does not light up even if you completed the user
registration, verify that the icon appears on your computer’s desktop toolbar. If it
does not, disconnect the USB cable, restart the computer and connect the
camcorder to the computer again.
3. Once the button’s blue light is on, press the (print/share) button.
• The button will flash while the copying is in progress, and will go off once the
copy is completed.
• The copied disc will automatically be finalized and ejected from the drive.
Operation may not work properly if you connect more than one DC10/DC20
camcorder to the computer at the same time.
 If the operation is interrupted:
- “OPERATION CANCELED” will be displayed on the camcorder’s screen.
- To restart the operation you will need to insert a new blank disc in your
computer’s DVD drive and restore the connections.
- The operation will be canceled if you eject the disc from the camcorder, open
the disc tray of your computer’s DVD drive, disconnect the USB cable or run
the Roxio MyDVD for Canon software.
 We recommend powering the camcorder from a household power outlet while it
is connected to the computer.
 The time required to complete the one-touch dubbing will vary depending on
the scene recording conditions and the amount of free space remaining on the
source disc.
 You need to have DVD playback software installed in your computer in order to
play the disc.
 Finalized DVD discs created with MyDVD for Canon cannot be unfinalized
using the camcorder.
 For further details about restrictions when using MyDVD for Canon, refer also to
the “README” section in the software’s help modules.
 Refer also to the computer’s instruction manual.
Transferring Recordings to the Computer
You can transfer the movies and still images recorded on a disc, even one not yet
finalized, to your computer for further editing.
1. Connect the camcorder to the computer and run MyDVD for Canon as
previously described ( 106).
2. Click on the “DVD-Video” option in the New Project tab.
3. Click on the “Open Disc” icon.
4. Click on the “Import” button.
Thumbnails of the imported scenes and still images will be displayed in the video
project screen.
5. To save the project, click on “Save Project” from the Project Tasks
palette.
The scenes and still images displayed in the main screen will be saved.
Recordings made in LP mode in Widescreen (16:9 aspect ratio) on a DVD-RW
that was initialized in VR mode cannot be transferred to the computer.