User manual SONY VAIO VPC-EB2PGX

[. . . ] provides no warranty with regard to this manual, the software, or other information contained herein and information contained herein and hereby expressly disclaims an implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for any particular purpose with regard to this manual, the software, or such other information. be liable for incidental, consequential, or special damages, whether based on tort, contract, or otherwise, arising out of or in connection with this manual, the software, or other information contained herein or the use thereof. Sony Electronics Inc. reserves the right to make any modification to this manual or the information contained herein at any time without notice. The software described herein is governed by the terms of a separate user license agreement. [. . . ] While the digital video camera recorder is connected to your notebook or to an i. LINK* port replicator, do not connect any other device to the other i. LINK* connector on your notebook. DVgateTM Digital Video Captures If your system displays the message, "Failed to record to DV deck, please check deck's power status, cable connection. . . . ", while you are recording images to a digital video device using DVgate software, close all open applications, and restart your computer. Frequent recording of images to a digital video device while using DVgate may cause this situation to occur. For more information on DVgate software, see the DVgate online help. Adjusting Image Resolution If the images on the LCD do not display smoothly, the resolution may not be set correctly. To check the resolution, click the Setup button in the DVgate MotionMonitor window. Point to Settings, and then select Low Resolution. The settings 72 Connecting an i. LINK®*-compatible Device you change in this menu affect the images in the monitor window only. Movie data imported to your hard drive and images recorded to DV devices will not be affected. Hard Drive Partition In order to improve the performance of your computer's DVgateTM Motion software, the hard disk drive on your computer has been formatted with two partitions, C and D. The C partition holds 40% and the D partition holds 60% of the entire drive capacity. This prevents large video captures from consuming the available space on your C partition. To maintain optimum performance of DVgate, you should defragment or format the D partition regularly. For more information on functions allocated to software, see the software application's online Help. Software that does not support the Jog Dial Control If the software you are using does not support the Jog Dial control, you can scroll the window or adjust the window size as described below: Action Maximize Window* Minimize Window* Finish Window* Scroll* Jog Dial Launcher Menu Bar Description Press the Jog Dial control button to maximize the size of the active window. Press again to return to normal window size. Press the Jog Dial control button to minimize the size of the active window. Press again to return to normal window size. Press the Jog Dial control button to close the active application. Press the Jog Dial control button to begin scrolling within the active window. Press the Jog Dial control button to return the Jog Dial control to Jog Launcher mode. Press the Jog Dial control button, then use the Jog Dial control to scroll through the active window's toolbar. * Some software does not support these functions. 76 VAIO® Action Setup Dialog box When a window such as Screen properties is active, Dialog is displayed in the Jog Dial control window. You can select an item in the window by rotating the Jog Dial control. Pressing the Jog Dial control is equivalent to pressing Enter. JOG Guide Dialog Box Internal Timer You can use the internal timer to start an application at a specific time. [. . . ] Enter a description of your problem and the Knowledge Database searches for the corresponding solutions online. You can access the Sony PC Support at: http:// www. sony. com/pcsupport 6 Sony Fax-on-Demand This service provides you with answers to commonly asked questions. You can use this automated service to request a list of available topics and then select the topics that you want to receive. To contact the Sony fax-on-demand service, call 1-888-4SONYPC (1888-476-6972). [. . . ]