Sony MVC-CD500 Manual

You must execute finalization before 
viewing images recorded with your camera 
through a CD-ROM drive. Discs that have 
not been finalized cannot be read with a 
CD-ROM drive.

• Finalization is required to view images 

recorded with your camera through a CD-
ROM drive.

• You can record new images on a finalized 

disc by initializing it again. Initialization 
is automatically performed when a disc is 
finalized using the camera. You must 
execute finalization to view new images 
through a CD-ROM drive. However, 
each time you execute finalization, the 
disc remaining space will decrease by 
approximately 13 MB. Therefore, we 
recommend that you execute finalization 
for multiple images at a time.

• You can finalize a disc later, even if you 

remove it from the camera.

• The CD-ROM drive must support 

MultiRead in order to read discs that have 
been finalized.

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The SET UP screen appears on the 
LCD screen.

• During finalization, we recommend 

using the AC Adaptor to prevent the 
power from turning off partway.

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“Finalize Place on level surface” 
appears on the LCD screen.

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When “Finalize in progress” 
disappears, finalization has been 
completed.
Finalization starts and the disc 
remaining indicator changes from 

 

to 

, or from 

 to 

.

Finalization may take some time. Place 
the camera on a stable surface, and do 
not shake or strike the camera during 
finalization.

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