Canon FS400, Quick Manual

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Video
For movies: Press .
The camcorder starts recording after a 10-second countdown. The
countdown appears on the screen.
For photos: Press , first halfway to activate the autofocus
and then fully.
The camcorder will record the photo after a 10-second countdown. The
countdown appears on the screen.
NOTES
• Once the countdown has begun, any of the following actions will can-
cel the self timer.
- Pressing
(when recording movies) or fully (when
recording photos).
- Turning off the camcorder.
- Changing the camcorder’s operating mode.
- Closing the LCD panel to set the camcorder to standby mode.
Selecting the Playback Starting Point
If you have a very long scene, you
may want to start playing back the
scene from a certain point. You can
use the movie timeline to break the
scene to segments at fixed time inter-
vals ranging from 6 seconds to 6 min-
utes.
1 Open the [Movies] or [Playlist] index screen.
You can select the original movies or playlist in the built-in
memory or on the memory card.
2 Select ( , ) the scene you want to view and press .
• The [Timeline] screen appears. The large thumbnail will show the
first frame of the scene. Below it, the timeline ruler shows frames
taken from the scene at fixed intervals.
Start/Stop
PHOTO
Start/Stop
PHOTO
Operating modes:
DISP.