Advanced Shooting
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2 Press
Y
.
The camcorder records for a few seconds (the blue frame serves as a
visual progress bar) and then automatically returns to recording
standby mode.
NOTES
• You can change the length of the video snapshot scene with the
1
>
p
>
[Video Snapshot Length] setting.
• Any of the following actions will deactivate video snapshot.
- Turning off the camcorder.
- Pressing
]
.
- Changing the movie format (AVCHD/MP4), video quality or frame rate.
Face Detection and Tracking
The camcorder automatically detects people’s faces and uses this
information to select the optimal settings for beautiful videos and pho-
tos. You can use tracking to tell the camcorder to track and optimize
settings for a different person. You can also use tracking to always
keep in focus other moving subjects, such as pets or moving vehicles.
Operating modes:
* Face detection and tracking are always activated in
and
modes.
POINTS TO CHECK
• When the shooting mode is set to
, select a Special Scene mode
other than [
J
Night Scene], [
N
Low Light] or [
P
Fireworks].
• By default, face detection and tracking are activated so you can skip
step 1 in the following procedure. If the function was turned off, perform
the following procedure starting from step 1.
1 Activate face detection and tracking.
*
*
SCN
SCN
0
>
[
1
Other Settings]
>
p
>
[Face Detection & Tracking]
>
[
i
On
}
]
>
[
X
]
COP
Y
