Selecting the Video Quality (Recording Mode)
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Selecting the Video Quality (Recording Mode)
The camcorder offers 5 recording modes. Changing the recording mode will change the recording
time available on the memory. Select MXP or FXP mode for better movie quality; select LP mode for
longer recording times. The following table gives approximate recording times.
1 Open the [Recording Mode] screen.
[FUNC.]
>
[MENU]
>
r
>
[Recording Mode]
2 Touch the desired recording mode and then touch [
X
].
NOTES
• Movies recorded in MXP mode cannot be saved on AVCHD discs. Use an external Blu-ray Disc
recorder to copy MXP movies onto Blu-ray discs or use the supplied software
VideoBrowser
to
create AVCHD discs*.
• The camcorder uses a variable bit rate (VBR) to encode video so the actual recording times will vary
depending on the content of the scenes.
• The camcorder retains the last setting used even if you set the camcorder to
mode.
* MXP scenes will be converted to an image quality similar to that of FXP scenes.
Operating modes:
Approximate recording times
Default value
1
Recorded in 1920 x 1080 resolution. Movies recorded using other recording modes are recorded
in 1440 x 1080 resolution.
2
At the time of purchase, the built-in memory contains about 70 MB of music files (background
music) and 5 MB of image files (image mix frames).
3
A single scene can be recorded continuously for 12 hours; at that point, the camcorder will stop
for about 3 seconds before resuming recording.
Recording mode
→
MXP
1
FXP
1,
XP+
SP
LP
Memory
↓
4 GB Memory card
20 min.
30 min.
40 min.
1 hr. 10 min.
1 hr. 30 min.
8 GB Memory card
40 min.
1 hr.
1 hr. 25 min.
2 hr. 20 min.
3 hr.
16 GB Memory card
1 hr. 25 min.
2 hr. 5 min.
2 hr. 50 min.
4 hr. 45 min.
6 hr. 5 min.
32 GB Memory card/
Built-in memory
2
2 hr. 55 min.
4 hr. 10 min.
5 hr. 45 min.
9 hr. 35 min.
12 hr. 15 min.
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