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Video Quality and Shooting Modes
Video Quality and Shooting Modes
Selecting the Video Quality
The camcorder offers the following video quality options (bit rates)
for recording movies: 24 Mbps, 17 Mbps and 4 Mbps
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. Select
24 Mbps for higher video quality; select 4 Mbps for longer record-
ing times or smaller file sizes. In addition, for AVCHD movies, when
the video quality is set to 24 Mbps, you can enjoy two-channel lin-
ear PCM (LPCM) audio recording with a sampling frequency of
48 kHz
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The 4 Mbps option is available for MP4 movies only.
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With LPCM audio recording, recorded data is not processed or com-
pressed so there is no loss of audio quality. When scenes recorded at
24 Mbps are played back on other devices, audio will be output only
if the device is compatible with LPCM audio.
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