Sony MVC-FD87 How to change the menu settings, Setting Description, Movie selector, Item-1

Turning on/off the operation buttons (menu bar) on the LCD screen

Press v to display the menu bar
on the LCD screen.
Press V to clear the menu bar	INDEX DELETE	FILE	TOOL SETUP
	SELECT	OK	MENU BAR OFF
	Menu bar
from the LCD screen.

Note

You cannot clear the menu bar on the INDEX screen (page 59).

Selecting items or images on the LCD screen

1	Press v/V/b/B on the control					Before
	want to display.
	button to select the item you
	want to set or the image you
	The color of the selected item or the					performing
	frame of the selected image	INDEX DELETE FILE		TOOL	SETUP
	changes from blue to yellow.	SELECT	OK	MENU BAR OFF
2	Press the center z to enter
	the item.					advanced
	Repeat steps 1and 2to execute	SELECT	CLOSE
			VIDEO OUT
	each function.		/LANGUAGE
			CLOCK SET
			BEEP
			LCD BRIGHT
		INDEX DELETE FILE		TOOL	SETUP	operations
selecting and entering items by the above procedure as
The “Advanced operations” section of this manual refers to
“Select [item name].”

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Menu settings

Menu items that can be modified differ depending on the positions of the PLAY/ STILL/MOVIE selector or the MS/FD selector. The LCD screen shows only the items you can operate at the moment. Initial settings are indicated with x.

(self-timer)

Records with the self-timer (page 22).

EFFECT
Item		Setting			Description	PLAY/STILL/
						MOVIE selector
P. EFFECT		SOLARIZE		Sets the image special effects (page 58).		STILL
		B&W				MOVIE
		SEPIA
		NEG.ART
		xOFF
DATE/		DAY &		Sets whether to insert the date and time		STILL	Before
TIME		TIME		into the image (page 58).
Item-1		DATE	Setting		Description	PLAY/STILL/	performing
		Item-2
		xOFF
FILE
						MOVIE selector	advanced
DISK	FORMAT		OK		Formats a floppy disk (page 70).	PLAY
TOOL					Once you format a floppy disk,	STILL
(When the					all of the data, including	MOVIE
MS/FD					protected images are deleted. Be		operations
selector is					sure to check for images before
set to FD.)					you format a floppy disk.
			CANCEL		Cancels formatting of a floppy
					disk.
	DISK		OK		Copies all data stored in a floppy
	COPY				disk to another disk (page 68).
			CANCEL		Cancels the disk copy.
	CANCEL				Goes back to the [DISK TOOL]
					item.

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How to change the menu settings

Some of the advanced operations for your camera are executed by selecting menu items displayed on the LCD screen with the control button.

1– 3

Control button

PLAY/STILL/MOVIE selector

1Press v on the control button to display the menu bar.

The menu bar appears as follows according to the position of the PLAY/STILL/ MOVIE selector.

STILL/MOVIE			PLAY (single mode)			PLAY (INDEX mode)
						M V C – 0 0 1 F 2 0 0 1 7 4 1 0 : 3 0 P M
EFFECT	FILE	CAMERA SETUP	INDEX DELETE	FILE	TOOL SETUP	DELETE	FILE	TOOL SETUP
SELECT	OK	MENU BAR OFF	SELECT	OK	MENU BAR OFF	SELECT	SINGLE DISPLAY
2 Select the desired item with v/V/b/B on the
control button, then press the center z.
The color of the selected item changes from blue to
yellow, and when you press the center z, the settings						VIDEO OUT		NTSC
						/LANGUAGE
that can be set for its item are displayed.						CLOCK SET
						BEEP
Note						LCD BRIGHT
						INDEX DELETE	FILE	TOOL SETUP
						SELECT	OK

The displayed items are changed according to the position of the MS/FD selector.

3Select the desired setting with v/V/b/B on the control button, then press the center z.

To cancel the setup

Press V on the control button repeatedly until the LCD screen returns to the menu bar display in step 1. To clear the menu bar, press V again.

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Item	Setting	Description	PLAY/STILL/
			MOVIE selector
FORMAT	OK	Formats a “Memory Stick.” Once you	PLAY
(When the		format the “Memory Stick,” all of the	STILL
MS/FD		data, including protected images are	MOVIE
selector is		deleted. Be sure to check for images
set to MS.)		before you format a “Memory Stick.”
	CANCEL	Cancels formatting of a “Memory
		Stick.”
FILE	SERIES	Assigns numbers to files in sequence	STILL
NUMBER		even if the floppy disk or “Memory	MOVIE
		Stick” is changed. Note that file
		numbers are not in sequence between a
		floppy disk and “Memory Stick.”
	xNORMAL	Resets the file number that starts from
		001 or 0001 each time the floppy disk or
		“Memory Stick” is changed.
CLIP		Sets the image size and number of	STILL
MOTION		frames for creating GIF format
		animation (page 47).
	160×120	Up to 10 frames can be recorded.
	(NORMAL)
	80×72	Up to 2 frames can be recorded.
	(MOBILE)
	CANCEL	Cancels Clip Motion.
IMAGE	x1472× 1104	Selects the image size when recording	STILL
SIZE	1280× 960	still images.
(When the	1280(3:2)
MS/FD	1024×768
selector is	640×480
set to FD.)
IMAGE	x1472 (FINE)	Selects the image size when recording	STILL
SIZE	1280 (FINE)	still images.
(When the	1280(3:2) F
MS/FD	1024 (FINE)
selector is	640 (FINE)
set to MS.)
IMAGE	320×240	Selects the MPEG image size when	MOVIE
SIZE	x160×112	recording moving images.

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