About the screen indication of the unit
≥Do not disconnect the USB cable, battery, or AC adaptor while the access lamp is on or card
access icon ( 
) appears on the unit screen.
≥If the screen does not change when the unit is operated while connected to a PC, disconnect the battery and/or AC adaptor, wait approximately 1 minute, reconnect the battery and/or AC adaptor, wait approximately 1 minute again, and then turn the unit back on. (Data may be destroyed when above operation is performed while accessing the SD card.)
About the PC display
When the unit is connected to a PC, it is recognized as an external drive.
≥Removable disk (Example: 
) is displayed in [Computer].
Data recorded using AVCHD format has excellent compatibility with computers, due to its file form; however, it contains not just image and sound data, but also various important information, and it is associated using a folder structure which is like a figure. If even part of this information is changed or erased, faults may occur; for example, it may not be possible for the data to be recognized as AVCHD data, or it may no longer be possible for the SD card to be used in an AVCHD device.
Data from a computer cannot be written to the SD card of this device.
When transferring data on an SD card to a computer or writing data stored in a computer back to the SD card using an SD card reader/writer, in order to prevent omissions in information, be sure to use the dedicated software AVCCAM viewer. It can be downloaded from the website below.
(Compatible OS: Windows XP/Windows Vista/Windows 7, and OS later than Mac OS X 10.4/ Mac OS 10.5/Mac OS 10.6)
Example folder structure of an SD card:
CAM_SD
DCIM
100CDPFQ | |
101CDPFS | |
PRIVATE |
|
AVCHD |
|
AVCHDTN | |
BDMV | |
PANA_EXT | |
The following data will be recorded.
1JPEG system still pictures (up to 999 still pictures can be recorded.
([11000001.JPG], etc.))
2JPEG system still pictures created from motion pictures
3The motion picture thumbnails
4 AVCHD format motion picture files ([00000.MTS] etc.)
5 For management
≥Do not delete the SD card’s folders. Doing so may make the SD card unusable in this unit.
≥When data not supported by this unit has been recorded on a PC, it will not be recognized by this unit.
≥Always use this unit to format SD cards.
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