Selecting the Video Quality (Recording Mode)

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.

Operating modes:

1 Open the [Recording Mode] screen.

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[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.

Approximate recording times

 

 

 

 Default value

Recording mode →MXP1FXP1, 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/

2 hr. 55 min.

4 hr. 10 min.

5 hr. 45 min.

9 hr. 35 min.

12 hr. 15 min.

3

Built-in memory2

 

1Recorded in 1920 x 1080 resolution. Movies recorded using other recording modes are recorded in 1440 x 1080 resolution.

2At 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).

3A single scene can be recorded continuously for 12 hours; at that point, the camcorder will stop for about 3 seconds before resuming recording.