Movie Shooting Cautions

Recording and Image Quality

If you use a card with a slow writing speed, a five-level indicator may appear on the right of the screen during movie shooting. It indicates how much data has not yet been written to the card (remaining capacity of the internal buffer memory). The slower the card, the faster the indicator will climb upward. If the indicator becomes full, movie shooting

will stop automatically.

If the card has a fast writing speed, the indicator will either Indicator not appear or the level (if displayed) will hardly go upward.

First, shoot a few test movies to see if the card can write fast enough. If you take still photos during movie shooting, the movie shooting may stop. Setting a low image-recording quality for still images may resolve this problem.

Still Photo Shooting During Movie Shooting

Regarding the image quality of still photos, see “Image Quality” on page 151.

Playback and TV set connection

If you connect the camera to a TV set with an HDMI cable (p.222) and shoot a movie at [1920x1080] or [1280x720], the movie being shot will be displayed in a small size on the TV set. The movie will still be recorded in the movie-recording size that was set.

If you connect the camera to a TV set (p.222) and shoot a movie, the TV set will not output any sound during the shooting. However, the sound will be properly recorded.

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