For movies: Press Start/Stop .

The camcorder starts recording after a 10-second countdown. The countdown appears on the screen.

For photos: Press PHOTO , first halfway to activate the autofocus and then fully.

The camcorder will record the photo after a 10-second countdown. The countdown appears on the screen.

NOTES

•Once the countdown has begun, any of the following actions will can- cel the self timer.

-Pressing Start/Stop (when recording movies) or PHOTO fully (when recording photos).

-Turning off the camcorder.

-Changing the camcorder’s operating mode.

-Closing the LCD panel to set the camcorder to standby mode.

Selecting the Playback Starting Point

If you have a very long scene, you may want to start playing back the scene from a certain point. You can use the movie timeline to break the scene to segments at fixed time intervals ranging from 6 seconds to 6 min- utes.

Operating modes:

1Open the [Movies] or [Playlist] index screen.

You can select the original movies or playlist in the built-in memory or on the memory card.

2Select (, ) the scene you want to view and press DISP. .

•The [Timeline] screen appears. The large thumbnail will show the first frame of the scene. Below it, the timeline ruler shows frames taken from the scene at fixed intervals.

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