Exciting Features and New Functions
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High-Definition Video
Your camcorder’s high-definition image sensor (HD CMOS) captures video at a resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pixels2. Videos are then recorded in the memory in high definition, using AVCHD specifications3. With your new HD camcorder, capturing the special moments in your life with
amazing image quality and in lifelike vibrant colors is easy and fun!
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Dual Flash
Memory
You can record in the built-in memory or on commercially available memory cards (
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Pre-recording
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When pre-recording is activated, the camcorder starts recording video continuously into a temporary 3-second memory. When you press the START/STOP button, the scene recorded will have started 3 seconds before you started shooting.
1“Full HD 1080” refers to Canon camcorders compliant with high-definition video composed of 1,080 vertical pixels (scanning lines).
2Video is recorded at this resolution only when the recording mode is set to FXP mode. In other recording modes, the picture is recorded at 1,440 x 1,080 pixels.
3AVCHD is a standard for recording high-definition video. With AVCHD specifica- tions, the video signal is recorded using MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 compression and the audio signal is recorded in Dolby Digital.
