Canon HFM406 Video Stories and Cinema Style, Using Story Creator to Create Compelling Stories

Video Stories and Cinema Style

Using Story Creator to Create Compelling Stories

Story Creator is a helpful function that offers suggestions for typical scenes in a number of situations. With Story Creator, creating interest- ing video stories is as easy as selecting one of the story themes, such as [Travel], [Party] or [Kids & Pets], and following the suggested cate- gories to record video. During playback, select your story from the gal- lery to play back the scenes you recorded as a single, compelling video story (066).

Operating modes:

Creating a New Story

1Press .

If the memory already contains other stories, the story selection screen will appear. In that case, touch [New Story].

2Select the desired theme.

•Drag your finger left/right to browse through the themes and touch the thumbnail of the desired theme.

•A list of the suggested categories (story scenes) for the selected theme will appear.

3 Drag your finger up/down to select a category and touch [OK].

4In the confirmation screen, touch [Yes] to create the story.

•Initially, the current date will be used as the story’s title, but you can change it (073) before pressing [Yes].

•A new story will be created and the camcorder will enter record pause mode. The selected story scene category will appear at the bottom of the screen.

Recording a Scene within a Story

Press gto record movies within the selected story scene (category).

•Use the displayed recommended length as a reference when recording scenes.

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