Canon HG21, HG20 instruction manual What are the advantages of a hard disk?

Enjoying High-Definition Video with your Camcorder

What are the advantages of a hard disk?

Your videos and photos are recorded on the built-in hard disk or commercially available SD/SDHC memory cards2 using AVCHD specifications3. This Double Media recording system gives you longer recording times for more high-definition videos and photos.

•You can shoot approximately 11 hours ( 120 GB HDD) or 5.5 hours ( 60 GB HDD) of video in MXP mode, which offers the highest video quality under AVCHD specifications.

•The camcorder records video and photos in unused space on the recording media so you need not worry about accidentally recording over important videos.

•You can immediately access the scenes you want to play back from an index menu.

•You can easily manage your video and photo collections with the supplied editing software: ImageMixer 3 (movies) and DIGITAL VIDEO Solution Disk (photos).

Can I play back my high-definition video on other devices?

Needless to say, you can connect your camcorder to an HDTV to enjoy your recordings with family and friends ( 79). You also have the following options:

•You can easily play back video recorded on the memory card by inserting the

memory card directly into AVCHD-compatible TV sets and HDD or DVD recorders that feature an SD/SDHC memory card slot4. For details, refer to the instruction manual of your TV or digital video recorder.

•You can play back AVCHD discs of your recordings created using the optional

DW-100 DVD Burner ( 80) on the DVD Burner itself or on AVCHD-compatible DVD players or Blu-ray Disc players5.

2For details about memory cards that can be used with this camcorder refer to Using a Memory

Card ( 29).

3AVCHD is the new standard for recording high-definition video. With AVCHD specifications the video signal is recorded using MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 compression and the audio signal is

recorded in Dolby Digital.

4Depending on the device used, correct playback may not be possible even if the device is AVCHD-compatible. In such case, play back the recordings on the memory card using the

camcorder.

5AVCHD discs containing scenes recorded in MXP mode cannot be created with the optional DW-100 DVD burner. Use the supplied software ImageMixer 3 to back up such scenes.

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