Canon LEGRIA FS20, LEGRIA FS21, LEGRIA FS22 Zooming Optical, Advanced and Digital Zoom

Video

Selecting the Video Quality (Recording Mode)

The camcorder offers 3 recording modes. Changing the recording mode will change the recording time available on the memory. Select XP mode for better movie quality; select LP mode for longer recording times. The following table gives approximate recording times.

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[ STANDARD PLAY 6Mbps] Desired recording mode

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Approximate recording times for movies

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NOTES

•The camcorder uses a variable bit rate (VBR) to encode video so the actual recording times will vary depending on the content of the scenes.

•The camcorder retains the last setting

used even if you set the camcorder to

mode.

Zooming: Optical, Advanced and Digital Zoom

The camcorder offers three types of zoom: optical, advanced and digital

zoom. In mode, all three types are

available. In mode, only the

advanced zoom is available; in mode, only the optical zoom is available.

Default value

Recording mode	XP	SP	LP
Memory
1 GB memory card	10 min.	20 min.	35 min.
2 GB memory card	25 min.	40 min.	1 hr. 15 min.
4 GB memory card	55 min.	1 hr. 20 min.	2 hr. 35 min.
Built-in memory/	1 hr. 50 min.	2 hr. 45 min.	5 hr. 10 min.
8 GB memory card
Built-in memory/	3 hr. 40 min.	5 hr. 30 min.	10 hr. 20 min.
16 GB memory card
Built-in memory/	7 hr. 20 min.	11 hr. 5 min.	20 hr. 50 min.
32 GB memory card

•When a recording exceeds 4 GB, it will be divided and saved as scenes smaller than 4 GB.

• / / The camcorder comes pre-installed with about 170 MB of music files.

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