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Using the Full Range of Features

Using Digital Effects

Use the camcorder’s digital effects for more interesting productions.

Faders:

Start or end scenes on a tape with a fade to or from black

 

 

(

 

57). Fade Trigger, Vertical Wipe, Horizontal Wipe,

 

 

 

 

 

Mosaic Fade*

 

 

Effects:

Add flavour to your recordings (

 

58).

 

 

 

Art, Black and White, Sepia, Mosaic

* Available in PLAY (VCR) mode only.

Availability of digital effects in CAMERA mode

Recording

 

 

[ (Easy Recording)

Q (Program AE)

Program

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MOVIE

 

PHOTO

MOVIE

 

 

PHOTO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Faders

 

 

 

i

h

 

 

i

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Effects

 

 

 

i

 

h

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

h : Available

i : Not available

 

 

 

 

 

 

Availability of digital effects in PLAY (VCR) playback modes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Playback

Reverse

 

Still picture

Slow forward/

 

 

Forward/reverse

 

Playback

 

playback

reverse playback

 

 

2 playback

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Faders

 

h

 

 

h

 

 

 

 

(Press PAUSE

Set only

 

(Press PLAY or

Set only

 

to fade out)

 

 

PAUSE to fade in)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Effects

 

 

 

 

 

h

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

h : Available

Notes:

When you do not want to use digital effects, press the DIGITAL EFFECTS button and select D.EFFECT from the digital effects menu. Press the DIGITAL EFFECTS button to close the menu.

The camcorder remembers your chosen digital effect setting until you change it.

Digital effects can be selected but not operated on a blank blue screen (appears in PLAY (VCR) mode). The display continues to flash.

Digital effects operated during PLAY (VCR) mode are not recorded onto the original tape.

Digital effects can be added to another tape when dubbing using the AV out terminal (PLAY (VCR) mode), but not the DV out terminal.

You cannot operate digital effects while photo/date searching.

If you slide the program selector to [ (Easy Recording) while the digital effect display is flashing, it will disappear from the display and reappear when you return to Q (program AE) mode.

The digital effect display will flash for 2 seconds after setting, even if DISPLAYS is set to OFF in the menu.

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Canon MV500i instruction manual Using Digital Effects, Availability of digital effects in Camera mode

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