Using Digital Effects

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

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Faders:

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

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

Mosaic Fade*

 

 

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Effects:

Add flavor to your recordings (

 

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Art, Black and White, Sepia, Mosaic**

•Multi-image Screen: Divides the display to show 4, 9 or 16 still photos. Has 4 transition speed options: fast, moderate, slow and manual

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* Available during TAPE PLAY (VCR) mode only

** Available during TAPE CAMERA or TAPE PLAY (VCR) mode only

Availability of digital effects by mode

 

TAPE

PHOTO

TAPE

CARD

CARD

 

CAMERA

PLAY (VCR)

CAMERA

PLAY (VCR)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Faders

h

i

h

i

i

 

 

 

 

 

 

Effects

h

h

h

h

i

 

 

 

 

 

 

Multi-image

h

h

h

h

i

Screen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

h : Available

i : Not available

 

 

 

•The types of digital effects you are able to use depends on the setting of the TAPE/CARD switch, the POWER switch and the recording program.

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 TAPE PLAY (VCR) mode). The display continues to flash.

•Digital effects operated during TAPE 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 (TAPE 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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