Selecting an Option from the Setup Menus

1Press FUNC. .

2Select () [ MENU] and press

to open the setup menus. You can also hold FUNC. pressed down for more than 1 second to open directly the setup menus screen.

3Select () the desired menu from

the left side column and press . The title of the selected menu appears on top of the screen and under it the list of settings.

4Select () the setting you want

to change and press .

•An orange frame will indicate the menu item currently selected. Menu items not available will appear grayed out.

•To return to the menu selection

screen, select ( ) [ RETURN]

and press .

5Select () the desired option and

press to save the setting.

6 Press FUNC. .

You can press FUNC. to close the menu at any time.

First Time Settings

Changing the Language

The language for on-screen and menu displays can be changed. The list of available languages depends on the region where you purchased the camcorder.

switch:

 Default value

Language Set A

German, English, Spanish, French, Italian,

Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified

Chinese and Japanese.

Language Set B

English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Korean.

FUNC.

[ MENU]

[ DISPLAY SETUP/ ] [LANGUAGE]

Desired language

FUNC.

NOTES

•If you changed the language by mistake,

follow the mark next to the menu item to change the setting.

•The display that appears in some menu screens refers to the name of the button on the camcorder and will not change, regardless of the language selected.

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