JVC GR-SXM745, GR-SXM540 manual Advanced Features, Night-Alive, Fade/Wipe Effects

ADVANCED FEATURES

Night-Alive

Makes dark subjects or areas even brighter than they would be under good natural lighting.

1)Set the Power Switch @ to “ ” or “ ”.

2)Press NIGHT-ALIVE e repeatedly until the desired mode appears.

A NIGHT AUTO: The shutter speed is auto- matically adjusted (maximum 1/6 sec.).

1 NIGHT 10X (only when the Power Switch @ is set to “ ”): The shutter speed is set to 1/6th of a second to provide 10 times the sensitivity.

2 NIGHT 60X (only when the Power Switch @ is set to “ ”): The shutter speed is set to 1 second to provide 60 times the sensitivity.

•To cancel the effect, press NIGHT-ALIVE e repeatedly until “OFF” appears.

•During Night-Alive, the following cannot be activated: “Picture Stabilizer”, “Program AE With

Special Effects”, “Digital Effects” and “S.LX” in CAMERA MENU ( pg. 19).

•Night-Alive does not work when LIGHT OFF/ AUTO/ON # is set to “AUTO” or “ON” ( pg. 13, “Video Light”).

•During Night-Alive, it may be difficult to bring the camcorder into focus. To prevent this, use of a tripod is recommended.

Fade/Wipe Effects

Fade- or wipe-in works at recording start, and fade- or wipe-out works at recording end.

1)Set the Power Switch @ to “ ”.

2)Press FADE/WIPE ) repeatedly until the desired mode appears.

3)Press the Recording Start/Stop Button ! to

activate fade-in/out or wipe-in/out.

•Pressing and holding the Recording Start/Stop Button ! allows you to vary the length for the image during fade in/out or wipe in/out.

•To cancel a fade or wipe, press FADE/WIPE ) repeatedly until “OFF” appears.

FADER: Fades in/out to a black screen.

MOSAIC (Fader): Gradually turns/returns the picture into/from a mosaic pattern.

SHUTTER (Wipe): A black screen moves in from the top and bottom, closing over the image like a shutter, or a new image pushes open the black screen vertically from the center.

SLIDE (Wipe): A black screen moves in from the left to gradually cover the image, or a new image moves in from right to left.

DOOR (Wipe): Wipes in as the two halves of a black screen open to the left and right, revealing the scene, or wipes out and the black screen reappears from left and right to cover the scene.

CORNER (Wipe): Wipes in on a black screen from the upper right to the lower left corner, revealing the scene, or wipes out from lower left to upper right, leaving a black screen.

WINDOW (Wipe): Wipes in on a black screen from the center of the screen towards the corners, revealing the scene, or wipe out from the corners to the center, leaving a black screen.

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