JVC GZ-MG50AG manual Video Recording, Press the recording start/stop button to start recording

22 EN VIDEO RECORDING & PLAYBACK

Video Recording

Power Switch

Lock Button

Zoom Lever

MODE	Recording Start/Stop
	Button

1 Set the power switch to . 2 Set the MODE switch to .

●The camera is programmed to record videos on the built-in hard disk by the factory-preset. To switch the recording medium, see pages 21, 48 and 49.

●To change the picture quality, see pages 48 and 50.

●To use the light, see page 31.

3 Press the recording start/stop button to start recording.

●Approximate remaining time

for recording appears on	[0h56m]
the display.

4 To stop recording, press

the recording start/stop button again.

NOTES:

●If the camera is left without any operation during recording or playback (video or still image) for 5 minutes when using the battery pack, the camera is turned off automatically to conserve power. To turn the camera on again, set the power

switch to OFF, then to or . When using the AC adapter, the camera enters the sleep mode (the access lamp lights and the LCD monitor turns off). To cancel the sleep mode, perform any operation such as zooming.

●When the camera heats up, the 7REC indicator flashes. If the camera continues to heat up, shooting may be stopped to protect the recording medium. In this case, turn off the camera power, and then wait until the camera cools down.

(
pg. 56)

●If data cannot be recorded or saved properly, the video files are not saved to the [SD_VIDEO] folder for regular video. Instead, the files are saved to the [EXTMOV] folder. To play back these files, see “To play back files in the [EXTMOV] folder”

(
pg. 24).

●There may be differences in the brightness between the recorded video and still image, even if the same subject is shot.

●Video file names are assigned as sequential hexadecimal numbers. For example, starts from 1 to 9 followed by A to F.

●To turn the operation sounds off, see page 48.

●For approximate recording time, see page 62.

●After recording video for 12 consecutive hours, the recording will be stopped automatically.

●When recording video, a new file will be created for every 4 GB of contiuous shooting.