Recording Movies

Movie Menu

The movie menu can be used to adjust Movie options (A 121), Autofocus mode (A 122), and Electronic VR (A 122) settings.

Switch to D (movie) shooting mode and tap F(A 14) to display the movie menu. Tap menu items to adjust settings.

Movie Options

D (Movie) MF(Movie menu) MMovie options

The movie menu offers the options shown below.

Option

Image size and frame rate

 

Movies with an aspect ratio of 16:9 are recorded. This option

N HD 720p

is suited to playback on a wide screen TV.

(default setting)

Image size: 1280 × 720 pixels

 

Frame rate: 24 frames per second

ITV movie 640

Image size: 640 × 480 pixels

Frame rate: 30 frames per second

 

SSmall size 320

Image size: 320 × 240 pixels

Frame rate: 30 frames per second

 

 

 

CMovie Options and Maximum Movie Length

Option

Internal memory

Memory card *

(approx.45 MB)

(4 GB)

 

N HD 720p

18 s

28 min 50 s

(default setting)

 

 

I TV movie 640

30 s

46 min

S Small size 320

1 min 49 s

2 h 45 min

 

 

 

All figures are approximate. The maximum recording time may vary by make of memory card.

*The maximum recording time for a single movie is 29 minutes. The maximum file size for a single movie is 2 GB, even when there is sufficient free space on the memory card for a larger movie file. The maximum movie length that can be recorded for a single movie is displayed during recording.

DMore Information

Movie Recording and Playback

See “Image/Sound File and Folder Names” (A 162) for more information.

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