Movie Recording and Playback

Recording Movies

Movies with sound can be recorded.

The maximum file size for a single movie is 2 GB or the maximum movie length

for a single movie is 29 minutes, even when there is sufficient free space on the memory card for longer recording (A118).

When no memory card is inserted (when recording in the internal memory), Movie options (A118) is set to yVGA (640×480) by default. xHD 720p (1280×720) cannot be selected.

1Turn on the camera and be sure that it is in

shooting mode.

Movies can be recorded in any shooting mode (A36).

The icon for the selected movie option is displayed. The default setting is xHD 720p (1280×720) (A118).

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Movie options

2 Press the b(emovie-record) button to start movie recording.

The camera focuses at the center of the frame.

Focus areas are not displayed during recording.

When xHD 720p (1280×720) is selected for Movie options, monitor display changes to an aspect ratio of 16:9 with movie recording (the area indicated on the right is recorded).

When the Photo info option in Monitor settings

 

(A141) in the setup menu is set to Movie frame+auto

 

info, a frame indicating the area captured in the recorded

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movie can be displayed before recording starts.

 

The approximate remaining movie length is displayed during recording.

Recording stops automatically when the maximum movie length has been recorded.

Playback and Recording Movie

3Press the b(emovie-record) button again to end recording.

B Note on Saving Movies

After a movie has been recorded, it is not fully saved to the internal memory or memory card until

 

monitor display returns to the shooting display. Do not open the battery-chamber/memory card

 

slot cover before movies have been fully saved. Removing the memory card or the battery while a

 

movie is being saved may result in loss of the movie data or damage to the camera or to the

 

memory card.

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