Making Voice Recordings

Operations During Recording

The following operations are available during recording. If the monitor has turned off, press i to reactivate.

To

Press

Description

Pause/resume

d

Press once to pause recording; indicator lamp will

recording

blink.

 

 

During recording, press the rotary multi selector to create

 

 

index. Camera can skip to any index during playback.

Create index

 

Start of recording is index number 1; other numbers are

 

 

assigned in ascending order, to a maximum of 98.

End recording

 

Press the shutter-release button all the way down a

 

second time to end recording.

 

 

Recordings Voice

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Sound Quality

Press m in voice recording mode to display the following sound quality options. Choose the sound quality for the recording.

 

 

Maximum movie length*

Option

Description

Internal memory

Memory card

 

 

 

 

(approx.13 MB)

(256 MB)

O

Suited for longer record-

26 min. 30 sec.

5 hours

Normal

ings.

 

 

N

Record with high quality

 

 

High

9 min. 38 sec.

3 hours 4 min.

sound.

(default setting)

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Movies can be as long as free space in the internal memory or on the memory card allows (up to five hours). All figures are approximate. Maximum movie length varies with make of memory card.

jVoice Recordings

PictureProject cannot be used to transfer or play voice recordings. Select [Interface] > [Mass storage] for [USB], copy the files manually.

The copied files can be played back using QuickTime or any other WAV-compatible audio player.

Note that index points created with the camera cannot be used when voice recordings are played back on computers.