Shooting techniques for different targets (continued)

Waveform monitor function

Press the WFM button in CAM mode to display a waveform of the image on the LCD monitor. Pressing the WFM button once again closes the waveform display.

•WFM (Page 102) on the setting menu SW MODE screen allows you to switch between the waveform and vector display.

•The viewfinder does not show the waveform display.

•The waveform does not appear when the focus assist function is used.

•The waveform display cannot be recorded.

Adjusting the volume while shooting

Adjusting the volume

PAGE/AUDIO MON/VAR

If you are monitoring the sound through headphones while shooting, you can adjust the volume with the PAGE/AUDIO MON/VAR button.

• To adjust the recording level (Page 51)

Backup recording

If you have connected equipment to the 1394 terminal (Pages 76 and 77), you can make automatic backup recordings of whatever you are shooting.

•In the setup menus, OTHER FUNCTIONS screen, 1394 CONTROL and 1394 CMD SEL, select how to control the equipment you have connected. (Page 109)

Note the following when backup recording.

•Menu settings are retained even if you turn the power off. So if you use the camera- recorder with the settings for backup recording still in effect, images on media in any unit that connected may be overwritten. After backup recording, check the menu item settings before you operate the camera- recorder.

•If you use another AG-HPX172EN as the external unit for backup recording, select “OFF” for 1394 CONTROL on the external unit and set it to MCR mode.

•Backup recording may not work properly if you connect two or more external units.

•Use a 1394 cable of 4.5 m or less for connection.

•Set the external unit up to receive 1394 signals before backup recording.

•You can have a media in the external unit start recording automatically when the media in this unit is almost finished. Set 1394

CONTROL on the setting menu OTHER FUNCTIONS screen (Page 109) to “CHAIN”.

•Note that images are recorded even when you perform a rec check.

•You cannot perform backup recording when the unit is set up for native recording.

•Backup recording does not work in three of the special recording modes: Interval recording, One-shot recording and Loop recording (Pages 45 – 47)

•Backup recording does not work during direct shooting (Page 65) in MCR mode.

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