Outline of operations

This unit is compatible with P2 (Professional Plug-in) cards or DV cassette tapes.

The P2 card has a large capacity with a high transfer rate, and allows you sophisticated movie-making on this handy camera, including HD (High Definition) recording and smooth editing/dubbing.

Flow of shooting, playing and saving

The setting values such as the user file are saved to and read from the SD memory card.

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P2 mode shooting and playback

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Cassette tape shooting and

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playback (Pages 29 and 73)

P2 card

DV cassette tape

You can use the following features:

•HD (High Definition) recording

•Multi format recording

•Variable frame rates

Slow & quick motion recording

•Maximum 4 channel uncompressed digital audio recording

•DV recording (480i)

•DV recording (480i)

•Dubbing mode recording from a P2 card is possible.

3Dubbing mode (Page 86)

Dubbing mode is a function for down-converting contents recorded in HD (1080i, 720P) on the P2 card to an DV format (480i) and recording it to tape. You can record onto DV tape contents that have a slow & quick motion effect.

This is useful when backing up images and checking images on AV equipment.

•You cannot simultaneously shoot on both the P2 card and the DV cassette tape.

•High-definition (HD) recording to a DV tape is not possible.

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