Panasonic VDR-D100 operating instructions Contents

Contents

Before using

Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Quick Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Parts identification and handling . . . 15

Using the LCD monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18 Using the viewfinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

Discs and cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Discs that can be used on this unit . . . . .19 Cards that you can use with this unit (VDR-D200 only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 Disc and card handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

Setup

Power supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Charging the battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24 Connecting to the AC outlet. . . . . . . . . . .26 Turning the unit on/off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

Inserting/removing a disc . . . . . . . . . 27 Inserting/removing an SD card (VDR-D200 only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Selecting a mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 How to use the joystick . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Switching the language . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Using the menu screen . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Setting date and time. . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Adjusting LCD monitor/viewfinder. . . . 39

Recording

Before recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Recording motion pictures . . . . . . . . 41

Changing the recording mode of

the motion picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42

Recording still pictures

(VDR-D200 only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Various recording functions . . . . . . . 45

Zoom in/out function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45 Recording yourself. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46 Soft skin mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .47 Fade in/fade out function . . . . . . . . . . . . .48 Backlight compensation function . . . . . . .50 Self-timer recording (VDR-D200 only). . .51 Wind noise reduction function . . . . . . . . .52

Cinema mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 MagicPix function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Image stabilizer function . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Recording with the video light (VDR-D200 only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Manual recording functions . . . . . . . 55

Scene mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Manual focus adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 White balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Manual shutter speed/

aperture adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Playback

Motion picture playback . . . . . . . . . . 61 Still picture playback

(VDR-D200 only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Playing back still pictures as a slide show . . . 65

Editing

Editing scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Deleting scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Dividing a scene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Combining scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Using playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

What is a playlist? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Creating a new playlist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Playing back a playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Editing a playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Editing still pictures

(VDR-D200 only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Deleting still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Locking still pictures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 DPOF setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Disc and card management

Formatting discs and cards . . . . . . . 83

Formatting discs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Formatting an SD card

(VDR-D200 only) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Finalizing a disc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Finalizing a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Un-finalizing a DVD-RW. . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Protecting a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Displaying disc information . . . . . . . 88

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