Panasonic VDR-D300 operating instructions Contents

Contents

Before using

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

Using the LCD monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19 Using the viewfinder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19 Using the remote control . . . . . . . . . . . . .20

Discs and cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Discs that can be used on this unit . . . . .23 Cards that you can use with this unit. . . .26 Disc and card handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27

Setup

Power supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Charging the battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 Connecting to the AC outlet. . . . . . . . . . .30 Turning the unit on/off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

Inserting/removing a disc . . . . . . . . . 32 Inserting/removing an SD card . . . . . 34 Selecting a mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 How to use the joystick . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Switching the language . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Using the menu screen . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Setting date and time. . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 Adjusting LCD monitor/viewfinder. . . . 47

Recording

Before recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Recording motion pictures . . . . . . . . 50

Changing the recording mode

of the motion picture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51

Recording still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Number of pixels and picture quality

for still picture recording . . . . . . . . . . . . .54

Various recording functions . . . . . . . 56

Zoom in/out function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .56 Recording yourself. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57 Backlight compensation function . . . . . . .58 Fade in/fade out function . . . . . . . . . . . . .59 Soft skin mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61 Tele macro function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62 MagicPix function . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63 Self-timer recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64 Wind noise reduction function . . . . . . . . .65 Wide mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66 Image stabilizer function . . . . . . . . . . . . .67

Built-in flash (VDR-D300 only) . . . . . . . . 68

Manual recording functions . . . . . . . 70

Scene mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Manual focus adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 White balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Manual shutter speed/

aperture adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Playback

Motion picture playback . . . . . . . . . . 76 Still picture playback. . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Playing back still pictures as a

slide show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Editing

Editing scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Deleting scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Dividing a scene. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Combining scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Using playlists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

What is a playlist? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Creating a new playlist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Playing back a playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Editing a playlist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Editing still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Deleting still pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Locking still pictures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 DPOF setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Disc and card management

Formatting discs and cards . . . . . . . 98

Formatting discs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 Formatting an SD card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Finalizing a disc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Finalizing a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Un-finalizing a DVD-RW. . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Protecting a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Displaying disc information . . . . . . 103

With other products

With a TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Playback on TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

With a DVD recorder/player . . . . . . 106

Playback on DVD recorder/player . . . . 106 Copying (dubbing) recordings onto a DVD recorder’s hard disk. . . . . . . . . . . 107

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