Useful Features Playback
Features
Stretch Playback
Stretch playback allows you to playback a squeezed image with the wide screen feel of a movie shown in a theatre. Useful when you want to play back images recorded by a camera other than this camcorder in wide mode on a 4:3 TV.
Squeezed image | Stretch playback |
(4:3) | (16:9) |
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1 In Playback mode, press the DIS- PLAY/MODE SET button until the mode screen appears.
2 Press l or m on the Operation button to select “STRETCH PB”, then press the centre of the Operation button.
To cancel stretch playback
Press the centre of the Operation button in step 3 above.
Notes:
•“Squeeze” is an image compression technology. A 16:9 image is compressed and recorded (squeeze recorded) as a 4:3 image.
•In stretch playback mode, you cannot perform picture effect playback.
•When outputting the stretch playback image from the DV terminal, the original image signal will be output.
•When performing stretch playback, the normal recorded image (picture aspect ratio 4:3) will be stretched as shown below.
4:3 picture aspect | Stretch playback |
ratio image |
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P I C . E F F E C T
A U D I O D U B
S T R E T C H P B
E X E C U T E
•Playback will stop after turning on stretch playback.
3 Press m to begin stretch playback.
AUDIO1 + 2
S T R E T C H P B
C A N C
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P A U S E 
S T O P 
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F F
•The picture displays with black bands.
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