Setup Files
You can use setup files to reproduce a particular configuration of settings. You can also revise the contents of setup files.
There are eight types of setup files, of which five are factory preset setup files and the other three are user files.
3 Move the cursor to SELECT FILE with the MENU switch and use the MENU dial to select the desired file.
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This describes how to call up a setup file and use it to replace the current menu settings.
1 Set the SETUP switch to FILE.
SETUP switch
The camcorder is set according to the currently- selected file data.
2 Access basic menu page 3.
Current file a)
Selected file
File | Description |
STD | Settings for shooting under |
| standard conditions |
HISAT | Settings for making pictures |
| vivid |
FL | Settings for shooting under |
| fluorescent lighting |
FILMLIKE | Settings for making pictures |
| like ones shot by film camera |
SVHS/VHS | Settings to optimize camera |
| image for recording and |
| playback characteristics of S- |
| VHS, VHS, or |
USER1 to USER3 | User setup files (set to STD at |
| shipping) |
4 Move the cursor to CHG FILE and press the MENU dial.
The display changes as shown below and the selected file is called up.
a)An asterisk (*) appears in front of any factory preset file whose contents have been revised at least once.
You can also call up these files via a similar operation in advanced menu page 10 (page 9 on the
For details, see “To call up files recorded onto a tape ” (page 109).
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