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IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS ............................................................3
Read this first .........................................................................................6
Operation flow .....................................................................................12

Getting started

Step 1: Charging the battery pack .............................................................15
Charging the battery pack abroad .................................................... 17
Step 2: Turning the power on, and setting the date and time ........................... 18
Changing the language setting ........................................................ 19
Step 3: Preparing the recording media ....................................................... 20
To check the recording media settings ...............................................21
Dubbing or copying movies and photos from the internal recording media
to memory card (HDR-CX150/XR150) ................................................22

Recording/Playback

Recording ...........................................................................................23
Playback on the camcorder ..................................................................... 28
Playing images on a TV .. ........................................................................ 31

Making good use of your camcorder

Deleting movies and photos ....................................................................34

Saving movies and photos with a computer

Preparing a computer (Windows) .............................................................36
When using a Macintosh ................................................................ 37
Starting PMB (Picture Motion Browser) ....................................................... 39
Selecting the method for creating a disc (computer) ...................................... 40
Creating a disc with one touch (One Touch Disc Burn) .................................... 42
Importing movies and photos to a computer ............................................... 43
Creating an AVCHD disc .........................................................................44
Playing an AVCHD disc on a computer ............................................... 44
Creating a Blu-ray disc ...................................................................45
Creating a standard definition image quality (STD) disc that can be played on
ordinary DVD players ............................................................................. 45
Copying a disc ............................................................................. 46
Editing movies ............................................................................46
Capturing photos from a movie .......................................................46