User manual
Table Of Contents
- Read this first
- Identifying parts and controls
- Screen indicators
- Table of Contents
- Getting Started
- Step 1: Checking supplied accessories
- Step 2: Charging the battery pack
- Step 3: Attaching the microphone and the lens hood with lens cover
- Step 4: Attaching the accessory shoe
- Step 5: Turning on the camcorder and setting the date and time
- Step 6: Adjusting the LCD screen and viewfinder
- Step 7: Preparing the recording media
- Recording
- Recording
- Adjusting the focus
- Changing the recording setting
- Adjusting the brightness
- Adjusting the color tone
- Audio setup
- Useful functions
- Recording in dim places (Video light)
- Selecting the suitable setting automatically for the recording situation (AUTO MODE setting)
- What you can do with the Wi-Fi function of the camcorder
- Downloading “PlayMemories Mobile”
- Connecting the camcorder to an Android smartphone equipped with the NFC function using One-touch
- Using a smartphone as a remote controller
- Transferring images to a smartphone
- Connecting without using the NFC function (Android)
- Connecting without using the NFC function (iPhone/iPad)
- Customizing the picture quality (Picture profile)
- Setting time data
- Recording with the Slow & Quick Motion function
- Reviewing the most recently recorded scene (Last Scene Review)
- Assigning the functions to the ASSIGN buttons
- Playback
- Editing
- Using the Menu
- Connecting with another device
- Troubleshooting
- Additional Information
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Using the Menu
(TC/UB SET) menu
Time code settings (TC PRESET/UB
PRESET/TC FORMAT, etc.)
The default settings are marked with B.
See page 81 for details on selecting
menu items.
See page 59.
See page 59.
You can select the time code recording
method (NTSC model only). For the PAL
model, this setting is fixed to [NDF].
B DF
Records the time code in drop frame.
NDF
Records the time code in non-drop frame.
b Notes
• This setting is fixed to [NDF] when recording in
1080/24p on the NTSC model.
z Tips
Drop frame
Time code is based on 30 frames per second;
however, gaps in the actual time occur during
extended periods of recording as the actual frame
frequency of NTSC image signal is 29.97 frames
per second. Drop frame corrects this gap to make
time code and actual time equal. In drop frame,
the first 2 frame numbers are removed every
minute except in every tenth minute. Time code
without this correction is called non-drop frame.
Press the MENU button t select
(TC/UB SET) with the SEL/PUSH EXEC
dial.
TC PRESET
UB PRESET
TC FORMAT (NTSC model only)
You can select how the time code advances.
B REC RUN
Advances the time code only during
recording.
Select this setting to record the time code
sequentially from the last time code of the
previous recording.
FREE RUN
Advances the time code regardless of
operation of your camcorder.
b Notes
• Even if the time code advances in the [REC
RUN] mode, the time code may not be recorded
sequentially in the following cases:
– When the recording format is changed.
– When the recording media is removed.
B PRESET
Records the newly set time code on the
recording media.
REGENERATE
Reads the last time code of the previous
recording from the recording media and
records the new time code consecutively
from the last time code during the
backspace editing.
The time code runs in [REC RUN] mode
regardless of the setting of [TC RUN].
B OFF
Does not save the actual time in the user
bit code.
ON
Saves the actual time in the user bit code.
b Notes
• The last 2 digits are fixed to 00 when it is set to
[ON].
TC RUN
TC MAKE
UB TIME REC