Table Of Contents - Panasonic VDR-D300 Operating Manual (English, Spanish) Operating Instructions Manual

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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