Recording Motion Pictures - Panasonic HDC-TM99 Operating Instructions Manual

Basic

Recording motion pictures

1
Change the mode to
2
Open the LCD monitor.
3
Press the recording start/stop
button to start recording.
A When you begin recording, ; changes
to ¥.
B Recording button icon
≥ Recording can also be started/stopped by touching the recording button icon. This icon
functions in the same manner as the recording start/stop button.
4
Press the recording start/stop button again to pause recording.
∫ Screen indications in the motion picture recording mode
0h00m00s 0h00m00s 0h00m00s
R 1h20m R 1h20m R 1h20m
≥ Screen display will disappear when no
function is performed for a specific
period of time. To display it again,
touch the screen. (It is not displayed
when the AF/AE tracking is set.)
≥ There are 3 recording formats that can be used with this unit: AVCHD that records
high-definition motion pictures, 1080/50p that records motion pictures in maximum
quality for this unit and iFrame that records motion pictures suitable for playback
and editing on Mac (iMovie'11). To change the recording format, change the
recording mode (l 52) or press and hold the 1080/50p button. (l 41)
≥ Still pictures can be recorded while recording the motion picture. (l 24)
≥ The images recorded between pressing the recording start/stop button to start recording
and pressing it again to pause recording become one scene.
When you record with the [REC MODE] set to [iFrame], the scenes longer than
approximately 20 minutes will be automatically divided. (Recording will continue.)
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T
W
A Recording mode
B Recording time elapsed
Each time the unit is put into recording
pause, the counter display will be reset
to 0h00m00s.
("h" is an abbreviation for hour, "m" for
minute and "s" for second.)
C Approximate remaining recordable
time
(When the remaining time is less than
1 minute, R 0h00m flashes red.)
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