C) Recording Mode - Canon Vixia HF S21 Workshop Manual

III. Setting up for a Shoot
Before shooting begins, select Movie Mode (slider-switch item 14, pg.2) to
access all the manual settings for focus, aperture, frame rate, etc. The following
setup will give you the best control and overall results 99% of the time.
A) White Balance
White balance can be set manually or controlled by a program within the
camera. To access this function, touch [FUNC] > [White Balance]. Choose a
preset like cloudy, sunny, shade, snow, beach, tungsten, etc.
Try manually setting your white balance: touch [Custom WB] then point the
camera at something white, like foam-core or a blank page. Once you're focused
on your white object, touch [Set WB] and wait for the flashing icon to disappear
and you're done.
B) Selecting Recording Media
The camera has 3 available recording media: 64GB internal memory, and
two High Capacity SD card slots. Using all three, it's possible to shoot
uninterrupted for over 20 hours in the highest setting! For most of our purposes,
we'll just use the internal memory, which is on by default. If you have your own
SD cards and want to record to them, you need to assign that card to be the
movie recorder and initialize the card. Go to the [MENU] and touch
Then scroll down to [Rec Media for Movies] and select either Internal Memory,
card A or B, and whether you want Relay Recording. Relay recording fills one
memory after another until there is no more space, allowing for uninterrupted
recording of very long shoots; you'll rarely, if ever, use this. Let's just set it to
Internal Memory for now.
Note:
You should erase internal memory before you shoot. Also, a half full
memory should be considered FULL to ensure all data is secure. A good practice is to
dump your card (or internal memory) onto a computer once it's half full.
C) Recording Mode (Quality)
The Recording Mode menu (touch [FUNC] > [MENU] >
[Recording Mode] then touch [X] to exit menu) allows you to choose the quality
of the recording and affects file size, detail level, and battery life. There are five
modes; in order from highest to lowest, they are: MXP, FXP, XP+, SP, and LP.
Most of the time we want the best setting possible which is MXP. It records media
at 24Mb/s while the FXP records at 17Mb/s. Both end up looking very similar in the
end. If you want to conserve some battery life, select FXP, otherwise use MXP.
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