Selecting The Memory For The Recordings; Initializing The Built-In Memory Or Memory Card - Canon Legria HF21 Instruction Manual

Selecting the Memory for the Recordings

You can select to record your movies and photos in the built-in mem-
ory or on a memory card. The built-in memory is the default memory
for recording both.
Operating modes:
FUNC.
[
[Rec Media for Movies] or [Rec Media for Photos]
Select the built-in memory or memory card*
* When selecting the memory, you can check the total, used and approximate avail-
able recording time/number of photos (estimated based on the recording mode
(movies) or photo size/quality (photos) currently in use).

Initializing the Built-in Memory or Memory Card

Initialize memory cards when you use them with this camcorder for the
first time. You can also initialize a memory card or the built-in memory
to permanently delete all the recordings it contains.
At the time of purchase, the built-in memory comes pre-initialized and
contains music files for use as background music during playback.
Operating modes:
Options
[Quick Initialization]
physically erase the stored data.
[Complete Initialization]
FUNC.
[
[Built-in Mem.] or [Mem. Card]
[Yes]*
* Press to cancel the complete initialization while it is in progress. All recordings
will be erased and the memory can be used without any problem.
Menu]
Clears the file allocation table but does not
Menu]
FUNC.
[OK]
or
Erases all data completely.
[Initialize
Initialization method
FUNC.
/ ]
Preparations
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