Selecting The Playback Starting Point - Canon FS40 Instruction Manual

For movies: Press
The camcorder starts recording after a 10-second countdown. The
countdown appears on the screen.
For photos: Press
and then fully.
The camcorder will record the photo after a 10-second countdown. The
countdown appears on the screen.
NOTES
• Once the countdown has begun, any of the following actions will can-
cel the self timer.
Start/Stop
- Pressing
recording photos).
- Turning off the camcorder.
- Changing the camcorder's operating mode.
- Closing the LCD panel to set the camcorder to standby mode.

Selecting the Playback Starting Point

If you have a very long scene, you
may want to start playing back the
scene from a certain point. You can
use the movie timeline to break the
scene to segments at fixed time inter-
vals ranging from 6 seconds to 6 min-
utes.
Operating modes:
1 Open the [Movies] or [Playlist] index screen.
You can select the original movies or playlist in the built-in
memory or on the memory card.
2 Select ( ,
• The [Timeline] screen appears. The large thumbnail will show the
first frame of the scene. Below it, the timeline ruler shows frames
taken from the scene at fixed intervals.
62
Video
Start/Stop
.
PHOTO
, first halfway to activate the autofocus
(when recording movies) or
) the scene you want to view and press
PHOTO
fully (when
DISP.
.