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Glossary
• 5.1chsurround sound
A system that plays buck sound on 6 speakers, 3 +it
tile fi'onl /lefl, right and center) and 2 at tile rear
(right and left) with +illaddifionld low-pass
subwool_:r counted as a O. 1 clmnnel lot
hequencies
ol 120 Hz or lower.
• AVCHD format
A high definition digital video cmnera Ibrln+tt
used to lvcord an HD/high
delinition) signal
using tile MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 tormat.
DolbyDigital
An audio encoding (compression)
system
developed
by Dolby Laboratories
Inc.
• Dolby Digital5.1 Creator
Sound conlpression
teclmology developed by
Dolby Laboratories
Inc. which conlpresses
audk)
efficiently
wldle pJvserving high so/ind quality.
Sounds arc compressed ellcctively
with high
quality sound, and it enables producing 5. Ich
SlllTOUnd
SOlllld.
DVD format
A Ibnnat u_d to record an SD (standard
definition) signal on 8 cm DVD discs.
• JPEG
JPEG stands Ior Joint Photographic
Experts
Group, a still image data comprcsskm
(data
capacity reduction)
standard. Your camcorder
records still inlages ill JPE(I lbmlat.
MPEG
MPEG
stiulds
lor
Mo_,ing
Picture
Experts
Gro/q),
the group of standards for tile coding (inlage
conlpression)
of vkleo (movie) and audio. Them
arc MPEG 1 and MPEG2 Iormats. Your
camcorder records movies witll SD (standard
definition) inlage quality in MPEG2 Iormat.
MPEG-4AVC/H.264
Tile latest image coding lbl'mat standardized
jointly by two internatkmal
stmldmdization
orgmli/utions,
tile ISO-IEC and tile ITU-T, ill
2003. Compared with tile conventional
MPEG2
Iol'mat, MPE(I-4 AVC/H.264 has nlorc tl)an twice
the etliciency.
Your Calncorder employs MPE(I-4
AVC/H.264
to encode Ifigll definition nlovies.
• Thumbnail
Reduced-size
images which elmble you to _iew
many images at tile same time. Tile VISUAL
INDEX screen, tile Film Roll Index screen and the
Face Index screen use a tllumbnail display system.
• VIDEO mode
One oI the recording Ibmmts you can select wllen
using +tDVD-RW
with SD (standard definition)
image quality. VIDEO nlode provides excellent
compatibildy
with other DVD devices.
VBR
VBR stands lor Variable Bit Rate, tile recording
lol'nlat
lor
iJtltonlatically
controlling
tile
bit
rate
(the volulne of recording &_ta in a given tinle
segment) according
to file scene being recorded.
For l_St-lnoving video, a lot of media space is
used to produce a clear inlage, so the recording
tinle
to tile
nledia
s]lortens.
• VRmode
One oI the recording Iormats you can select wllen
using a DVD-RW
with SD (standard definition)
image quality. VR mode enables editing (deleting
or
_quence
l'_arrallgelnenl)
wilh
your
Calllcorder
Finalizing the disc lets you play il back on a VR
mode compatible
DVD device.
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