Recording Video and Photos
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• Be sure to save your recordings regularly, especially after making important recordings. Canon shall not be
liable for any loss or corruption of data.
• If you record using metadata or News Metadata settings, those settings will be recorded or added to the clip.
For more details, refer to Using Metadata (A 109) and Using News Metadata (A 110).
• If the camera switches to the other card while recording video due to the relay recording function (A 38), the
two parts (before/after the switch) will be recorded as separate clips.
• A single clip can be recorded continuously for up to 6 hours. At that point, a new clip will be created
automatically and recording will continue on a separate clip (excluding RAW recording, slow & fast motion
recording).
• You can use the review function (A 53) to play back part or all of the last clip recorded without having to
switch to MEDIA mode.
• When recording clips on SDHC cards, the video (stream) file in the clip will be split approximately every 4 GB.
Playback with the camera will be seamless.
• You can assign the [REC] function to assignable button Camera 4 or Camera 11 and use it to start/stop
recording.
• You can set > [B System Setup] > [Onscreen REC/STBY Button] to [On] to use the onscreen
[ÜREC]/[STBY] touch buttons to stop and start recording respectively.
• When > [B System Setup] > [Tally Lamp Settings] is set to an option other than [REC], the tally lamp
illuminates when PGM tally information is input.
To take photos
While the camera is in record standby mode, you can record photos on SD card B.
1 Set an assignable button to [Photo] (A 123).
2 When the camera is in record standby mode, press the assignable button.
• appears on the screen and the photo is recorded on SD card B.
• The SD CARD access indicator will illuminate in red.
• The size of the recorded photos depends on the video configuration currently in use. For details, refer to
Specifications (A 239).
• Photos cannot be recorded in the following cases
- While recording a clip, or when slow & fast motion recording is activated.
- When pre-recording is activated.
- While Browser Remote is activated.
- While color bars are displayed.