Panasonic AG-CX350

Contents
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Contents
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Chapter 1 Overview 10
Before using the camera 11
Accessories 14
When turning on the power for the rst time 15
[AREA SETTINGS] 15
[TIME ZONE] 16
[CLOCK SETTING] 16
Use of the camera on a system 17
Basic conguration devices 17
Expanded conguration devices 17
What you can do with this camera 18
Recording to the memory card 18
Linking to external devices 18
Connecting to the network 19
Chapter 2 Description of Parts 20
Camera 2 1
Left side 21
Right side 22
Front side 24
Rear side 25
Top side 2 6
Basic operation 2 8
Multidial operation 28
Touch operation of the LCD monitor 28
Chapter 3 Preparation 29
Power supply 3 0
Charging the battery 30
Attaching and removing the battery 32
Using the AC adaptor 33
Mounting accessories 3 4
Adjusting the grip belt 34
Attaching the shoulder strap 34
Mounting the lens hood 34
Mounting the eye cup 35
Mounting the external microphone 36
Attaching a tripod 36
Mounting accessories 37
Turning on/off the power 3 8
How to turn on the power 38
How to turn off the power 38
Charging the built-in battery 3 9
Setting the date/time of the internal clock 4 0
Preparing the memory card 41
Memory cards supported by the camera 41
Preventing unintentional erasing 42
Status of the card access lamp and memory card 42
Inserting/removing the memory card 43
Formatting the memory card 43
Recording time of the memory card 44
Handling the recording data 45
Setting of time data 4 9
Denition of time data 49
User bits settings 49
Setting the time code 50
Presetting the time code to external 51
Supplying the time code externally 52
Assigning function to the USER buttons 5 3
Functions assigned to USER buttons 53
Checking the function assigned to the USER buttons 55
Adjusting and setting the LCD monitor 56
Using the LCD monitor 56
Adjusting the LCD monitor 56
Mirror shooting 56
Adjusting and setting the viewnder 57
Using the viewnder 57
Adjusting the viewnder 57
Tally lamp 58
Chapter 4 Operation 59
Basic operation of the screen 6 0
Major button operation and screen display 60
Major button operation and switching screen 61
Operating each screen 6 2
Camera image screen 62
Thumbnail screen 62
Operation icon screen 62
Basic operation of the menu 6 3
Conguration of the menu 63
Displaying the menu 64
Operating the menu 65
Initializing the menu 66
Menu settings 67
[THUMBNAIL] menu 67
[CAMERA] menu 67
[SCENE FILE] menu 72
[AUDIO] menu 82
[VIDEO OUT/LCD/VF] menu 8 4
[RECORDING] menu 94
[NETWORK] menu 97
[SYSTEM] menu 102
[OTHERS] menu 104
[OPTION] menu 106
Factory setting value of the scene le 107
[SCENE FILE] menu 107
Target items for scene le/setup le/initialization 11 0
[THUMBNAIL] menu 11 0
[CAMERA] menu 110
[SCENE FILE] menu 111
[AUDIO] menu 11 3
[VIDEO OUT/LCD/VF] menu 11 3
[RECORDING] menu
11 5
[NETWORK] menu 11 5
[SYSTEM] menu 116
[OTHERS] menu 116
[OPTION] menu 116
Handling setting data 117
Scene les 11 7
Setup le 118
Chapter 5 Shooting 120
Shooting 121
Selecting the resolution, codec, and frame rate for recording
video 122
Adjustable settings when shooting 124
Iris 124
Gain 124
Super gain 124
Brightness adjustment 124
Macro 124
Focusing (manual focus) 124
Area mode function 125
Adjusting the white and black balance 126
White balance adjustment 126
Black balance adjustment 127
Using the zoom function 129
Adjusting the zoom position 129
Image quality adjustment 130
Detail function 130
Skin tone function 130
RB gain control function 131
Chroma setting function 131
Matrix function 132
Color correction function 133
Black control function 133
Gamma function 133
Knee function 134
White clip function 134
Variable frame rate (VFR) recording function/super slow
recording function 135
Variable frame rate (VFR) 135
Super slow 135
Audio input 136
Switching the audio input 136
When using the built-in microphone 136
When using an audio device or an external microphone 137
Adjusting the audio recording level 137
Monitoring the audio 138
Conrming audio input setting 138
Special recording function 139
Pre-recording 139