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RECORD SETUP screen
Item
Display 
mode
Description of settings
REC FORMAT
(AVCHD mode 
only)
CAMERA
Selects the recording format.
PH 1080/60i
PH 1080/30P
PH 1080/24P
PH 720/60P
PH 720/30P
PH 720/24P
HA 1080/60i
HG 1080/60i
HE 1080/60i
PH 1080/24P and PH 720/24P represent native recording.
You cannot change the format during interval recording.
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REC FORMAT
(DV mode 
only)
CAMERA
Selects recording format
480/60i
480/30P
480/24P
ASPECT CONV
(DV mode 
only)
CAMERA
Selects the clip’s aspect ratio.
SIDE CROP:   Records in 4:3 ratio. Crops the left and right edges.
LETTER BOX:  
SQUEEZE:  Squeezes images horizontally from the left and right.
PREREC 
MODE
CAMERA
Sets PRE RECORDING to ON or OFF. (Pages 11, 60)
ON   OFF
TCG is set to FREE RUN (AVCHD mode only).
Cannot be set during INTERVAL REC.
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TIME STAMP CAMERA
Specifies whether date and time information is superimposed over recorded 
images.
ON:   Superimposes date and time information on the image.
OFF:  Does not superimpose date and time information on the image.
INTERVAL REC CAMERA
Enables frame-by-frame recording at specified intervals to create short videos of 
scenes with slow movement over long periods of time. 
Single frames are recorded at the specified interval, with 24 frames equaling 1 
second of video in AVCHD mode and 30 frames per second in DV mode.
OFF, 1 SECOND, 10 SECONDS, 30 SECONDS, 1 MINUTE, 2 MINUTES
Set the below values for REC FORMAT when setting INTERVAL REC. If the 
settings differ to the below, INTERVAL REC will be displayed in gray and 
disabled.
AVCHD mode
REC FORMAT: PH 1080/24P
DV mode
REC FORMAT: 480/60i
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1394 TC 
REGEN
DV IN
Sets the time code for recording.
ON: Records the time code of the device connected to the DV terminal.
OFF: Records the time code set with this camera.
When set to ON, TC MODE and TCG cannot be changed.•
TC MODE CAMERA
DV IN
Selects the correction mode of the internal time code generator when the time 
code of the internal time code generator is recorded.
DF:   Uses the drop frame mode.
NDF: Uses the non-drop frame mode.
TC MODE is automatically set to NDF when you set recording frame rate of 
recording format to 24P (AVCHD only).
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 indicates the factory setting.