Advanced Shooting 59Advanced ShootingThis chapter covers advanced shooting functions, such as Spe-cial Scene modes and Baby mode. For details about basicvideo shooting, refer to Basic Shooting and Playback (A 40).Selecting the Movie Format (AVCHD/MP4)You can choose to record movies in AVCHD or MP4 format. AVCHDmovies are ideal for playback with fantastic picture quality. MP4 mov-ies are versatile and can easily be played back on smartphones oruploaded to the Web.Operating modes:Selecting the Video QualityThe camcorder offers several video quality options (measured by bitrate*) for recording movies. For AVCHD movies, select 50P or MXPmode for higher quality and select LP for longer recording times. Simi-larly, for MP4 movies, select 35 Mbps or 24 Mbps mode for higherquality and 4 Mbps mode for longer recording times. If you select 50Por 35 Mbps, movies will be recorded at 50P frames per second, pro-gressive.The table after the following procedure gives approximate recordingtimes.* Bit rate indicates how much information is recorded in 1 second of video and alsoaffects recording time available on the memory. Movies with higher bit rates willhave higher video quality while those with lower bit rates will have smaller file sizes,allowing you to record longer and upload more quickly.Operating modes:SCN> [ Recording Setup] > [Movie Format] >Desired movie format > [K] > [X]SCNCOPY
