Selecting the Video Quality (Recording Mode)44Selecting the Video Quality (Recording Mode)The camcorder offers 5 recording modes. Changing the recording mode will change the recordingtime available on the memory. Select MXP or FXP mode for better movie quality; select LP mode forlonger recording times. The following table gives approximate recording times.1 Open the [Recording Mode] screen.[FUNC.] [MENU] 8 [Recording Mode]2 Touch the desired recording mode and then touch [a].NOTES• Movies recorded in MXP mode cannot be saved on AVCHD discs. Use an external Blu-ray Discrecorder to copy MXP movies onto Blu-ray discs or use the supplied software VideoBrowser tocreate AVCHD discs*.• The camcorder uses a variable bit rate (VBR) to encode video so the actual recording times will varydepending on the content of the scenes.• The camcorder retains the last setting used even if you set the camcorder to mode.* MXP scenes will be converted to an image quality similar to that of FXP scenes.Operating modes:Approximate recording times Default value1 Recorded in 1,920 x 1,080 resolution. Movies recorded using other recording modes are recordedin 1,440 x 1,080 resolution.2 At the time of purchase, the built-in memory contains about 70 MB of music files (backgroundmusic) and 5 MB of image files (image mix frames).3 A single scene can be recorded continuously for 12 hours; at that point, the camcorder will stopfor about 3 seconds before resuming recording.Recording mode → MXP 1 FXP 1 XP+ SP LPMemory ↓4 GB Memory card 20 min. 30 min. 40 min. 1 hr. 10 min. 1 hr. 30 min.8 GB Memory card 40 min. 1 hr. 1 hr. 25 min. 2 hr. 20 min. 3 hr.16 GB Memory card 1 hr. 25 min. 2 hr. 5 min. 2 hr. 50 min. 4 hr. 45 min. 6 hr. 5 min.32 GB Memory card/Built-in memory 2 2 hr. 55 min. 4 hr. 10 min. 5 hr. 45 min. 9 hr. 35 min. 12 hr. 15 min. 364 GB Memory card 5 hr. 55 min. 8 hr. 20 min. 11 hr. 30 min. 19 hr. 10 min. 3 24 hr. 30 min. 3
