Canon Vixia HF S21 Workshop Manual

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5III. Setting up for a ShootBefore shooting begins, select Movie Mode (slider-switch item 14, pg.2) toaccess all the manual settings for focus, aperture, frame rate, etc. The followingsetup will give you the best control and overall results 99% of the time.A) White BalanceWhite balance can be set manually or controlled by a program within thecamera. To access this function, touch [FUNC] > [White Balance]. Choose apreset like cloudy, sunny, shade, snow, beach, tungsten, etc.Try manually setting your white balance: touch [Custom WB] then point thecamera at something white, like foam-core or a blank page. Once you’re focusedon your white object, touch [Set WB] and wait for the flashing icon to disappearand you’re done.B) Selecting Recording MediaThe camera has 3 available recording media: 64GB internal memory, andtwo High Capacity SD card slots. Using all three, it’s possible to shootuninterrupted for over 20 hours in the highest setting! For most of our purposes,we’ll just use the internal memory, which is on by default. If you have your ownSD cards and want to record to them, you need to assign that card to be themovie recorder and initialize the card. Go to the [MENU] and touch .Then scroll down to [Rec Media for Movies] and select either Internal Memory,card A or B, and whether you want Relay Recording. Relay recording fills onememory after another until there is no more space, allowing for uninterruptedrecording of very long shoots; you’ll rarely, if ever, use this. Let’s just set it toInternal Memory for now.Note: You should erase internal memory before you shoot. Also, a half fullmemory should be considered FULL to ensure all data is secure. A good practice is todump your card (or internal memory) onto a computer once it’s half full.C) Recording Mode (Quality)The Recording Mode menu (touch [FUNC] > [MENU] > >[Recording Mode] then touch [X] to exit menu) allows you to choose the qualityof the recording and affects file size, detail level, and battery life. There are fivemodes; in order from highest to lowest, they are: MXP, FXP, XP+, SP, and LP.Most of the time we want the best setting possible which is MXP. It records mediaat 24Mb/s while the FXP records at 17Mb/s. Both end up looking very similar in theend. If you want to conserve some battery life, select FXP, otherwise use MXP.