Extended functions 39Shooting modes5 Press [m].6 Select Movie Sound Alive.7 Select an option.Icon DescriptionSound Alive On: Turn on the Sound Alive function.Sound Alive Off: Turn off the Sound Alive function.Mute: Do not record sounds.• Do not block the microphone when you use the Sound Alivefunction.• Recordings made with Sound Alive may differ from actual sounds.8 Set desired options. (For a list of options, refer to page 46.)9 Press [Shutter] to start recording.10 Press [Shutter] again to stop recording.Using the Movie modeIn Movie mode, you can record high-definition videos of up to 20minutes in length. The camera saves recorded videos as MP4(H.264) files.• H.264 (MPEG-4 part10/AVC) is a high-compression video formatestablished by the international standard organizations ISO-IEC andITU-T.• Some memory cards may not support high definition recording. In thiscase, set a lower resolution.• Memory cards with slow writing speeds will not support high-resolutionvideos and high-speed videos. To record high-resolution or high-speedvideos, use memory cards with faster writing speeds.1 Rotate the mode dial to v.2 Press [m].3 Select Movie Frame Rate.4 Select a frame rate (the number of frames per second).• As the frame rate increases, action appears more natural, butthe file size also increases.Depending on the resolution and frame rate, the movie may appearsmaller than the original size shown on the main display.
