Extended functions 521 Rotate the mode dial to .2 Set desired options.• For a list of options, refer to "Shooting options". (p. 53)3 Press (Video recording) or [Shutter] to start recording.4 Press (Video recording) or [Shutter] again to stop recording.You can start recording a video in some modes by pressing (Video recording)without having to rotate the mode dial to .Pause recordingThe camera allows you to temporarily pause a video while recording. With thisfunction, you can record separate scenes as a single video.• Press [o] to pause while recording.• Press [o] to resume.Using the Movie modeIn Movie mode, you can customize settings to record HD (1280 X 720) videos of up to 20 minutes in length. The camera saves recorded videos as MP4 (H.264) files.• MP4 (H.264) is a high-compression video format established by the international standards organizations ISO-IEC and ITU-T.• If you use memory cards with slow write speeds, the camera may not save videos properly. Video recordings may be corrupted or fail to play back correctly.• Memory cards with slow write speeds will not support high-resolution videos. To record high-resolution videos, use memory cards with faster write speeds.• If you use the zoom function when recording a video, the camera may record the noise of the zoom operating. Use the Zoom Mute function not to record zoom noise. (p. 73)
