Enjoying movies, Shooting movies – Sony MVC-CD400 User Manual
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Shooting movies
Mode dial:
You can shoot movies (MPEG MOVIE) 
with sound using your camera. 
Before starting
Set [MOVING IMAGE] to [MPEG 
MOVIE] in the SET UP settings (pages 62 
and 116). 
a
Set the mode dial to
.
b
Press MENU.
The menu appears.
c
Select
(IMAGE SIZE) with
b
/
B
, then select the desired
mode with
v
/
V
.
You can choose from 320 (HQX), 
320×240, or 160×112.
For details on the recording time for 
each image size, see page 110.
d
Press the shutter button fully 
down.
“REC” appears on the screen and the 
camera starts recording the image and 
sound. 
•
Recording stops when the disc is full.
e
Press the shutter button fully 
down again to stop recording.
Indicators during shooting
The screen indicators are not recorded.
Each time you press DISPLAY/LCD 
BACK LIGHT ON/OFF, the status of the 
LCD screen changes as follows: Indicators 
off 
t LCD backlight off t All indicators
on. 
For a detailed description of the indicators, 
see page 125. 
Shooting close-ups (Macro)
Set the mode dial to
and follow the
procedure on page 28.
Using the self-timer
Set the mode dial to
and follow the
procedure on page 29.
•
The flash does not function when shooting 
movies.
•
The date and time are not superimposed onto 
movies.
•
When shooting movies (MPEG MOVIE) with 
Multipoint AF, the distance to the center of the 
screen is estimated as an average, so the AF 
works even with a certain amount of vibration. 
The Focus range select mode (Center, Right, 
Left, Top and Bottom) (MVC-CD400) and the 
Center AF mode (MVC-CD250) focus using 
the AF range finder, so this is convenient when 
you want to focus only on the subject.
Mode dial
Control button
MENU
DISPLAY/LCD BACK LIGHT ON/OFF
Shutter
REC
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