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Video Quality and Shooting Modes
Video Quality and Shooting Modes
Selecting the Video Quality
The camcorder offers the following video quality options (bit rates)
for recording movies: 24 Mbps, 17 Mbps and 4 Mbps
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. Select
24 Mbps for higher video quality; select 4 Mbps for longer record-
ing times or smaller file sizes. In addition, for AVCHD movies, when
the video quality is set to 24 Mbps, you can enjoy two-channel lin-
ear PCM (LPCM) audio recording with a sampling frequency of
48 kHz
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.
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The 4 Mbps option is available for MP4 movies only.
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With LPCM audio recording, recorded data is not processed or com-
pressed so there is no loss of audio quality.
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Shooting mode PlaybackFormat
0 > [1 Other Settings] > p > [Video Quality] >
Desired video quality > [X]
