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    							Additional Information Š 191
    Index
    60P recording  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
    A
    Abroad, using the camcorder  . . . . 180Aspect ratio of a connected 
    TV (TV type)   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149Audio recording level  . . . . . . . . . . . 87Audio scene select   . . . . . . . . . . . . 86AUTO mode   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41Auto slow shutter   . . . . . . . . . . . . 147Automatic backlight correction . . . . 80AV O UT/ × terminal  . . . . 89, 102, 104
    B
    Baby album . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93Baby mode  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64Background music   . . . . . . . . . . . . 95Battery pack
    Battery information  . . . . 152, 157Charging   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Remaining charge indicator  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157Beach (Special Scene mode)  . . . . . 67Built-in backup battery   . . . . . . . . 178
    C
    CameraAccess* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125CANON iMAGE GATEWAY   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121, 130Capturing photos/video snapshot scenes from a movie  . . . . . . . . . . 92Chroma key   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73Cinema mode  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65Cinema-look filters   . . . . . . . . . . . . 65Condensation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179Connections to external devices   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103Converting movies to 
    MP4 format*  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110Copying recordings to a memory card*   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
    D
    Date and time  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31Decoration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69Deleting Movies   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56Photos   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58Dividing scenes   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99Dual recording   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
    E
    Edit panel  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146Error messages   . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164Exposure   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79External microphone  . . . . . . . . . . . 90
    F
    Face detection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76Facebook  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121Faders  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78File numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152Fireworks (Special Scene mode)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68Flicker reduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147Focus  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80Folder name  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152Frame rate   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
    H
    HDMI OUT terminal . . . . . . . 102, 103Headphones  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89Home menu  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
    I
    Image mix   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72Image stabilizer   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75Initializing the memory   . . . . . . . . . 33Intelligent IS  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
    L
    LCD screen dimmer   . . . . . . . . . . 149LCD touch screen  . . . . . . . . . . 25, 35
    * 6 /4  only.
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    Low light (Special Scene mode)  . . . 68
    M
    Main Functions panel . . . . . . . 38, 144Maintenance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148Memory card  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27, 177Memory save*  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116MIC terminal  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91Movie format (AVCHD/MP4)  . . . . . . 39Movie Uploader*   . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
    N
    Night scene (Special Scene mode)  . . . . . . . . . 67Notification sounds  . . . . . . . . . . . 152
    O
    Onscreen icons  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154Other Settings menus   . . . . . . 37, 146
    P
    P mode  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68Playback Movies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50Photos  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54Portrait (Special Scene mode)   . . . . 67Power saving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45Powered IS  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76Pre-recording   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
    R
    Recording  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Movies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41, 65Photos  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46Recording time   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62Relay recording  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63Remote Browse*  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126Remote Control+Streaming* . . . . . 125Resetting all camcorder settings   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
    S
    Saving recordings  . . . . . . . . . . . . 107Transferring to a computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  111Using external video recorders   . . . . . . . .  119Scene mode  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66Self timer   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84Serial number  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20Shooting mode  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39Shooting mode button   . . . . . . . . . 39Slideshow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101Smart AUTO  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43Snow (Special Scene mode)   . . . . . 67Sports (Special Scene mode) . . . . . 67Spotlight (Special Scene mode) . . . 68Sunset (Special Scene mode)   . . . . 67
    T
    Tele macro   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85Te l e p h o t o  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47Time zone/DST  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33Timeline  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97Touch AE   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79Touch AF   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80Touch screen operations  . . . . . . . . 35Tr i m m i n g  s c e n e s  . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100Tr i p o d  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176Tr o u b l e s h o o t i n g   . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158Turning off notification sounds . . . 152
    U
    Uploading movies  . . . . 121, 128, 130USB terminal   . . . . . . . . . . . 102, 104
    V
    Video quality  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60Video snapshot  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74Vo l u m e  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
    W
    White balance  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83Wide angle  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
    * 6 /4  only.
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    Wi-Fi functions*  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
    Y
    Yo u Tu b e  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
    Z
    Zoom  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47Advanced zoom  . . . . . . . . . . . 47Zoom speed   . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
    * 6 /4  only.
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