Solution
Using video snapshot mode, you can capture 2, 4, or 8 seconds short scenes (video snapshot scenes) that you can playback with a background music that is different from the actual recorded sound. Please refer to What is the Video Snapshot function? for details.
You can capture video snapshot scenes from a previously recorded scene.
1.Press ⋖
⋗ to switch to movie playback mode.
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2. Touch [
], select the built-in memory or Card, and then select [ Original ] or [ Playlist ] to display the index screen.
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3. Play back the desired scene.
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4. Press ⋖ START / STOP ⋗ to capture the video snapshot scene.
During playback, a movie is copied and it is then converted into a video snapshot scene.
When the camcorder stops recording, the screen will momentarily turn black as if a camera shutter had released.
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5. Touch [
] to return to the index screen.
Caution
A video snapshot scene can be captured only during playback; it cannot be captured during playback pause mode.
The captured video snapshot scene is saved to the same memory that contains the source scene.
Caution
Video snapshot scenes cannot be captured from any of the following types of scenes.
-Scenes shorter than 1 second
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/
Scenes that were edited using the supplied software ImageMixer 3 SE Ver.6 and were then written back to the camcorder.
When the source scene is itself a video snapshot scene, you may not be able to capture a video snapshot scene depending on the length of the source scene and the length currently selected for video snapshot scenes.
When you start capturing a video snapshot scene less than 1 second from the end of the scene, the video snapshot scene will be captured starting from the beginning of the following scene.
During the playback of video snapshot scenes captured from a previously recorded movie, you may notice some anomalies in the picture/sound at the point where the playback switches to a new scene.