Editing the Movies with the Camera (Editing the First and Last Scenes of a Movie) for EOS M

With your camera, you can edit out the first and last scenes of a movie in 1-sec. increments. You can select [Overwrite] to save and overwrite the original movie, or [New file] to save the movie as a new movie. This operation is carried on the movie playback screen.

1. Set the power to ⋖ON⋗.

2. Press the ⋖ ⋗ to display the image.

3. Press the ⋖Main Dial⋗ to select a movie.

On the single-image display, the [ ] icon displayed on the upper left indicates a movie. If the movie is a video snapshot, [ ] will be displayed.

In the index display, perforations at the left edge of a thumbnail indicate a movie. As movies cannot be played on the index display, press ⋖ /SET⋗ to switch to the single-image display.

4. In the single-image display, press [ ].

The movie playback panel will appear at the bottom of the screen.

5. Select [ ] , then press ⋖ /SET⋗.

The editing screen will be displayed.

6. Specify the part to be edited out.

6-1. Select either [ ] (Cut beginning) or [ ] (Cut end), then press ⋖/SET⋗.

6-2. Press the ⋖Main Dial⋗ to see the previous or next frames. Holding it down will fast forward the frames.

After deciding which part to edit out, press ⋖/SET⋗.

Since the editing is performed in 1-sec. increments (position indicated by [ ]), the exact position where the movie is edited may differ slightly from the position you specified.

7. Check the edited movie.

Select [ ] and press ⋖/SET⋗ to play the portion highlighted in gray.

To cancel the editing, press the ⋖MENU⋗ button, select [OK] on the confirmation dialog, then press ⋖/SET⋗.

8. Press the ⋖Main Dial⋗ to select [ ], then press the ⋖/SET⋗ button to save the movie. The save screen will appear.

To save it as a new movie, select [New file]. To save it and overwrite the original movie file, select [Overwrite], then press ⋖/SET⋗.

On the confirmation dialog, select [OK], then press ⋖/SET⋗ to save the edited movie and return to the movie playback screen.

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