Operating Instructions
Table Of Contents
- US
- IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS
- Read this first
- Operation flow
- Table of contents
- Getting started
- Recording/Playback
- Making good use of your camcorder
- Saving movies and photos with a computer
- Preparing a computer (Windows)
- Starting PMB (Picture Motion Browser)
- Selecting the method for creating a disc (computer)
- Creating a disc with one touch (One Touch Disc Burn)
- Importing movies and photos to a computer
- Creating an AVCHD disc
- Creating a standard definition image quality (STD) disc that can be played on ordinary DVD players
- Saving images with an external device
- Customizing your camcorder
- Additional information
- Quick reference
- ES
- Lea este apartado en primer lugar
- Flujo de funcionamiento
- Índice
- Procedimientos iniciales
- Grabación/reproducción
- Uso correcto de la videocámara
- Almacenamiento de películas y fotos con una computadora
- Preparación de una computadora (Windows)
- Inicio de PMB (Picture Motion Browser)
- Selección del método para crear un disco (computadora)
- Creación de un disco con una pulsación (One Touch Disc Burn)
- Importación de películas y fotos a una computadora
- Creación de un disco AVCHD
- Creación de un disco con calidad de imagen de definición estándar (STD) que se puede reproducir en reproductores de DVD comunes
- Almacenamiento de imágenes en un dispositivo externo
- Personalización de la videocámara
- Información complementaria
- Referencia rápida
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Saving movies and photos with a computer
Preparing a computer
(Windows)
You can perform following operations using
“PMB (Picture Motion Browser).”
Importing images to a computer
Viewing and editing imported images
Creating a disc
Uploading movies and photos to websites
To save movies and photos using a
computer, install “PMB” from the supplied
CD-ROM beforehand.
Notes
Do not format the media of your camcorder
from a computer. Your camcorder may not
operate correctly.
This camcorder captures high definition footage
in the AVCHD format. Using the enclosed
PC software, high definition footage can be
copied onto DVD media. However, DVD media
containing AVCHD footage should not be used
with DVD based players or recorders, as the
DVD player/recorder may fail to eject the media
and may erase its contents without warning.
Step 1 Checking the computer
system
OS*
1
Microsoft Windows XP SP3*
2
/Windows Vista
SP2
*
3
/Windows 7
CPU*
4
Intel Core Duo 1.66 GHz or faster, or Intel
Core 2 Duo 1.66 GHz or faster (Intel Core
2 Duo 2.26 GHz or faster is required when
processing HD FX/HD FH movies)
However, Intel Pentium III 1 GHz or faster is
sufficient for the following operations:
Importing the movies and photos to the
computer
One Touch Disc Burn
Creating a Blu-ray disc/AVCHD disc/DVD-
video (Intel Core Duo 1.66 GHz or faster
is required when creating a DVD video by
converting high definition image quality
(HD) to standard definition image quality
(STD).)
Copying a disc
Processing only the movies with standard
definition image quality (STD)
Application
DirectX 9.0c or later (This product is based
on DirectX technology. It is necessary to have
DirectX installed.)
Memory
For Windows XP: 512 MB or more (1 GB or
more is recommended.)
However, 256 MB or more is sufficient for
processing only the movies with standard
definition image quality (STD).
For Windows Vista/Windows 7: 1 GB or
more
Hard disk
Disk volume required for installation:
Approximately 500 MB (10 GB or more may
be necessary when creating AVCHD discs.
50 GB maximum may be necessary when
creating Blu-ray discs.)
Display
Minimum 1,024 × 768 dots
Others
USB port (this must be provided as standard,
Hi-Speed USB (USB 2.0 compatible)), Blu-
ray disc/DVD burner (CD-ROM drive is
necessary for installation) Either NTFS or
exFAT file system is recommended as the
hard disk file system.