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

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Solution

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 switch to ⋖ ON ⋗.

2. Press the ⋖ ⋗ to display the image.

3. Turn the ⋖ Quick Control Dial ⋗ to select the image.

During the single-image display, the ⋖ ⋗ icon displayed on the upper left indicates that it is a movie.
During the index display, the perforation on the left edge of the image indicates that it is a movie. Movies cannot be played on the index display, so press ⋖ SET ⋗ to switch to the single-image display.

4. On the single-image display, press ⋖ SET ⋗.

The movie playback panel will appear on the bottom.

5. On the movie playback screen, turn the ⋖ Quick Control Dial ⋗ to select [ ], then press ⋖ SET ⋗.

The editing screen will be displayed.

6. Specify the parts to be edited out.

6-1. Turn the ⋖ Quick Control Dial ⋗ to select either [ ] (Cut beginning) or [ ] (Cut end), then press ⋖ SET ⋗.

6-2. Tilt ⋖ Multi-controller ⋗ to the left or right to fast forward or turn the ⋖ Quick Control Dial ⋗ (Next frame) to specify the part to be edited out, then press ⋖ SET ⋗.

The portion highlighted in blue on the top of the screen is what will remain.

7. Check the editing.

Turn the ⋖ Quick Control Dial ⋗ to select [ ] and press ⋖ SET ⋗ to playback the portion highlighted in blue.
To change the editing, go back to step 6.
To cancel the editing, turn the ⋖ Quick Control Dial ⋗ to select [ ] and press ⋖ SET ⋗.

8. Turn the ⋖ Quick Control Dial ⋗ to select [ ], then press ⋖ SET ⋗ to save the movie. The save screen will appear.

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

Caution

If the card does not have enough space to save the movie, only [Overwrite] can be selected.

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