Decorating scenes at the time of shooting

Add a new level of enjoyment to your scenes by decorating them. You can add animated graphics, stamps and even your own freehand drawing easily just by simply using your fingertip.

Caution

When the [Camera Mode] is set to [ ] (Cinema), this setting cannot be made.

Please make the setting in [ ] (Auto), [ ] (Baby) mode, [ ] (Special Scene), or (Program AE).

Decorating Scenes while Recording

1. Turn on the camcorder.

2. Touch [ ].

3. Drag your finger left/right to bring the [Main Functions] menu to the center, and then touch the icon to open it.

4. Drag your finger up or down, and then touch [Decoration].

5. The decoration mode screen appears.

On the decoration screen, there is a canvas where you can draw freely, and a toolbar with tools lined up for creating your drawings.

Select the tool you want to use from the toolbar, and make drawings on the canvas.

Icon	Tool name	Function
	Pens and Stamps]	Select the type of pen or stamp and its color. You can also save a single canvas or load a previously saved canvas.
	Animated Stamps	Select animated stamps to add to your decoration.
	Date/Time, baby mode	Add the date and/or time as a caption that will be included in the recording.
	Image Mix	Choose one of 26 different frames to add onto the canvas. Image mix can be used in combination with the pens, stamps and animated stamps.
	Freeze screen	In recording mode: pause the live video. Touch [ again to restore the live video. You can add decorations to and record the frozen image. In playback mode: pause the playback. Touch [ ] to resume playing back the scene.
	Minimize toolbar	Minimize the toolbar to the top of the screen to view almost all of the canvas. Touch [ ] to restore the toolbar.

6. Use a tool from the toolbar as explained in the following procedures.

7. Press ⋖START/STOP⋗ to record movies with your decorations.

8. Touch [ ] to exit the decoration screen.

To use [Pens and Stamps]

1. Touch [ ].

The [Pens and Stamps] screen will appear.

2. Select the desired pen or stamp from [Tools] and then touch [ ].

The main decoration screen will appear again.

Touch [ ].

Select white or black from [Colors].

Alternatively, you can touch [ ] and select a color from the displayed colors.

3. Draw freely on the canvas.

To clear your freehand drawings and stamps: Touch [ ] ⋗ [Clear] ⋗ [Yes] ⋗ [ ].

Caution

The canvas with decorations can be deleted, saved, and loaded.

To save your freehand drawings and stamps: Touch [ ] ⋗ [Save] ⋗ [Yes] ⋗ [ ].

To load a previously saved canvas (freehand drawings and stamps only) from the memory: Touch [ ] ⋗ [Load] ⋗ [Yes] ⋗ [ ].

*The freehand drawings and stamps will be saved in the built-in memory or on a memory card.

**The camcorder will apply the last freehand drawings and stamps that were saved in the built-in memory or on a memory card.

*** VIXIA HF R400 / LEGRIA HF R406 do not have built-in memory

To use [Animated Stamps]

1. Touch [ ].

The [Animated Stamps] screen will appear.

2. Touch one of the control buttons.

3. Touch anywhere on the canvas to place the selected animated stamp. You can also drag some animated stamps to a different location.

Caution

To use [Date/Time]

1. Touch [ ].

2. Touch [Date] or [Time] and touch [ ].

Touch the caption and drag it to the desired location.

To use stamps during Baby mode.

During Baby mode, you can add stamps to the video to track baby’s height, weight and age.

Caution

1. Touch [ ].

The screen with stamps for Baby mode will appear.

2. To add the age stamp: Touch ⋗ [ ].

3.Touch to set baby’s date of birth

4.To add the height and weight stamps: Touch [20 in.] or [6 lb. 8 oz.], and then touch [ ].

5.Use to change the settings.

6. Touch .

7. Touch the stamp, date or time and drag it to the desired location.

Caution

To use image mix

1. Touch [ ] to open the [Select Image] screen.

2. Touch [ON].

3. Touch [+] or [-] to select a different image mix frame.

You can touch one of the memory icons at the bottom of the screen to read image mix frames saved on a different memory (When recording on or playing back scenes from a memory card).

*VIXIA HF R400 / LEGRIA HF R406 do not have built-in memory

Touch [ ] to mix the selected frame with the live video.

Caution

When [Rec Media for Movies] is set to [ ] (the built-in memory), you will not be able to select image mix frames saved on a memory card (For camcorders that have internal memory only).

For AVCHD movies, image mix cannot be selected during playback or while converting a scene to standard definition (For camcorders that have internal memory only). Select the image mix during playback pause or before starting the conversion.

To use freeze screen

1. Touch [ ].

2. Press the ⋖START/STOP⋗ button to start shooting.

Touch [ ]. The screen will return to normal.