Sony HDR-CX690E User Manual

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Advanced operations
Deleting movies and 
photos
You can free media space by deleting 
movies and photos from recording media.
Notes
You cannot restore images once they are 
deleted. Save important movies and photos in 
advance.
Do not remove the battery pack or the AC 
Adaptor from your camcorder while deleting 
the images. It may damage the recording media.
Do not eject the memory card while deleting 
images from the memory card.
You cannot delete protected movies and photos. 
Undo the protection of the movies and photos 
to delete them, before you try to delete them.
The demonstration movie on your camcorder is 
protected (HDR-CX560E/CX560VE/CX700E/ 
CX700VE).
If you delete movies/photos that are included 
in saved scenarios, the scenarios will also be 
deleted.
Tips
If you start playing back an image by selecting it 
from the Event Index screen, you can delete the 
image using   on the playback screen.
To delete all images recorded in the recording 
media, and recover all the recordable space of 
the media, format the media.
Reduced-size images which enable you to view 
many images at the same time on an index 
screen are called “thumbnails.”
1
   
Touch 
 (MENU)  [Edit/
Copy]  [Delete].
2
   
To select and delete movies, 
touch [Multiple Images]   
[
MOVIE]/[
PHOTO]/ 
[
MOVIE/PHOTO].
When [
/
Setting] is set to  
[
STD Quality], 
 appears 
instead of 
.
3
   
Touch and display the   mark 
on the movies or photos to be 
deleted.
Touch and hold the desired thumbnail so 
that you can confirm the image. Touch 
 to return to the previous screen.
4
   
Touch 
  
  
.
To delete all movies/photos in an event 
at one time
 In step 2, touch [All In Event].
 Touch 
/
 to select the desired 
event, then touch 
.
Touch and hold the desired thumbnail so 
that you can confirm the image. Touch 
 to return to the previous screen.
 Touch 
  
.