Sony HDR-CX500V Quick Setup Guide

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Faces may not be detected depending on recording conditions.

Example: People wearing glasses or hats, or who do not face towards the camera.

Make sure that you set [FACE DETECTION] to [ON] (p. 80) (the default setting) prior to recording, to

search movies on the Face Index.

Tips

You can also display the Face Index by touching

(MENU) 

 [VIEW IMAGES] (under

[PLAYBACK] category)  [ FACE].

Playing back a digest of your movies (Highlight Playback)

Your camcorder selects Highlight Playback scenes at random, puts them together, and plays

them back as a digest of your high definition image quality (HD) movies with music and

visual effects. Scenes for Highlight Playback differ each time Highlight Playback is selected.

You can save the desired Highlight Playback scenario.

Select the recording media which contains the movie you want to play back before you start

the operation (p. 68).

Touch

(MENU) 

 [ HIGHLIGHT] (under

[PLAYBACK]

category)

The settings for Highlight Playback appear. The Highlight Playback starts after several

seconds.

To stop Highlight Playback

To pause, touch

To stop, touch

To change the settings for Highlight Playback

After touching [ HIGHLIGHT], touch [HIGHLIGHT SET] before the Highlight Playback

starts. You can set following items.

[PLAYBACK RANGE]

Set the range of movies to be played by selecting the from and to date, then touch

If no range is set, your camcorder plays the movies starting from those of the date displayed on the

VISUAL INDEX screen until the most recently recorded movie.

[THEME]

Select one of the following: [SIMPLE], [NOSTALGIC], [STYLISH], [ACTIVE] (the default setting)

The music category is selected automatically according to the theme.

[MUSIC]

From the music category, you can add one or more of the following: [MUSIC1] - [MUSIC4] (the default

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Returns to the VISUAL INDEX screen