Sony HDR-CX500V User Manual

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Editing

Deleting movies and 

photos

You can free media space by deleting 

movies and photos from recording media.

Select the recording medium that contains 

the movies and photos you want to delete 

before starting the operation (p. 67). For 

movies, select the image quality (p. 77).

Notes

You cannot restore images once they are 

deleted.

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 “Memory Stick PRO Duo” media 

while deleting images from the “Memory Stick 

PRO Duo” media.

You cannot delete protected movies and photos. 

Undo the protection of the movies and photos 

to delete them, before you try to delete them 

(p. 58).

If the deleted movie is included in the Playlist 

(p. 60), the movie added to the Playlist is 

deleted also from the Playlist.

If the deleted movie is included in the saved 

Highlight Playback scenario (p. 44), the movie 

is also deleted from the scenario.

Save important movies and photos in advance 

(p. 62, see Operating Guide too).

Tips

You can select up to 100 images at one time.

You can delete an image on the playback screen 

from 

 OPTION MENU.

To delete all images recorded in the recording 

media, and recover all the recordable space of 

the media, format the media (p. 92).

Reduced-size images which enable you to view 

many images at the same time on an index 

screen are called “thumbnails.”

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Touch 

 (MENU)  

 

 [DELETE] (under   [EDIT] 
category).

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To delete movies, touch  
[

DELETE]  [

DELETE] or  

[

DELETE].

To delete photos, touch [ DELETE]   

[ DELETE].

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Touch and display the   mark 
on the movies or photos to be 
deleted.

Tips

Press and hold the image down on the 

LCD screen to confirm the image. Touch 

 to return to the previous screen.

4

   

Touch 

  [YES]  

 

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To delete all movies/photos at one time

In step 2, touch [ DELETE]   

[

DELETE ALL]/[

DELETE ALL] 

 [YES]  [YES]  

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To delete all photos at one time, touch  

[ DELETE]  [ DELETE ALL]  [YES] 

 [YES]  

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To delete all the movies/photos 

recorded on the same day at one time

You can delete photos by selecting 

recording dates only when photos are 

recorded on the internal memory.

 In step 2, touch [ DELETE]   

[

DELETE by date]/[

DELETE 

by date].

To delete all photos on the same day at one 

time, touch [ DELETE]  [ DELETE 

by date].

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