Sony HDR-TG5 Manual

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Making good use of your camcorder

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. 45).

1

   

Touch 

 (MENU).

2

   

To delete movies, touch  
[

DELETE] (under   [EDIT] 

category)  [

DELETE] or  

[

DELETE].

To delete photos, touch [ DELETE] 

(under   [EDIT] category)   

[ DELETE].

3

   

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

4

   

Touch 

  [YES]  

 

 

.

To delete all movies at one time

In step 2, touch [ DELETE]  [

DELETE 

ALL]/[

DELETE ALL]   [YES]  [YES] 

 

  

.

To delete all photos at one time

In step 2, touch [ DELETE]  [ DELETE 

ALL]  [YES]  [YES]  

  

.

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Formatting the recording media

Formatting deletes all the movies and 

photos to recover recordable free space.

Connect your camcorder to the wall outlet (wall 

socket) using the AC Adaptor supplied for this 

operation (p. 15).

To avoid the loss of important images, you 

should save them (p. 27) before formatting the 

recording media.

Protected movies and photos will also be 

deleted.



   

Touch 

 (MENU)  [MEDIA 

FORMAT] (under   [MANAGE 
MEDIA] category).



   

Touch the recording media to 
be formatted ([INT. MEMORY] or 
[MEMORY STICK]).



   

Touch [YES]  [YES]  

.

While [Executing…] is displayed, do not close 

the LCD screen, oprate the buttons on the 

camcorder, disconnect the AC Adaptor, or eject 

the “Memory Stick PRO Duo” media from your 

camcorder. (The access lamp is lit or flashing 

while formatting the medium.)

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