Sony DCR-SX85E User Manuals

Table of Contents

• Read this first

  2
  • Operation flow

    8
• Table of contents

  9
• Getting started

  11
  • Step 1: Charging the battery pack

    11
    • Charging the battery pack abroad

      13
  • Step 2: Turning the power on, and setting the date and time

    14
    • Changing the language setting

      15
  • Step 3: Preparing the recording media

    16
    • To check the recording media settings

      17
    • Dubbing or copying movies and photos from the internal recording media to memory card (DCR-SX65E/SX85E)

      18
• Recording/Playback

  19
  • Recording

    19
  • Playback on the camcorder

    23
  • Playing images on a TV

    26
• Making good use of your camcorder

  28
  • Deleting movies and photos

    28
• Saving movies and photos with a computer

  30
  • Preparing a computer

    30
    • When using a Macintosh

      30
  • Starting PMB (Picture Motion Browser)

    33
  • Using “PMB Portable”

    33
• Saving images with an external device

  35
  • Saving images in external media (DIRECT COPY)

    35
  • Creating a disc with a DVD writer, recorder

    38
• Customizing your camcorder

  43
  • Using menus

    43
  • Getting detailed information from the “Handycam” Handbook

    49
• Additional information

  50
  • Troubleshooting

    50
  • Recording time of movies/number of recordable photos

    53
  • Precautions

    55
  • Specifications

    57
• Quick reference

  59
  • Screen indicators

    59
  • Parts and controls

    60
  • Index

    62