Sony bloggie MHS-CM5 - Manual (Page 5)

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Enjoying the camera
Enjoying high definition images
The movies shot with this camera will be recorded in MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 Main Profile,
approximately 30 frames per second, Progressive, AAC LC, “MP4 format”.
– MPEG: Movie Picture Experts Group
– AVC: Advanced Video Codec
Progressive playback
The camera supports progressive mode
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, which is used in computers, and therefore is suited
for playing back images on computers.
Shooting movies in image quality suited for your purpose
The camera supports the common and widely used VGA (640×480) as well as HD (high
definition) image quality. Select VGA (640×480) image quality to upload the recorded images
on websites or to attach to mails without the need to convert the image quality.
Movie Size you can select with this camera
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The progressive mode is a type of movie recording method, which reads out all image pixels at once.
Movie Size Usage guidelines
1920 × 1080 30P Shoot HD (high definition) quality movies in sizes suited for display
on computer or high definition TV
1280 × 720 60P Shoots the rapidly moving action scenes such as sports smoothly with
HD (high definition) quality
1280 × 720 30P Shoot HD (high definition) quality movies in sizes suited for display
on computer
640 × 480 30P Shoot SD (standard definition) quality movies in sizes suited for
uploading on websites
What is “MPEG-4 AVC/H.264”?
MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 is a standard of video camera, which uses highly efficient image
compression encoding technology to record HD (high definition) images. Compared
with the existing image compression encoding technology, MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 is
able to compress images even more effectively.
• In the MPEG-4 AVC/H.264, the camera supports high definition images with effective scanning
lines of 1080 or 720. The number of recorded image pixel is 1920×1080 or 1280×720, and the
image is recorded in progressive mode
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