Canon legira HFG25 User manual

Media Services / video and audio
production support /
Canon Legira HFG25
Quick Guide

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1. RESET button
2. (camera/play)
button
3. DISP. (onscreen display)
button. BATT. INFO (battery
info) button.
4. Double memory card slot
cover
5. Lens hood
6. Len Barrier switch
7. Focus ring
Canon Legira HFG25 Camcorder

Basic recording (Web)
1. Set to AUTO
2. Press POWER
3. Open lens barrier – set to OPEN
4. Press to START to record
Higher Quality Recording (Broadcast)
1. Set to AUTO
2. Press POWER
3. Open lens barrier – set to OPEN
4. Press to start to record
(Default memory for recording is the built-in memory (32GB))
Quality of Video
The camcorder oers 5 Recording Modes at varying levels
of video quality. Changing the Recording Mode will alter how
much footage you can record onto your SD card (please refer
to the table on the back page for more details).
As a rule, select MXP or FXP mode for shorter/ higher quality
footage, or LP mode of longer/ lower quality footage.
To select dierent Recording Modes you will need to access
the Menu from the display screen. By default, the camcorder
is set to ‘AUTO mode’ which is the same as (LP mode).

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Playback your recordings
The basic playback screen is in the Data Index screen.
1. Press to set the camcorder to Playback
Mode.
2. Change the Index Screen, if necessary.
3. Look for the scene you want to play back.
Saving your recordings
It is recommended that you periodically back up your
recordings onto a computer as we cannot be held
responsible for any lost footage stored on the SD card.
Selecting the Video Quality (Recording Mode)
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Selecting the Video Quality (Recording Mode)
The camcorder offers 5 recording modes. Changing the recording mode will change the recording
time available on the memory. Select MXP or FXP mode for better movie quality; select LP mode for
longer recording times. The following table gives approximate recording times.
1 Open the [Recording Mode] screen.
[FUNC.] >[MENU] >r>[Recording Mode]
2 Touch the desired recording mode and then touch [X].
NOTES
• Movies recorded in MXP mode cannot be saved on AVCHD discs. Use an external Blu-ray Disc
recorder to copy MXP movies onto Blu-ray discs or use the supplied software VideoBrowser to
create AVCHD discs*.
• The camcorder uses a variable bit rate (VBR) to encode video so the actual recording times will vary
depending on the content of the scenes.
• The camcorder retains the last setting used even if you set the camcorder to mode.
* MXP scenes will be converted to an image quality similar to that of FXP scenes.
Operating modes:
Approximate recording times Default value
1Recorded in 1920 x 1080 resolution. Movies recorded using other recording modes are recorded
in 1440 x 1080 resolution.
2At the time of purchase, the built-in memory contains about 70 MB of music files (background
music) and 5 MB of image files (image mix frames).
3A single scene can be recorded continuously for 12 hours; at that point, the camcorder will stop
for about 3 seconds before resuming recording.
Recording mode →
MXP1FXP1, XP+ SP LP
Memory ↓
4 GB Memory card 20 min. 30 min. 40 min. 1 hr. 10 min. 1 hr. 30 min.
8 GB Memory card 40 min. 1 hr. 1 hr. 25 min. 2 hr. 20 min. 3 hr.
16 GB Memory card 1 hr. 25 min. 2 hr. 5 min. 2 hr. 50 min. 4 hr. 45 min. 6 hr. 5 min.
32 GB Memory card/
Built-in memory22 hr. 55 min. 4 hr. 10 min. 5 hr. 45 min. 9 hr. 35 min. 12 hr. 15 min.3
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