HX 20 Movie Mode

[lychnis]

Have a Cybershot DSC-HX20.

In video 'movie' mode cannot find pause/record buttom/control.

With all sonys histroy in camcorders surely they have not ommited it?

[Mick2011]

Hi lychnis

When you're shooting video you need only one button to record – it's the top right button on the back of the camera: http://pdf.crse.com/manuals/4424086131/EN/contents/02/02/01/01.html

'Pause' is effectively the same as 'Stop', as the camera will resume recording without a break when you press the button again.

Cheers

Mick

[cmosse · Accepted solution]

The "Pause" option is actaully more a feature of tape recorders. On digital camcorders or cybershot cameras like HX20 you can start/stop the movie recording with the one "REC"-button. If you want to pause the recording just press the REC button to stop and again to start and continue recording, the camera will begin to record with no or minimal delay.

What you will actually have is however that the recording will be split up in different files for each recording. It is however very easy to combine the single clips into a continuos movie file on the computer. Even the Picture Motion Browser and the PlayMemories Software feature a simple "merge videos" function to do this.

[lychnis]

Thanks Mick and cmoss. Being from the camcorder world where pause record is used all the time to seperate shots I was expecting continuous playback, not a pile of seperate recording files. Hope the software will indeed 'merge' the shots. Cant try yet becuse my Win XP doesnt like Ply Memories.

ATB

nutmeg

[Mick2011]

Have you tried downloading Windows Movie Maker?

It should do the same job as PlayMemories and it looks like there's still an XP version available: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/get-movie-maker-download

Mick