Sony HDR-XR550 Camcorder User 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.
Notes
You cannot restore images once they are
deleted. Save important movies and photos in
advance.
Do not remove the battery pack or the AC
Adaptor from your camcorder while deleting
the images. It may damage the recording media.
Do not eject memory card while deleting
images from the memory card.
You cannot delete protected movies and photos.
Undo the protection of the movies and photos
to delete them, before you try to delete them
(p
. 45).
The demonstration movie on your camcorder
is protected.
If the deleted movie is included in the Playlist
(p
. 50), the movie added to the Playlist is
deleted also from the Playlist.
If the deleted movie is included in the saved
H
ighlight Playback scenario (p. 38), the movie
is also deleted from the scenario.
Tips
You can delete an image on the playback screen
from
OPTION MENU.
To delete all images recorded in the recording
media, and recover all the recordable space of
t
he media, format the media (p. 85).
Reduced-size images which enable you to view
many images at the same time on an index
screen are called “thumbnails.”
1
Touch (MENU) [Show
others] [DELETE] (under
[EDIT] category).
2
To delete movies, touch
[ DELETE] [ DELETE] or
[ DELETE].
To delete photos, touch [ DELETE]
[
DELETE].
3
Touch and display the mark
on the movies or photos to be
deleted.
Press and hold the image down on the
LCD screen to confirm the image. Touch
to return to the previous screen.
4
Touch [YES]
.
To delete all movies/photos at one time
In step 2, touch [ DELETE]
[
DELETE ALL]/[ DELETE ALL]
[YES] [YES]
.
To delete all photos at one time, touch
[
DELETE] [ DELETE ALL] [YES]
[YES]
.
To delete all the movies/photos
recorded on the same day at one time
Notes
You cannot delete photos on memory card by
recording date.
In step 2, touch [ DELETE]
[
DELETE by date]/[ DELETE
by date].
To delete all photos on the same day at one
time, touch [
DELETE] [ DELETE
by date].