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## Movie Quality/Movie Size

The larger the size of the movie image, the higher the image quality. The higher the amount of data used per second (average bit-rate), the higher the image quality.
Select a movie recording format by touching MENU (Settings) (Shooting Settings) [Movie format] in shooting mode. [Details]
You can set [Movie Quality] in AVCHD format, and set [Movie Size] in MP4 format.

#### Movie Quality (recording format: AVCHD)

1. MENU (Movie Quality) desired mode

Set using the buttons displayed on the left of the screen depending on the REC mode.
Movies shot with this camera are recorded in AVCHD format, at approximately 60 fields/sec (1080 60i-compatible devices) or 50 fields/sec (1080 50i-compatible devices), in interlaced mode, with Dolby Digital audio.

| Movie quality | Average bit-rate | Description
| AVC HD 24M (FX) | 24 Mbps | Shoots at a highest picture quality of 1920×1080 (50i/60i) size.
| AVC HD 17M (FH) | 17 Mbps | Shoots at a high picture quality of 1920×1080 (50i/60i) size.
| AVC HD 9M (HQ) | 9 Mbps | Shoots at a standard picture quality of 1440×1080 (50i/60i) size.

#### Movie Size (recording format: MP4)

1. MENU (Movie Size) desired size

Set using the buttons displayed on the left of the screen depending on the REC mode.
Movies shot with this camera are recorded in MPEG-4 format, at approximately 30 frames/sec (for 1080 60i-compatible devices) or approximately 25 frames/sec (for 1080 50i-compatible devices), in progressive mode, with AAC audio, mp4 format.

| Movie image size | Average bit-rate | Description
| MP4 12M | 12 Mbps | Shoots at 1440×1080 size
| MP4 6M | 6 Mbps | Shoots at 1280×720 size
| MP4 3M | 3 Mbps | Shoots at VGA size

Notes

- A telephoto image is produced when [MP4 3M] image size is selected.

- Movies recorded with movie mode set to [AVC HD 24M (FX)] cannot be saved to a DVD disc or as an AVCHD disc. Save them to a Blu-ray disc.

- You may not be able to set some MENU items depending on the selected REC mode. For details, see “MENU items not available in some REC modes.” [Details]

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