User Manual

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Recording Video and Photos
Setting a Card’s Volume Label
In CAMERA mode, you can set the volume label for CFexpress cards and SDXC cards used for recording, in
order to make it easier to identify and organize them later.
1 Select > [Æ Recording/Media Setup] > [Volume Label] > [Canon] or [Canon + Metadata].
2 Initialize the card (A 46).
3 If necessary, set the clip file name’s metadata elements (A 59).
4 Record clips on the card.
• The card’s volume label changes when the first recording is made on a just initialized card. (For SDXC cards
only when the first proxy clip is recorded.)
Options
[Canon]: The volume label of CFexpress and SDXC cards will be “CANON” regardless of the clip file name
settings.
[Canon + Metadata]:
The volume label of CFexpress and SDXC cards will be “CANONX999” where “X” represents the
camera index and “999” represents the reel number set in the clip file name’s metadata settings.
Setting the Clip File Name
The camera allows you to change several settings that determine the clip file name of recorded clips. Personalize the
clip file name according to your preferences or organizational conventions to create files that are easier to identify
and organize. This function can only be used in CAMERA mode.
The basic file name structure is as follows.
* Apart from this component, the file name of the primary clip (RAW) and the proxy clip (XF-AVC) will be identical.
A001C001_yymmddXX_CANON_01P
1 2 3 4 675
1 Camera index: One character (A to Z) that
identifies the camera used.
2 Reel number: 3 characters (001 to 999) that
identify the card used. The number is assigned
automatically but you can set the initial number.
After you insert a new card (just purchased or
initialized), the number advances by one when the
first recording is made.
3 Clip number: 4 characters (C001 to D999). The
clip number advances automatically with each
clip recorded (switching to D001 after C999), but
you can set the initial clip number and select the
clip numbering method.
4 Recording date (set automatically by the camera).
5 Random component: 2 characters (numbers 0 to
9 and capital letters A to Z) that change randomly
with each clip.
6 User defined field: 5 characters (numbers 0 to 9
and capital letters A to Z) for any other
identification purposes.
7 Proxy clips only*: The camera will automatically
add the suffix “_P” to the file name of proxy clips.
Additionally, when an SD or SDHC card is used to
record proxy clips, a stream number (01 to 99) will
be added before the “P”. The stream number will
advance every time the video (stream) file within
the clip is split and recording continues on a
separate stream file.