Interchangeable Lens Digital Camera ILCE-7M2

REC Control (movie)

If you connect the camera to an external recorder, you can remotely command the recorder to start/stop recording using the camera.

  1. MENU (Setup) → [HDMI Settings] [REC Control] → desired setting.

Menu item details

On:
The camera can send a recording command to an external recorder.
The camera is sending a recording command to an external recorder.
Off (default setting):
The camera is not able to send a command to an external recorder to start/stop recording.

Note

  • When [TC Output] is [Off], [REC Control] is set to [Off].
  • Even when is displayed, if the external recorder is not ready for recording (for example, if there is no capacity on the recording medium, or there is not enough battery remaining, or the camera is not connected to the device properly), recording on the external recorder may fail. When recording on an external recorder, confirm that the external recorder is recording video properly.