Nokia N80 - Record videos

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Record videos

If the camera is in

Image mode

, select video mode by

selecting

Options

>

Video mode

.

To select the secondary camera to, for example, include
yourself in the video, select

Options

>

Use secondary

camera

.

To delete copies of the transferred files, and empty
memory for new video clips, select

Options

>

Go to free

memory

(main camera only).

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In the main camera, press the capture key, or in the
secondary camera, press

to start recording. The

record icon

is shown. The LED flash is lit, and a

tone sounds, indicating to the subject that video is
being recorded. There is no flash effect on the
resultant video.

2

To pause recording at any time, select

Pause

. The

pause icon (

) blinks on the display. Video recording

automatically stops if recording is set to pause and
there are no keypresses within a minute.

3

Select

Continue

to resume recording.

4

Select

Stop

, to stop recording. The video clip is

automatically saved to the

Imgs. & video

folder of

Gallery

. See ‘Gallery’, p. 30.

To make lighting and color adjustments before recording a
video, select

Options

>

Video setup

. See ‘Setup settings—

Adjust color and lighting’, p. 23.

To select a shooting mode, select

Options

>

Video setup

>

Shooting mode

. See ‘Shooting modes’, p. 23.

Video recorder indicators show the following:

• The device memory

(

) and memory card

( ) indicators (1)
show where the video
is saved.

• The current video

length indicator (2)
shows elapsed time
and time remaining.

• The shooting mode

indicator (3) shows the active shooting mode.

• Image stabilizer (4) indicates that the image stabilizer

is active, and dampens the effects of small movements
on the image sharpness (main camera only).

• The microphone indicator (5) shows that the

microphone is muted.

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• The file format indicator (6) indicates the format of the

video clip.

• The video quality indicator (7) indicates whether the

quality of the video is

High

,

Normal

or

Sharing

.

Shortcuts are as follows:

• Scroll up or down to zoom in or zoom out. The zoom

indicator, which appears on the side pane, shows the
zoom level.

• Scroll left to enter the

Video setup

settings. See ‘Setup

settings—Adjust color and lighting’, p. 23.

After a video clip is recorded:
• To immediately play the video clip you just recorded,

select

Options

>

Play

.

• If you do not want to keep the video, press

, or

select

Options

>

Delete

.

• To send the video

Via multimedia

,

Via e-mail

,

Via

Bluetooth

, or

Via infrared

, press

, or select

Options

>

Send

. For more information, see

‘Messaging’, p. 43 and ‘Bluetooth connectivity’, p. 80.
This option is not available during an active call. You
cannot send video clips saved in the .mp4 file format in
a multimedia message.

• To send a video clip to the other party during an active

call, select

Options

>

Send to caller

.

• To edit the video, select

Options

>

Edit

. See ‘Edit video

clips’, p. 28.