it doesn't turn off the recording or even pause it when you close the screen which resulted in our being unable to film our wedding due to a dead battery. When you're recording the dot is red, but when you pause it turns green: this creates confusion about the weather you're actually filming and results in many hours of footage being wasted when we thought we were recording . (Come on folks, everyone knows that green means "forward" and red means "stop". It was stupid to make it that way.) It takes forever to load, so you skip frames waiting after shutdown, to save battery. When I think about it, it was a pretty lame camera for the price. don't waste money.