Tommy&Tiky:FAQ – Tripod ‘exclusively tailored’ to camcorders

Hello, it’s Tiky again!

I have an exclusive news for you guys. I’ve reviewed a tripod for camcorder before. Remember that? It was about 8months ago. Title with “Camcorder with an unique active angle lens tripod” , check this article again! Now I have another tips for you. The thing I’d like to tell you guys is we have a tripod exclusively tailored to camcorders like HMX-S16! Let’s find out how this wonderful tool works and helps you ulimately.

Just like a camera, camcorders come with different handy accessories. However, only a limited number of camcorders can use accessories such as microphone. Samsung recently launched a high-end camcorder called HMX-S16, to which a wide variety of accessories can be attached. On top, HMX-S16 has an accessory shoe to connect to accessories. Then, let’s take a look at accessories that will be very usefully in filming way better quality video.

Tripod ‘exclusively tailored’ to camcorders

One of the most frequently committed errors of camcorder users is to use the tripod for cameras that you already have. Or, even worse, buying a tripod for camera to use for camcorder, failing to acknowledge the difference between the two! Having totally different purposes of recording snap shot vs. movement, the tripods for the two have fundamentally different shape.

Tripod head for camcorder (video camera)

What you see here is the typical head of tripods for video cameras. At a quick glance, you might not be able to tell the difference, but how they work is totally different. With the tripod for camera, the head is fixed and remains fixed at the desired location. However, for camcorder tripod, the head holds still even if you don’t fix it strongly. You can also turn the camcorder around sideways without shaking.

Meanwhile, as cameras record stand-still images, the head is fixed at the desired location, not tolerating an inch of movement. Even if you were to place a camcorder on top and tighten it to the middle, you are bound to have blurry images if you move it up and down.

Now, let’s take a look at what this means in real life.

Camcorder attached to a camera tripod and moved up/down and sideways

Camcorder (video camera) attached to a dedicated tripod and moved up/down and sideways

So, anyone thinking “That is why my image was so shaky!” rather than “I didn’t know camcorder tripods are so stable!”? If you surf the web or browse shops, you can easily find that such information is not clearly delivered to the customer. For a non-expert, it’s difficult to be aware of such information. If you have ever had trouble using a tripod, check if the tripod is fit for the purpose first. If not, I strongly recommend that you get a dedicated tripod for the best results!

If you guys want to learn active angle like SMX-C20, here’s the link of thread! ▷Camcorder with an unique active angle lens tripod.

Until next time, bye-bye!

Samsung Football Launched!

Do you like Football?
Well, we hope so because today we’re happy and delighted to present you: Samsung Football.

So what is “Samsung Football” all about?
In fact, this site addresses everyone, who’s falling or who’s about to fall in love with football. Samsung Football not only provides a TV schedule of the big matches around the globe, but also offers everything a football fan might be able to dream of.

Starting from a “HOW TO”-tutorial, for those who’d like to bring the “stadium atmosphere” to your home, downloads or a news-ticker, powered by FourFourTwo.
This new site literally has anything a football fan might need.

Another great feature is “Experience Football”, which showcases the best and most appropriate gadgets to maximize your football experience. Among them, the World’s first digital camera with a front-LCD: Samsung ST550(TL225) and the Samsung HMX-R10.

However, the most exciting feature of this site is the “Pub Map”.

Everyone living in the U.K. will be able to search for a “Football Pub” near you! Meaning:
NO MORE SEARCHING FOR A PUB, ONLY TO NOTICE THAT YOUR TEAM IS DOWN BY ONE.

Furthermore, in co-operation with one of World’s most representative publisher for sport games: EA Games, Samsung Football prepared “The Ultimate Samsung/EA SPORTS package”.

So if you want to win a 40” DH LED TV (only 2.9 thick), a stylisch home theatre system with full surround sound, a games console or FIFA 2010, visit the new site.

As for the event the closing date is the 13th of November 2009, so you’d better hurry!

Anyhow, before we reveal too much, just check the site. You won’t regret it!

Click here to visit Samsung Football: Better Together

We thank you for all your interest,

[Part 8] Tommy & Tiky : Intelli-Studio

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If it’s a perfect film, it’s impossible to not have sound.
Click ‘Insert Sound’ on your left menu, then click ‘Find File’ to select a sound file.

 

Remind yourself that Intelli-studio only supports either ‘mp3’ or ‘wma’ sound files.
Then you can see the file that you selected. Click ‘Apply’.

 

Selected file appears on sound track and goes into the ‘Timeline Mode’ automatically.

 

Move mouse cursor on the end of the file to adjust length of the sound. Mouse cursor is going to change into the arrow figure. Click and drag the file to adjust the length.

 

You can control the place when you click and drag the middle part of the file.

 

You can control the place when you click and drag the middle part of the file.

 

Ok. Now you’ve made plausible movie like this. Don’t forget to save it!
This is the ‘Save’ button.

 

You can select the saving form from those three methods.

 

Let’s take a look from the top.

 

1. Save As General Movie Format
You can save as ‘mp4’, ‘wmv’, or the format for iPod so you can also watch from general PC.
When the window pops up, select ‘File Type’, ‘Resolution’, and ‘Quality’ and click ‘Convert’. Then you are done with producing movie. (If you want resolution of HD level, select 1920X1080 or 1280X720.)

 

2. Save As Camcorder Format
This is the saving method that you can watch this movie in other Samsung camcorders too.
Choose the camcorder type that you want and click ‘Convert’.

 

3. Save As Project File
‘Project File’ means the file that still has some process to do. If you have the movie that you want to edit it later, save as this format then you can edit it again whenever you want.
Select folder that you want to save, and it’s done.

Wow. I feel like now I can make interesting movies easily with Intelli-studio.
Well, it’s done now for movie but this is not the end.

 

Next time, we’ll find out how to edit photo files.

 

 

Samsung receives the “Good Design Award 2009” for 4 devices!

We’re proud to announce that, the Japan Industrial Promotion Organization, also known as JIDPO, awarded four of our products with the world’s renown “Good Design Award 2009“, for outstanding product design.

The “Good Design Award 2009”, whose system is based on the belied that good design is essential to everyday life of the people. Further, shall it give people prosperous lives the eminent power of good designs.
Yearly, more than 1,000 companies submit their products, in order to receive this award. The winners are, then, selected by a pool of members from various industries, who’d been appointed by JIDPO.

Until this very day, this award is only given to products which are believed to bless and enrich society and people’s lives through its design.

And due to those reasons, we consider it an even greater privilege to announce that four of our products were given the honor to receive this award:

Samsung WB1000(TL320)

The WB1000(TL320) ranks among the finest digital cameras today, featuring a 24mm ultra wide angle, 5x optical zoom lens combines with full manual control for the ultimate digital imaging experience. Furthermore, the Samsung WB1000(TL320) is the world’s first camera to own a large 3.0” AMOLED LCD screen!

Samsung ST50(TL100)

The Samsung ST50(TL100) is an ultra-slim, stylish 12.2 megapixel-powered digital camera. Combined with a 3x optical zoom lens and large 2.7” LCD, the ST50(TL100) is the perfect companion

Samsung HMX-H106

Ever wanted to capture your special moments in the best quality? The Samsung HMX-H106 helps your to capture your special moments in full HD, and store them on a built-in 64 GB SSD memory. Additionally, the Samsung HMX-H106 uses a high performance Schneider lens and high quality 10x optical zoom.

Samsung R10/C10

Both camcorders stand out by using an active angle lens in ergonomic design, which provides the user with the maximum comfort. The HMX-R10 supports breathtaking full 1080p resolution for its shots, whereas the SMX-C10 also supports a satisfactory 720p resolution.

The official award show is going to take place in November, and we will keep you updated with the latest information’s!

For more information’s about the G-Mark, visit here.

We thank you for your never-ending support and interest in our products!

Tommy & Tiky : Intelli-Studio

We’ve learned how to install ‘Intelli-studio’ last time. This time, let’s set the program for yourself.

Second story of Tommy and Tiky.

‘Intelli-studio’ took out complicated functions for beginners but it’s better to know some ‘Setting’ functions to use this program more effectively. I’ll tell you some important things.

 

Let’s do some ‘Setting’ by clicking ‘Menu’ on the left top.

 

First, you can choose either black or white color for ‘Skin Theme Setting’ on very top.

 

 

Now, ‘Thumbnail info. View Setting’.
Basically, ‘File Name + Time’ is for movie. It’s ‘File Name’ for photo, however, let’s see what happen when we change it to ‘File Name + Resolution’.

 

Now you can see the resolution of file beside of file name.

Oh, I see.

 

Under the ‘Thumbnail Setting’, it’s ‘New File Upload Notification Setting’.

That’s for the notification of new file uploading when camcorder and PC is connected to each other, but you can check off if you don’t like message pops up every single time.
 

When you set ‘Folder Path View Setting’ to ‘Show the entire path’, you can see this file is located in which folder easily.

 

 

Next section is ‘Update Intelli-studio’ and it is the setting for letting you know automatically when ‘Intelli-studio’ is updated.
It’s good for quick update.

Ok. 

And you can always click ‘Help’ when you have something that you don’t know.

 

When you click ‘Information’, you’ll know the present version of this program.

Well, let’s wrap up for ‘Setting’. Now you can set up the program for your own convenience. However, set up ‘Update Notification Setting’ to ‘Enable’ for better update.

Alright.

Good! Ok, that’s it for today. 

Let’s learn about ‘Library’ menu next time.
 

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