ARCHOS GminiTM 402 User Manual

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402 CamCorder

CamCorder and Camera functions

Video – Recording a video with your Gmini

402 Camcorder

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402 CamCorder

CamCorder and Camera functions

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Video – Recording a video with your Gmini

1.1 Video Recording procedure

2. On this pre-recording screen, you can adjust the recording settings by pressing the F2 button (Settings). You can also zoom in and out using the UP/DOWN button.

3. On the Settings screen, Use the directional buttons UP and DOWN to select a setting, and LEFT and RIGHT to change it. To change the ﬁ le name, select the Rename button and press enter. You will be taken to the Virtual Keyboard (see the Using the Virtual Keyboard section in the Browser chapter of the complete Adobe user manual on the Gmini ESC/STOP to go back the pre-recording screen.

4. Once you have adjusted the settings and returned to the Pre-recording screen, press the ENTER button. The recording will start. It is possible to change certain settings, such as the Exposure and White balance, during a recording. To stop and save your recording, press the ESC/STOP button. You can press the PLAY button to pause and resume the recording.

1. From the Main screen, select the CamCorder icon, then click on ENTER.

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The table below explains the different settings. The corresponding screen icons are also shown.

Video recording settings

Resolution Options: VGA or Optimal. Optimal (448 x 336) will give the smoothest image quality,

with the smallest ﬁ le size. VGA (640 x 480) will give sharper images, which are less smooth during fast moving scenes. However, the ﬁ le size is larger.

Bitrate Options: Low, Medium or High. This setting determines the level of compression of

the recorded video ﬁ le. A higher bitrate will result in a smoother-looking video, but will also require more storage space. The default Medium will be appropriate for most situations.

Exposure Between Brighter +2, Normal and Darker -2. This permits you to adjust to bright or

dark conditions. Setting it in the negatives, will decrease the amount of picture exposure and make your image darker. Setting it positive will increase the exposure and make your image brighter. If your subject has a bright background, you may want to over expose your image a little bit so that the person’s face is more visible, thus you would set it to Brighter +1 or +2. If you are recording a video where there is a lot of snow or the sun’s reﬂ ection on water, you may want to reduce the exposure, thus set it to Darker

-1 or -2.

White balance Options: Auto, Daylight, Cloudy, Fluorescent or Tungsten. This parameter lets the

camera adjust to the ambient light source in order to record colors in the best way.

Source Options: Microphone or Line-in. The default audio source for a video recording is

the built-in microphone. You can use a line level audio source for special recording situations and enter the source audio through the multiconnect adaptor line-in jack.

Sampling Options: 32 kHz or 48 kHz. The sampling rate refers to the audio track of your recording.

A higher sampling rate makes the audio sound better, but will result in a larger ﬁ le size.

1.2 Where is the recording saved?

The default location for video recordings is the folder called Video. If you click on the Video icon in the main menu, you will go to this folder. Notice that the right Function button in the Video Browser screen is labeled Record. Each time you use this button to record a video instead of going through the VideoCorder icon on the main menu, you set the recording default location to the current folder. For example, let’s say you have a folder called /Video/ Holiday. If you go to this folder and then make a recording using the right Function button Record, you will set the default record location to this folder. Now, each time you use the VideoCorder icon to start a recording, your

recording will be saved in the folder /Video/Holiday.

When pressing the ESC/STOP button from the pre-recording screen, you will be taken to the current default recording folder so you can directly view your recording.

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