Samsung SC-D382 MiniDV Camcorder
Zoom in on your subjects without moving an inch. The easy-to-use Samsung SC-D382 MiniDV camcorder has a powerful 34x optical zoom that makes sure you capture even the farthest of objects, without any loss in quality. A 680K pixel CCD produces crystal-clear, remarkably detailed images in high-resolution. Plus, images are clear and stunning with the digital image stabilizer. It eliminates blur caused by unsteady hands. Your homemade movies have never looked this good.
Compatible with Windows 2000 and above AC Adaptor/Charger Battery Pack Remote Control Dimensions - 2.4 x 3.7 x 4.4 Weight - 0.75 lb
Samsung SC-D382 MiniDV Camcorder Accessories
 Sony DVC-60 PR/5 Premium Minidv Videocassette (5-Pack)
Belkin F3N401-06-ICE IEEE 1394 4-Pin/6-Pin 400 Mbps FireWire Cable (6 Feet)
4 Pin to 4 Pin IEEE-1394 Firewire Cable-2 Meters
Panasonic MiniDV Tapes (Pack of 5)
Canon PowerShot A590IS 8MP Digital Camera with 4x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom
Apple iPod nano 4 GB Silver (3rd Generation)
Samsung S860 8.1MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom (Black)
Transcend TS8GSDHC6 8GB SDHC card (SD 2.0 SPD Class 6)
Apple iPod touch 8 GB (2nd Generation)
Samsung SC-D382 MiniDV Camcorder Reviews
is OK. (I have not tried it yet in iMovie 08, so I don't know if it. I just bought this camera and it works on my MacBook. I do stop action animation so that is why I bought it. have iMovie 08 from the Apple site.
For the money it. iMovie 06 and everything is fine. imports into that). You need a firewire cable to import your movie into. You can download iMovie 06 for free if you.
I love the size of the product.small compact.great price. I highly recommend for everyday videotaping.
{support}: It will be exist only in camera mode. what is it's video format. ok. This was the cheapest camera available at the time and when it arrived it seemed as though it fit the bill. {me}: hmmm. Cheers to the reviewer that got this camera to work on Linux. {support}: I am sorry to inform you that our cameras are not compatiable with mac and you can use it with other operating system, and our engineers are working on it to make it compatiable.
{me}: ok thanks. {me}: any idea how I could use it with a Mac. back to the store with this one. A piece of my transcript with the Samsung rep:. {me}: ok.
But the worst, it does not seem to use industry standards for DV out and will not work with Apple iMovie. {support}: It uses AVI format and when the files are using AVI format it can be run and viewable. I could not get it to work with iMovie and Samsung support told me why. However, there were a few glaring problems - the video output of the camera when you plug it into the TV was greenish for low light but acceptable for brightly light subjects. {me}:I know what codecs are, but which one does this camera need. It could do better in Low Light compared to other camcorders that I have had.
The zoom was good and the picture in the camera was about what I would expect. {me}: ok - so 16x9 playback does not exist. {support}: You can set the 16:9 mode only in camera mode. It searched focus a lot and did not do very well with color and was very grainy but again - I did not expect much. Also there is a 16x9 record mode (by default) but (after some discussion):.
I was expecting to have a lot of trouble and looking around for drivers, but it worked the first time without a hitch. Only stumbling block is I had to run Kino as root to get it to talk to the Camera, but that was like 3 minutes on google searching for help and a small leap of faith. Note, Tapes are best for archival. My Olympus doesn't permit me to zoom while recording Audio (don't ask me why, Olympus is probably trying to protect their camcorder line from their digital camera line, Olympus even reduced the audio quality to 8Khz with 8-bit sound, which really sucks). Rewriteable tapes, zero quality loss between uses, it seems. Also Blender was the program used to make the animation "Big Buck Bunny", a completely open sourced movie that utilizes blender. Button to toggle extra on-screen details, record button accessible on LCD screen and on back of camcorder, accessible by thumb.
The video is interlaced, so I have to find a way to merge the fields into 30fps full frame non-interlaced somehow. I'm covering this camcorder in more detail on youtube with user "rofthorax", that's my account. I've been able to dump hour long videos onto youtube using compressed OGG files ("oggconvert"), so now with this DV camera, I can do quality 16-bit audio with full-res NTSC video, not HD, but what do you expect to get for 180 dollars. control the DV cam via firewire with Kino, fast forward, rewind, step reverse/forward, shuttle controls, stop, pause, etc. 3.
The Camcorder, has two modes, record and play. Can be used without battery. off, menu button on top left, always accessible, video effects modes like "art (polarization), mirror, mosaic, sepia, negative", pre-set color balance and the typical white balance mode. Purchased a Firewire cable from Radio Shack, and have had a flawless integration between this camcorder and Ubuntu Linux (Free OS) Kino video editor(FreeVideo Capture and Editor utility, comparable to Movie Maker on XP). Anyhow, I've been able to do quality video work using Kino to captrue video from the SC-D382 and using blender to edit and render it to a format I can upload to youtube.
Besides on Windows you could waste more time in other ways. 12-bit and 16-bit audio modes, mono and stereo audio (not sure if the mic is a stereo mic). 4. I switched to Ubuntu, and have be desperate for video editing capabilities for months, and have finally found a work flow for doing it. White LED fore-lite, for lighting a night recording.
The draw back to tapes is ease of access, its linear, and to transfer to the computer requires a re-recording. But you could easily waste that much time performing a video render from a non-linear video editor like Adobe Premiere on Windows or Kino/Blender on Ubuntu. finding the software is the big toughy. When stuff is supported on linux, it works flawlessly and without compromise, but. Even when I'm playing videos I've captured to the computer, on the computer, the video playback is shown on the DV Camera's LCD screen (not quite as flawless, a bit of skip, but not bad considering I wasn't expecting this kind of integration). Comes with AC Adapter, L-ion battery is charged when not in use. The Firewire was plug-and-play.
Twice the storage of a dual layer mini-dvd, and about the same size. Hard Disks can crash and DVD's are easily ruined. DVD's are easily destroyed, tapes have greater surface area and greater longevity than DVD's (which have been said to have a 5 to 20 year lifespan, depending on the manufacturer). The camera permits you to change white balance and perform some effects in record mode.
Linux has plenty of file systems, JFS and XFS are ones that are commonly used for video work. I've only had it for five days, but in this time I've connected via Firewire to my PC with an old Firewire IEEE 1394 card that had been collecting dust for almost a decade. As for the Camcorder, the only problem I have is the joystick on the LCD preview screen is a bit tough to operate, but you should be able to figure-out the camera without a manual. Blender's sequence editor is capable of processing DV directly, and the sequence editor plugins are written in C, easily compileable with GCC in Ubuntu. You think you are that busy. Best to get Tape based camcorder than DVD or Hard Disk. I can't tell you how exciting that is.
Especially to do it on Ubuntu, I've been boycotting Microsoft products after having problems with a laptop that prevented me from obtaining drivers for XP. capture video to DV on the computer via firewire at ~3MB/sec, good enough for video editing. You have stop recording to switch Digital Image Stabilization mode off and on. Downsampling interlaced video produces larger files than downsampling non-interlaced video. Can use Samsung SC-D382 camera to record video to the computer's hard drive via firewire, by-passing the tape. I've not missed windows one bit, switching to Ubuntu. What's one more hour.
1. An hour of video from this camcorder produces about 10GB file, so if you are on XP, make sure you have a NTFS drive to store to, FAT32 can't use files larger than 4GB. And I'm sooooo glad I went with this. Zoom exceeds my 10x zoom Olympus SP-510UZ, and permits me to zoom and auto-focus and do all the things a video camera should, while recording. 2. So if you are one, best use the manual.
It's easily turned on and. I'm using EXT3 currently, because I'm working in "/var/tmp". I was up and working with this one in 5 minutes. Zoom is controllable by LCD flip-out pivotable screen and standard toggle on the top of the camera. I was thinking about getting the 18x Optical Zoom version of my digital camera, and was torn between getting that for 260 dollars, anbd getting a DV Camera.
Can be used as a camera for recording to computer, via firewire, without a tape (or battery). Plug behind battery looks like an HDMI plug, but not sure. Some of the things I can do with this camera and Kino:. Besides HD is a resource hog, and NTSC is sufficient for downsampling to Youtube. Button on top permits you to take pictures. Samsung SC-D382 -> Kino -> Blender.
Your battery will last about 30 minutes if you use the LED Light. I haven't experienced any dropped frames. The Manual looks like it was made for an Idiot. Tapes carry about an hour. I purchased this for about 179 dollars from Sams Club, and have had nothing but fun with it ever since. If you don't, the battery will for an hour.
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