Recording Features
Playback Features
Battery Information
Connections
Software and Computer Information

Recording Features

2.7" High-Resolution LCD: The Samsung SC-MX20 digital memory camcorder features 2.7", high-resolution (112K pixels) LCD 16:9 (wide-screen) monitor that rotates up to 270-degrees for bright and clear monitoring. You can adjust the color and brightness of the LCD monitor for daylight or nighttime viewing.

Note: This digital memory camcorder does not feature a separate viewfinder.

Swivel Handle: The Samsung SC-MX20 features a swivel handgrip which allows you to adjust the swivel handle's angle up to 180-degrees to suit your recording situation.

Image Sensor: The Samsung SC-MX20 digital memory camcorder is equipped with a 1/6" CCD image sensor which offers a total pixel count of 680,000 and an effective pixel count of 460,000.

Digital Media: The Samsung SC-MX20 offers video recording on an inserted SD (512MB-2GB), SDHC (4GB-16GB), or MMCplus (512MB-16GB) memory card.

Recording Format: The Samsung digital memory camcorder records standard definition video in H.264. H.264 uses a high compression rate to sharply increase the recordable time with the same size storage.

Recording Modes: The Samsung SC-MX20 records MPEG-2 video to an inserted SD/SDHC/MMCplus memory card. Video can be recorded in 720 x 480 with a 16:9 or 4:3 aspect ratio using one of three quality settings, or 640 x 480 with a 4:3 aspect ratio. The SC-MX20 offers the following recording times using a 16GB SDHC card. 

Note: The maximum size of a movie (H.264) file that can be recorded at one time is 1.8GB. You can store up to 9,999 movie images on one memory card using this camcorder.

Schneider Kreuznach Lens: The Samsung digital memory camcorder uses a high performance Schneider Kreuznach Lens, with extremely low distortion and astigmatic aberration tolerances, resulting in natural, accurate video. The powerful 34x optical zoom lets you get closer to the action with a bright F1.6 lens that lets more light through to the image sensor. The minimum possible distanced between the camcorder and your subject while maintaining a sharp focus is approximately 0.39" for wide angle and 39.4" for telephoto.

Digital Zoom: In addition to the camcorder's 34x optical zoom lens, the SC-MX20 offers a 1200x digital zoom for extreme close-ups.

Hyper Digital Image Stabilizer: The Hyper Digital Image Stabilizer eliminates the effects of shakes to ensure extremely sharp pictures even when zooming in for close-ups.

Focus: The digital memory camcorder usually focuses on a subject automatically, but you can also manually focus a subject depending on the recording conditions.

Face Detection AF: The Samsung digital memory camcorder detects a subject's face and automatically adjust the brightness and image quality, so faces are recorded more vividly.

Recording Modes: The Samsung SC-MX20 offers various video record modes to choose from to fit your application and comfort level.

• Easy Q Mode: The Easy Q mode is designed for beginners. With the Easy Q function, most of the digital memory camcorder settings are automatically adjusted, which relieves you of detailed adjustments.
• Auto: The digital memory camcorder will automatically set the shutter speed and aperture according to the subject brightness for optimum recording.
• iScene: You can specify on of 8 scene modes depending on conditions, recording environment, or purpose of filming.
  • Sports: for recording people or objects moving quickly
  • Portrait: creates a shallow depth of field so that the person or subject appears against a softened background
  • Spotlight: prevents overexposure of a subject's face when strong light strikes the subject
  • Beach: when recording seaside or lakeside scenes, the blue water is clearly recorded
  • Snow: when recording a snowy scene that makes the screen all white, this setting prevents sunken colors and records images clearly
  • High Speed: reduces blurring when recording rapidly moving subjects
  • Food: records the color of subjects clearly by increasing saturation
  • Waterfall: recording a splashing waterfall or fountain
• Manual: Necessary settings for shooting are automatically adjusted, but you can manually adjust the exposure and shutter speed.

Exposure: The Samsung digital memory camcorder usually adjust the exposure automatically. You can also manually adjust the exposure depending on the recording conditions.

Backlight: When the subject is lit from behind, this function will compensate for lighting so that the subject is not too dark.

White Balance: You can adjust the color balance to the brightness of the recording environment. You can choose from the following.

• Auto: The camcorder controls the white balance automatically.
• Daylight: This controls the white balance according to the outdoor ambience, especially when the subject is of one dominant color.
• Cloudy: This option is used when you make a recording in cloudy weather
• Fluorescent: This option is used when you make a recording under white fluorescent lights.
• Tungsten: This option is for when there is less than 3200K of tungsten light being used.
• Custom WB: You can manually adjust the white balance to match the light source or situation.

Digital Effect: The Digital Effect modes enable you to give a creative look to your video recordings. You can choose from the following.

• B&W: This mode changes the images to black and white.
• Sepia: This mode gives the images a reddish brown pigment.
• Negative: This mode reverses the colors, creating a negative image.
• Art: This mode gives the image a coarse effect.
• Emboss: This mode creates a 3D effect (embossing).
• Mosaic: This mode give the image a mosaic effect.
• Mirror: This mode cuts the picture in half, using a mirror effect.
• Pastel: This mode applies a pale pastel drawing effect to an image.
• Cosmetic: This mode helps adjust for facial imperfections.
• Stepprinting: Technique of recording the image in segments.

C. Nite: You can make the subject recorded appear to be in slow-motion by controlling the shutter-speed, or brighten an image in dark places without a compromise in colors.

Time Lapse: During this feature, images are automatically shot with an adjustable interval between frames, and stored on an inserted SD/SDHC or MMCplus memory card. You can adjust the interval between each frame to 1, 3, 5, 10, 15, or 30 seconds.

Guidelines: Guideline displays a certain pattern on the camcorder's LCD screen so that you can easily set the image composition when recording images. You can choose from the following guidelines.

• Cross: Enables you to center the subject for proper recording.
• Grid: Enables you to place the subject in the center square for proper positioning.
• Safety Zone: Enables you to place the subject within a safety zone which prevents it being cut when editing in 4:3 for left and right and 2.35:1 for top and bottom.
• Off: Disables the function.

Wind-Cut: This feature allows you to reduce wind noise when recording sound from the camcorder's built-in microphone.

Clock (Visit): You can easily set the camcorder's internal clock to the local time zone when traveling. The clock can be set to a 12 hr or 24 hr format.

Playback Features

Playback Functions: The SC-MX20 allows you to playback your recorded videos on the camcorder's LCD monitor. The digital memory camcorder offers playback functions such as Play/Pause/Stop, Fast-Forward/Reverse (2x, 4x, 8x, 16x), Previous/Next, Frame-by-Frame, and Forward Slow-Playback (1/2x).

Fader: You can give your video recordings a professional look by using special effects such as fade-in at the beginning of a sequence or fade-out at the end of a sequence.

Delete: You can delete saved movie or photo images from the inserted memory card.

Protect: You can protect important movie and photo images on the inserted memory card from accidental erasure.

Battery Information

Rechargeable Battery: The Samsung SC-MX20 operates off of a proprietary rechargeable Lithium-Ion battery (IA-BP85ST). Taking advantage of advanced power consumption technology, The SC-MX20's rechargeable battery can provide up to 180 minutes of video recording and 300 minutes of video playback.

AC Adapter/Charger: The Samsung SC-MX20 comes supplied with an AC adapter/charger which allows you to operate the digital memory camcorder off of standard household current and also charges the included battery in 120 minutes.

Auto Power: For power saving purposes, the digital memory camcorder will automatically turn off it there is no operation for 5 minutes when in Standby mode or in thumbnail index view.

Connections

USB Port: The Samsung SC-MX20 features a mini-USB type-B port so you can view your recordings on a computer using the supplied USB cable.

AV Output: You can view the recorded video and photo images from the Samsung SC-MX20 on your television by connecting the supplied composite A/V cable between the digital memory camcorder and your TV. You can set the camcorder's video output to 16:9 or 4:3.

Note: This unit only supports NTSC playback; not compatible with PAL.

Software and Computer Information

CyberLink MediaShow4: The Samsung SC-MX20 comes supplied with a CD-ROM which contains CyberLink MediaShow4 software. CyberLink MediaShow4 is a software for easy editing of MPEG, AVI, and other video files. When you install the CyberLink MediaShow4 software on your Windows computer, you can enjoy the following operations by connecting your camcorder to your computer via the included USB cable.

• Viewing video on your computer
  • easy import from the connected camcorder
  • fun file-management with MediaShow's 3D fluid interface
• Direct upload to YouTube (if you are a Mac user, you can  upload your content to YouTube using iMovie)

System Requirements: You computer must meet the following system requirement to the included software.