http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/samsungs-280-sc-mx20-camcorder-is-youtube-friendly/ Engadget Comments for Samsung's $280 SC-MX20 camcorder is YouTube-friendly http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/samsungs-280-sc-mx20-camcorder-is-youtube-friendly/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/samsungs-280-sc-mx20-camcorder-is-youtube-friendly/Jul 9th 2008 11:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/samsungs-280-sc-mx20-camcorder-is-youtube-friendly/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/samsungs-280-sc-mx20-camcorder-is-youtube-friendly/Jul 9th 2008 3:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/samsungs-280-sc-mx20-camcorder-is-youtube-friendly/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/samsungs-280-sc-mx20-camcorder-is-youtube-friendly/Jul 9th 2008 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/samsungs-280-sc-mx20-camcorder-is-youtube-friendly/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/samsungs-280-sc-mx20-camcorder-is-youtube-friendly/Jul 9th 2008 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/samsungs-280-sc-mx20-camcorder-is-youtube-friendly/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/samsungs-280-sc-mx20-camcorder-is-youtube-friendly/Jul 9th 2008 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/samsungs-280-sc-mx20-camcorder-is-youtube-friendly/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/samsungs-280-sc-mx20-camcorder-is-youtube-friendly/Jul 9th 2008 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/samsungs-280-sc-mx20-camcorder-is-youtube-friendly/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/samsungs-280-sc-mx20-camcorder-is-youtube-friendly/
Truly I can't see why people use camcorders other than for zoom. My Nokias work just fine & look far better than any home movie I've seen of my own family (16mm) & that looks good enough to me.

These are big (relative), clunky & don't generally take photos well so you end up w/ two things.

Convergence is great- sometimes a subject requires a video, a photo or both.]]>Jul 9th 2008 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/samsungs-280-sc-mx20-camcorder-is-youtube-friendly/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/samsungs-280-sc-mx20-camcorder-is-youtube-friendly/Jul 9th 2008 2:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/samsungs-280-sc-mx20-camcorder-is-youtube-friendly/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/samsungs-280-sc-mx20-camcorder-is-youtube-friendly/Jul 9th 2008 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/samsungs-280-sc-mx20-camcorder-is-youtube-friendly/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/samsungs-280-sc-mx20-camcorder-is-youtube-friendly/Jul 9th 2008 3:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/samsungs-280-sc-mx20-camcorder-is-youtube-friendly/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/samsungs-280-sc-mx20-camcorder-is-youtube-friendly/Jul 9th 2008 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/samsungs-280-sc-mx20-camcorder-is-youtube-friendly/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/samsungs-280-sc-mx20-camcorder-is-youtube-friendly/
Also, 34x zoom isn't that impressive in a camcorder. Loads of sony's budget models have 40x optical, and over 25x isn't exactly rare. They only help people ruin their home movies with excessive shaky zoomed in footage. Over about 10x with no tripod or image stabilising is just asking for a headache.]]>Jul 9th 2008 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/samsungs-280-sc-mx20-camcorder-is-youtube-friendly/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/samsungs-280-sc-mx20-camcorder-is-youtube-friendly/Jul 9th 2008 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/samsungs-280-sc-mx20-camcorder-is-youtube-friendly/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/samsungs-280-sc-mx20-camcorder-is-youtube-friendly/The mx-20 recorded 1080p/30 and 480p/60 in a .mp4 'wrapper'
and it couldn't have gotten any easier on a 2.2 MacBook with 4gb of RAM
the files played natively in OSX (Finder / Preview / Quick Look / QuickTime) and to best of my knowledge, iMovie did not do any "transcoding" or conversion of the file - it just takes some time for it to generate thumbnails
we shot a good bit of footage using the 480 resolution for general shooting and switched to 1080p for the good stuff ..... and on a PC or some smaller (42") the 480p stuff works just fine
hell, it even looked pretty good while viewing the files directly of the card via PS3 on a 60" projection

the choice is this :
do you want a camera that produces jaw-dropping images that you may never see because they're such a pain to work with the files
or
be able to shoot DVD quality stuff to increasingly cheaper SDHC cards, that you don't have to do anything with prior to broadcasting them on YouTube / Vimeo ?

if this thing is anywhere near as easy as the hmx-20, then this thing should be a blast
compatible OSX file formats FTW !]]>Jul 9th 2008 8:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/samsungs-280-sc-mx20-camcorder-is-youtube-friendly/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/samsungs-280-sc-mx20-camcorder-is-youtube-friendly/I meant sc-Hmx20]]>Jul 9th 2008 11:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/samsungs-280-sc-mx20-camcorder-is-youtube-friendly/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/samsungs-280-sc-mx20-camcorder-is-youtube-friendly/Jul 11th 2008 8:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/samsungs-280-sc-mx20-camcorder-is-youtube-friendly/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/samsungs-280-sc-mx20-camcorder-is-youtube-friendly/MX20 is affordable price and supporting H.264 format.
I saw it's 34x optical zoom test in youtube and it looks very well.
I think it's suitable for shooting home video.]]>Jul 12th 2008 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/samsungs-280-sc-mx20-camcorder-is-youtube-friendly/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/09/samsungs-280-sc-mx20-camcorder-is-youtube-friendly/
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