Vivitar DVR 830XHD - Manual

4  Vivitar Experience Image Manager software for uploading and managing photos and videos to or from the most popular photo sharing and social network websites.  Use as a PC Camera for Web conferencing and instant messaging What your Digital Video Camcorder includes  Digital Video Camcorder  USB...

5 Maintenance and Precautions Before using the camcorder, please ensure that you read and understand the maintenance and safety precautions described below.  Do not try to open the case of the camcorder or attempt to modify this camcorder in any way. Maintenance and repairs should be carried out on...

7  Support for Super VGA graphics  Available USB Interface  CD-ROM drive  QuickTime 6 or higher  Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or higher  Internet connection required Computer System Requirements for Macintosh  Macintosh with Intel processor running Mac OS X v10.4.6 or later  256 MB RAM, 100...

8 A Quick Look at your Digital Video Camcorder 1: Zoom switch 2: Capture /voice record button 3: Power button 4: Power LED 5: Video record button 6: Charging LED 7: Mode dial 8: AV out jack 9: Earphone jack 10: DC in jack 11: USB Jack 12: HDMI jack 13: Display button 14: Speaker 15: LCD screen 16: M...

9 23: Battery cover 24: Tripod socket Preparing Your Camera for Use Battery Installation Your DVR camcorder requires a Lithium-ion rechargeable battery (included in the packaging). You need to insert the battery into the camera and charge the battery for at least 8 hours first before using the camer...

11  An SD Memory card is required to expand the memory capacity and take many more images before having to download them to the computer to free up memory. All the media in the built-in memory will be not lost if no SD Memory Card has been inserted in the DVR when the camera powers off or you charg...

14 10. Push the OK joystick button Right/Left button to highlight and select each of the different Date / Time options you desire. Year , Month , Day , Hour , Minutes and Seconds 11. Push the OK joystick button Up or Down to change and set the digit settings for each. 12. Press the OK button when yo...

16 7. Close the battery cover. Note : After you insert an SD memory card, the SD card icon will appear on the bottom left corner of the LCD screen, indicating that your SD memory card has been installed successfully. The media you capture will now be stored on the card and not in the limited interna...

17 3. Push the OK joystick button to the Right to select the SETUP mode menu. 4. Push the OK joystick button Up or Down to select and highlight the Format option. 5. Push the OK joystick button to the Right to open the Format submenu. 6. Push the OK joystick button Up or Down to select either “YES” ...

18 Alternatively, press the Power button to turn your DVR camera off. The DVR camera will switch off. To save battery power, the LCD monitor automatically turns off 30 seconds after the last control is accessed (factory-preset setting). Press any button other than the power button to turn on the LCD...

20 Taking Still Photos To enter the Camera Capture mode turn the mode dial to line the camera mode picture with the red dot. The camera icon will now appear on the top left corner of the LCD screen. Important: The camera`s internal memory is limited to 64MB. Insert a compatible SD card of up to 8GB ...

21 resolution. 7. When the camera`s internal memory is full, “Memory Full” will appear on the LCD screen when you attempt to press the Shutter button to take a photo. Either download the photos to your computer using the Vivitar Experience Image Manager software as described below in the section “ T...

22 For more information on how to use the Playback mode to view and delete images see the Playback mode section of this manual. Flash The flash feature only operates in Camera mode and if there is enough battery power. 1. Press the Flash button on the bottom Left of the LCD Panel to activate the fla...

23 3. If the flash is on, when the image is captured and the flash activated the screen will remain blank while the flash recharges. The next image can only be taken once the flash has recharged. 4. Using the Flash in bright light environments will cause the image to come out with the incorrect expo...

24 Camera Mode Functions In Camera mode, press the Menu button on the top left of the LCD Panel. The LCD will display 2 mode tabs – IMAGE and SETUP. By default the IMAGE tab will open with the menu options for that tab appearing:

25 Resolution, Quality, White Balance, Color Effect, Exposure, Date Stamp, Self Timer, and Burst Snapshot Resolution You can select different Photo resolutions. Using the smaller resolution allows you to take more photos. Photos captured at higher resolution are of better quality but take up more me...

26 3. Push the OK joystick button Up or Down to highlight and select the Resolution option you desire. 4. Press the OK button to confirm and save your choice. 5. Press the Menu button to exit the menu and revert back to the Camera capture mode. 6. The icon for the resolution choice appears beneath t...

27 3. Push the OK joystick button Up/Down to highlight and select the Quality option you desire. 4. Press the OK button to confirm and save your choice. 5. Press the Menu button to exit the menu and revert back to the Camera capture mode. 6. The icon for the quality choice appears with three, two or...

28 2. Push the OK joystick button Right for the 5 White Balance options submenu to appear: Auto, Day Light, Tungsten, Fluorescent, and Cloudy The background of the submenu changes automatically on screen to show the effect when choosing one of the options 3. Push the OK joystick button Up/Down to hi...

29 2. Push the OK joystick button Right for the 3 Color Effect options submenu to appear: Color, Sepia and Monochrome The background of the submenu changes automatically on screen to show the effect when choosing one of the options 3. Push the OK joystick button Up/Down to highlight and select the C...

30 1. Push the OK joystick button Up/Down to select the Exposure mode. 2. Push the OK joystick button Right for the Exposure option submenu arrows to appear (-2.0 to +2.0): -2.0, -1.5, -1.0, -0.5, Auto, +0.5, +1.0, +1.5, +2.0 3. Push the OK joystick button Up/Down to select the Exposure setting you ...

31 2. Push the OK joystick button Right for the Date Stamp options submenu to appear: On, Off 3. Push the OK joystick button Up/Down to highlight and select the Date Stamp option you desire. 4. Press the OK button to confirm and save your choice. 5. Press the Menu button to exit the menu and revert ...

32 2. Push the OK joystick button Right for the Self Timer options submenu to appear: Disable, 10SEC, 20SEC 3. Push the OK joystick button Up/Down to highlight and select the Self Timer option you desire. 4. Press the OK button to confirm and save your choice. 5. Press the Menu button to exit the me...

33 1. In the Camera capture mode, push the OK joystick button Left . 2. The Self-Timer icon will appear on the right of the LCD below the battery icon. 3. Push the OK joystick button Left until you see the Self-Timer option you wish to use appear: 10 Sec, 20 Sec 4. Press the Camera Capture button. 5...

34 3. Push the OK joystick button Up/Down to highlight and select the Burst Snapshot option you desire. 4. Press the OK button to confirm and save your choice. 5. Press the Menu button to exit the menu and revert back to the Camera capture mode. 6. If Burst is enabled, the icon for the Burst Snapsho...

36 Note: If you wish to exit this erase mode now, press the Menu button. 13. Press the OK button. 14. An Erase confirmation message appears - “Yes” to erase and “No” to exit without erasing. 15. Push the OK joystick button Right/Left to highlight and choose Yes or No. 16. Press the OK button. 17. If...

38 3. Once they are downloaded to the PC view them using QuickTime and Windows Media Player. 4. Please insert an SD memory card of up to 8 GB to expand the memory capacity of the camera. 5. When the internal memory is full, a “Memory Full” message will flash on the LCD screen when you attempt to sho...

39 In Video mode, the Menu button on the top left of the LCD Panel. The LCD will display 2 mode tabs – VIDEO and SETUP. By default the Video tab will open with the menu options appearing: Resolution, Frame Rate, White Balance and Audio Resolution This setting allows you to control the size of your i...

40 3. Push the OK joystick button Up/Down to highlight and select the Resolution option you desire. 4. Press the OK button to confirm and save your choice. 5. Press the Menu button to exit the menu and revert back to the Video capture mode. 6. The icon for the Resolution choice appears beneath the v...

42 5. Press the Menu button to exit the menu and revert back to the Video capture mode. 6. The icon for the White Balance choice appears on the left side of the LCD. Audio You can set the video to be recorded with audio sound or without. 1. Push the OK joystick button Up/Down to select the Audio mod...

43 6. The icon for the Audio choice appears on the left side of the LCD. If no icon appears this is an indication that the video will be recorded without audio Audio Mode Your camera has limited internal memory of a few minutes to record test audio WAV files. An SD card of up to 8GB should to be ins...

44 Playback Mode Turn the mode dial so that the Playback picture is in line with the red dot on the camera in order to playback the media captured with your camera. The playback screen will appear. You can preview photos and playback the videos and audio files on the memory card captured with your c...

48  An Erase confirmation message appears - “Yes” to erase and “No” to exit to the thumbnail screen without erasing.  Push the OK joystick button Left/Right to choose Yes or No.  Press the OK button.  If you selected “Yes”, the image(s) is deleted. Note : If there are no images in your memory th...

49 By default the Play tab will open with the menu options appearing: Delete Current, Delete All, Lock, Thumbnail, Rotate and Slideshow Delete Current This mode is used to delete the selected file. 1. Select a file in the Playback mode. 2. Push the OK joystick button Up/Down and select the Delete Cu...

50 4. Push the OK joystick button Up/Down to highlight and select the Delete Current option you desire. 5. Press the OK button to confirm. 6. If you choose Yes, the selected file is now deleted. Important: The file is deleted without a confirmation message. Please use this feature with caution as de...

51 3. Push the OK joystick button Up/Down to highlight and select the Delete All option you desire. 4. Press the OK button to confirm. 5. If you choose Yes, all the unlocked files are now deleted. Important: The files are deleted without a confirmation message. Please use this feature with caution a...

52 4. Push the OK joystick button Right for the 4 Lock options submenu to appear: Lock Current, Unlock Current, Lock All, Unlock All 5. Push the OK joystick button Up/Down to highlight and select the Lock option you desire. 6. Press the OK button to confirm and save your choice. 7. Press the Menu bu...

53 2. Push the OK joystick button Right for the Thumbnail matrix options submenu to appear 2X2, 3X3 3. Push the OK joystick button Up/Down to highlight and select the Thumbnail option you desire. 4. Press the OK button to confirm and save your choice. 5. The Thumbnail screen appears with the new mat...

54 2. Push the OK joystick button Right for the Rotate options submenu to appear: 90 , 180 , 270 3. Push the OK joystick button Up/Down to highlight and select the Rotate option you desire. 4. Press the OK button to confirm, rotate the photo you chose and return to the Playback mode. 5. The selected...

55 2. Push the OK joystick button Right for the first Slideshow options submenu to appear. On , SetUp 3. Push the OK joystick button Up/Down to highlight and select the Slideshow option you desire. 4. If you select On, and press the OK button the slideshow will begin the run. 5. To enter the Slidesh...

57 Setup Mode You can change the Setup options of your camera from the Camera, Video or Playback modes. 1. Turn the camera on and turn the dial mode to any one of the Camera, Video or Playback modes 2. In any one of the modes, press the Menu button. 3. The LCD will appear with 2 tabs at the top of t...

58 Language, Auto Off, TV Output , Frequency, Date/Time , Buzzer , Format , Default Settings , USB Mode and Firmware Version Language Select the camera`s operational language 1. Push the OK joystick button Up/Down to select the Language option. 2. Push the OK joystick button Right for the 8 Language...

59 Auto Off Select the time for the camera to automatically switch off if inactive. This helps to conserve the life of the battery. 1. Push the OK joystick button Up/Down to select the Auto Off mode. 2. Push the OK joystick button Right for the Auto Power Off options submenu to appear: Disabled , 1m...

62 2. Push the OK joystick button Right for the Date / Time options submenu to appear: Date Format, Date Setup 3. Select the Date Format option and press the push the OK joystick button Right to open the Date Format submenu: DD/MM/YY , MM/DD/YY , YY/MM/DD 4. Push the OK joystick button Up/Down to se...

63 Year , Month , Day , Hour , Minutes and Seconds 8. Press the OK button on the last setting to save all the settings and press the Menu button to exit. Buzzer Select if there will be a buzzer sound emitted when buttons are pressed or whether no sound will be emitted. 1. Push the OK joystick button...

64 Format Formatting the internal memory of the camera or of the SD Memory card if there is one inserted. All the saved data files sitting in the memory will be wiped off. Important: Please download all data before using this feature. 1. Push the OK joystick button Up/Down to select the Format mode....

65 Reset the camera to the original factory setting 1. Push the OK joystick button Up/Down to select the Default mode. 2. Push the OK joystick button Right button for the Default options submenu to appear: Yes , No. 3. Push the OK joystick button Up/Down to highlight and select the Default option yo...

66 1. Push the OK joystick button Up/Down to select the appropriate USB mode. 2. Push the OK joystick button Right for the USB Mode options to appear: Mass Storage , PC Camera. 3. Push the OK joystick button Up/Down to highlight and select the USB Mode option you desire. Note: If you desire the othe...

67 1. Push the OK joystick button Up/Down to select the Firmware Version mode. 2. Push the OK joystick button Right for the Firmware version details to appear. 3. Press the OK button to revert back to the Setup menu. 4. Press the Menu button to exit. Connecting the Camcorder to a TV or HDTV You can ...

68 2. Turn on the TV and the camcorder, and then s et the TV to “AV” mode. 3. Make sure the camera is set to the correct TV Output setting (NTSC or PAL) for the type of TV you are using. 4. When the camcorder is set to record mode, you can preview the subjects you want to record on the TV screen. 5....

69 HDTV. Press it again to stop playing. 6. Press the OK button to “Pause”, and press it again to continue playing. 7. Push the OK joystick button Left to fast rewind or Right to fast forward the video clip selected. 8. Push the OK joystick button Up or Down to adjust the volume. Install the Vivitar...

71 camera. Click the “How to transfer photos and videos from my camera to my computer” button for instructions. 5. If you have internet access, the “Choose your language” window opens, choose your language and click “Next” to open the next window. 6. Select your camera model from the list and click ...

72 On PC: Click the “I Agree” button to continue. On Macintosh: Click the “I accept the terms of this license agreement” and then click “Next” to continue. 10. On PC onl y: Let the “Vivitar Experience Image Manager” installer create the folder to where the program will be installed, and then click “...

73 Connect your camera to the computer 1. Use the USB cable that came with your camera to connect your camera to your computer. 2. Turn the camera on. 3. The first time you connect the device to the computer you will have to wait a few seconds until the computer recognizes the device. 4. As your cam...

75 5. Select a location on the computer where to place the new photo and video files. 6. Add the new photo and video files to albums if desired. 7. Select to remove the media files from the selected device (removable disk) after the import. 8. Click the “Get media” button to transfer the photos and ...

78 Using your device as a PC Camera (on Windows only) 1. Power on the camera. 2. Connect the camera to the PC with the USB cable provided in the package. 3. Press the OK button to select “PC Camera” if it is not set as the default USB setting. Note: The first time you connect the camera to the PC wi...

79 Sakar Warranty Card This warranty covers for the original consumer purchaser only and is not transferable. Products that fail to function properly UNDER NORMAL USAGE , due to defects in material or workmanship. Your product will be repaired at no charge for parts or labor for a period of one year...

80 TECHNICAL SUPPORT For technical support issues please visit our website at www.vivitar.com. You can find manuals, software and FAQ’s at the website. Can’t find what you are looking for? E-mail us at [email protected] and one of our technical support team members will answer your questions. For ...

82 Trouble Shooting Power does not turn on. 1. Battery does not have sufficient power to power on. ★ Recharge the battery. The camcorder does not take pictures. 1. The Memory is full. ★ Insert a new memory card. 2. The Memory card is not formatted correctly. ★ Format the memory card again or use a n...

83 1. The camcorder was turned off before the files are saved in memory. ★ If the battery low indicator appears on the LCD monitor, recharge the battery immediately. Q: I have taken photos and selected the “Get Images” button. I get a message that the images were successfully transferred but the pho...