Content Before you start - a quick tour Rename Album Rename Pictures Add Comments GigaVu overview Manage keywords Add Keywords to pictures Edit Keywords Hardware Album to Bin What’s in the box Music Charging the battery Rubber protection cover Playing movies Joystick Copy music to CF Screen, touchpanel and pen...
Before you start - a quick tour 4 - way joystick to navigate in screen menus and thumbnail views Press this button to select an item ('Enter' function) Memory card slot Audio / Video out On / Off switch Audio out only Home brings you back to the main menu...
Initial units will not have these features operational, but - WiFi interface card they will be available via future firmware upgrade (www. - Card adapter for MS,xD,SDSM,MMC,MSPro jobo.com). Both touchpanel and stylus are included for future use after upgrades Charging the battery USB connectors GigaVu Pro features a high quality Lithium-Ion Polymer rechargeable battery.
User interface concepts Albums GigaVu works with ‘Albums’. You can have Photo Albums, Movie Albums and Music Albums. Anytime you copy Home - Back - Settings content from a memory card to the hard disk, GigaVu will create a new Album. You can rename and delete albums Home button brings you back to the GigaVU starting but you can not move content from one album to another.
Softkey 4 Browse:Toggle the softkey functions for fast the joystick left-right to change the cursor position. browsing Press Softkey 4 – Del to remove the character at the Softkey 5 Done :Store selection and leave cursor position Press Softkey 5 – Save to enter the typed text.
Done At the moment of introduction GigaVu supports MPEG, MPG and AVI files. Software upgrades will be available from the Jobo web site. GigaVU will create a new ‘Movie Full Memory Card Backup Album’ for each download. In this mode GigaVu will make a one-to-one copy of the Caution : Movie files that do not have one of these...
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copy commands explained above. Settings After selecting a copy mode, this screen will pop up. Note that the Settings LED in on. Pressing the Press Softkey 3 - Select for selecting pictures. Settings button will allow you to define the ‘Copy Press Softkey 5 - Start to copy from memory card to hard Action’...
Do not use the GigaVu as the sole archive of your photos, movies and music files. In case of hard disk failure Jobo can not be held liable for loss of data.
Photos Some remarks about RAW Softkey 4 : Print - Go to ‘Print’ screen Softkey 5 : Manage - Go to ‘Photo Albums Manage’ files screen Photo Albums - Select an Album Cameras can store photos in different file formats. Most use JPEG compression to decrease the file size.
Photo Albums - Info ‘Greece’ Albums Info View Print Manage Zoom Info Chann Levels Edit ToBin Funct. View ������ Pressing Softkey 3 - View button will bring you to this selection screen. Settings Photo - View album ‘Greece’ There are a few options available when viewing pictures. Overlay In the upper left corner of the screen some text can be View Pictures...
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Settings Zoom 200 % Pressing the Settings button will allow you to tailor the zoom function. Default Zoom allows you to change the default zooming percentage Raw files: Zooming is also possible when viewing RAW files. GigaVu offers two ways of zooming in RAW files:Use JPEG Preview or Use Raw Data To understand the difference between these two modes you need some insight in how RAW files are structured.
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Softkeys 1 to 4 allow you to view different sets of EXIF Olympus, Pentax,Sigma, and Sony. Please consult data related to file, camera and exposure www.jobo.com for details. You can either press the joystick (enter) or the ‘Back” button to leave the EXIF mode and go back to standard Option 2: Use Raw Data picture viewing.
Channels Levels Green Green Blue B&W Green Blue Softkey 5 : Edit -Toggle Softkey functionality B&W Settings Softkey 1 : Rotate picture counterclockwise Softkey 2 : Rotate picture clockwise Conversion Channel Mix Softkey 3 : Softkey 4 : Remove the current selected picture from the album and put it in the recycle bin.
Softkey 3 : Select - Select the picture of the even surface and press Selecting this option will display the thumbnails of the Softkey 5 – Check album, but with a twist. Each Thumb has a small white rectangle in its upper left corner. The device will indicate the position of dust particles on the screen and it gives you feedback about the success of a cleaning attempt.
Print photos manipulated with photo editing software. Some printers may print them while other printers will generate GigaVu can print your JPEG pictures directly to any an error message. Please keep in mind that that in all PictBridge compatible printer. Press Print : the following cases GigavU is just sending the files to the printer and screen will appear has no control over the decoding.
Rename Album Add Comment - Album ‘Greece’ Allows you to give a new name to an album. This can be 0 / 340 pictures selected adding comments convenient if you do not want to use the automatically generated names. Image Descr Comment Rename Pictures Copyright...
Add Keywords - Album ‘Greece’ 112 / 112 pictures selected for adding keywords You can add keywords to JPEG files only Category Places Keywords Paris Queue San Francisco, Dad Cancel Select Queue First select the pictures,Press Softkey 5 to continue. In the second part of the process, use the joystick to select categories and keywords.
Music Playing movies Softkey 5 - Stop or the joystick to stop MP3 playback. Use the joystick up-down to select previous or next song. When selecting “Music” by pressing Softkey2 in the Home Use the joystick left-right to skip back and forth in the menu, a list of albums will appear.
Movies Playing movies skipped by moving the joystick left (back) or right (forward) Up / Down :Select the amount of time that will be When selecting “Movies” by pressing Softkey 3 in the skipped by moving the joystick up (back) or down(forward) Home menu, a list of albums will appear.
MPEG1 Video up to 1Mb/sec + audio 128 kb/sec Movie albums - Manage ‘DVD Rips’ MPEG2 Video up to 500kb/sec + audio 128 kb/sec MPEG4 Video up to 500kb/sec + audio 128 kb/sec DIVX 3 Video up to 500kb/sec + audio 128 kb/sec Copy Music to CF Memory Card DIVX 4/5 Video up to 400kb/sec + audio 128 kb/sec...
Backups Backups - Info BU_00023 Selecting a Backup 145 files - 573 MBytes Press Home > Backups to access the Backups Album s selection screen. Files Size Date Backups - Select an Album First Last Photo 2004-10-12 2004-10-13 BU_00023 Music 2004-10-12 2004-10-13 BU_00002...
Device Device Info This section groups all functions that are related to the operation of the device. The device Info screen gives you an overview of the content archived on GigaVu. It also shows the remaining disk space, the battery status and the software version Device Menu number.
GigaVu is not guaranteed to work with all screen and not automatically switching off the unit after brands of WiFi compact flash cards. Check the Jobo some time introduces the risk of not noticing that the unit website for approved types or try the type of your choice is still on and draining the battery completely.
Owner Info To upgrade GigaVu do the following: Name e - mail - visit the Jobo website : www.jobo.com - go to the download section Cell Phone - download the latest version of the software on your Author Name computer - un-zip the downloaded file...
GigaVu specification General Model name Jobo GigaVu Pro Storage 40 or 60 Gbytes of hard disk storage. No system files on HDD Screen 3.8 inch high quality color LCD screen – 320 * 240 pixel Adjustable brightness Video out Pal / NTSC selectable Audio out Headphone / audio line out compatible.
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Typical decoding times for 6Mpix file: Embedded thumbnail preview on LCD : < 1 second Zoom 200 % : approx 20 seconds Zoom Max: approx 55 seconds For overview of supported cameras consult www.Jobo.com Album functions Rename Album Batch rename pictures Add comments to pictures Add keywords to pictures (JPEG files only)
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