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  • Page 1 GIGA Vu extreme User Manual English Version 1.2...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Contents 6.1.2 Export Data to a Memory Card 6.1.3 Softkey 3, “Select”: Copy Data from or to a Computer 6.2.1 Connect the Device to a Computer Safety Instructions 6.2.2 Import Data from a Computer 6.2.3 Export Data to a Computer Overview Backup Data Disk Management...
  • Page 3 10 Watching Movies 10.1 Watching Movies 10.2 Copy Movie Clips 10.3 Delete an Album or a Single Movie Clip 10.4 Rename an Album 11 Firmware Upgrade 12 Available Accessories 13 Technical Specification 48 Addendum1 - Add metadata and keywords New Features in Firmware update 2.0.4 J.D.

  • Page 4: Safety Instructions

    Prevent the device from any contact with water Take care that the GIGA Vu extreme will not get in contact with any water. The device is not water proof and may get damaged when water enters the case. In case the device gets into contact with water, rub down the case with a smooth and absorbent cloth.

  • Page 5: Overview

    Features in Brief On the next pages we will explain all functions The GVX can be used for the following of the GIGA Vu extreme. In the following actions: description the device will be abbreviated as Transferring data from and to various data GVX.

  • Page 6: Getting Familiar With The Gvx

    First charge Slot for CompactFlash memory card On/off switch Microphone USB2 high speed interface for data transfer Please read this instruction carefully before the to a computer first use of GVX! USB2 OTG interface for data transfer to a printer, camera or external hard disk The GVX will be delivered with a completely “Home”...

  • Page 7: Screen

    2.4.2 Screen � ���� �� ���� � ���� � ������ �� ���� � ���� The GVX is equipped with a high quality, high resolution LCD screen with 640 * 480 RGB pixels. By using state-of-the-art technology, the GVX screen is very bright and allows easy viewing even outdoors.
  • Page 8 USB connectors watching slide shows and movies. See chapter 5.3, “Screen & Video Settings” for selecting The GVX features two USB connectors. either the NTSC (mainly North America) or the The upper USB connector is a high speed USB PAL (e.g. most European countries) TV standard. 2 mass storage interface.

  • Page 9: Quick Instruction For Photo Download From A Cf Card

    Quick Instruction for Photo Download from a CF Card When operating the first time with the GVX without AC power supply, make sure that the battery is charged completely as described in chapter 2.3, “First use”. Take off the rubber cover, turn it around Fig.

  • Page 10: General Instructions

    14 Press the joystick again to return to the JOBO mobile hard disk Giga One, via the file list. USB-2-OTG connection (The device has to be FAT 32 formated).
  • Page 11 The battery status indication expressed in % is rather accurate. The indication of the time left is an estimation, because the power consumption of the GVX depends on the kind of activity. For example, playing music files will consume much less energy than playing video files via a TV or flat screen monitor.

  • Page 12: How To Select Content

    How to Select Content You can use the joystick to navigate through the files. Use the joystick up / down to go In many cases you will have to select pictures through the file names one by one. Use the or songs for copying, deleting, viewing etc.

  • Page 13: How To Use The Keyboard

    chosen files were selected prior to the action, For each type of file (photos, music, movies and they will be de-selected afterwards. other files) the starting conditions can be set If the block contains a mix of selected and non to “Select All”, “Select None”...

  • Page 14: Use External Keyboard

    Use external keyboard To enter a space, move the cursor to the “SPC” item and press the joystick. Whenever you need to enter text (e.g. when renaming an album or editing keywords), a To delete the character immediately before the keyboard screen will be displayed.

  • Page 15: Basic Settings

    Basic Settings There are some basic settings such as the language or the owner‘s info that are independently from any other data management. To check or change these basics, please follow the steps below: Press the “Home” button. Press softkey 5, “Device”. The screen depicted in fig.

  • Page 16: Screen & Video Settings

    albums that will be copied from CF card. setting. If the backlight will be dimmed, Whenever you copy data from a CF to the press any button to reactivate the screen. 7. Power Off: Enter the time after which the GVX, the device will create a new album using this album prefix complemented unit will be switched off automatically.

  • Page 17: Wifi & Ftp Settings

    3. Channel: Select the channel according to work with all brands of WiFi CompactFlash cards. the WiFi network router. Please consult the Therefore check the JOBO website (www.jobo. router’s user manual for this. com) for approved types first or try the type of Use the joystick left / right to select the your choice before you buy.

  • Page 18: Owner Info

    chapter 4.3 for keyboard description. author´s name and a copyright notice. They 6. IP Address Mode: Select the IP address will serve as default settings for the comments Mode needed. Please consult the router’s resp. EXIF data that can be added to photos. user manual for this.

  • Page 19: Reset Functions

    Data Import, Data right. Then a keyboard will appear and you can enter the letters. See chapter 4.3 for Export and Disk keyboard description. 5. Copyright: Enter your copyright code, Management company name or name here. This information will be part of the EXIF data if There are several ways how to transfer data you export a photo later.
  • Page 20 unit first and then insert the memory card resp. size of the number. See chapter 5.2, “Device the adapter into the CompactFlash card slot. Settings” for more details. After a few seconds a screen as depicted in fig. Instead of creating a new album, you can copy 6.1 will pop up.

  • Page 21: Export Data To A Memory Card

    5. Generate cached views: After copying, the GVX can generate so called In order to maximize speed, the GVX will “cached views”. They can be helpful for the determine the memory card’s speed grade selection of pictures, because the pictures before starting the copy process.

  • Page 22: Softkey 3, "Select

    shown only once so please check this before you press any button and proceed using the unit. This function can also be helpful when you want to copy files from one album to another on your GVX. In this case, select the album you want to copy your data to instead of selecting the memory card.

  • Page 23: Copy Data From Or To A Computer

    Copy Data from or to a Now you can exchange data between the computer and to the GVX. Computer When all files are exchanged, press softkey 5, “Disconnect”, before unplugging the 6.2.1 Connect the Device to a USB cable. Computer WiFi connection Alternatively you can connect the devices via USB connection...

  • Page 24: Export Data To A Computer

    If you want to copy movies to the GVX do the MemoryCards following: + cf_00001 Create a new subdirectory under “Movies”. + Cache <- Cached views from Rename this new folder with the name you want to use. The complete path is: folder cf_00001 + Data <- Data from folder...

  • Page 25: Backup Data

    GVX’s USB 2 OTG connector, you can backup a certain album to another device such as the JOBO Mobile Hard Disk Giga ONE. To establish a connection and backup the data Fig. 6.4: Screen “Device Menu – Disk proceed as decribed below: Management”...
  • Page 26 bin to an album called “Restored”. the hard disk, a complete data backup must be made! You can check the content of the “Restored” 4. Re-format Hard Disk Drive: Formats the album by selecting it in the Photo -> Select Albums (resp.

  • Page 27: Managing Photos

    Managing Photos - RAW files can not be rotated. -You cannot print RAW files from the GVX. -You cannot add keywords to RAW files. -You cannot use RAW files for the “Dust Some Remarks about File Detection” feature. Formats Pictures that were originally scanned or Cameras and computers can store photos produced on a PC may be stored in TIFF format.

  • Page 28: Delete Previews

    To do this, follow the steps below: Use the joystick up / down to go through the albums one by one. The numbers in the upper Press “Home” button. right corner show how many albums exist and Press softkey 1, “Photos”. which one is highlighted.

  • Page 29: View Pictures

    Fig. 7.2: Screen: “Photo album Info”. Fig. 7.2: Screen: “Photo Albums – View Album xxx”. 3. Softkey 3, “View”: This button will bring you to the several viewing modes. If you want to view the picture as large as See chapter 7.4.1 for more detailed possible and would like to have access to the information.

  • Page 30: View Picture Details

    few options available. You can define them by Softkey 1, “Zoom”: pressing the “Settings” Button. Zoom the picture. Softkey 2, “Info”: 1. Overlay: In the upper left corner of the Check the EXIF data and keywords. Softkey 3, “Chann”: screen some text can be superimposed on the picture.
  • Page 31 This is advantageous compared to many other helpful when special areas of a photo shall be photo viewers. They start from screen resolution identified to check them for their quality. Use and then gradually zoom in using small steps, the joystick to navigate and bring another area each taking some calculation time.

  • Page 32: Show Info Data (Exif)

    Option 2: Use Raw Data: ���� ������� ���� ���� ��� ���� In this case GVX will use the full resolution RAW data to generate an image. Since RAW file ��� � ��� ����� ��� � ��� ����� ���� ������� ���� ������� decoding is very computation intensive this ����...

  • Page 33: Show Color Channels

    Fig. 7.7: Screen “Picture Info – Exposure”. Fig. 7.10: Screen “Picture Info – Keywords”. You can either press the joystick (enter) or the “Back” button to leave the “Info” mode and return to standard picture viewing. 7.4.3 Show Color Channels The “Channel”...

  • Page 34: Show Histogram

    Again by moving the joystick left or right you can view the channels of the previous or next pictures. You can either press the joystick (enter) or the ‘Back” button to leave the “Levels” mode and go back to standard picture viewing 7.4.5 Rotate Pictures Sometimes the cameras do not include the information of the orientation in their EXIF...

  • Page 35: Delete Single Pictures And Albums

    7.4.6 Delete Single Pictures and Albums To delete single pictures from an album while viewing, press softkey 5, “More” in the picture viewing mode. Then the softkeys get another function as shown in fig. 7.12: Softkey 4, “ToBin”: Removes the currently selected picture from the album without asking once more and puts it in the recycle bin.

  • Page 36: File List View

    File List View Slide shows only work with JPEG files and RAW files that include embedded JPEG previews. In the “File list View” mode 10 file names of To start a slide show of your pictures do the the selected album are listed. The first picture following: name is highlighted and its thumbnail is shown The slide shows are always connected to...

  • Page 37: Print Photos

    TV. Use the joystick right / left to change the setting. 4. Overlay: File name, date, comments, author, description or shooting data can be overlaid during the slide show. By default this is switched off. Use the joystick right / left to change the setting. 5.

  • Page 38: Rename Photos

    Rename Photos 7.9.1 Rename Albums Whenever you import an album from the CompactFlash card or via WiFi, the albums get a name consisting of a prefix and an number in ascending order. If you do not want to use the automatically generated names, it is helpful to rename an album.

  • Page 39: Copy Pictures To Another Album/Cf

    7.10 Sort and Select photos already have EXIF data embedded. This feature will not work with RAW files or JPEG files without EXIF information. 7.10.1Copy Pictures to another If you add comments or keywords to JPEG Album/CF photos using GVX’s annotating functions the text strings will be placed in the following To move or copy pictures in another album EXIF and IPTC fields:...

  • Page 40: Manage Keywords

    To add keywords to your pictures, please refer to the file „Keywords to exif-files“ in the „Service/Driver, Firmware, Software/GIGA Vu extreme“ section of our Website www.jobo.com 7.11 View Pictures with Photo Voice Annotations Many cameras allow to store a short voice annotation together with the photos.

  • Page 41: Dust Detection

    Dust Detection Playing Music While changing lenses on Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) cameras, dust can enter the Playing Music camera and stick to the sensor. This means that The GVX is able to identify and play MP3 cameras need to be cleaned sometimes in the files.

  • Page 42: Copy Sound Files

    Copy Sound Files When done, press softkey 5, “Play”, to start playing. A screen as shown in fig. 9.2 will To copy sound files back from the GVX to appear. a CompactFlash card or from one album to another, proceed as described here: If you want to listen to a certain song, select Go to the “Home”...

  • Page 43: Rename An Album

    Use the joystick up / down until the album Enter the new name for the album. See you want to delete is highlighted. chapter 4.3 for instructions how to use the Press softkey 5, “Manage”. keyboard. Use the joystick up / down to select “Send an Album to Bin”...

  • Page 44: Watching Movies

    10 Watching Movies 10.1 Watching Movies The GVX is able to identify and play MPEG2 or MPEG4 files. To play a movie, do the following: Go to the “Home” menu. Select “Movies” by pressing softkey 3. A list of albums will appear. Use the joystick up / down to select an album.

  • Page 45: Copy Movie Clips

    monitors that only provide higher resolutions a CompactFlash card or from one album to will not be able to synchronize with the GVX. another, proceed as described here: In this case the settings of the PC’s video card Go to the “Home” menu. have to be adjusted.

  • Page 46: Rename An Album

    In this case the album will be camera formats and bug fixes. moved into the “Recycle Bin”. To delete a single movie clip, follow the Firmware Updates: www.jobo.com steps below: Go to the “Home” menu. Select “Movies” by pressing softkey 3. A list of albums will appear.

  • Page 47: Available Accessories

    • Humidity: Max. 95 % non-condensing This PowerPack loads the internal battery of the • Supported OS: Windows 98SE / ME / 2000 GIGA Vu extreme twice. / XP, WinCE 2.1x, WinCE 3.0, PockPC, PockPC2002, Linux. • Capacity: 3 Ah Multi Card Adapter, Art.

  • Page 48: Technical Specification

    PC. General lower: Model name WiFi enabled (the WiFi (IEEE802.11b) JOBO GigaVu Pro Evolution (GVX) CompactFlash card is sold as an option). Storage Analogue video out 40, 80 or 120 GBytes of hard disk storage. No PAL / NTSC selectable.
  • Page 49 MPL license is available on request. display modes except slide show). Show next or previous page of thumbs The GIGA Vu extreme was designed and (available in thumbnail mode only). developed in Belgium and manufactured in The Jump to a specific picture.

  • Page 50: Addendum1 - Add Metadata And Keywords

    Addendum1 - Add 2. For existing albums go to Photo > Manage > Add Metadata to Pictures. In this case metadata and you can select photos first and then launch a batch process to add the metadata keywords template to the selected pictures. Metadata is embedded in JPEG files This functions allows you to add metadata and only.
  • Page 52 2. iView 3. Photo Mechanic 4. ACDSee...
  • Page 53 5. Exifier ( http://www.friedemann- schmidt.com/software/exifer/)

  • Page 54: New Features In Firmware Update

    To check if you have installed the latest –“ or zoom out by pressing “Loupe +” firmware start your GIGA Vu extreme press the fifth soft key “Device”, scroll down to “Device Pressing the third button “FIT” will take you Info”...

  • Page 55: How To Get To The Incremental Backup

    Start the device Use the special USB adapter you received with Press soft key button “Device” your “GIGA Vu extreme”. As soon as you turn on Scroll down to the second entry “USB the external device (such as the GIGA One) the Incremental Backup”...

  • Page 56: Remove Backup From External Disk

    Incremental Backup” Use the special USB adapter you received with Press on option 2 “Remove Backup from your “GIGA Vu extreme”. As soon as you turn on External Disk” the external device (such as the GIGA One) the process will start automatically.

  • Page 57: Raw Format Compatibility

    3. RAW Format compatibility We are constantly updating the compatibility of RAW formats with the GIGA Vu extreme. This update allows you besides several other formats, to decode the LEICA M8 RAW format. You can find the latest compatibility list on our website: http://www.jobo.com/gigavuextreme...
  • Page 58 JOBO AG • 51645 Gummersbach • Kölner Strasse 58 Tel: +49-2261 / 545-0 • Fax: +49-2261 / 545-46 • Mail: info@jobo.com • www.jobo.com 02008 (86 563...

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