In theory, you don’t need to install anything to make the SC-MX20 work. If you pop in the battery and memory card, you can start recording videos. The videos can then be removed from the memory card by any standard card reader. If you have the SC-MX20C or MX20CH, you can take advantage of the 8GB built-in memory and start recording just after the battery installation. However, that’s not the model I have so in goes the card reader.

Depending on your memory card size, you can record anywhere between 23 minutes with a 1GB to 920 minutes with a 16GB.

The included Samsung software allows you tweak and quickly upload your videos to YouTube for sharing. To install, pop in the CD to begin the installation.

Once the software is done installing, it will ask you to add media files to your library. If you want to take the files directly off the camera, you’ll need to plug the camera into your USB port using the included USB cable. The camera will show up under your next available drive letter, for me that was E:\.

The CyberLink Media Show lets you edit your videos in a number of ways. You can rotate the video, adjust lighting, reduce some of the shakiness from an unsteady hand, reduce some background noise, adjust the brightness, contrast, saturation and white balance, trim the video and view file information.

Samsung claims to have a very simple video sharing procedure with YouTube – six steps in total in which the first four are to import the videos from your camera to your computer.

While the graphical user interface does make video uploading a breeze. To upload a video, you click on the Share Tab and press on the YouTube upload button. You’ll be asked to sign in to you account, accept the copyright disclaimer, fill in the details of your video and wait for the upload to complete. If you get a pop up message claiming there was a network problem, update CyberLink Media and you’re good to go.

Some final things you can do with Media Show is of course watch your video, but how well does the capture work? Let’s compare a few videos and screenshots.

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