Instant Video PCI allows you to easily capture video in multiple video compression formats. This product is targeted at compressing video into low bit rate formats that generate compact video files which are easily transferred to portable devices or allow for lots of video to fit on a normal
The Instant Video PCI acts as a video digitizer and video pipeline enabling raw uncompressed video to flow into the PC via the PCI port on Windows XP machines. Once in the PC any number of software video compression engines can be used to compress the video into the chosen format.
Your Instant Video PCI includes the Ulead VideoStudio 8 video capture and editing application which supports direct capture and real time compression into popularly used video formats such as
What is video compression?
When video is digitized the file size is very large. The video is more manageable when it is compressed to smaller size. At its most basic level, compression is performed when an input video stream is analyzed and information that is not noticeable to the viewer is discarded. There are different video compression schemes and each one analyzes the video stream in a different way. Each video compression method has the general goal of reducing the overall size of the finished video file while retaining video quality but each video compression method may have a different application goal, such as producing video for satellite TV transmission, video
What compression formats can I capture in with Instant Video PCI?
Because Instant Video PCI brings raw, uncompressed video into your PC via the PCI port on your Windows XP machine it can be used to compress video in to virtually any video compression/decompression (video codec) installed on your computer that is Microsoft Direct Show compliant. This is called software compression. This means that the software video codec installed on your computer makes use of the computers powerful CPU to complete both video compression and decompression. Keep in mind that video compression can be very CPU intensive. New video codecs like DivX and WVM9 work to compress to very low bit rates while retaining very good video quality. This process is very CPU intensive. Divx Video, for example, is a compression
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