ADS Technologies USB Instant DVD manual Capture, Checklist for successful video capture

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Capture

The process of transferring video from your camcorder or other video sources to your computer is called capturing. When everything is ready to go, the video feed from your source device should be visible in the Preview Window. If your card supports a television monitor, you should also be able to watch your video on it.

Checklist for successful video capture

Capturing video is one of the most demanding tasks you will ever ask of your computer. It involves high data rates and requires huge amounts of disk space. Here are a few things you can do to ensure success:

Shut down ALL other programs that are running except Windows Explorer and VideoStudio. Disable the Screen Saver to avoid possible interruption.

Best results can be achieved by using a dedicated video hard disk, preferably with the capabilities of at least Ultra-DMA/66, 7200 rpm and more than 30 GB space. Check to be sure you have DMA enabled on the hard drive for smooth video capture

the Batch Capture feature is not enabled for use with Instant DVD. This is a feature for use when capturing from a digital camcorder to a FireWire card such as the ADS PYRO 1394DV card.

Capture Video

Transfers video from your source to your hard disk.

Capture Image

Captures a single frame as a still image from your source to your hard disk.

Options

Displays a menu allowing you to modify your capture settings.

Format

Allows you to easily select a file format to use for saving captured videos. (MPEG only when using with Instant DVD)

Driver

Displays the detected capture device and lists other capture device drivers installed in your computer.

Switch to playback mode Click to work in Playback Mode for instant previews.

Scene Detection

Automatically separates captured video into several files based on changes in recording date and time. (Not available when using Instant DVD).

Capture duration

Sets the length of time for the capture.

Captured frames

The total number of captured video frames.

Dropped frames

The total number of lost video frames while capturing.

Switch to capture mode Click to work in Capture Mode and perform capturing tasks.

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