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Installing the Card
and Software and Connecting
Video Equipment
This chapter covers installing the video input card and software. It also shows how to connect video equipment to the card.
If you purchased your computer with the video input card already installed, go to the section “Connecting Video Equipment,” later in this chapter.
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Capturing individual images Capturing movies
Communications regulation information
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Installing the Card Software and Connecting Video Equipment
What you should have
Installing the video input card
Style a Style B
Installing the card in Style a
Use a screwdriver to remove the screws from the back panel
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Pulling gently, swing the panel up and slip it out
Wire handle
Vertical plate
Video port Grounding clip
Making sure the grounding clip is on the card as shown
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Swing the handle up, into its storage position
Press the reset button
Snap the plastic back panel into place
Reinsert the screws in the back panel
Software
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Pulling gently, swing the panel down and slip it out
Remove both retainer screws from the vertical plate
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Metal retainer Plastic tabs
Video port Grounding clip
Making sure the grounding clip is on the card as shown
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Swing the handle up, into its storage position
Press the reset button Gently but firmly
Reinsert both retainer screws into the vertical plate
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Installing the card in a modular computer
Remove the back panel
Unplug the power cord from your computer
Vertical plate
Video port Grounding clip
Locate the video-in slot on the logic board
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Are on both sides of the computer’s interior
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Swing the plastic back panel up and snap it into place
Installing the software
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Connecting video equipment
Determining which video connector you need
RCA
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Connecting video equipment if you use an S-video connector
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Those shown here
Learning About the Software
Opening the Apple Video Player
Getting help
Choosing the correct video source
Source change takes effect as soon as you make it
Adjusting the sound
Adjusting speaker balance and tone
Adjusting the picture
Changing the video window size
Dragging the size box
Changing the window color
Setting the video input standard
Setting and using a hot key
Capturing Video Images
Capturing individual images
Capturing Video Images
Capturing movies
Copy Video Display command
Click one of the buttons under Movie Compression
Wait until the sequence that you want to capture begins
Capturing Video Images
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Troubleshooting
You can’t see the volume slider on the video window
Troubleshooting
You have a dark or rolling picture
Troubleshooting
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External connections
Input standards
Audio input characteristics
Video input characteristics
Internal connections
Australia, standard video Signal for
Adjusting
Adjusting video image with
Arrow keys, adjusting sound
Changing
Adjusting Cables Audio cable 45, 46, 48, 49
Video source setting
Commands
Dark images 73
Connectors
Compression rate for movies
Control panels
Hi-Z input
Headphones
10, 23
Handling
Muting sound
Memory control panel 67 menus
Monitors
66-67
Application with a hot key
Reset button on logic board 14, 27 Rolling image
TV tuner port
Video Out port on video equipment 44, 46, 47
To 10, 23
Screen controls 55, 73 screws Removing
Sound
Speaker icon 56 speakers
Dark or rolling pictures on
Selecting as video source
Too white or too dark
Videotape
54-55
Video-in access cover Removing From a compact computer 9
A compact computer A modular computer Video port on 10
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Sizes
Volume
Volume controls 72 Warranty
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