JVC 0397MKV*UN*YP, LYT0002-0M1B Picture Data Format, Capture Mode, Selecting a Picture Format

PICTURE FORMAT SETTING 29

SELECTING A PICTURE FORMAT

Under "Image Format", you can specify the full image format and the capture mode.

	At the menu bar,		Set-up
1 click "Set-up" —			Capture Mode
	"Image Format".		Image Format
		•The "Image	Device Change
			Initialize
		Format" window
			ID Change
		appears.
			Counter Reset
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	Select format.
		•There are two different settings avail-

able: "JPEG (9. jpg)" and "Bitmap (9. bmp)". Refer to "Picture Data Format" below for details.

TRANSFER DATA

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Select capture mode.

•There are two different settings avail- able: "Frame Picture" and "Field Picture". Refer to "Capture Mode" below for details.

Click "OK".

•This completes picture format setting. •This setting takes effect the next time

you use the capture function.

The full image can be captured and transferred in two different formats.

Picture Data Format

●JPEG (9. jpg)

•This is the default setting. If you do not set Picture Format, image data is captured in this format.

•JPEG (Joint Photographic Expert Group) is a leading standard defining the compression and decompression of still color pictures.

•The size of transferred image is smaller because the images are compressed. This results in a shorter transfer time.

●Bitmap (9. bmp)

•Transfer time is longer when you use this format because there is no data compression. The benefit is that picture quality is maintained with no deterioration.

•Bitmap is a data format representing characters and graphics with combinations of pixels. Full image resolution is 640 x 480 pixels with 16.77 million colors (24-bit color).

Index image resolution is 80 x 60 pixels with 16.77 million colors (24-bit color).

Capture Mode

●Frame Picture

•This is the default setting. If you do not set Picture Format, images are captured in this mode.

•Since a frame consists of two overlapping 1/60 sec. images (one 1/30 sec. image forms a field), it is unstable when capturing fast-moving motion pictures.

●Field Picture

•While a field contains only half the data of a frame — meaning that vertical resolution is half that of a frame — images captured from a fast-moving motion picture are more stable than when captured with "Frame Picture".