ELSA WINNER 2000/Office, User Manual

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Video–What’s In, What’s Out?
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Select PAL , NTSC or SECAM as your video standard. PAL is the normal video standard
in Europe. The manual for your video recorder or video camera can help if you have any
queries.
Select which video input you wish to be active from the Connection option group. For
example, you can connect a video recorder to each of the two composite inputs (In2 video
and In3 video) and a video camera to the S-VHS input (In1 S-Video). Clicking on the rel-
evant input determines which video source sends your signal to the
WINNER 2000/
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Video capture: Format
Clicking on the 'Format' tab brings up a selection of possible video resolutions. Select
the resolution you require for video display and recording and confirm your settings by
clicking
OK .
It is worth considering the data format for video recordings. The ELSA Codec for video
data compression features a highly effective reduction procedure which saves disk space
and, depending on your computer system, can work in real time.
Recording video involves very large amounts of data. The following tips will help you to
record without frame dropping.
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Close other programs, especially DOS boxes, while recording videos.
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Stop any simultaneous video output.
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Carry out a hard-disk optimization before recording.
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Use a separate hard disk for recording.
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Use the ELSA video compression if you have a Pentium 166 processor, or better.
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Deactivate the audio recording if not required.
AVI files recorded with the ELSA compression require a codec installed in the system for
playback. Thus you should follow two steps when recording:
Select the resolution with
which the Video-In signal
should be displayed.
How the other guy sees
you–no mirror image.