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4. Turn the video device on.
5. You should see the vid eo from the video
device playing in the ATI Player window.
6. To switch to playback for an S-Video device,
click the SVHS connector button on the bot-
tom left-hand corner of the panel below the
ATI Player window. To switch back to an A/V
device, click the VHS Connector button. (The
default setting is VHS Connector.)
7. There are buttons on the bottom panel of the
player which set the zoom ratio 1 to 1 and
increase and decrease the window playback
screen to play video full screen.Play with
these buttons to find a comfortable
viewing configuration.
8. The button on the far right-hand side of the
bottom panel of the player opens the ATI
Video Player Setup where you can configure
several options for the player. Moving the
cursor across any setting displays a text mes-
sage at the bottom of the window which
explains what this setting does.
9. The Camera button between the Play full
screen video button and the ATI Video Player
Setup button allows you to capture a still
image of the video input. To capture an
image click the button while the video input
is feeding and a window containing the still
will pop up on the desktop. There are options
to save the image,throw it away, print it,set
the curent desktop background to the image,
or exit the window.
To record video playback with
the ATI Player:
1. Follow steps 1-3 in the p revious section.
2. Click the Capture mode button on
the top panel of the ATI Player
(above the player window).
3. Follow steps 4-6 in the previous section.
4. Click the Capture video button (the
button with the camcorder and big red
dot for record) to capture. Follow
the on-screen directions.
5. To stop the capturing, push any button.
The video capture will be saved in
.AVI format.
6. You can also capture single frames in .AVI
format using the Capture frames button to
the right of the Capture video button, you
can capture a still image,(see step 9 in the
previous section), you can playback the .AVI
file you just captured using the Play/stop
playback button, and you can edit the .AVI
file (control where in the path the file begins
and ends) using the Edit Mode on/off
button which looks like a pair o f scissors.
7. There is an ATI Video Player Setup button
in Capture mode which has an extra panel,
VCR, which has settings for recording video.
Moving the cursor across any setting displays
a text message at the bott om of the window
which explains what this setting does.
