USBOSDM2 Ver. 1.0.0
Page 11 Application Software User Manual
window can be brought up from the
Control Window
’s
Setup->Overlay Setup
menu item, or from
the
Drop-down Menu-> Overlay Setup
:
Overlay on video frame is accomplished by creating
Overlay Items
: each item has an
Overlay
Type.
Currently supported
Overlay Types
include
Text, Timer, Rectangle, Box
and
Graphics File
:
.
Every overlay item is associated with some options such as font, colour, alpha, blinking, etc.
Overlay Items can be added, modified, deleted and redrawn. To create a new overlay item, first
select an
Overlay Type
, fill in relevant options such as
Start X/Y
position,
Font
,
Text
etc., then
click the
Add Item
button, the overlay item will appear on the video frame and output TV monitor.
If recording is in progress, overlay will also be recorded into MPEG video file immediately.
Note 1
: When drawing overlay item onto video frame, pressing
Esc
key can abort the operation:
aborting overlay painting requires hardware reset on OSD and M2B devices so do this with caution.
Note 2
: Avoid extending an overlay item’s ending edges beyond video frame’s limits (720/576/480).