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Step 4
: When Amcap starts, on the menu bar along
the top, click on DEVICES and choose ‘Telescope
Driver’ in the drop-down list (as shown on the
right). This will select the InspectionCam as the
viewing device.
Step 5
: To start capturing video from the
InspectionCam, click on ‘
CAPTURE’
from the menu
bar and click on ‘
Start Capture
’ from the drop-down
list (as shown on the right). In the ‘
Set capture fi le
’
dialog box that pops up, choose a location to save
the data, type a name for the fi le and click ‘
OPEN
.’
You will then be prompted to nominate a size for
the capture fi le. Leave it on the default settings and
click ‘
OK
.’ When you have fi nished capturing video,
click ‘
Stop Capture’
from the Capture menu.
To capture still images from the Inspection Cam,
press the
Snapshot
button on the InspectionCam.
A new window will appear with the image you have
captured.
You will need to save each image as you capture
them by clicking on the
FILE
menu and choosing
SAVE
from the drop-down list. If you do not save an
image and take another snapshot, it will overwrite
the previous image taken.
Using AMCAP to view your camera
AMCAP is a handy utility for viewing footage from your webcam. It is available free from the
Swann website or online from websites like CNET/Download.com.
To use Amcap with your InspectionCam:
Step 1
: First, download the
AMCAP.EXE
utility from the Swann website by entering
ftp
://ftp.swann.com.au/drivers/smart_cam/
into your browser and press ENTER. Right click on
AMCAP.EXE
and click on ‘save link as’ from
the drop-down menu. Remember where you have saved the fi le (it usually goes into your
‘Downloads’ folder).
Step 2
: Double-click on
AMCAP.EXE
. The fi le is compressed so will ask if it can place the actual
application in a folder on your C: drive called ‘Swann’. Accept the default folder or choose one
you prefer and press ‘Unzip.’ Click ‘
OK
’ and then ‘
Close
’ to dismiss the windows.
Step 3
: Go to the C:\Swann folder (or wherever you unzipped the fi le) and double-click on
the AMCAP.EXE fi le in that folder to run AMCAP. If you can’t fi nd where on your computer
you stored the fi le, click ‘the START’ button in the bottom left of your screen and type ‘amcap’
(without the quotation marks) into the search box. Amcap should appear in the list above the
search box. Double click it to run it.
3
Step 1
: Make sure the InspectionCam is
unplugged
from the USB port of your
computer.
Step 2
: Insert the CD into your CD/DVD
drive and wait until your computer
reads the disc. This usually takes less
than a minute.
Step 3
: On Windows Vista and Windows
7, click on the
START
button icon on
the bottom left of the screen and click
on ‘
Computer
’ on the right of the
menu pop-up window. If you are using
Windows XP, click the
START
button
in the lower bottom left corner of the
screen and click ‘
My Computer
’ on the
right of the menu pop-up window.
As shown above, Windows Explorer should now be open allowing you to view the
fi les on your computer.
Step 4
: Click on the drive letter that corresponds to your CD/DVD drive. Your hard
drive that contains Windows will be called (C:). Your CD/DVD drive will mostly likely
be a letter after (C:) and will very likely be (
D
:) as shown above.
Step 5
: Once you have clicked on your CD/DVD drive, it will open to reveal its
contents. You will see a fi le called
‘telescope_driver’
or ‘
telescope_driver.exe’
. Double
click on this fi le to install the driver.
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