Orion 52181 - Manual (Page 4)

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3. Select a destination folder and
Click Next.
4. Click Next again to start the
installation.
5. When the wizard is complete,
click close. This has installed
the capture software.
6. Open Orion AmCap from the
icon on your desktop. The Live
Video Window should appear
(Figure 5). The software will
recognize many cameras so
check that
USB 2861 Device
is selected from the device
menu.
7. Under Options menu select
Video Capture Filter and select
Video Decoder Tab to modify
settings such as PAL/NTSC/
SECAM country video standard
settings. Select the Video Proc
Amp Tab to modify image
settings such as Brightness,
Contrast, Hue, Saturation and
Sharpness (Figure 6).
8. Under options menu select Video Capture Pin to modify settings such as
Output Size (Figure 7). The maximum output size is 720 x 480.
9. Under options menu select Video Crossbar to modify video input
settings based upon the video device attached to the Video Capture
Device IE (Figure 8). The majority of devices will output standard Video
Composite video signal. Higher quality can be achieved using SVideo
input.
10. Select Capture File from the
File menu and name your file
including the AVI extension
name. IE MyMovie.avi. Click
Open.
11. Enter the amount of disk space
to allocate as a Capture buffer
for this data. Movie files need
a large amount of disk space.
Enter a value such as 50
Megabytes or higher. Press ok.
The size of the captured data
may be much higher than this
value depending upon number
and size of frames captured.
12. Select Set Frame Rate under the
Capture menu. Check the box
Use Frame Rate and type 15.
Press ok.
13. Select Set Time Limit under the
Capture menu. Check the box
Use Time Limit and type 20.
Press ok.
14. Select Start Capture under the
Capture menu.
15. Press ok when you are ready to capture Images.
An AVI movie sequence of 300 frames (15 frames per second x 20 seconds)
will now be recorded.
The total number of captured frames is displayed on the bottom bar. If
frames are being dropped this will be displayed also. To remedy this, try
increasing the capture buffer size. If this does not resolve dropping frames
then the frame rate or resolution should be set to a lower value to prevent
dropping of frames.
Figure 5. The live video window.
Figure 6. Video Capture Filter.
Figure 7. Video Capture Pin.
Figure 8. Video Crossbar.