Instant Video PCI : English/French Archive & Share Your Home Movies On CD User's Guide: First Edition Instant Video PCI Table of Contents Introduction Installation Step 2. . . . . . . . . . the . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 8 12 Guide Step 1. Driver Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Plugging In Hardware Software Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Ulead VideoStudio 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 French Help Manual Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 58 Service and Warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 FCC Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 © 2004 ADS Technologies. All Rights Reserved First Edition: September 2004 Microsoft, MS-DOS, Windows, Windows 95, Windows 98SE, Windows 2000, Windows ME and Windows XP are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. IBM is a registered trademark of the International Business Machines, Inc. 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Instant Video PCI device Audio/Video connection cable Instant Video PCI Installation CD User's Guide System Requirements: · A computer system equipped with a Pentium 4 2.4GHz or greater. · Operating system: Windows XP Home or Professional Editions with SP1 only (minimum) · Minimum of 256MB of RAM or greater · Minimum of 100MB of hard disk space for software installation · CD-ROM drive for installation of the bundled software · CD-R/RW or DVD+-R/+-RW drive required for creating your DivX, WMV or VCD Video on CD's · Sound Card Applications: · Ulead Video Studio 8SE VCD 4 Instant Video PCI allows you to easily capture video in multiple video compression formats. This product is targeted at compressing video into low bit rate formats that generate compact video files which are easily transferred to portable devices or allow for lots of video to fit on a normal CD-R disc. The Instant Video PCI acts as a video digitizer and video pipeline enabling raw uncompressed video to flow into the PC via the PCI port on Windows XP machines. Once in the PC any number of software video compression engines can be used to compress the video into the chosen format. Your Instant Video PCI includes the Ulead VideoStudio 8 video capture and editing application which supports direct capture and real time compression into popularly used video formats such as MPEG-1, VCD, Windows Media Video 9® and Divx® Video. What is video compression? When video is digitized the file size is very large. The video is more manageable when it is compressed to smaller size. At its most basic level, compression is performed when an input video stream is analyzed and information that is not noticeable to the viewer is discarded. There are different video compression schemes and each one analyzes the video stream in a different way. Each video compression method has the general goal of reducing the overall size of the finished video file while retaining video quality but each video compression method may have a different application goal, such as producing video for satellite TV transmission, video e-mail, DVD video or getting as much video on a standard CD. The result is that there are different video compression formats for different purposes and applications. What compression formats can I capture in with Instant Video PCI? Because Instant Video PCI brings raw, uncompressed video into your PC via the PCI port on your Windows XP machine it can be used to compress video in to virtually any video compression/decompression (video codec) installed on your computer that is Microsoft Direct Show compliant. This is called software compression. This means that the software video codec installed on your computer makes use of the computers powerful CPU to complete both video compression and decompression. Keep in mind that video compression can be very CPU intensive. New video codecs like DivX and WVM9 work to compress to very low bit rates while retaining very good video quality. This process is very CPU intensive. Divx Video, for example, is a compression 5 technology that can reduce the file size of video more than 5 times smaller than DVD while offering similar quality. This takes intense processing power. This is why the minimum CPU requirement Instant Video PCI is set at 2.4 GHz. The software included with your Instant Video PCI installs the Divx Video codec, Microsoft Windows Media Video 9 codec and MPEG-1 codec allowing you to easily capture into any of these video formats. What can I do with these video compression formats? DivX Video DivXTM, much like MP3 is a format for digital music. DivXTM is the brand name of a very popular patent-pending video compression technology created by DivXNetworks, Inc. The DivXTM codec is based on the MPEG-4 compression standard. This codec is so advanced that it can reduce an MPEG-2 video (the same format used for DVD or Pay-PerView) to ten percent of its original size. · Divx video files can be copied to a CD-R disc and then be played back in DivX Certified DVD players. You can generally get a 2 hour movie on a single CD-R disc. · Many portable video players support DivX playback. · Most Pocket PC and PALM PDA's can support DivX video playback when a compatible software player has been installed. · DivX Video is compatible with the ADS Tech Media-Link Entertainment receiver. Capture video in the DivX video format and then distribute the video over your wired or wireless Ethernet network. The Media-Link Receiver decodes the video and displays it on your Big Screen TV. MPEG-1 MPEG-1 video can be played back on any Windows PC with the Microsoft Media Player. No extra software required. This makes MPEG-1 a very easy video format to share with friends or business colleagues. MPEG-1 is generally targeted at a low bit rate of 1.5Mb (Megabit) per second. This is about the speed of a double speed CD-ROM. The video resolution is also rather low, commonly set to 352 x 240 (NTSC) or 352 x 288 (PAL), commonly referred to as SIF resolution. Applications: · Insert MPEG-1 Video into PowerPoint presentations · Archive video clips to hard drive or CD in small files sizes for viewing on the PC · Create a Video PCI 6 Video CD (VCD) VCD is probably the most common application for MPEG-1 video and has been a popular format in Europe and Asia for many years for movies. Before DVD players existed, VCD players were very popular virtually everywhere except North America. VCD is the same video bit rate and resolution as MPEG-1 but copied to a CD-R in a format that will play in VCD players. The advantage of VCD is that you can record approximately 70 minutes of audio and video on a CD-R. The disadvantage is that the quality will be much lower than a DVD movie. · Create Video CD's - they play back in most late model DVD players. Microsoft Windows Media Video 9 This is Microsoft's proprietary video compression standard that is similar to MPEG-4. Windows Media video 9 can be captured in a variety of resolutions and video bit rates depending upon the target application. With Instant Video PCI we have included two ways to create Windows Media Video 9 (WMV 9) content: · VideoStudio 8 - you can easily select the Windows Media Capture plug-in to capture video directly into a WMV 9 file. · Windows Media Encoder - install the Windows Media Encoder to capture WMV 9 files on your PC or broadcast video across your home, office network or serve over the Internet. 7 INSTALLATION GUIDE NOTE: INSERT the CD and install the Drivers before plugging the Instant Video PCI Device in your computer! 8 Quick Installation Guide This Quick Installation Guide should be used as a reference guide only! It is highly recommended that you read the complete Instant Video CD Manual before using this product to help ensure you get the most out of your Instant Video CD. 1) Insert Installation CD 2) Click on "Install Drivers" when the installation menu appears 3) Windows will automatically detect the Instant Video CD and a "Found New Hardware" wizard will appear 4) Follow the directions on-screen 5) Install Installation Instructions: Optional precaution: Please disable/close/turn off any applications that may be running in the background (i.e. anti-virus software, popup blockers, screensavers, etc.). In addition, remove all other devices that are not currently in use. Insert the Installation CD into the CD-ROM. The installation menu will appear. Click on "Install Video Studio 8". Follow the directions for each window that appears. When the software installation is complete, click on "Exit" at the lower right hand corner of the screen. Step 1. Plugging In: Connect Your Instant Video PCI Device to your Computer: A. Plug the PCI card directly into an open PCI port on your computer's motherboard. B. Once plugged in, turn on your computer and a "Driver Setup Wizard" will appear on your screen. 9 1) With the "Install the software automatically (Recommended)" selected, click on "Next". 2) Wait while Windows searches for the proper drivers, then when found, the "Hardware Installation" pop-up window will appear. 3) Click on "Continue Anyway" when prompted to do so. Note: Cicking on "Continue Anyway" will not harm your computer in any way and will allow you to finish the install of your new hardware. 10 4) Your device, Instant Video PCI, is now installed, Click on "Finish" when the installation is complete. Note: Welcome to found new hardware wizard will come up for the second time. 5) Click on "next" to start the driver install. 6) Click on "Continue Anyways" to continue with the driver install. 11 7) Click on "finish" button to finish the driver install. · Click on the "+" sign next to "Imaging Devices" and you should see: "Instant Video PCI". · Click on the "+" sign next to "Sound, video and game controllers" and you should see: "ADS PTV-390 Capture Devices" and "ADS PTV-390 Crossbar ". Once you have confirmed the 2 locations, close the "Device Manager" window. Congratulations, you have installed the Instant Video PCI properly. Step 2. Driver Installation: 12 1) Click on the "Install Drivers" button to start the driver installation. 2) Click on the "Start" button to continue installation. 3) Click on the "OK" button to finish the install. Note: This alert will appear 2 times during the installation process. Click on "Continue Anyway" to proceed. 13 Software Application Installation To start the installation of VideoStudio 8, click on the "VideoStudio 8" button. To install VideoStudio 8, click on the "Install Ulead VideoStudio 8" button. Getting Started with Video Studio 8 SE VCD: 1) Click on "VideoStudio Editor" to capture, edit, and burn your home movies. 14 2) Click on the "Capture" tab and ensure that your Source is set to ADS PTV-390 Capture Device. How VideoStudio works VideoStudio follows a step-by-step paradigm so that editing tasks remain uncomplicated from start to finish. VideoStudio also offers more than a hundred transition effects, professional titling capabilities and simple soundtrack creation tools. Learn in seconds, create in minutes. To make a movie production, first capture footage from a camcorder or another video source. You can then trim the captured videos, arrange their order, apply transitions, and add overlays, animated titles, voiceover narration, and background music. These elements are organized in separate tracks. Changes to one track do not affect other tracks. Compnents of a project as displayed in Timeline View A movie production is in the form of a VideoStudio project file (*.VSP), which contains information on the path location of the clips and how the movie has been put together. After you have finished your movie production, you can burn it to a VCD. You can also output your movie as a video file for playback on the computer. VideoStudio Editor VideoStudio Editor provides a step-by-step workflow that makes creating movies simple and easy. This section introduces you to the VideoStudio Editor interface and briefly explains the steps involved in creating a movie. Refer to the succeeding chapters for more in-depth information on each step. 15 The User Interface 1 Step Panel Contains buttons that correspond to the different steps in video editing. 2 Menu Bar Contains menus that provide different set of commands. 3 Options Panel ...