Instant VideoMPX: English Archive & Share Your Home Movies On CD User's Guide: First Edition USB Instant VideoMPX If you have any problems or questions on this product, please call : ADS Tech Technical Support - 562.926.4338 North America Support Hours: Mon-Fri: 8am - 5pm, PST Support: www.adstech.com/support/support.asp www.adstech.com Tech European Technical Support: +353.61.702042 Table of Contents Introduction. Installation Step 2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 8 12 Guide Step 1. Driver Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Plugging In the Hardware. Software Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Ulead VideoStudio 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Help Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Service and Warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 FCC Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 © 2004 ADS Technologies. 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USB Instant VideoMPX device Audio/Video connection cable USB Instant VideoMPX Installation CD User's Guide System Requirements: · A computer system equipped with a Pentium 4 2.4GHz or greater. · USB 2.0 host controller on motherboard or USB port adapter card · 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 VideoMPX 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 VideoMPX acts as a video digitizer and video pipeline enabling raw uncompressed video to flow into the PC via the USB 2.0 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 VideoMPX 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 VideoMPX? Because Instant VideoMPX brings raw, uncompressed video into your PC via the USB 2.0 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 VideoMPX is set at 2.4 GHz. The software included with your Instant VideoMPX 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 VideoCD 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 VideoMPX 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 I N S T A L L AT I O N GUIDE NOTE: INSERT the CD and install the Drivers before plugging the USB Instant VideoMPX 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 USB Instant Video MPX Manual before using this product to help ensure you get the most out of your USB Instant Video MPX. 1) Insert Installation CD 2) Click on "Install Drivers" when the installation menu appears 3) Connect the USB Instant Video MPX into the back of your computer 4) Windows will automatically detect the USB Instant Video MPX and a "Found New Hardware" wizard will appear 5) Follow the directions on-screen 6) 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 USB 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. With the Installation CD still inside the CD-ROM, plug in the USB cable directly into the back of your PC (it is not recommended that you connect the USB cable into the front of your PC). 9 Step 1. Driver Installation: 1) Click on the "Install Drivers" button to start the driver installation. 2) Click on the "Next" button to continue installation. 3) Wait while Windows installs the drivers for your device. 10 Note: This alert will appear 3 times during the installation process. Click on "Continue Anyway" to proceed. This update addresses the "Availability of the Windows XP SP1 USB 1.1 and 2.0 Update" issue in Windows XP and is discussed in Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) Article 822603. Download now to install the Windows XP SP1 USB 1.1 and 2.0 update. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer. Note: This may NOT appear on some systems if they already have the Windows update installed. 11 Step 2. Plugging In: Connect Your USB Instant VideoMPX Device to your Computer: A. Plug the USB end directly into the USB port on the back of your computer. B. Once plugged in a "Found New Hardware Wizard" will appear on your screen. 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 prompt 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. 12 4) Your device, USB Instant VideoMPX, is now installed, Click on "Finish" when the installation is complete. After the installation is complete, determine if the drivers have successfully installed by going into the "Device Manager" (Right-click on "My Computer" and select "Properties". A window will appear, select the "Hardware" TAB and click on the "Device Manager" button.) The USB Instant VideoMPX should appear in 3 locations. · Click on the "+" sign next to "Imaging Devices" and you should see: "Instant VideoMPX". · Click on the "+" sign next to "Sound, video and game controllers" and you should see: "USB Audio Device". · Click on the "+" sign next to "Universal Serial Bus controllers" and you should see: "USB Composite Device". Once you have confirmed the 3 locations, close the "Device Manager" window. Congratulations, you have installed the Instant VideoMPX properly. 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 Instant VideoMPX. 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 th ...