i DVRaptor Installation and User's Manual Canopus Corporation 711 Charcot Ave. San Jose, CA 95131 Canopus Part No. 000-10006-002 Printed in the USA Copyright©2000 Canopus Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Third Edition - May 2000 ii Notice to Reader Canopus Corporation makes no warranty of any kind with regard to this material, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Canopus shall not be liable for errors contained herein or for incidental consequential damages in connection with the furnishing, performance, or use of this material. This document contains proprietary information which is protected by copyright. All rights are reserved. No part of this document may be photocopied, reproduced, or translated into another language without the prior written consent of Canopus Corporation. The information in this document is subject to change without notice. DVRaptor - Limited Warranty Your DVRaptor hardware is covered by a limited warranty when you register your Canopus product. This warranty is for a period of three years from the date of purchase from Canopus or an authorized Canopus agent. This warranty applies only to the original purchaser of the Canopus product and is not transferable. Canopus Corporation warrants that for this period the product will be in good working order. Should our product fail to be in good working order, Canopus will, at its option, repair or replace it at no additional charge, provided that the product has not been subjected to misuse, abuse or non-Canopus authorized alterations, modifications and/or repair. Proof of purchase is required to validate your warranty. Canopus Corporation has gone to considerable effort to make the users manual as accurate as possible at the time of printing. Canopus cannot assume, however, any responsibility for any inaccuracies that may be contained in the manual. In no event will Canopus Corporation be liable for iii direct, indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages resulting from any defect or omission in the manual, even if advised of the possibility of such damages. As part of their ongoing process of continued product development, Canopus Corporation reserves the right to make improvements in the manual and the products it describes at any time, without notice or obligation. CANOPUS CORPORATION IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY LOST PROFITS, LOST SAVINGS OR OTHER INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF, OR INABILITY TO USE, THIS PRODUCT. THIS INCLUDES DAMAGE TO PROPERTY AND, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, DAMAGES FOR PERSONAL INJURY. THIS WARRANTY IS IN LIEU OF ALL OTHER WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. FCC Notice This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for the class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed, and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try and correct the interference by one or more of the following measures: Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna. Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver. Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected. Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help. iv This equipment has been certified to comply with the limits for a class B computing device, pursuant to FCC Rules. In order to maintain compliance with FCC regulations, shielded cables must be used with this equipment. Operation with non-approved equipment or unshielded cables is likely to result in interference to radio and TV reception. The user is cautioned that changes and modifications made to the equipment without the approval of manufacturer could void the user's authority to operate this equipment. This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. Declaration of Conformity According to FCC Part 15 Responsible Party Name: Canopus Corporation Address: 711 Charcot Avenue San Jose, CA 95131-2208 Telephone: Declares that product: (408) 954-4500 Model: DVRaptor Complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Responsible Person's Name: Roger Hounshell v FCC-B Radio Frequency Interference Statement This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits of a Class-B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instruction manual, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. Operation of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause harmful interference, in which case the user will be required to correct the interference at his own expense. Notice 1 The changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the users authority to operate the equipment. Notice 2 Shielded interface cables and AC power cord, if any, must be used in order to comply with the emission limits. Canopus Corporation Tested to Comply with FCC Standards For Home or Office Use vi Specifications Board Spec Board: Connectors : PCI board with bus-mastering IEEE 1394(i.LINK 4pin) x 2 (1 Internal, 1 External) Analog Video Pass-through (Preview): Input Connectors: RCA x 1, S-Video x 1 Output Connectors RCA x 1, S-Video x1 Data format : Blue Book compliant DV Codec (5:1 DV standard compression) DVCPRO-25 (DVRaptor for DVCPRO only) Video Size : 720x480 CCIR 601 pixel (NTSC) 720x576 (PAL) (NTSC/PAL DVRaptor only) Audio Format : 4 channel 32kHz 12bit stereo 2 channel 32 / 44.1 / 48kHz 16bit stereo Board length : 312mm Power (Max): +5V 1.5A +12V 0.6A -12V 0.05A TABLE OF CONTENTS vii Notice to Reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii DVRaptor - Limited Warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii FCC Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii Declaration of Conformity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv FCC-B Radio Frequency Interference Statement . . . . . . . v Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi Board Spec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi CHAPTER 1: Introduction Thank you. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1 About this manual. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-1 Manual conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3 Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4 CHAPTER 2: Installation Before Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1 DVRaptor System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2 Before installing DVRaptor hardware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3 Test Your Hardware with RapTest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-3 Overlay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Machine Info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Hard Disk Performance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Special note for IDE hard drive users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Special note for Windows NT users with IDE hard drives. DV Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4 2-5 2-6 2-7 2-7 2-7 Hardware Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-9 viii TABLE OF CONTENTS Before installing DVRaptor software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-11 Windows 9x Driver Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-11 Windows 2000 Driver Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-11 Windows NT 4.0 Driver Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-11 Applications Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-12 Bundled Applications Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-12 SoftXplode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-12 SoftMPG Encoder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-13 1 INTRODUCTION Hardware pass-through vs Software preview. . . . . . . . 2-14 Hardware pass-through preview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-14 Software preview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-14 Connecting your DV camera or deck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-15 Selecting Hardware or Software Preview . . . . . . . . . . . 2-24 Selecting Hardware Preview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-24 Selecting Software Preview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-27 Setup for Third-party Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-29 Adobe Premiere 5.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-30 Ulead MediaStudio Pro 5.2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-35 Ulead MediaStudio Pro 6.0. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-41 CHAPTER 3: Quick Start - Your First Editing Project Basic steps in video production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1 Acquisition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-1 Batch capture footage in Raptor Video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2 SyncCapture Audio in Raptor Audio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-5 Editing in Raptor Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7 Starting Raptor Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7 Setting the Temporary Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-7 Loading clips to edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-10 Adding clips to the timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-12 TABLE OF CONTENTS ix Adding transitions between clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adding an Insert cut away . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adjusting Audio levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adding a Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-15 3-17 3-18 3-19 Outputting your Production to Tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-23 CHAPTER 4: Raptor Video Introducing Raptor Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1 Raptor Video Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-1 Capturing Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3 Manual Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-3 Batch Capture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-5 Changing, Saving, and Loading Capture lists . . . . . . . . . . . 4-8 Important note about Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-10 Seamless capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-11 Changing, Saving, and Loading Capture lists . . . . . . . . . . 4-13 Reference AVI files and the 2-gigabyte AVI filesize limit. 4-15 Working with Captured Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-16 Loading clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-16 Playing and Scrubbing Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-17 Using the Play list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-18 Adding, Inserting, and Deleting clips in the Play list. . . . . . Rearranging clips in the Play list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Playing clips from the Play list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Trimming and Separating clips in the Play list . . . . . . . . . . Saving and Loading Play lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Playing the Play list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-19 4-21 4-21 4-22 4-24 4-25 Output to Tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-26 SyncRecord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-26 Manual record. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-27 Interface In-depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-28 Toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...