Pinnacle Systems MiroVIDEO DC30 Series Manual de usuario

miroVIDEO DC30 Series

USER’S GUIDE

miroVIDEO DC30 series

User’s Guide

Version 1.0 /GB August 1999

Part No. 51006044 Rev. B

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Contents i

Contents

OVERVIEW 1

WHAT IS THE miroVIDEO DC30 series? ........................................................................ 1

WHAT DOES THE miroVIDEO DC30 series OFFER? ....................................................... 3

BEFORE YOU BEGIN 5

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ................................................................................................... 5

PACKAGE CONTENTS......................................................................................................... 8

EXISTING VIDEO CAPTURE BOARD ................................................................................... 9

DEFRAGMENTING THE HARD DISK.................................................................................... 9

QUICK START 10

QUICK INSTALLATION ..................................................................................................... 10

VIDEO RECORDING—QUICK START ............................................................................... 11

PLAYBACK WITH MEDIAPLAYER—QUICK START......................................................... 12

SINGLE FRAMES—QUICK START (WINDOWS 95/98 ONLY) ........................................... 12

INSTALLING ADOBE PREMIERE 13

INSTALLING THE HARDWARE 15

CONNECTING THE VIDEO AND AUDIO DEVICES 17

CONNECTING VIDEO DEVICES......................................................................................... 18

CONNECTING AUDIO DEVICES......................................................................................... 19

INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE FOR WINDOWS 95/98 20

INSTALLING THE DRIVERS FOR WINDOWS 95 ................................................................ 21

INSTALLING THE DRIVERS FOR WINDOWS 98 ................................................................ 25

INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE FOR WINDOWS 95 / WINDOWS 98 ................................... 26

INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE FOR WINDOWS NT 4.0 33

THE INSTALLATION PROGRAM........................................................................................ 34

QUICK START GUIDE FOR DC30 PRO 37

AUDIO LOOPTHROUGH TEST .......................................................................................... 37

VIDEO LOOPTHROUGH TEST .......................................................................................... 39

VIDEO CAPTURE TEST .................................................................................................... 41

VIDEO EDIT TEST ............................................................................................................ 44

VIDEO OUTPUT TEST ...................................................................................................... 46

USING THE DC30 BOARD UNDER WINDOWS 95 / WINDOWS 9848

THE DC30 series CONTROL ............................................................................................ 49

LIVE OVERLAY ................................................................................................................ 53

SOUND SETTINGS ............................................................................................................. 55

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RECORDING VIDEO.......................................................................................................... 59

USING THE DC30 BOARD UNDER WINDOWS NT 65

DC30 series Control....................................................................................................... 65

MIROVIDEO CAPTURE 68

STARTING miroVIDEO CAPTURE.................................................................................. 68

MODE............................................................................................................................... 68

PROJECTS—STANDARD .................................................................................................. 69

PROJECTS—ADVANCED.................................................................................................. 71

SETTINGS—STANDARD ................................................................................................... 76

SETTINGS—ADVANCED .................................................................................................. 78

RECORD—STANDARD ..................................................................................................... 81

RECORD—ADVANCED .................................................................................................... 82

BATCH CAPTURE—ADVANCED (WINDOWS 95/98 AND PRODUCTIVITY PACK ONLY)..84

CLIPS ............................................................................................................................... 87

MIROINSTANT VIDEO 5 AND ADOBE PREMIERE 5.1 90

WHAT IS miroINSTANT VIDEO 5?................................................................................ 90

WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?................................................................................................... 90

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ................................................................................................ 91

HOW TO MAKE IT WORK? ............................................................................................... 91

HOW DOES IT WORK?...................................................................................................... 92

miroINSTANT VIDEO 5 WINDOW................................................................................. 92

MODES OF OPERATION ................................................................................................... 95

LIMITATIONS ................................................................................................................... 98

miroVIDEO DC30 series AND miroINSTANT VIDEO 5 .............................................. 98

CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS VERSIONS ........................................................................... 99

TITLEDEKO 100

WELCOME TO TITLEDEKO........................................................................................... 100

INSTALLING TITLEDEKO .............................................................................................. 101

LAUNCHING TITLEDEKO .............................................................................................. 101

THE TITLEDEKO USER INTERFACE ............................................................................. 102

SELECTING TEXT AND OBJECTS................................................................................... 106

FORMATTING TEXT AND OBJECTS ............................................................................... 107

TOOLS AND SELECTION HANDLES................................................................................ 109

TRANSFORMING TEXT AND OBJECTS........................................................................... 111

USING AND MODIFYING LOOKS AND STYLES............................................................... 112

THE BACKGROUND........................................................................................................ 115

LET’S MAKE A TITLE.................................................................................................... 117

TIPS&TRICKS 126

GENERAL INFORMATION............................................................................................... 126

HARDWARE.................................................................................................................... 126

SOFTWARE..................................................................................................................... 128

DIGITIZING .................................................................................................................... 129

VIDEO EDITING.............................................................................................................. 130

miroVIDEO DC30 series AND ADOBE PREMIERE 4.2 / 4.2LE ................................... 131

miroVIDEO DC30 series AND COMPUTER ANIMATION .............................................. 135

JPEG ISSUES ................................................................................................................. 135

TROUBLESHOOTING 136

Contents iii

INSTALLATION............................................................................................................... 136

OPERATION.................................................................................................................... 138

PERFORMANCE PROBLEMS DURING DIGITIZING .......................................................... 138

PROBLEMS PLAYING BACK AND EDITING VIDEOS ........................................................ 139

VIDCAP .......................................................................................................................... 140

AUDIO PROBLEMS.......................................................................................................... 140

ADOBE PREMIERE ......................................................................................................... 144

WINDOWS 95 / WINDOWS 98......................................................................................... 145

WINDOWS NT ................................................................................................................ 146

miroINSTANT VIDEO .................................................................................................. 149

TECHNICAL DATA 151

GENERAL ....................................................................................................................... 151

CONNECTORS................................................................................................................. 152

APPENDIX A: HARDWARE CONFIGURATIONS 154

DIGITIZING WITH THE miroVIDEO DC30 series........................................................ 154

DIGITIZING AND RECORDING WITH THE miroVIDEO DC30 series........................... 156

DIGITIZING WITH THE miroVIDEO DC30 series AND A SOUND BOARD .................... 158

DIGITIZING AND RECORDING WITH THE miroVIDEO DC30 series

AND A SOUND BOARD ..................................................................................................... 159

APPENDIX B: GLOSSARY 161

APPENDIX C: SUPPORT QUESTIONNAIRE 168

APPENDIX D: FCC COMPLIANCE STATEMENT 172

INDEX 174

miroVIDEO DC30 series User´s Guide

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product and computer system please note the following:

•Computer components are sensitive to static charge. Divert any electrostatic

charge from your person before touching the components with your hands or

any tools.

•Before opening the computer make sure that the power plug is disconnected

from the main socket.

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About the User’s Guide

This manual explains how to install and use the hardware and software of your

miroVIDEO DC30 series product. It also contains many tips and tricks to make

optimal use of it.

In the margins are subheadings to help you quickly find your way through this

manual.

Important text passages are marked with the “notepad”and this format.

Numbers mark step by step instructions:

1. Start Windows.

Bullets mark instructions for optional steps the order of which is not important.

•Connect the board to the camcorder.

All keyboard commands appear in this font:

install <↵>

<↵>represents the enter key.

Menus, commands, options, or buttons which the user can select are written in

italics.

Subheadings

Overview 1

Overview

The following chapter gives you an overview of the fields of application and

the features of the miroVIDEO DC30 series hardware and software.

WHAT IS THE miroVIDEO DC30 series?

The miroVIDEO DC30 series contains the following Pinnacle boards:

miroVIDEO DC30

miroVIDEO DC30 with miroVIDEO Productivity Pack*

miroVIDEO DC30 SPEED (Germany only)

miroVIDEO DC30 plus

miroVIDEO DC30 pro (USA only).

This manual covers all of these products, and “miroVIDEO DC30 series”

stands for “miroVIDEO DC30 or miroVIDEO DC30 plus or...”and so on. The

main differences between these products are different bundled additional

software packages.

Differences to note:

miroVIDEO DC30 has a data rate limit of 6 MB/sec, the others can do up to

7 MB/sec. All miroVIDEO DC30 series products except miroVIDEO DC30

support miroINSTANT Video. Only the Productivity Pack allows for device

control and batch capture with the Pinnacle capture application and Windows

95/98.

The miroVIDEO DC30 series is a system of hardware and software, for IBM

compatible PCs with a PCI bus, used to digitize, compress, process, and play

back video sequences in Motion-JPEG format. The sound is digitized, as well.

You can also add the sound to your video clips after they have been recorded.

The miroVIDEO DC30 series also lets you digitize, compress, process, and

reproduce individual images as TrueColor bitmaps.

*Windows 95 / 98 only.

Differences

miroVIDEO DC30 Series User´s Guide

Where to use it?

Boards of the miroVIDEO DC30 series convert video into a computer-

understandable format by digitizing video sequences to uncompressed or

Motion-JPEG compressed data files. The video sequences can then be edited

on the computer and output in good to very good S-VHS quality to a VCR,

television, or computer monitor. The higher the quality of the video input and

the higher the computer’s data transfer rate, the better the output quality of the

video image.

The miroVIDEO DC30 series’video post-production recording capabilities

combined with video editing software, Adobe Premiere, provide a complete

video studio plus cutting table on your desktop.

The miroVIDEO DC30 series’capabilities result from optimally integrated

hardware and software.

System components

Hardware

The miroVIDEO DC30 series hardware is a state-of-the-art PCI video digitizer.

The miroVIDEO DC30 series includes a JPEG processor to compress video as

well as a video encoder and an audio codec to digitize and decode audio

signals. For capturing and playing back the PCI bus mastering mode is used.

Software

The miroVIDEO DC30 series software includes the miroVIDEO DC30 series

drivers to control the video capture, compression, decompression, and

playback. miroINSTANT Video, miroVIDEO Capture, and

miroVIDEO EXPERT, a hard disk test utility are also part of the miroVIDEO

DC30 series’software. Adobe Premiere and the presets for Adobe Premiere

offer you a wide range of options for video and audio editing.

Overview 3

WHAT DOES THE miroVIDEO DC30 series OFFER?

The miroVIDEO DC30 series system stands out for its quality (Hi8),

compression capabilities, performance, and digital video editing capabilities.

Combined with a suitable graphics board, the miroVIDEO DC30 series offers

digital real-time overlay. Please also see our website

(http://www.pinnaclesys.com) for hardware compatibility.

The following diagram illustrates the possible connections:

Inputs:

Camcorder, VCR, TV tuner, ...

VCR

TV for image preview (optional)

VCR

VCR VCR

VCR

Combined audio

input/output

Composite video input

S-Video input

Composite video output

S-Video output

Audio output of the video source,

microphone, tape recorder, CD player, ... TV, loudspeakers, ...

Audio input of the VCR,

Outputs:

•Video inputs

The miroVIDEO DC30 series connects to any video source (VCR, video

camera, TV tuner, laserdisk, still-video camera) that generates a composite

video signal or an S-Video signal (such as VHS, S-VHS, Hi8, Video 8).

•Video outputs

To record video sequences back to tape, connect a composite or S-Video

VCR to the miroVIDEO DC30 series. Video sequences can also be

displayed on a TV or computer monitor.

•Audio codec

The audio codec integrated on the miroVIDEO DC30 series board digitizes

the sound during video digitization, providing synchronous playback of

video and audio.

miroVIDEO DC30 Series User´s Guide

•Video formats

The NTSC and PAL and SECAM (video input only) TV standards are

supported.

•Video compression

The integrated JPEG processor on the miroVIDEO DC30 series compresses

video sequences in real-time in Motion-JPEG format.

•Optimized bus interface

The miroVIDEO DC30 series supports the PCI bus mastering mode and is

therefore capable of transferring the uncompressed video data for the video

overlay to suitable PCI graphics boards simultaneously to the compressed

audio and video data.

•Digital video editing

The miroVIDEO DC30 series offers all the possibilities of a digital video

studio: cuts, filters, transparency effects, integration of computer graphics

and computer animation, and much more.

•Best color quality

The video image is scanned at a high color bandwidth at a 4:2:2 ratio

(brightness by color information in accordance with the YUV model).

•Full Screen—Full Motion Video

The performance of a video digitizer is defined on the frame size, frame rate,

and color depth. miroVIDEO DC30 series can digitize full size, full motion

video with 16.7 million colors (24 bits color depth) in real-time.

•Adobe Premiere

The miroVIDEO DC30 series package includes Adobe Premiere. Adobe

Premiere is a software for capturing, editing, and playing back digital video

under Windows.

•Hardware-independent playback

Software, such Adobe Premiere, can generate AVI files using suitable

compressors such as Cinepak. These files can be played back without

specialized hardware.



miroINSTANT Video

miroINSTANT Video is a playback plug-in for Adobe Premiere.

miroINSTANT Video 5 integrates itself into the Adobe Premiere interface.

The plug-in handles the video clips and effects in the timeline and controls

playback and scrubbing directly from the timeline.

Important: miroINSTANT Video does not run on a single miroVIDEO DC30.

Please refer to the chapters describing miroINSTANT Video on Page 90.

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