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1. miroVIDEO DCS50 Other sound board Manufacturer and type Which video resolution and video data rate do you use Video resolution x Video data rate ____ MByte s Refresh rate ___ _ Frames s PAL NTSC SECAM XVIII miroVIDEO DC50 Video devices 1 Which video devices do you use Player Manufacturer and type Recorder Manufacturer and type 2 Which input output of the miroVIDEO product do you use Input Output Component Y B Y R Y S VHS Component Y B Y R Y S VHS 3 Do you use an external sync signal Yes No 4 Which device sends this signal Composite Composite 5 Do you use a device control If yes which one Important Please explain the problem you have with the installation or the operation of your board in detail on a separate sheet of paper In addition to the questionnaire please fax us a printout of your computer configuration e g the printout of the device manager if you use Windows 95 Thank you very much for your cooperation and for answering the questions Kind regards Your Pinnacle Systemy Team Appendix D Support questionnaire XIX Appendix E License agreement CAREFULLY READ THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS BEFORE USING THIS PROGRAM USING THIS PROGRAM INDICATES YOUR ACCE
2. INSTALLING TITLEDEKO To install TitleDeko proceed as follows 1 Switch on the computer If you have not done so already switch on the computer 2 Insert CD ROM If have not done so already insert the TitleDeko installation CD in your CD ROM drive The installation program should start automatically If this is not the case the AutoStart function of your CD ROM drive has probably been disabled In this case you have to start the installation program manually To do so elect the Run command in the Start menu and enter your drive letter AUTORUN EXE Click on OK to start the installation program 3 Follow the instructions Follow the instructions of the installation program LAUNCHING TITLEDEKO You can launch TitleDeko from the Main Menu Bar of Adobe Premiere or in two ways from an existing Adobe Premiere project You can also start TitleDeko directly from Windows Launching from the Adobe Premiere Main Menu Bar Choose Project gt Create then click TitleDeko Launching from the Adobe Premiere Timeline On the Timeline double click the title icon of an existing TitleDeko title You can only launch TitleDeko in this manner when there is a TitlheDeko title on the Timeline Launching from the Adobe Premiere Project Window In the Project window double click the title icon of an existing TitleDeko title You can only launch TitleDeko in this manner when there is a TitleDeko in the Project wind
3. Minimize The third item in the menu is used to change the size of the miroINSTANT Restore Video 5 window If the window is at normal size the menu item is named Minimize and will reduce the window size so that only the window title bar remains visible minha TANT fader a If the window is at minimized size the menu item is named Restore and will bring back the window to normal size You may keep the miroINSTANT Video 5 window minimized during editing to have the maximum space available for other windows and restore it to normal size for printing your production to tape in order to see the dropped frames information MODES OF OPERATION Video output In Premiere 5 1 there are many modes of video display You can play scrub or preview you can use the trim or slip slide tools the monitor window can be in single view or dual view mode with attached or detached controls and many more The Premiere 5 1 documentation describes what s happening in all of these modes on the PC screen if you not use miroINSTANT Video 5 When using miroINSTANT Video 5 the video display behaves different from the descriptions in the Premiere 5 1 manual In most modes of Premiere 5 1 operation you will get video output from your Pinnacle editing board to your TV or video device In some cases the PC screen display is different from the standard Premiere 5 1 behavior Here come the details shown on TV means output by the miroVI
4. Hilfe The Help button gives detailed information about each page and element on 1t miroVIDEO Capture 69 RECORD The Record tab lets you record and playback video clips The current settings are displayed in the top right corner When playing back a video sequence you can copy a current frame into the Windows Clipboard by clicking the left mouse button in the overlay window The mouse pointer will temporarily appear in form of a camera and the frame will be copied SE ere O Castes AILIFE PROJECTI Current acting Wideo Video standard ATS POCIAl Aeseletian B72 464 25 97 Fremes per second Dats rate KBs 6 87 1 Video source S Videw Audio Shares d khz 16 ae Audis source Extemal Len oon of Le Tapias bias af O pe FE zg 1 i ee ed Fieened path h icaphesii unn d Fiat his bo capia fimi T e Record video sequences Record several video sequences with a duration of about half a minute Hilfe The Help button gives detailed information about every page and each element on it 70 miroVIDEO DC50 Clips The Clips tab allows you to playback to rename or to delete all digitized video sequences of a project eMC Capian MME POAT Bee Projects Saingi Assad Slee e Playback Video Sequences if necessary If you want to view the recorded video sequences play them back via the Clips tab Hilfe The Help button gives detailed information about every p
5. VCR connected to the Line input of the breakout box via the DC50 board Balanced Input The Balanced Input slider allows you to control the input level and the balance of the device e g VCR connected to the balanced input of the breakout box via the DC50 Mute The Mute control box turns off the volume of the corresponding audio sources line balanced internal Mute all The Mute all control box mutes all inputs Advanced Record The Advanced buttons let you make further settings If these buttons are not visible select Advanced Controls from the Options menu Set Default Values The Set Default Values option sets all sliders to default settings The default settings are the ones that were enabled after you first installed the DC50 software Advanced External The Advanced buttons let you make further settings If these buttons are not visible select Advanced Controls from the Options menu Mic Boost On The Mic Boost On button lets you enable an additional amplification of 20 dB for the external input if you want to connect a microphone Usingt the DC50 under Windows 95 98 55 VA Using the DC50 GS under Windows NT Important If you use Windows 95 or 98 you should skip this chapter and see Using the board under Windows 95 98 on page 45 miroVIDEO DC50 CONTROL miroVIDEO DC50 Control allows you to make all settings for the video in and output In addition to the general settings miro
6. Video and audio are asynchronous Load the video sequence in your video processing software Adobe Premiere U LEAD Video Editor and create a new movie from it Under Output Options select Sound after every frame No frames were dropped during digitizing with sound but the movie jerks when played back Load the video sequence in your video processing software Adobe Premiere U LEAD Video Editor and create a new movie from it Under Output Options select Sound after every frame In some cases it may also be necessary to deactivate the Optimize still frame option in the Compress command of the Make Movie menu No frames were dropped during digitizing with sound but the video sequence jerks after editing with video processing software Adobe Premiere Note the number of recorded frames after capture Use this number to calculate the resulting movie length duration At 25 frames sec this is Number of frames 25 PAL Time Load the clip in your video processing software and select the menu item to redetermine clip duration Enter the calculated time here Caution in many programs the last two clip duration places are not tenths of seconds but number of frames 0 24 Troubleshooting 127 VIDCAP32 4 p VidCap32 aborts with a General Protection Fault Internal VidCap32 application failure Known problems The standard VidCap32 setting is to place the capture file on C CAPTURE AVI To use a differ
7. dealers assume the entire cost of all necessary servicing repair or correction XXI Appendix E Licence agreement Pinnacle Systems warrants to the original licensee that Pinnacle Systems DV500shall be free from defects in material and workmanship only for a period of thirty 30 days from the date of original purchase If a defect covered by this warranty occurs during this period and it is returned to the dealer from whom it was purchased not later than five 5 days after the end of such period the dealer shall at its option either repair or replace the item This warranty is in lieu of all other express or statutory warranties and the duration of any implied warranty including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose is hereby limited to said thirty 30 day period Pinnacle Systems warrants to the original licensee that Pinnacle Systems DV500 shall be free from defects in material and workmanship only for a period of one 1 year from the date of original purchase If a defect covered by this warranty occurs during this period the licensee may request a Return Material Authorization RMA number from Pinnacle Systems Upon receipt of the returned item s Pinnacle Systems shall at its option either repair or replace the item s Items returned to Pinnacle Systems without RMA numbers will not be accepted This warranty is in lieu of all other express or statutory warranties and th
8. green and blue are adapted to each other in a way that white image parts of a scene are played without color cast and thus all colors within the color area of the TV are played correctly Y C is a signal consisting of two components Y Brightness information C Color information Color model of a video signal where Y delivers the brightness information and U and V the color information Appendix C Multimedia glossary XV Appendix D Support questionnaire From Mr Ms Company Street No Postal code City Phone Fax Dear customer In case of technical problems please read the enclosed manual first or consult your retailer In case this is not sufficient please keep the following information ready System configuration 1 Which type of computer do you use Manufacturer model name Motherboard chip set Processor Manufacturer Type MHz Dual CPU Yes No 2 At which clock rate does your computer operate ____ MHz At which clock rate does the I O bus operate MHz 3 How many RAMs are installed in your computer ___ MB RAM XVI miroVIDEO DC50 4 Which Microsoft Windows version do you use Windows 95 Version _ Windows 98 Version ___ Windows NT Version __ _ Service Pack Windows 2000 Version _ Computer peripheral 1 Which hard disk controller type is installed in your computer Sy
9. has its own set of attributes such as color size and blur which you change to create a custom look The face is the font rendered in the current attributes The edge is an additional line around the face and the shadow is an offset second image of the face and the edge Select View gt Look Editor or click the Edit Current Look button The Look Editor window appears with a tab for each of the three details l 102 miroVIDEO DC50 The Details and Attributes Most of the Attribute controls are obvious so the following does not explain those in depth In addition a small preview window in the lower left corner shows your adjustments which makes it easy for you to experiment Face Edge Shadow Face Edge Shadow Face Edge Shadow Face Edge Shadow m Sthadow Color Shadow Color S r Shadow Color C Sha ek cal I Shai je ca L C Shai ek ca I Shadow is a color gradient H Shadow is a color gradient H C Shadow is a color gradient H Shadow blur amount OES AR Shadow blur amount P E Shadow blur amount S EL 0 30 s s s 0 30 u s s s 0 30 m a s s Shadow size Shadow size s s Shadow size s ho sa ho s g jo c 9 0 30 m s 0 30 m s 0 30 m s g ee eee ess B B o o eed oH se Eee B Face edge and shadow details have several items in common Choice of solid or gradient colors These operate the same was a
10. jump when an AVI file is played back at higher data rates This can be traced back to the fact that the hard disk carries out a recalibration while reading the file thus interrupting playback This problem is not caused by the DC50 but is the result of the manner in which the hard disk operates and interacts with other system components There are several solutions you can use to increase the speed of your hard disk 1 From the Start menu and the Settings command open the Control Panel 2 Open the System file then activate the Performance File System and Troubleshooting commands 3 Activate the Disable write behind caching for all drives option and click OK 4 In the Control Panel click System Performance File System and Hard Disk 5 Set the Read ahead optimization option to None In general this will result in an increase in the data transfer rate CAUTION In some hard disks however this can result in a decrease in the write rate When running the DC50 under Windows 95 98 we recommend using Adobe Premiere to capture AVI files When recording very short video sequences you should capture them directly to the hard disk and not to your unit s virtual memory For playback use the Windows 95 98 media player 126 miroVIDEO DC50 N Inadequate image quality Compression is set too high or the data rate is set to low If possible use a faster hard disk PROBLEMS PLAYING BACK AND EDITING VIDEOS
11. some clips have a format that does not match with the project settings and have not yet been converted to the correct format or there are gaps in the timeline without any clips If you scrub or play these non playable parts will not show on the video output of your miroVIDEO editing board To make the whole project playable you have to activate the Premiere 5 1 Render Preview function 1 e by hitting the lt Enter gt key Important If your work area does not include the complete timeline the film strip in the INSTANT Video 5 window may still show red frames after you called Render Preview This is not a problem because the non playable parts of the timeline are outside the work area so the work area will play to tape without problems miroINSTANT Video 75 Status line Normally there is a status line at the bottom of the INSTANT Video 5 window that shows different information depending on the current mode of operation of miroINSTANT Video 5 The status line is not visible if the window has been minimized see miroINSTANT Video 5 menu below Dropped frames Indicator If you are currently playing parts of the timeline meaning that video plays in the right video window within the Premiere 5 1 monitor window the status line shows the number of video frames that have been dropped during the current playback For smooth playback this number must be zero If the number of dropped frames is not zero see the troubleshooting
12. 2 do absolutely install and use these presets Documentation The user s guide is also available in PDF format and can be opened with the Acrobat Reader If Acrobat Reader 4 has not already been installed on your computer use the Documentation option to install it After having determined the components click Next This installation step is not required if you have chosen Typical or Compact as setup type Installing the software for Windows NT 43 Select video standard click Next Select the video standard you use and click on Next Click Next In the Start copying files window all components you chose are listed If you wish to change the settings you chose click on Back Click Next to start copying Now the selected components will be installed 10 If necessary install Acrobat Reader If the current settings include the online manual and on your computer the Acrobat Reader is not installed you are asked if you want to install the Acrobat Reader If necessary click on Yes to install the Acrobat Reader 11 Click Finish 44 miroVIDEO DC50 In the Complete Setup window you are asked to restart Windows NT Please carry out this prompt and click on Finish to complete the installation of DC50 Using the DC50 under Windows 95 98 This chapter provides an introduction into working with the DC50 You can find additional information about working with the DC50 in the Tips amp tricks section pa
13. 95 98 47 48 miroVIDEO DC50 Activate reference output The Activate reference output is activated by default If your BetaCam deck is reference clock source and recording device at the same time you need to deactivate the check box Video settings Allows you to modify the Brightness the Contrast the Saturation and the Sharpness Under NTSC you can additionally change the NTSC Hue This will have an impact on the video signal during digitalization If you want to edit the unchanged video material you need to set the sliders on the default settings Extended The extended settings for the video inputs are only used for special applications circumstances The usage requires a certain knowledge in the field of video technology If you are not sure about these settings please do not change them as otherwise problems might occur during video digitalization Click OK Click OK in order to close the miroVIDEO DC350 Video Input dialog box and to take over the determined settings The settings will be saved If you connect another video source to the breakout box of DC50 you might need to open the miroVIDEO DC50 Video Input dialog box again in order to make the corresponding settings Once the dialog box is closed an image should be seen in the video window if a connected player is switched on and overlay is activated If this is not the case please refer to the chapter Troubleshooting starting on page Fehler Textmarke
14. Do absolutely use one hard disk for the system software and applications and at least a second one exclusively for the video data Graphics board 16 Bit HiColor graphics board In order to display the played back video footage jerkylessly on the PC monitor your graphics board needs to support DirectDraw in the set Windows resolution Furthermore it must be able to display at least 16 Bit color depth 65 536 colors Please pay attention to the compatibility list on our website The color depth necessary for an overlay is determined by the DirectDraw driver CD ROM drive CD ROM drive for the software installation Software Windows NT 4 0 or Windows 95 98 6 miroVIDEO DC50 Processor Slot Memory Motherboard System disk Video disk Graphics board CD ROM drive Software Monitor Recommended system configuration We recommend the following system configuration Such a system allows you to use DC50 at its highest quality and speed Pentium III 500 PC or compatible computer When working under Windows NT 4 0 dual CPU system if necessary Motherboard see below One free 32 Bit PCI Slot bus master Version 2 1 256 KB Important The motherboard must be able to cache the whole primary store The reachable data rate and the video quality depends to a large amount on the used PC motherboard or the chips Please pay attention to the compatibility list on the http www pinnaclesys com website Fast E IDE or Ultra Wide S
15. Premiere The settings you need to determine in the miroVIDEO DC50 Video Input and miroVIDEO DC50 Video Format dialog boxes must also be determined when using other capture programs as e g VidCap 32 Please carry out the following steps in order to digitize videos under Premiere 1 Start Adobe Premiere Start Adobe Premiere from the Start menu with the commands Programs Adobe and Adobe Premiere 2 Choose the project preset In the window New Project Settings choose an appropriate miro DC50 project preset We recommend miroDC50 ITU R 601 3 Choose File Capture Movie Capture Choose the commands Capture and Movie Capture from the File menu In the menu the additional menu item Movie Capture will be displayed 4 Choose Movie Capture and VfW Settings Choose the command VfW Settings from the Movie Capture menu 5 Select Video Input Click on the Video Input button Video lor Windows Capture Options feo preview P Widen rere Lae Update rate when previ ing wen fia ip Update rate when Capturing video or x Or er Sethings Video Format Video np i Drie Marne mrov DEO DESO Motion PES Capture Ober Beard Version 4 313 The miroVIDEO DC50 Video input dialog box appears Please make the necessary settings 46 miroVIDEO DC50 Video Input The dialog box miroVIDEO DC50 Video input allows you to determine all the settings concerning your video source Please refer to the on line help for furt
16. Q S miroVIDEO DC50 Resolution 120 XII RGB XIII Roll 92 107 113 ROM XIII Rotate 93 94 95 99 101 102 107 111 112 Rotate Skew 99 101 111 112 Run Length Encoding III XIII Save 92 110 Save button 112 113 114 Scale 94 Scaling 101 XIII Scene XIII Scrollable 107 113 114 SCSI 117 XIII SCSI host adapter XIII SCSI terminator XIII SCSI ID XII Search and replace 94 SECAM 8 XIII Select 92 95 96 97 98 100 108 111 113 Select All 95 Selected 93 96 100 Selection box 95 96 99 101 111 114 Send Back One Layer 94 100 Send to Back 94 112 Serial port XIII Settings 69 134 Setup type 33 41 Shadow 97 102 103 104 Shadows IV Shape 94 107 112 Shortcuts 92 96 97 98 100 101 108 109 110 112 113 114 SIF XII Signal to noise XIII Single frame XIV Size 92 94 97 102 108 113 Skew 93 94 95 99 101 107 111 112 Software 2 33 40 Software CODEC XIV Solid background 106 Solid color 103 105 Sound recording 54 Sound settings 52 Source material 117 Speed 113 114 Splits 116 Spread justification 98 99 Stand In 57 Stand Out 57 Status line 92 Still 92 Still Video XIV Style 102 104 107 108 109 113 114 S VHS XIV S Video XIV System configuration 6 7 System requirements 6 134 System settings 117 System software 34 43 Test 37 Text 93 94 95 96 97 100 102 112 121 Texture 97 Textures 116 Thirds 116 Time Code XIV Ti
17. The PCI slot in which the DC50 is installed was not assigned an IRQ in the BIOS If you cannot explicitly assign an IRQ to the PC slot in the BIOS you must define an IRQ as AVAILABLE for the PCI bus In this case each PCI board must be assigned an IRQ via the corresponding PCI slot during installation The DC50 supports IRQ sharing that is the DC50 shares the IRQ with another PCI board of course this board must also support IRQ sharing Troubleshooting 123 This operating mode can however lead to performance loss when recording and playing back videos My computer crashes when I start the DC50 hardware test or the Capture program The DC50 is being used in conjunction with a graphics board based on an S3 chip With graphics boards using a Vision968 S3 processor there is sometimes a problem because the 968 chip only requests 32 MB for itself while actually accessing 64 MB The system maps the DC50 directly behind the graphics boards so that the graphics driver is reaching into the DC50 area You must change the graphics board mapping manually If the DC50 memory area is located directly after one of the graphics board s memory areas you must use the device manager to move the graphics board memory resources to a different area For example the current setting is graphics board at F0000000 F1FFFFFF DCS50 at F2000000 F2FFFFFF you must move the graphic board memory to for example E0000000 E1FFFFFF Pro
18. WVideogami Unique folding wipes that evoke origami as they open Pure amp Simple Over seventy simple elegantly flowing transitions Edge2Edge Fresh wipes that travel cleanly across the frame Iris Essentials Meaningful symbols and shapes that grow to reveal Splits Creative new approaches to splitting images in half Thirds Transitions that flow along third points in the frame TruQuads Useful ways to slice and wipe in frame quadrants Organix Break from the usual with seventy live edges Kaleidos Amazing kaleidoscopic patterns that open images Livelrises Irises featuring a wide variety of dynamic edges LiveWipes Cool edge dynamics applied to standard wipe styles Textures Natural textures that organically evolve to reveal WonderBands Fifty band effects to extend your visual repertoire Radiant Novas rays waves and other effects Uniform New styles of uniform size bands that move and grow Variable Variable size band like effects Standards Plus Iris and wipe transition standards you can easily soften or customize to an unlimited degree leading to fresh visual treatments 116 mirovVIDEO DC50 Tips amp Tricks There are several possibilities in order to optimize the performance for editing videos These possibilities are based on the following aspects System settings Source material Capturing Editing video sequences SYSTEM SETTINGS G
19. Windows ActiveMovie Direct X Extensions is a bundle of several system extensions developed by Microsoft for Windows 95 among others DirectDraw Direct3D to make possible video and game acceleration A transitional effect in which the video is faded from one scene to the next The number of colors is increased for the human eye artificially by the application of color patterns Appendix C Multimedia glossary Vil DMA Driver DV DV cassette DV recording format ECP Edit decision list EDL EPP EPROM Fade To From Black Field Abbreviation for Direct Memory Access A file containing information needed to operate peripherals The Studio capture driver operates the Studio capture board for example Digital videotape format for recording digital audio and video on 14 wide Metal Evaporated tape Mini DV tapes hold up to 60 minutes of content while standard DV tapes can hold up to 270 minutes of content The DV cassette features 500 lines of H resolution component recording signal to noise ratios 54dB better than Betacam three times the chroma bandwidth of LL Hi8 and LL S VHS 1 5MHz the same as Betacam LU time code 16 bit LH DAT quality audio or four tracks of 12 bit 32kHz separate video and audio insert editing and direct digital input and output based on H TEEE 1394 for multiple video stream transfers and editing with no generation loss On DV tapes the video and audio data the add
20. a transparent background in which case the text and objects appear directly on top of the video They can alternatively have a solid or gradient color background A color background can either be opaque no underlying video is visible or semi opaque allowing the video to show through the color background TitleDeko also allows the option of importing a picture to use as the background Replace Background Window You control all aspects of the background with the Replace Background window Background is transparent title will appear over live video Cancel Background is a solid color Background is a color gradient Ga J K Picture ile name Background is a picture Transparent Backgrounds Select Background is transparent to create a transparent title with no background This is the default choice for Background For a transparent or semitransparent title you must also select Alpha Channel as your Key Type from the Adobe Premiere Transparency Settings window Solid Color Backgrounds To use a solid color as a background select Background is a solid color This creates a background consisting of a single color This background could be semitransparent if the opacity is set between 0 and 100 percent Gradient Backgrounds To use a gradient background select Background is a color gradient Gradient backgrounds consist of two or more colors that are blended smoothly together Each color ca
21. block see above the deviant information only reaches the exact frame limit thus producing a flickering checkerboard pattern Appendix B JPEG image data compression lli IV miroVIDEO DC50 Soft shadows Aside from the inaccurate reproduction of high frequency elements other data are also reduced during quantification Here the brightness and color are also inaccurately shown When a JPEG compressed image is recalculated inaccuracies will also result in this area In the analog image this calculated inaccuracy results in surfaces that previously were the same color and brightness or were softly shadowed now exhibit a sudden color jump between individual blocks Here too the problem only occurs on a block by block basis Computer monitors are particularly sensitive to JPEG problems Recording with a VCR will rectify these problems to a certain extent For quality control purposes we therefore recommend that you perform a complete work cycle and then view the results from a VCR ActiveMovie ADPCM Address Aliasing Anti aliasing Aspect ratio AVI Batch Capture Betacam BIOS Appendix C Multimedia Glossary Multimedia terminology contains computer and video terminology The most important terms are defined in the following Cross references are marked with LJ Software interface by Microsoft for the control of multimedia devices under Windows LJ DirectShow DirectMedia Abbreviation for Adaptive
22. box on page Fehler Textmarke nicht definiert Quick start 11 L Establish the audio link M Connect the audio source to the audio input of the breakout box M Connect the balanced audio source to the balanced audio input of the breakout box VI Connect the recording device or active loud speakers to the audio output of the breakout box M Connect the recording device or the active loud speakers to the balanced audio output of the breakout box Connect the breakout box to the DC50 VI Connect the breakout box to the 62 pin connector of the DC50 screw it tight Afterwards please do not bend or pull the cable MI Switch your computer on Install the DC50 software M Place the CD ROM in the CD ROM drive M Follow the installation program instructions on the screen Configure the DC50 Windows 95 98 only M Test your hardware to make sure it is operating correctly M miroVIDEO EXPERT starts up automatically to check your system s performance level M Quit configuration by clicking OK VIDEO RECORDING WINDOWS 95 98 Start Adobe Premiere Start Adobe Premiere from the Premiere program group Be AS Choose Preset Choose the appropriate miroDC50 preset miroDC50 TV cropping Note down the displayed image resolution Save the Project Choose File and Save and save the still empty project to a video hard disk with a sufficient amount of free storage
23. code while values occurring often receive a short code When playing back video the JPEG image compression steps occur in the reverse order JPEG PROBLEMS During compression with the JPEG algorithm low JPEG quality can produce two types of problems A checkerboard pattern appears at sharp color transitions and edges light dark Unequal color distribution in uniform soft shadows Sharp color transitions and edges In order for JPEG image data compression to occur a video image is first divided in 8 x 8 image point blocks for Y portions or 8 x 16 image points for UV portions During discrete cosine transformation Y U and V information is converted into frequency coefficients for each of these blocks After this conversion sharp color transitions and edges produce high frequency elements During quantification the data is reduced by among other things any high frequency elements being rounded off and thus more inaccurately displayed The lower the specified JPEG quality the larger the rounding off factor and the more inaccurately any high frequency elements will be displayed If the JPEG compressed image is recalculated for analog output inaccuracies will arise These will be greater the lower the JPEG quality of the original was In the analog image this calculated inaccuracy appears in the form of deviating brightness and color information Because the reverse calculation is also performed block by
24. compression at a capture resolution of 672 x 464 TV cropping is 2 5 1 For Betacam material usually a compression factor of 4 1 to 5 1 can be chosen without producing visible quality losses A further reduction of the compression factor meaning at the same time increasing the data rate would mean wasting hard disk space Therefore experimenting with different compression factors is more effective than generally choosing the smallest value Data rate The data rate slider allows you to determine the data rate for capturing the video sequence Changing the position of the Data rate slider changes automatically the position of the Compression slider The set data rate will be displayed High data rate means high quality If a certain material dependent data rate is reached the maximum quality is reached as well no visible difference compared to the input signal a further increasing of the quality is impossible If the determined data rate is getting too high for your computer system a warning message will appear For that it is necessary to previously measure the performance of the hard disk with miroVIDEO Expert Click OK Click on the OK button in order to close the miroVIDEO DCS50 Video Format dialog box and to accept the determined settings 10 Determine the drive for the temporary outsourcing file click OK Choose the commands Preferences and Scratch Disk from the File menu Select that drive for the temporary ou
25. e transfer the program and license to another party if the other party agrees to accept the terms and conditions of this agreement If you transfer the program you must at the same time either transfer all copies to the same party or destroy any copies not transferred If you transfer possession of any copy of the program to another party your license is automatically terminated Prohibited Uses You may not without explicit prior written permission from Pinnacle Systems a use modify or transfer the program or copy the program in whole or in part except as expressly provided herein b reverse engineer decompile or otherwise recreate the program or hardware in whole or in part c make copies of or distribute for profit or otherwise or authorize the copying or distribution of the program hardware or materials related thereto except as herein provided d make alterations to the program or merge it into any other software e grant sublicenses and leases or other rights in the program or program materials to others f make verbal or media translations of the program in whole or in part or of the program materials g modify the program for use on non compatible hardware h make telecommunications data transmissions of the program in whole or in part i distribute the program on either a permanent or temporary basis to others j make available any part of the program or program materials to any third party ot
26. 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 to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures e Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna e Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver e 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 Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user s authority to operate the equipment Shielded interface cable must be used in order to comply with the emission limits LABEL WARNING iV miroVIDEO DC50 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 Pinnacle Systems miroVIDEO DC50 Tested To Comply With FCC Standards FOR HOME OR OFFICE USE Subheadings Gi About
27. laser disks can only be read but not changed Long shots later provide the viewer with an overview and establish the scene of the action However these scenes can also be used later to shorten longer scenes When you cut from a close up to a long shot the viewer no longer sees the details and it is thus easier to make a chronological jump Showing a spectator in a semi long shot can also distract briefly from the actual action Parallel port Brightness MPEG file that contains video data only MPA MPG One MByte Megabyte corresponds to 1024 HH KBytes or also 1024 x 1024 bytes In video editing the mark in and mark out times refer to the starting and ending time codes that identify the portions of clips to be included in the project Media Control Interface Developed by Microsoft as a means to play audio and video data It is also used to connect a computer to an external video source such as a VCR or laser disc A method for the transmission of electrical information Appendix C Multimedia glossary XI Motion JPEG M JPEG MPA MPEG MPG MPV Non interlaced NTSC PAL Parallel port PCI bus PCI slot Pixel Port Prime colors QSIF Quantization Video for Windows format for JPEG compressed video sequences specified by Microsoft MPEG file that contains audio data only M1V MPG Abbreviation for Motion Pictures Experts Group Standard for the compression of moving images Compared to M JPEG i
28. nicht definiert Choose Movie Capture and VfW Settings Choose the command VfW Settings from the Movie Capture menu Select Video Format Click on the Video Format button Video Format The miroVIDEO DC50 Video Format dialog box will be opened Please make the necessary settings Video Format The miroVIDEO DC50 Video Format dialog box allows you to set the resolution and the quality for video digitalization For further information about all options of the dialog box please refer to the more detailed on line help miroViDED DCO Video Fonna Captus resolution Poet TUR e ba Dusky tal tervg Compression 4151 do H Daa isa FB fe OU E Frames Sre TEF KE iire Caphas tire 229 menos Ge Capture resolution Here you need to determine the image capture resolution For NTSC capturing you may select between the following 720x486 ITU R 601 672x464 TV cropping 352x240 Quarter size For PAL capturing the resolutions are accordingly 720 x 576 672 x 560 and 352 x 288 720x486 ITU R 601 corresponds to the standardized sampling format This format produces an overscan effect i e black stripes or other interferences on the edges of the digitized video This is no error produced by DC50 It is rather due to the fact that according to the ITU R 601 standard as a precaution some more pixels are digitized than are in fact available in form of image data in the analog sign
29. not already done so insert the installation CD ROM into the CD ROM drive of your computer Click Other Locations Click on the Other Locations button Click Browse Click on the Browse button Switch into the SETUP directory click OK OK Switch to your CD ROM drive and go into the SETUP directory Click OK Click OK again Click Finish Click on the Finish button Click OK You are asked to insert the CD ROM Please click OK in this dialog box Click Browse Click on the Browse button 10 Switch into the SETUP directory click OK OK Switch to your CD ROM drive and go into the SETUP directory Click OK Click OK again The drivers are being installed After the drivers have been copied the installation program starts automatically Proceed with the Installing the software for Windows 95 98 section as of page 33 Installing the software for Windows 95 98 31 INSTALLING THE DRIVERS FOR WINDOWS 98 1 32 miroVIDEO DC50 Switch on computer Switch on your computer Windows 98 is started automatically If your computer is configured in such a way that Windows 98 is not started automatically start Windows 98 now After Windows 95 starts the new hardware is found and the Add New Hardware Wizzard dialog appears Click Next Click on the Next button What dio you yasni Windies bo do A lll ila Ji I Dispay a lit of all the dives in a specie lo
30. object Or use the arrow keys to move the cursor to the beginning or end of the word then hold Shift and press the right or left arrow Select one word A selection border with handles appears around the word or object To select a random section of text spanning more than one line e Drag across then down or up the text or diagonally e Or position the cursor at the beginning or end of the desired selection area and press arrow keys while holding the Shift key Also the Tab key moves the cursor from one word to the next CHARACTER ORIENTED TEXT EDITING Selected text within blocks is denoted by a series of fine parallel black lines as shown in the following illustration A selection box with handles surrounds the entire box Deselection To deselect text or objects click anywhere outside the selected area FORMATTING TEXT AND OBJECTS Fonts You can format text and objects by choosing a style with preset attributes or manually by adjusting attributes such as boldness size typeface and spacing To select and change the typeface click the down arrow and choose the typeface from the drop down list or click the Typeface Browser button for a graphical display of typefaces and double click the one you want Aa Aa Aa Aa e ae 18 Ao Birki hbi Boah Hal hark mar Se ME To change the point size of text type a new value into the Size field or click the arrow buttons To change text to bold italic and
31. on it Using the DC50 under Windows NT 57 DIGITIZING VIDEO CLIPS The DC50 also lets you capture movies with the miroVIDEO Capture application in the Windows NT environment In this regard please refer to the next chapter miroVIDEO capture which begins on page 67 of this manual With the DC50 you get a capture plugin that works with Premiere and Windows NT Please carry out the following steps in order to digitize videos under Premiere 1 58 miroVIDEO DC50 Start Adobe Premiere Start Adobe Premiere from the Start menu with the commands Programs Adobe and Adobe Premiere Choose the project preset In the window New Project Settings choose an appropriate miro DC50 project preset We recommend miroDC50 ITU R 601 Choose Capture Settings After loading one of the appropriate settings select Capture Settings This is required to make Adobe Premiere initialize the capture module zapre Selling General Setting Video Seting judio Settings keirame and Render M aborton dropped frames Capture Lin pid 5x By clicking on the Settings button you can open the DC50 Settings dialog box Here you can set several parameters for the video and audio inputs The box consists of three tab pages Format Sting Ing selector Format Settings Input Format The Format tab allows you to choose the capture format It is recommended to not change these settings They are a
32. or underline select the text to be changed For bold italic and underline click the corresponding button in the Editor menu bar or use the shortcuts lt Ctrl gt lt B gt lt Ctrl gt lt I gt and lt Ctrl gt lt U gt RIL Applying Looks to Text and Objects One of TitleDeko s most powerful features is its library of preset looks Looks include color texture and transparency attributes that are applied to the face edge and shadow of objects With a click of the mouse you can instantly change the appearance of an object from glowing purple neon to blue metallic Aa Aa Aa Aa fe ae To select and change looks click the Looks button The Looks browser graphically displays the looks you can pick Just double click the look you want TitleDeko 97 Justifying Text Justification operates differently in a video character generator than in a word processor TitleDeko uses justification controls to position all objects including rectangles and ellipses as well as text You can Justify objects via menu selections buttons keyboard shortcuts and keypad shortcuts The next sections explain how to use these techniques Justification Buttons Three buttons provide access to the same functions Justify Horizontal Justify and Vertical Justify The Justify button provides the same Bottom Middle Top functions as does the Justify menu and also has Left Center Right controls for each Click the Justify butto
33. packs and decompresses unpacks image data There are different compression methods software CODECs and hardware CODECs Number of bits delivering the color information for each pixel In the black and white operation 1 bit color depth means 2 2 colors 8 bit color depth supply 2 256 colors 24 bit color depth 16 777 216 2 colors A color model is a way to mathematically describe and define colors and the way they relate to each other Each color models has a specific purpose the two most common color models are RGB and YUV Color saturation Complementary Color COM Port Composite video Compression Cropping Cut DAT Data rate Data transfer rate DCT Decibel Digital8 Digital video DirectMedia DirectShow DirectX Dissolve Dithering Intensity of a color Complementary colors are opposite in value to primary colors If you were to combine a color with its compliment the result would be white For example the complimentary colors of red green and blue are cyan magenta and yellow respectively A serial port located on the back of your computer for attaching modem plotter printer or mouse to a system Composite video encodes luminance and chrominance information into one signal VHS and 8mm are formats which record and playback composite video A method for making files smaller in size on disk There are two types of compression lossless and lossy Files compressed with a lossles
34. reference genlock I O All signals comply with the ITU R 601 studio standard and offer broadcast quality The DCS50 driver software controls the video capture compression decompression and playback It s speed optimized for high data rates and low response times and includes user friendly dialog boxes to do all required settings miroVIDEO EXPERT is a hard disk benchmark utility that allows you to make best use of your system miroINSTANT Video is a software that connects Adobe Premiere directly to the DC50 hardware giving you massive productivity gains and other advantages Bundled Adobe Premiere is the industry standard application for PC based video Applications editing It does online non linear editing with lots of transitions filters titling as well as off line editing and much more No matter if you are a beginner or an expert with Adobe Premiere you can easily produce digital videos in high quality Adobe Premiere enables the combination of video sequences with animations still images and graphics Adobe After Effects is the best selling professional compositing application Adobe After Effects is an efficient tool for producing 2D animations and special effects for film video multimedia and web projects After Effects enables the production of high quality video sequences With Adobe After Effects you can produce on air clips commercials music videos complex animations on several levels web based movies and impr
35. right left arrows to increase reduce the space between selected characters Or use the cursor to drag the handle at either side of the selected text aR Leading Leading is the amount of space between lines or rows of text Leading is the amount of space between lines or rows of text L T Leading is the amount of space between lines of text To change the leading click the Kerning Leading button select the text and use the cursor to drag one of the handles above or below the text block Layers Layers allow you to put one object in front of another To move a layer forward or backward select the object From the Layer menu choose one of the menu commands such as Layer gt Send Back One Layer or press its command key equivalent lt Ctrl gt lt gt PEJ Leom He hdd Rectangle Add Ellipse Bring In Frond Abe Sendito Back Ak Bong Foowsrd Dine Lape Chl send Gace Opa Laar Cil Make Full Screen 100 mirovIDEO DC50 TRANSFORMING TEXT AND OBJECTS Move Resize Tool Moving The Move cursor indicates moving is enabled It appears anywhere on the selection box except at the handles Resizing Corner handles control height and width together middle handles on the right or left control width only and middle handles on the top or bottom control height only Hold down Ctr1 while dragging a corner handle to constrain the aspect ratio during scaling 4 gt ol gi In the following example t
36. set Open the project Choose Make menu and the Compression command then select Limit Data Rate Set the Limit Data Rate value to the same data rate of your captured clips for this project When using miroINSTANT Video the quality of the transitions is poor or of a lesser quality than the rest of the video The video may be recompressing Either the Limit Data Rate setting in Adobe Premiere may be set too low or the Quality slider may not be set to 100 Open the project Choose Make menu and the Compression command then select Limit Data Rate Set the Limit Data Rate value to the same data rate of your captured clips for this project Or Open the project Choose Make menu and the Compression command then set the Quality slider to 100 132 miroVIDEO DC50 e e When I try to access miroINSTANT Video by choosing the File menu and the Export command I cannot find the miroINSTANT Video command Under Adobe Premiere 5 1 the miroINSTANT Video command does not exist In the activated timeline window press the lt Enter gt key to start the video playback After moving clips all edited sections have to be recalculated Use the multitrack tool when moving the clips Select the multitrack button from the toolbar of the Construction Window All selected video clips can then be moved without Premiere forgetting where the effects have been inserted The Edit menu item and the Select all command let you move the whole projec
37. start the deinstallation Please follow the program instructions If no program for deinstalling your video capture board is available try the second possibility Select Settings in the Start menu select Control Panel and System Device Manager and Sound video and game controller Click on your video board and on Remove After having finished and having switched off the computer you can remove the video capture board from your computer Windows NT For doing so please try the following possibility Go to the program group of your video capture board via the Start menu and the command Programs Then start the deinstallation Please follow the program instructions If no program for deinstalling your video capture board is available try the second possibility Select Settings in the Start menu select Control Panel and System select Devices select your video capture board click Startup chose the Disable option and click OK After having finished and having switched off the computer you can remove the video capture board from your computer DEFRAGMENTING THE HARD DISK ee Before installing and configuring the DC50 you should defragment your ee hard disk s You find the Windows 95 98 defragmentation utility under F Start Programs Accessories System Tools Disk Defragmenter If you use the DC50 under Windows NT format the video hard disk again or use a newly formatted partition 10 miroVIDEO DC50 Quick start T
38. the computer disconnect the cables Switch off the computer and all peripheral devices Pull out the power cord and disconnect all necessary cables 3 Remove the cover Loosen the screws of the computer s cover and remove the cover 4 Select a PCI slot Select a free busmaster PCI slot Slot shields oy So OO Slots PCI slots Power supply unit 5 Remove the slot shield Remove the slot shield at the back of the computer If necessary remove the screw at the cover 18 miroVIDEO DC50 6 Insert the board Insert the board carefully in the selected slot Hold the board at the top edge and push both ends simultaneously into the slot Press the board s top edge to make sure that the board is firmly seated in the slot If any components as e g the chilling unit and the fan on the CPU are in your way please choose another slot If the board cannot be inserted without problems do not force the board into place The contacts at the connector could bend Instead pull the board out carefully and try again 7 Reconnect the cables Screw the slot sheet tight and reassemble the comput
39. you want to playback a clip via the media player please choose the option miroAVI Cache from the menu Devices in order to produce a jerkyless playback The program miroAVI Cache is optimized for jerkylessly playing back video clips Using the DC50 under Windows NT 65 EDITING VIDEO CLIPS If you want to edit recorded clips with Adobe Premiere you should consider the following information When creating a project compositing several video clips you absolutely need to choose the same project preset as for video recording The DC50 project presets determine a data rate for effect rendering at maximum video resolution 4MB s This rate is also used for video capture If you are using another rate for video capture you should adapt the data rate for effect rendering correspondingly menu Make command Compression Please check if the hard disk on which the ppj project file has been saved to is fast enough The settings determined by the DC50 project presets should not be changed video standard resolution codec For further details on how to work with Adobe Premiere please refer to the Adobe Premiere user s manual After mounting To use the features of miroINSTANT Video 5 you need Adobe Premiere 5 1 After having mounted the video clip proceed as follows 1 Save the project Save the project via the File menu and the Save command Enter the drive the directory and the file name then click OK 2
40. 5 is started automatically If your computer is configured in such a way that Windows 95 is not started automatically please start Windows 95 now After Windows 95 starts the New hardware found dialog box will appear 2 Select Driver from disk provided by hardware manufacturer click OK If this option is not selected click on the Driver from disk provided by hardware manufacturer option in the New hardware found dialog box Click OK 3 Insert CD ROM If not already done so insert the installation CD ROM into the CD ROM drive 4 Click Browse Click on the Browse button 5 Switch to the SETUP directory click OK Switch to your CD ROM drive and go into the SETUP directory If a file is shown click OK 6 Click OK Click the OK button again 30 miroVIDEO DC50 Windows 95 OSR 2 The drivers are now being installed After the drivers have been copied the installation program starts automatically Proceed with the Installing the software for Windows 95 section as of page 33 Windows 95 OSR 2 1 Switch on computer Switch on your computer Windows 95 is started automatically If your computer is configured in such a way that Windows 95 is not started automatically start Windows 95 now After Windows 95 starts the New hardware component found dialog box appears followed by the Update Device Driver Wizard dialog Click Next Click on the Next button Insert the CD ROM If
41. 50 but is due to the fact that according to the ITU R 601 standard it is necessary to digitize as a precaution more pixels than in fact are present in form of image data in the analog signal TV cropping 672 x 464 NTSC 672 x 560 PAL SECAM digitizes a slightly smaller image section This will not cause visible restrictions as the suppressed edge does usually not contain a usable image and is always located beyond the edges of the TV tube The advantage is that the digitized video clips now contain trouble free image data up to the edges Thus you can use video effects such as push transitions or picture in picture without making disturbances or black stripes become visible Therefore we recommend the selection 672x464 TV cropping for on line video editing with DC50 Please use Quarter size 352 x 240 NTSC 352 x 288 PAL SECAM if you do not want to record video tapes but MPEG 1 encoded video on CDs or similar material This resolution is also useful in order to save hard disk space during off line editing Due to the low resolution editing under Adobe Premiere is faster but the result has only VHS quality Audio If the check box Capture audio is activated sound is recorded in CD quality simultaneously while the video is captured This is normally the case e If necessary enable the check box Sample rate e Determine the audio sampling rate You may choose between 44 1 kHz and 48 kHz Sample format As Sam
42. ANT Video 5 is playing back video it will show a little speaker icon in the INSTANT Video 5 window to indicate the current play mode There are two possible audio modes INSTANT audio output indicated by a speaker In this mode the audio is being handled by INSTANT Video 5 and is being output through your Pinnacle video board minak TANT Video amp P PINNACLE STSTEMS 74 miroVIDEO DC50 Premiere audio output indicated by a crossed out speaker In this mode the audio is being played through your standard Windows sound device This means that there is probably no audio output to tape y f PINNACLE SYSTEMS When you record your project to tape the speaker symbol should not be crossed out How to get rid of the crossed out speaker and what determines the audio play mode is described in the section Modes of Operation Audio Output see page 78 of this file Film strip Below the Pinnacle Systems logo there is a horizontal film strip This acts as an indicator for the INSTANT Video 5 playability of the whole project If all images in the strip are black then the whole project from the beginning to the end of the timeline can currently be played by miroINSTANT Video 5 If some of the images in the film strip are red then some parts of the timeline can currently not be played by miroINSTANT Video 5 This indicates that either some video effects placed in the project have not yet been rendered
43. CSI hard disk Ultra Wide SCSI AV hard disk s with 9 GByte hard disk space When using Windows 95 98 formatted with FAT16 Please do absolutely use one hard disk for the system software and applications and at least a second one exclusively for the video data 24 Bit TrueColor graphics board In order to display the video footage jerkylessly on the PC monitor your graphics board needs to support DirectDraw in the set windows resolution and must be able to display a color depth of 16 bit 65 536 colors Please pay attention to the compatibility list on our website The color depth necessary for an overlay is determined by the DirectDraw driver CD ROM drive for the software installation Windows NT 4 0 or Windows 98 External video monitor Before you begin 7 8 miroVIDEO DC50 Video audio devices Video input Via the Breakout Box the DC50 connects to any video source VCR video camera TV tuner laser disk generating a component video composite video or S Video signal in PAL NTSC or SECAM quality Video output Via the breakout Box the DC50 video output connects to any video device television set VCR camcorder that supports a component video composite video or an S Video signal in NTSC or PAL Audio input output Via the Breakout Box you can connect the audio inputs outputs of your video and audio devices i e microphone CD player or powered speakers to the DCS0 Cables To connect video audio devices t
44. Chroma VI Chrominance II Clear Selected Text 95 Clip 113 114 Clock frequency VI Coarse 92 94 CODEC VI Color 94 97 102 103 105 106 Color depth 120 VI Color Depth 120 Color display 45 Color model VI Color saturation VII Colors 134 COM Port VII Complementary Color VII Composite video VII Compression 2 50 VII Compression factor 38 45 Computer system 6 36 Configuration dialogue 38 Configuration program 36 Connector 47 Connectors 135 Constrain 101 Coordinates 92 Copy 92 Crawl 92 107 114 Create 107 113 114 Cropping 120 VII Index 4 lt C Cursor 92 93 94 96 99 100 101 111 Cut 92 DAT VII Data rate 38 45 50 126 134 Data transfer rate 126 DCT II VII DDraw overlay surface 36 DDraw primary surface 36 Decibel VII Decompression 2 Defragmentation 10 Deinstallation 10 17 Deposit Current Style Here 104 Deselect 96 Digital8 VII DirectDraw 6 7 36 DirectMedia VII DirectShow VII DirectX VII Dissolve VII Dithering VII DMA VII Duration 113 114 DV VIII DV cassette VIII DV Recording Format VII ECP VIII Edge 97 102 103 Edge2Edge 116 Edit 93 94 95 97 102 Edit decision list EDL VIII Editing 117 Editor menu bar 97 Effects 115 E IDE 118 Ellipse 94 98 EPP VIII EPROM VIII Error function 129 Face 97 102 103 Fade To From Black VIII Field IX D I miroVIDEO DC50 File 94 113 114 File Type 92 113 114 Film length 127 Find 94 Find Next 94 Fi
45. DC50 program group A Adapt Video Settings Choose the Video Standard and TV Cropping from the Projects tab m Check the Audio Settings Activate Audio capture choose 44 1 kHz Be FA Determine Video and Audio Inputs Choose the corresponding inputs on the Settings tab if necessary adjust the audio level Quick start 13 ca iii Determine the Recording Drive Determine the recording drive on the Settings tab A Recording Movie Sequences Click on the Record button on the Record tab in order to start recording Click on the Stop button in order to stop recording VIDEO EDITING Proceed as follows to edit your recorded video sequence k Set up the video output Using windows 95 98 Double click the F in the Taskbar to activate the DC30 series Control tool Modify the current settings as necessary Using Windows NT Select Start Programs miro VIDEO DC50 Tools miroVIDEO DC50 control to activate the miro VIDEO DC350 Control tool Modify the current settings if necessary Start Adobe Premiere Start Adobe Premiere from the Adobe Premiere program group and select the appropriate settings from the list of DC30 project defaults Open the video sequence Select File and Import and the desired AVI file s Move the file s from the clip window to the project window W Edit the video sequence Add effects as desired See the Adobe Premiere Manual for details N k Play the video sequence With the timeline window s
46. DEO editing board to connected video devices and or screens When playing or scrubbing single clips using the left set of controls in the monitor window they are shown on the PC screen and on TV in parallel You can use this mode to print single clips to tape This does only work if the clip has a format compatible with your Pinnacle video board When using the trim mode the render scrub mode or the slip and slide tools the video is shown on the PC screen only When playing the work area after all effects have been rendered Use the lt Enter gt key to make Premiere 5 1 first render everything necessary then start the playback automatically the timeline content will play both on the PC screen and on TV out The miroVIDEO board s output signal will be continuous so this is the mode you should use for printing your project to tape miroINSTANT Video 77 x 78 miroVIDEO DC50 When you scrub or play parts of the timeline the output depends on the timeline content If you scrub through parts effects that have not been rendered by Premiere yet there will be no TV output or one of the source clips will be shown When playing the same limitations apply to the PC screen output during these parts of your project as well All parts of the timeline that need no rendering or have already been rendered will be played on the PC screen and on TV out When the source and program monitors are linked the content of the act
47. DI BNC on Cinch adapter If the Composite video input of your recorder is a BNC female connector the connection does not require the supplied BNC on Cinch adapter If you use a component device as video source then you must additionally connect a cable between a video out jack comp or ref not a component output of the component device and the reference input of the connection box If your player does not have cinch audio connectors for the direct connection to the breakout box you need an equivalent adapter available in a specialist store for electrical devices Recorder component video device Choose this type of connection if as a recorder a component video device is used The following table and illustration give an overview of the connections Breakout Box Out Recorder In Balanced Audio Output L CH 1 Input Balanced Audio Output R CH 2 Input Y Video Output Y Video Input B Y Video Output R Y Video Output Reference Output B Y Video Input R Y Video Input Reference Video Input VIVIVIV IV IV Connecting the breakout box and the video devices 25 0000C 00000 If your player is not equipped with balanced audio output connectors you may use the line audio inputs of the breakout box instead By default DC50 generates the video timing for the analog output signals on its own If you use DC50 in a studio environment where several video source
48. Delta Pulse Code Modulation It is a method of storing audio information in a digital format and is the audio encoding and compression method used in CD I and CD ROM production All available saving positions in a computer are numbered addressed By means of these addresses each saving position can be occupied Some addresses are reserved for special hardware components and may not be used any longer If two hardware components are using the same address this is called address conflict An inaccurate display of an image due to the limitations of the output device Typically aliasing appears in the form of jagged edges along curves and angled shapes A method of smoothing out jagged edges in bitmap images This is usually accomplished by shading the edges with similarly colored pixels to the background thus making the transition less apparent Another method of anti aliasing involves using higher resolution output devices The ratio of width to height in an image or graphic Keeping the aspect ratio means any change to one value is immediately reflected in the other Abbreviation for Audio Video Interleaved standard format for digital video L Video for Windows This is an automated process which uses an Edit Decision List to locate and re capture specific clips from a videotape usually at a higher data rate than the clip was originally captured A file under DOS in which commands listed one below the other are executed in order fro
49. EMIERE WITH miroINSTANT VIDEO 5 15 INSTALLING ADOBE PREMIERE 16 INSTALLING THE HARDWARE 17 REMOVING A VIDEO CAPTURE BOARD 17 INSTALLING THE DC50 18 CONNECTING THE BREAKOUT BOX AND THE VIDEO DEVICES20 CONNECTING THE BREAKOUT BOX 21 CONNECTING THE VIDEO DEVICES 21 PLAYER AND RECORDER IN ONE DEVICE 27 CONNECTING THE MONITOR 27 CONNECTING A SOUND BOARD 28 INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE FOR WINDOWS 95 98 29 INSTALLING DRIVERS FOR WINDOWS 95 30 INSTALLING THE DRIVERS FOR WINDOWS 98 32 INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE FOR WINDOWS 95 WINDOWS 98 33 INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE FOR WINDOWS NT 4 0 40 THE INSTALLATION PROGRAM 41 USING THE DC50 UNDER WINDOWS 95 98 45 DIGITIZING VIDEO CLIPS 46 VIEWING VIDEO CLIPS 51 EDITING VIDEO CLIPS 51 SOUND SETTINGS 52 User s Guide I ii miroVIDEO DC50 USING THE DC50 UNDER WINDOWS NT MIROVIDEO DC50 CONTROL DIGITIZING VIDEO CLIPS VIEWING VIDEO CLIPS EDITING VIDEO CLIPS miroVIDEO CAPTURE STARTING miroVIDEO CAPTURE PROJECTS SETTINGS RECORD miroINSTANT VIDEO WHAT IS miroINSTANT VIDEO 5 WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS HOW TO MAKE IT WORK HOW DOES IT WORK miroINSTANT VIDEO 5 WINDOW MODES OF OPERATION LIMITATIONS miroVIDEO DCS50 AND miroINSTANT VIDEO 5 CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS VERSIONS PINNACLE FreeFX TitleDeko WELCOME TO TITLEDEKO INSTALLING TITLEDEKO LAUNCHING TITLEDEKO THE TITLEDEKO USER INTERFACE SELECTING TEXT AND OBJECTS FORMATTING TEXT AND OBJECTS TOOLS AND SELECTIO
50. EQUIREMENTS To make use of miroINSTANT Video 5 you need a PC system that fulfills both the system requirements for running Adobe Premiere 5 1 see Adobe documentation and the requirements for running your DCSO board You also need a graphics board that is capable of showing video overlay in combination with your miroVIDEO editing board HOW TO MAKE IT WORK In order to use miroINSTANT Video 5 you must have installed three things in your PC A DC50 Adobe Premiere 5 1 Driver software for the editing board that supports and includes INSTANT Video 5 Once the installation is done it is simple to use miroINSTANT Video 5 Start Premiere 5 1 click the load button in the settings dialog box and select one of the miroVIDEO presets Important If you do not use one of the presets supplied for your miroVIDEO DC30 or change the Adobe Premiere settings manually then miroINSTANT Video 5 may not work properly To work miroINSTANT Video 5 must be selected as Editing Mode in the Project Settings General Dialog this is being done automatically by using the miroVIDEO preset e Now open a new Premiere project and the miroINSTANT Video 5 window will appear From now on miroINSTANT Video 5 will be active and will handle the smooth video playback using the miroVIDEO editing board Note that Premiere 5 1 projects must fulfill some conditions to be compatible with miroINSTANT Video 5 and the miroVIDEO editing boards See the Li
51. Frame Frame rate Frame size Frequency GOP GOP size Hardware CODEC Hi8 HiColor Hue Huffman Coding IDE All common TV systems NTSC PAL SECAM use the following trick to avoid image flicker Instead of creating a complete frame 30 or 25 for PAL times per second half the lines are displayed at 60 50 times a second and then the other half are woven in at 60 times per second in a process called interlace scanning First all odd lines lines 1 3 5 etc then all even lines 2 4 6 etc are drawn The images consisting of either odd or even lines are called fields The ways in which a computer stores images or information on a disk Tools that alter data to produce special effects Apple Computer s trademarked name for the IEEE 1394 serial data protocol A single image in a video or animation sequence If using full NTSC or PAL resolution one frame consists of two interlaced fields Frame rate defines how many frames of a video sequence are played in one second The Frame rate for NTSC video is 30 frames per second The frame rate for PAL video is 25 frames per second The maximum size for displaying image data in a video or animation sequence If an image intended for the sequence is larger than the frame size it must be cropped or scaled to fit A number of periodically recurring processes i e sound signals images alternating voltage per unit of time normally per second Hertz In LL MPE
52. G compression the data stream is divided into different sections first the so called GOPs Group of Pictures each containing several frames One GOP contains three types of frames I Frames P Frames and B Frames The GOP size defines how many I B or P Frames pictures are included in one H GOP Current GOP sizes are for example 9 or 12 Compression method which creates compressed digital video sequences These video sequences need special additional hardware to be recorded played back and offer a better image quality than data compressed with software CODECs Improved version of Video8 using S Video recorded on Metal Particle or Metal Evaporated tape Because of higher luminance resolution and wider bandwidth the result is sharper pictures than Video8 For images this normally means a 16 bit 5 6 5 data type that can contain up to 65 536 colors TGA file formats support images of this type Other file formats require prior conversion of a HiColor image into True Color For displays HiColor normally refers to 15 bit 5 5 5 display adapters that can display up to 32 768 colors Differentiation of colors with terms like red yellow orange Part of the JPEG image data compression seldom occurring values receive a long code while constantly occurring values receive a short code Acronym for Integrated Device Electronics A hard drive interface that combines all drive control electronics on the drive itself Appendix C Multim
53. IDEO EXPERT 126 Modulation XI Motion JPEG 125 Motion JPEG XII Move 93 99 101 111 Move Resize 93 99 101 109 111 112 MPA XII MPEG XII MPG XII MPV XII Network Operations 120 New 92 Non interlaced XII NTSC 8 XII Object 93 94 96 97 101 102 Online manual 35 43 Opacity 94 105 106 Open 92 Overlay 120 Package contents 9 PAL 8 XII Parallel port XII Parameters 102 Paste 92 Patterns 116 PCI bus XII PCI slot XII PCI storage link 38 Performance capabilities 37 Picture 94 106 Pinnacle FreeFX 82 Player component video device 23 Composite video device 22 s video device 21 Index J P Player buttons 110 Playing MI Point size 97 Port XII Position object 98 Power supply 134 Preset 121 Preset Styles 91 97 104 108 113 114 Presets 29 35 40 43 128 Preview Area 89 91 108 113 114 Processor 134 Progressions 116 Project 67 89 90 107 113 114 Project window 110 111 Projects 68 QSIF XII Quality settings 50 Quantification III Quantization III XII Radiant 116 RAM XII Raster XIII Rate 114 Real time overlay 45 Record 70 Record quality 45 Recorder component video device 25 Composite video device 24 S Video device 24 Recording control 54 Recording Control 52 Rectangle 94 98 112 Redo 93 Redundance XIII Refresh Rate 120 Registry XIII Reject title return to Premiere 94 Replace 94 Replace Background 94 Resize 93 95 99 101 107 109 112
54. N HANDLES TRANSFORMING TEXT AND OBJECTS USING AND MODIFYING LOOKS AND STYLES THE BACKGROUND LET S MAKE A TITLE VIDEO SPICERACK KEY CONCEPTS OF VIDEO SPICERACK HOW DOES A GRADIENT IMAGE MAKE A TRANSITION VIDEO SPICERACK CATEGORIES TIPS amp TRICKS SYSTEM SETTINGS SOURCE MATERIAL CAPTURE EDITING 56 56 58 65 66 116 117 117 120 120 121 TROUBLESHOOTING 123 INSTALLATION 123 OPERATION 125 PERFORMANCE PROBLEMS DURING DIGITIZING 126 PROBLEMS PLAYING BACK AND EDITING VIDEOS 127 VIDCAP32 128 ADOBE PREMIERE 128 WINDOWS 95 98 129 WINDOWS NT 130 miroINSTANT VIDEO 132 TECHNICAL DATA 134 GENERAL 134 CONNECTORS 135 APPENDIX A IDENTIFYING THE WINDOWS VERSION I APPENDIX B JPEG IMAGE DATA COMPRESSION II JPEG IMAGE DATA COMPRESSION II JPEG PROBLEMS MI APPENDIX C MULTIMEDIA GLOSSAR V APPENDIX D SUPPORT QUESTIONNAIRE XVI APPENDIX E LICENSE AGREEMENT XX INDEX User s Guide Iii FCC Compliance Statement FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY NOTE Shielded cables should be used for a composite interface This is to ensure continued protection against radio frequency interference FCC WARNING STATEMENT CAUTION NOTE This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation This equipment generates uses and can radiate radio
55. PTANCE OF THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS IF YOU DO NOT ACCEPT OR UNDERSTAND THEM YOU SHOULD PROMPTLY RETURN THIS PRODUCT TO YOUR VALUE ADDED RESELLER OR DEALER The export and re export of Pinnacle software products are controlled by the United States Export Administration Regulations and such software may not be exported or re exported to any country to which the United States embargoes goods In addition Pinnacle software may not be distributed to persons on the Table of Denial Orders the Entity List or the List of Specially Designated Nationals By downloading or using an Pinnacle software product you are certifying that you are not a national of any country to which the United States embargoes goods and that you are not a person on the Table of Denial Orders the Entity List or the List of Specially Designated Nationals Proprietary Property This product the Pinnacle Systems DV500 hardware Pinnacle Systems trademarks product names user manuals documentation and other support materials are either patented copyrighted trademarked constitute valuable trade secrets whether or not they or any portion thereof may be copyrighted or patented or are otherwise proprietary to Pinnacle Systems In addition this program may contain the proprietary property of others which has been licensed to Pinnacle Systems such as utility or plug in software or programs clip art and sample files You agree not to remove any product identification or no
56. Premiere you should compress it in Motion JPEG format This will drastically reduce processing time Specify maximum frame size The DC50 supports maximum formats up to 720 x 576 PAL 720 x 468 NTSC pixels For the highest quality the frame size should be horizontally divisible by 16 For further information on using animation software under Windows NT please refer to the ReadMe file INSTALLATION a gt Troubleshooting Hardware was not found during the DC50 hardware test l From the Start menu and the Settings command open the Control Panel Under System select the Device Manager and the Sound video and game controllers option If necessary delete the following entry PCI Multimedia Video device DC50 MotionJPEG Capture CODEC board Restart Windows 95 98 The following message should appear during startup New hardware component detected Insert data medium If this message does not appear during startup install the DC50 in a different PCI slot If this still does not solve the problem either the DC50 is defective or the video board is having problems with your system s motherboard 5 Confirm with OK Place the DC50 CD ROM in your CD ROM drive and enter the drive identifier for your CD ROM drive i e D in the Windows command line Click OK 8 Restart the hardware test from the DC50 configuration program VSYNC IRQ was not activated by the DC50 hardware test
57. Press lt Enter gt In the activated timeline window press the lt Enter gt key to start the video playback For further information on miroINSTANT Video please refer to the chapter miroINSTANT Video starting on page 72 66 miroVIDEO DC50 miroVIDEO Capture miroVIDEO Capture is designed to benefit both inexperienced users and video editing professionals miroVIDEO Capture may only be used under Windows NT 4 0 Using a project oriented approach the values for video and audio quality frame rate and size can be set just once and will be applied to all captured clips of this project Switching to another project is possible at all times and miroVIDEO Capture will organize the clips into separate folders for you STARTING miroVIDEO CAPTURE You can start miroVIDEO Capture by selecting the commands Programs miroVIDEO DC350 and miroVIDEO Capture from the Start menu The user surface is divided into several pages tabs from which always one is visible and active Switching between the tabs is possible by clicking on the upper edges of the tabs On the Projects tab projects can be generated and managed and the video and audio format can be chosen On the Settings tab the settings for the connected video and audio sources the audio level adjustment included can be determined On the Record tab video clips can be recorded On the Clips tab the recorded clips can be played back Right mouse button Some
58. TURE BOARD Gi If you have already installed a Motion JPEG video board in your computer it is recommended that you remove this board before installing the DC50 board To do so it is required that you also remove the corresponding software You have to remove the software while the board is still installed Therefore proceed as follows Go to the program group of your video capture board via the Start menu and the command Programs and start the deinstallation Please follow the program instructions If no program for deinstalling your video capture board is available proceed as follows depending on your operating system Windows 95 98 Select Settings in the Start menu select Control Panel and System Device Manager and Sound video and game controller Click on your video board and on Remove After having finished and having switched off the computer you can remove the video capture board from your computer Windows NT Select Settings in the Start menu select Control Panel and System select Devices select your video capture board click Startup chose the Disable option and click OK After having finished and having switched off the computer you can remove the video capture board from your computer Installing the hardware 17 INSTALLING THE DC50 To insert the DC50 into your computer proceed as follows 1 Discharge yourself Discharge yourself charge by touching the metal case of your computer 2 Switch off
59. US VERSIONS miroINSTANT Video 5 for Adobe Premiere 5 0 differs significantly from the previous miroINSTANT Video for Adobe Premiere 4 2 The new version works only with Adobe Premiere 5 0 There is no longer a menu item in the Adobe Premiere menu to call miroINSTANT Video 5 nor a special miroINSTANT Video play window Instead miroINSTANT Video 5 is now fully integrated into the Adobe Premiere 5 0 user interface It is always active once it is selected as the Editing Mode miroINSTANT Video 81 P Pinnacle FreeFX This chapter explains how the DV500 board works with video effects The DC50 board allows you to use all normal effects from Adobe Premiere In addition Pinnacle FreeFX these are accelerated 3D effects are delivered with the DC50 Important The accelerated 3D effects of the Pinnacle FreeFx are available only in Windows 95 Windows 98 and Windows 98 SE What Is Pinnacle FreeFX Pinnacle FreeFX is an effects plug in for Adobe Premiere The FreeFX effects are no real time effects and therefore have to be rendered FreeFX has a powerful 3D rendering engine offered in a complete and easy to use interface An installed graphics board with 3D acceleration is used by FreeFX to strongly accelerate the rendering process System requirements for FreeFX DirectX For the perfect function of FreeFX Microsoft DirectX 7 0 or higher has to be installed on your system DirectX is installed automatically during the ins
60. VIDEO DC50 Control contains advanced settings for the analog in and outputs of the breakout box These however are not necessary for the normal usage of miroVIDEO DC50 Control Please do not change them unless this is necessary for special applications or if you really know how to use these settings To start the miroV IDEO DC50 Control select Programs miroVIDEO DC50 Tools and miroVIDEO DCSO Control from the Start menu mV IED DESO Cantal Genera Stand in Stand cut Comp in Come out vidan cuga Dvailay Sidt Mode i Overy aisce Pea tater hy I ihi High cyst doe Gertock are ounce Aaa ulgi Frese running Yee a i i F Video loop Prough I F Syre gipu T Mia miroWIDEO ok core e The user surface is divided into several pages tabs out of which always one is visible and active You can change between the tabs by clicking on the upper edge of a tab 56 miroVIDEO DC50 General On the tab General you make the settings for the video overlay displaying the video in the window of the PC monitor the volume of the audio output and the video cabling genlock video loopthrough Stand In On the tab Stand In advanced settings for the Composite and S Video inputs you select the type of the video source tape device camcorder or others In addition to that as a control function the tab displays if a video signal is present at the chosen input and if it contains color The other setti
61. ack Control The application starts in the Playback Control mode In this mode you can make the settings required for audio playback D Plapback control meo IDEO DESO Mm E3 Opsors Help Flyback Line Out Balsnced Dui Irbem In Balance Balance Balance Balance de Fo p ta e fs Volume Volume Volume bute al M Hue T Hue F Hue T Hue E Hue F Hue peel Imre DEO DESO 52 miroVIDEO DC50 Playback The sliders in the Playback column allow you to control the audio playback of all devices connected to the DC50 board via the breakout box in a range from 82 5 dB to 12 dB The Playback slider serves as master controller for the level adjustment of both inputs Balance control is not possible in this case This is done via the balance control of the inputs The audio outputs Line Out and Balanced Out can be controlled simultaneously Line Out The Line Out slider allows you to control the audio output of the device connected to the line output of the breakout box Balanced Out The Balanced Out slider allows you to control the audio output of the device connected to the Balanced Output of the breakout box Internal In Lets you adjust the input level and the balance for the device you connected to the internal DC50 audio input i e the audio cable of a CD ROM drive or a sound board Line In The Line In slider allows you to control the input levels and the balance of the device e g a VCR connected to the line input
62. age Format Audio The Help button gives detailed information about every page and each element on it SETTINGS Via the Settings tab you choose the input connectors of the breakout box to which the image and sound sources supplying the material to be digitized are connected to You can also determine on which hard disk partition further digitized video clips are to be saved In addition to that you may decide on the image and sound quality of the digitized video by setting the data rate and adjusting the audio as well as by changing the luminance the contrast etc On the Settings tab you can preview the video i e you can see immediately with certain restrictions the effects your settings have on the capture of the video sequence Below the video window you find the status window which displays different kinds of information In order to check the set quality without limitations please use the Test capture function E pec Captus MOL PT Pieci Saking fecod Gs j kasy irg o F 7 amp amp EEE FA Fy dirie kaw wairan 45 pE sre FREE IO paamae l E phm n The Beachi EMTWICGLURG Hij wei SHE 0 OS Earn ig captain The Beach ind TALLEIEE nit bai AME i iii ii ES h TP hicapias a The Beach PLYHDA DLD 1757 BE 17a Me uE FENAN D e Determine the Settings Determine the Image settings the Audio level adjustment the Input selection and the Data rate
63. age and each element on it miroVIDEO Capture 71 mirolINSTANT Video This chapter only refers to miroINSTANT Video 5 under Adobe Premiere 5 1 How to use miroINSTANT Video 2 0 with Adobe Premiere 4 2LE is described in previous versions of this manual WHAT IS miroINSTANT VIDEO 5 miroINSTANT Video 5 is a playback module for Adobe Premiere 5 1 that works with miroVIDEO editing boards It requires Premiere 5 1 compatible software drivers for the editing board as well WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR When editing video tapes using Premiere 5 1 the use of miroINSTANT Video 5 gives you three major advantages 72 miroVIDEO DC50 The duration of the rendering process that happens after you have done the editing and before you can watch your production or print it to tape is being reduced a lot This increases productivity The amount of hard disk space required to do a production is being reduced as well In case of a simple cuts only project miroINSTANT Video 5 saves 50 hard drive space This saves money The maximum duration of your productions is being increased Without miroINSTANT Video 5 the whole production must fit into a single AVI file which is limited to a maximum size of 2GB This results in a maximum project duration of less than 7 minutes when working at a data rate of 5 MB s for example Using miroINSTANT Video 5 the maximum project duration is 3 hours This makes long format work on a PC possible SYSTEM R
64. akout box and the video devices gives a detailed description of the possible connections and the cabling of DC50 the breakout box and the video devices Installing the software for Windows 95 98 The installation of the software under Windows 95 98 is described in detail in the chapter Installing The Software under Windows 95 98 Installing the software for Windows NT The installation of the software under Windows NT is described in detail in the chapter Installing The Software Under Windows NT Editing videos under Windows 95 98 The chapter Editing Videos Under Windows 95 98 contains a description of the first steps in video editing under Adobe Premiere Furthermore the audio application is described in this chapter Editing videos under Windows NT The chapter Editing Videos Under Windows NT describes the applications DC50 Control and miroVIDEO Capture miroINSTANT Video The chapter miroINSTANT Video describes this application in detail FreeFX The section FreeFX explains how to use the accelerated 3D effects made available by Pinnacle FreeFX TitleDeko The chapter TitleDeko explains how to use the TitleDeko character generator to add titles rolls and crawls with a variety of text effects Video SpiceRack The chapter Video SpiceRack introduces Video SpiceRack a collection of 300 top quality transitions and dynamic effects Optimizing the performance In the chapter T
65. al 672x464 TV cropping digitizes a slightly smaller image section This does not produce a visible difference as the missing edges usually do not contain a useable image and are always beyond the edges of the TV tube The advantage is that the digitized video clips now contain faultless image material up to the edges This allows to use video effects such as push transitions or picture in picture without making faults or black edges visible Therefore we recommend to select 672x464 TV cropping for on line video editing with DC50 Usingt the DC50 under Windows 95 98 49 50 miroVIDEO DC50 Please use 352x240 Quarter size if you do not want to produce video tapes but MPEG 1 encoded video on CDs or something similar This resolution is also useful in order to save hard disk space during off line editing Quality settings Here you determine the amount of data of the compressed video and thus the quality The entries for compression data rate frame size and capture time depend on each other Compression The slider Compression helps you to determine the compression factor This factor reduces the amount of data of the digitized video sequence compared to the uncompressed data during capturing A low compression factor stands for high quality a high compression factor stands for lower quality If you change the position of the compression slider you automatically change the position of the data rate slider as well The minimal
66. and the video devices 27 CONNECTING A SOUND BOARD If your system is additionally equipped with a further sound board plug in card or audio hardware on the mother board it is used for the output of system sounds and for some sound outputs during video editing Connect this sound board to commercially available PC loudspeakers The audio hardware of DC50 ensures a lip synchronous digitalization and output of the sound to the recorder The connection will be handled as already described with player recorder and monitor Audio data can only be output with miroINSTANT Video via the DC50 board 28 miroVIDEO DC50 Installing the software for Windows 95 98 Once you have installed the DC50 into your computer you can install the DC50 drivers and software The installation steps for the Windows 95 Windows 98 and Windows NT are slightly different Windows 95 If you have Windows 95 installed on your computer please proceed with the section Installing the drivers for Windows 95 as of page 30 The complete installation consists of the following steps Installing drivers for Windows 95 as of page 30 Installing the software for Windows 95 Windows 98 as of page 33 Windows 98 If you use Windows 98 please proceed with the Installing the drivers for Windows 98 section on page 32 The complete installation consists of the following steps Installing drivers for Windows 98 as of page 32 Installing the softwa
67. ard is also called a host adapter Electrical circuit at the end of a cable which prevents the reflection of electrical signals when they reach the cable Each SCSI bus only needs two terminators The terminators have to be fixed at the outermost ends of the SCSI cables and not in the middle of a bus Abbreviation for Sequential Couleur 4 M moire Color television transmission system used in France and Eastern Europe developed on the basis of the PAL system operating with 625 lines and 50 image halves per second By the parallel port data is transmitted via a bit data line This means that during a transmission of 8 M bit 1 LH byte these bits have to be transmitted one after the other Thus this kind of transmission is much slower than via a W parallel port Serial ports are indicated with COM and a number i e COM2 Standard Image Format MPEG I format describing the resolution which is 352 x 288 under PAL and 352 x 240 under NTSC QSIF The ratio of noise to good signal picture information usually expressed in dB Appendix C Multimedia glossary XIII Single frame Software CODEC Still Video S VHS S Video Time Code Transition TrueColor Twain driver VCR VHS Video8 Video CD Video decoder Video encoder Video for Windows VISCA A single frame is part of a series or sequence When this series is watched with enough speed a moving picture is be created Compression method to compress digi
68. ay Windows 95 98 Open the miroVIDEO DCS50 Control Double click the F to open the miroVIDEO DCS50 Control Click on the More button and activate the Activate overlay check box Windows NT Open the miroVIDEO DCS50 Control 1 From the Start menu select miroVIDEO DCS50 Tools and miroVIDEO DC50 Control 2 Select the General tab and activate the Overlay When using a component device as source wrong colors appear Windows 95 98 Open the dialog box miroVIDEO DCS50 video Input 1 Start Adobe Premiere and select the File menu and the commands Capture and Movie Capture The Movie Capture menu appears 2 Click on Movie Capture VfW Settings and on the Video Input button The dialog box miroVIDEO DC50 Video Input appears 3 Click on the Extended button and use the Sync delay button to adjust the wrong colors Troubleshooting 125 ee Windows NT Open the miroVIDEO DC50 Control 1 From the Start menu select miroVIDEO DC50 Tools and miro VIDEO DC50 Control 2 Select the Comp In tab and use the Sync delay button to adjust the wrong colors PERFORMANCE PROBLEMS DURING DIGITIZING Images are missing from the recording Your hard disk s transfer speed is too low a In some computer combinations the value determined by miroVIDEO i EXPERT may be wrong In this case you must continue reducing the data rate until no more frames are dropped When working with some E IDE hard disks the playback may
69. ble cabling of your player is described which provides the video signal for digitalization and the following editing process on the PC Player s video device Choose this type of connection if as a player an s video device is used The following table and the illustration give an overview of the connections Player Breakout Box In S Video Output gt S Video Input Audio OutputR gt Audio Input R Audio Output L gt Audio Input L If your player is equipped with S Video outputs as well as with Composite video outputs please choose S Video for quality purposes Connecting the breakout box and the video devices 21 If your player does not have cinch audio connectors for the direct connection to the breakout box you need an equivalent adapter available in a specialist store for electrical devices Player Composite video device Choose this type of connection if as a player a Composite video device is used The following table and the illustration give on overview of the connections Player Adapter Breakout Box In Composite Video Output gt Cinch BNC gt Composite Video Input Audio Output R gt Audio Input R Audio Output L gt Audio Input L 0000C 00000 22 miroVIDEO DC50 Tf the Composite video output of your player is a BNC plug the connection does not require the supplied cinch on BNC adapter If your player does not have cinch audio connectors for the dir
70. cakor so you can Heci the dier pou waant eBack Wea 1 Cancel Select Search for the best driver for your device Recommended click Next Chose the Select Search for the best driver for your device Recommended option and click on the Next button Enter Specify a location click Browse Activate the checkbox Specify a location and click on Browse Change on the CD ROM drive and into the SETUP directory click Next Change on the CD ROM drive and into the setup directory and click the Next button Click OK To finish the installation click on the OK button The drivers are being installed After the drivers have been copied the installation program starts automatically Proceed with the Installing the software for Windows 95 98 section as of page 33 INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE FOR WINDOWS 95 WINDOWS 98 After installing the driver you can install the remaining DC50 software miroINSTANT Video Adobe Presets etc using the installation program The installation program The installation program is started automatically in the language specified via the Regional Settings Start Menu Settings Control Panel Regional Settings of the installed Windows version If you use other regional settings than English German or French you will have to select the language in which the installation should be carried out 1 If necessary change the language click Next If neces
71. ce 1 LINK ITEEE 1394 integrates entertainment communication and computing electronics into consumer multimedia Sony s DCR VX700 and DCR VX1000 digital video camcorders were the first commercial products to implement IEEE 1394 In general IEEE 1394 is A hardware and software standard for transporting data at 100 200 or 400 megabits per second A digital interface allowing a seamless connection between computer and peripherals there is no need to convert digital data into analog A physically small interface Hot pluggable users can add or remove 1394 devices with the bus active An image is a reproduction or picture of something In this case the term is used to describe digitized pictures consisting of pixels which can be shown on a computer display and manipulated by image enhancement software Method to reduce the amount of data of digital image and video files In an insert cut an individual clip is copied into a longer one one Interlaced describes the refresh method which the PAL and other TV systems use The PAL TV image consists of two image halves fields of 3121 2 lines each The NTSC TV image consists of two image halves of 2421 2 lines each Interleave I O Irrelevance IRQ ITI JPEG KByte Key color Key frame rate Laser disk Long shots LPT Luminance M1V MByte Mark In Mark Out MCI Modulation An arrangement of audio and video to promot
72. ce the title created in Example 1 by rotating and skewing the text 1 Launch TitleDeko from an existing Premiere project Double click the title on the Timeline or in the Project window 2 Move the title text Click the Move Resize button Select the text and position the cursor anywhere within the text or on the border except on the handles so the cursor is a Move symbol that looks like a cross Experiment with moving the text 3 Rotate the text Click the Rotate Skew button Rotate the text TitleDeko 111 4 112 miroVIDEO DC50 Apply a combination of formatting techniques In the following illustration Style 4 was applied to the text The selection was rotated made bold and resized The Rotate Skew tool was used to skew the text by grabbing the upper right handle with the Skew cursor Add and transform a rectangle Click the Rectangle button A white rectangle appears Click the Move Resize button and resize the rectangle Click the Rotate Skew button grab the upper right handle and skew the rectangle Position the Rotate Skew cursor over the shape and rotate it to match the text angle Click the Style 8 icon Move the shape over the text and select Layer gt Send to Back from the menu bar Save the title Click the Save button to save the Still Return to Adobe Premiere Press lt F12 gt to accept the title and return to Adobe Premiere Example 3 Creating a Roll In this examp
73. ceed as follows to change the mapping for your graphic board s memory area 1 From the Start menu and the Settings command open the Control Panel 2 Click the System folder and activate the Device Manager Oo In the Device Manager select Computer and Graphic Cards The current graphics board is displayed Mark the graphics board and click Settings In the next window click on the Resources register Deactivate the Automatic adjust control box Click on the Change Settings switch ON A Nn A Select anew memory area then click OK Windows 95 must not indicate any other conflict otherwise you must select a different free area 9 Exit the Device Manager 10 Restart Windows 95 98 so your changes take effect 124 mirovVIDEO DC50 OPERATION P e No output to video or to the PC monitor The AVI file to be output was not compressed with Motion JPEG You must first import this file to for example Premiere then using Make Movie to convert to an AVI file with Motion JPEG compression No output to video Windows 95 98 only The DC50 can operate in two modes that can be selected from the DC50 Control After Windows has started the DC50 Control program is located in the taskbar as a P Double click the P to open the miroVIDEO DC50 Control Under the DC50 Control Video Output activate the Video output amp Preview check box No output to the PC monitor You deactivated the overl
74. cts HOw DOES A GRADIENT IMAGE MAKE A TRANSITION In short the magic is in a gradient s grayscales also known as the luminance Your host editing application reads the grayscale value from 0 black to 255 white of each pixel in a gradient image that you select Those values then generate a wipe transition a line shape texture or pattern that will wipe away one image to reveal the next image Pixels in Image B will replace Image A first where the gradient s darkest pixels reside then in progressively lighter gray areas and finally where the brightest pixels sit By reducing opacity along the moving edge most editing applications can soften a gradient transition much more than other transitions You can therefore create intriguing directional dissolves soft dynamic mattes or split screens and more From a base of 300 spices you really have the seasoning for an incredible number of visual effects To help you select transitions quickly we ve included a quick reference card in your Video SpiceRack package It illustrates our effects organized by the same visual categories Video SpiceRack 115 VIDEO SPICERACK CATEGORIES Cool Wipes More than seventy coolest of the cool transitions Patterns Attractive wipes formed by simple repeated geometries Progressions Playful pixels that fill the frame in progressive steps TransActive A killer collection of stunning eye catcher transitions
75. driver and at least 8 MB of RAM Pinnacle FreeFX 87 How to use the Picture in Picture Effect Static picture To create a static picture in picture PiP effect in picture effect 1 First place two video clips into the timeline one each on video tracks 1A PiP and 1B starting at the same time 2 Next apply the Pinnacle FreeFX on the transition track between the two videos 3 In the FreeFX settings window select the PiP effect and move the time slider to 50 4 Click on both bracket icons to set both the start and end to 50 Click OK 5 Adjust the position and length of the PiP effect by dragging it in the timeline Done Dynamic end To add a dynamic end movement to the PiP effect movement Add another FreeFX PiP effect at the end of the one created above 2 Set it s in point using slider and left bracket to 50 and the out point to 100 You can add start movements as well using the same method and get additional effects using the Reverse option If you have problems If you encounter any problems with FreeFX please refer to Chapter Troubleshooting of this manual first If you do not find any solution there please use the FreeFX form available on our web site for reporting the link to this form is available at http www pinnaclesys com freefx 88 miroVIDEO DC50 TitleDeko WELCOME TO TITLEDEKO Introduction TitleDeko is a plug in program for Adobe Premiere This plug in is designed
76. dware Software 2 miroVIDEO DC50 What is it good for The DC50 s video post production hardware capabilities combined with the bundled video editing software Adobe Premiere After Effects provide a complete video studio on your desktop DC50 meets all requirements for creating industrial video commercial video corporate presentations training tapes wedding videos or event videos You can quickly do online nonlinear editing with hour long projects compose videos with unlimited layers and complexity add titles transitions 3D effects video filters output 3D rendered computer animations to video tape edit up to 99 tracks of stereo audio work with still frames from your video source combine all the above and much more all this at high speed maximum quality and easy to use System components The DCS50 s capabilities result from optimally integrated hardware and software The DC50 board is a state of the art PCI video digitizer and player working with YUV 4 2 2 signals It includes a JPEG processor to compress decompress video at up to 7MB s compressed data rate as well as an audio codec to digitize and output audio signals at up to 48kHz 16bit stereo All this in real time using just a single PCI slot with busmaster mode The DC50 breakout box offers comfortable connections to all kinds of professional and prosumer video and audio equipment including component video XLR audio and
77. e also adds a shape behind the text to which a style is applied Example 3 creates a Roll This allows the title to roll vertically from the bottom of the screen to the top It also trims the title from the Adobe Premiere Timeline Example 4 creates a scrollable crawl This allows the more than one frame of title text to crawl horizontally from the left of the screen toward the right You also trim the title from the Main Menu Bar of Adobe Premiere Example 1 Creating a Basic Title This example launches TitleDeko from Adobe Premiere creates a basic title and returns you to Adobe Premiere 1 Launch TitleDeko from the Main Menu Bar of Adobe Premiere Choose Project gt Create then click TitleDeko EES Cie window Hep Prarie Enter Renda eledi Fiender Aho Fairs j TitleDeko 107 2 3 4 108 miroVIDEO DC50 Enter the title text TitleDeko launches and a text I Beam cursor awaits text entry Type the words Happy Birthday You will change the type size and apply a new style to it but you must first select the text Happy Birthday Select the text Press lt Ctrl gt lt A gt to select the text A selection box with handles on its sides now surrounds the text Happy Birthday Apply a Preset Style to the text A sampling of styles is displayed in the window to the right of the Preview Area If the Style window is not visible select View gt Preset Styles Scroll down to n
78. e breakout box as a player and as a recorder as described above In order to avoid signal feedback you need to deactivate the options Video loopthrough and Activate reference output in the DC50 Control software moV DED DESU Widen Input Connscior Compare r Aa Br zi Biy O Wideo Joopthrough Activate enee opl E Video tailing Biguna Ef D Ho Come f I yfo Cono Saraton E If Ho a Sa eS C CONNECTING THE MONITOR The video display on the PC monitor gives a preview during editing Usually the video is not displayed in full quality In order to check the image and the sound quality during digitalization editing and displaying you should connect a monitor and eventually additional loudspeakers There are two possibilities Connect the monitor to the video and audio outputs of your recorder In this case the output signal of DC50 is transmitted to the input of the recorder see cabling above through the recorder and arrives then at the monitor Connect the monitor directly to the free outputs of the DC50 breakout box If your recorder is for example connected to the component output the monitor can be connected to the S Video or Composite Video output of the breakout box If the recorder is connected to the XLR audio outputs of the breakout box the control monitor or the control loudspeakers will be connected to the line audio output connectors of the breakout box Connecting the breakout box
79. e duration of any implied warranty including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose is hereby limited to said one 1 year period Pinnacle Systems and its Licensors liability is limited solely to the repair or replacement of the enclosed media and Pinnacle Systems DV500 hardware as set out above and shall not in any event include damages for loss of use or loss of anticipated profits savings costs expenses or other incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use or inability to use the program including without limitation any damages arising from data or information lost or rendered inaccurate regardless of the form of action whether in contract tort including negligence strict product liability or otherwise even if Pinnacle Systems its Licensors or its dealer has been advised of the possibility of such damages Pinnacle Systems and its Licensors do not warrant guarantee or make any representations that the functions contained in the program will meet your requirements or that the use or operation of the program or that the results of such use will be correct accurate reliable current uninterrupted or error free and you rely on the program and results of its use solely at your own risk Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of implied warranties so the above exclusion and limitation may not apply to you Some jurisdictions do not al
80. e smoother playback and synchronization or compression The standard AVI format equally spaces audio and video Abbreviation for Input Output Irrelevant unimportant information can be eliminated during the image data compression since the human eye does not realize that this information is missing Interrupt Request Interrupt in a running process of the computer Interrupts can be requested both by the hardware i e keyboard mouse and the software Insert amp Track Information Information that is saved on the digital videotape by means of HH insert cuts and tracks Abbreviation for Joint Photographic Experts Group Also refers to a standard for compressing digital frames based on Discrete Cosine Transformation One KByte Kilobyte corresponds to 1024 H Byte The K always stands for the number 1024 A color made transparent so that a background image can show through Most commonly used when overlaying one video sequence on top of another allowing the underlying video to display wherever the key color appears A method to help in the compression of video files which works by assigning certain frames as key frames whose video data is completely saved at the time of compression The video data of any intervening frames between two key frames is then only partially saved On decompression these partial frames reconstruct their data from the key frames e g MPEG Medium which stores analog video Information on
81. ect connection to the breakout box you need an equivalent adapter available in a specialist store for electrical devices Player component video device Choose this type of connection if as a player a component video device is used Player Breakout Box In CH 1 Output gt Balanced Audio Input L CH 2 Output gt Balanced Audio Input R Y Video Output gt Y Video Input B Y Video Output gt B Y Video Input R Y Video Output gt R Y Video Input 0000C O 00000 If at the output of your player the sync signal is not included in the Y signal as usual but is transmitted via the BNC connector instead connect this connector with an additional BNC cable to the Composite or Reference input connector of the breakout box depending on which one is free In this case you need to select Reference as Sync source for the component signal If you use a component video device as player and a s video or composite video device as recorder you need to select Reference as Sync source for the component signal You can do this via the miroVIDEO DC 50 Control which has been installed on your computer during the software installation in the dialog box Extended settings component input start Adobe Premiere select File Capture and Movie Capture Click Movie Capture VfW Settings Video input and Extended babended Hingi Cimin ul If your player is not equipped with balanced audio output connector
82. edia glossary IX IEEE TEEE 1394 Image Image compression Insert cut Interlaced X miroVIDEO DC50 The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers boasting a membership of over 320 000 is the world s largest professional society The IEEE was formed by a 1963 merger of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers AIEE and the Institute of Radio Engineers IRE One of the most important functions of the IEEE is the coordination development and publication of standards for electrical and electronic devices and systems Many IEEE standards are adopted by international standards bodies As the major manufacturers of consumer audio video components and personal computers adopt IEEE 1394 it is likely to become one of the most widely implemented IEEE bus standards All IEEE standards begin with a Project Authorization Request PAR The PAR for W FireWire originally called A High Performance Serial Backplane Bus Interface Standard was approved on September 26 1991 establishing P1394 as the designation for the proposed standard After more than four years of continuous deliberations on the part of the P1394 Working Committee the IEEE Standards Board approved the IEEE 1394 1995 Standard for a High Performance Serial Bus on December 12 1995 IEEE 1394 sometimes referred to as H FireWire is an international standard low cost digital interface completed in 1995 by the 2 IEEE Sony calls this interfa
83. elected hit the lt Enter gt key Adobe Premiere will ask you to save the project if you did not do it before do SO Now Premiere will process the effects you have added After that the miroINSTANT Video playback of the work area will automatically happen The output can be recorded to tape 14 miroVIDEO DC50 PLAYBACK WITH MEDIAPLAYER Proceed as follows to play the edited video sequence on a television or to record it on videotape a k Start media playback Start MediaPlayer from the miro VIDEO DC30 series program group W k i Select the video output Use the DC50 Control to select the video output Window S VHS Composite video and define the output standard if required a Play the file back Select Device and miroAVI Cache and then select the AVI file to play back VIDEO REPLAY UNDER ADOBE PREMIERE WITH miroINSTANT VIDEO 5 To use the features of miroINSTANT Video 5 you need Adobe Premiere 5 1 amp Start Adobe Premiere 5 1 Start Adobe Premiere 5 1 from the Adobe Premiere program group and open or create a project drag it into the timeline and save the project BE oa Press lt Enter gt In the activated timeline window press the lt Enter gt key to start the video playback What s next For more detailed instructions concerning any of the above functions please refer to the appropriate section below You can also find information concerning the installation of a PCI expansion board in the docume
84. eneral information IRQs have different priorities in the system When configuring your system for the usage of DC50 you should consider the following aspects An interrupt higher in numbers than the IRQ related to the SCSI adapter should be assigned to the DC50 board The interrupt assigned to the DC50 board must not be higher than IRQ 11 E Not every BIOS allows assigning an interrupt In this case an interrupt of 9 or IRQ 10 must be assigned to the SCSI adapter The DC50 board and the SCSI adapter must not share the assigned interrupt no interrupt sharing Hard Disk SCSI If your system contains a SCSI hard disk you can apply the following measures in order to optimize the system Deactivate the Parity Checking feature of the hard disk Please refer also to the hard disk s manual Activate the hard disk s write cache For this purpose use for example EZ SCSI by Adaptec Deactivate any kind of hard disk power management For this purpose use for example the SCSI explorer by Adaptec Optimize the hard disk for video editing continuous writing and reading For this purpose use for example DR SCSI by Peripheral Test Instruments Inc Tips amp Tricks 117 E IDE Ifyou system contains a E IDE hard disk you can apply the following measures in order to optimize the system The hard disk must not be connected to the same E IDE interface to which the CD ROM drive is connected Deactivate any kind
85. ent drive change the drive designator After doing this VidCap32 may abort because a supposed protection violation Immediately restart VidCap32 ignore the error message stating that the desired device is already in use and specify the desired drive Then close VidCap32 and restart Windows 95 ADOBE PREMIERE The DC50 project presets are not displayed when starting Premiere Start the installation program and install the presets 1 Place the DC50 CD ROM in your CD ROM drive Select the Run command from the Start menu 2 Enter d setup setup in the command line where d represents the CD ROM drive designator The installation program starts 3 In the Setup type window select the Custom option and click on Next 4 In the Select Components window activate Project defaults for Adobe Premiere and click Next The installation copies the project default settings to PLUG INS directory When an attempt is made to play and AVI back with Adobe Premiere the following error message appears MCI error Unable to open the AVI MCI driver Too many drivers loaded 1 Before calling up Adobe Premiere open Windows Explorer Then open the AVI file under Premiere 2 Close Windows Explorer you can now start the AVI file 3 Under Premiere put the capture file on a different drive In Adobe Premiere the drive used for recording is determined by the drive entry for Adobe s virtual memory In Adobe Premiere this men
86. eo signal generally contains more information than is displayed on a television overscan area In some cases camcorders and VCRs will hide image problems e g defects incomplete or flickering lines in these normally invisible areas If you change the position of an image with Premiere e g during a dissolve of fade with Wipe or Zoom these problems will become visible This will also apply to all other videos or animation e g FLI FLC and images bitmaps TIFs GIFs etc to be included in the project Tips amp Tricks 121 DC50 and Computer Animation If you edit computer animation e g Flics with the DCSO or want to link them to a digital video please note the following important information 122 miroVIDEO DC50 Match frame sizes Create your animation in the same frame size and image refresh rate as your original video 720 x 576 x 25 PAL 720 x 468 NTSC full format or as TV cropping 672 x 560 PAL 672 x 464 NTSC Failure to do this will result in unnecessarily long format conversions and after the conversion faults will be visible when the animation is played back Specify TrueColor format Computer animation in FLC format is saved in 8 bit pallatized format by default To save computer animation in Motion JPEG format you need to convert it to a TrueColor format 24 Bit before compression Compress Motion JPEG Before editing computer animation with a video editing program as for example Adobe
87. er s casing Reconnect the cables Do not yet switch your computer on The DC50 hardware installation is completed In the next step you connect the breakout box to DCS0 and to your video equipment as described on the following pages of the chapter Connecting the breakout box and the video devices Installing the hardware 19 ah Connecting the breakout box and the video devices The following chapter tells you how to connect your video devices to the miro VIDEO DC50 via the breakout box with the computer turned off To do so you need appropriate cables The following illustration shows the DCSO board with its connections keel Internal Audio Plug D Sub62 Connector The following illustration shows the connections of the breakout box 0000C 00000 20 miroVIDEO DC50 CONNECTING THE BREAKOUT BOX In order to connect the breakout box to the DC50 connect the 62 pin plug of the breakout box with the D Sub62 connection of DC50 Screw the plug tight If the breakout box and DC50 are connected please be careful with the cabling By pulling or pushing the cable the DC50 board may be lifted out of its slot This may cause malfunctions and in the worst case a destruction of the board or the PC CONNECTING THE VIDEO DEVICES Via the breakout box you can connect S Video and Composite video devices as well as video devices with component connections to DC50 First of all the possi
88. essing special effects on your desktop system TitleDeko is a plug in program for Adobe Premiere This plug in is designed to work with your miroVIDEO DC50 board As an integrated title editor program TitleDeko allows you to create professional quality titles and graphics quickly and easily Titles can contain words shapes background colors and photos or graphics imported from other programs TitleDeko offers professionally developed Preset Styles for quickly making titles along with virtually endless custom styling You can modify titles for a variety of effects such as titles that roll in vertically or crawl horizontally You can also adjust the duration the title appears in your movie WHAT ELSE IS REQUIRED To set up a complete editing system with DC50 and work successfully with it you need a few things that aren t in our box A PC fulfilling the DC50 system requirements Old slow components will lead to problems or reduce the achievable data rate and quality A well functioning PC first make sure that all other hardware and software components work well together then start installing the DC50 system Video equipment at least one VCR that can be used as both player and recorder of course with tapes Video cables depending on your type of equipment And a basic knowledge of video terminology If you never did nonlinear editing we suggest that first of all you install Premiere and get familiar with some ba
89. est elements of a monitor image Electrical transfer point for the adaptation of audio video or control data between two devices serial port parallel port The colors that are the basis of the RGB color model red green and blue By varying how these colors are blended on screen it is possible to create any other color Quarter Standard Image Format MPEG I format describing the resolution which is 176 x 144 under PAL and 176 x 120 under NTSC SIF Part of the JPEG image data compression Relevant details are represented precisely less relevant details for the human eye are represented with less precision Random Access Memory A RAM component is a write read component from which data can be read and to which data can be written The memory of computers is equipped with RAM components RAM components are volatile that is their content will be deleted after the computer has been switched off XII miroVIDEO DC50 Raster Redundance Registry Resolution RGB ROM Run Length Encoding Scaling Scene SCSI SCSI ID SCSI host adapter SCSI terminator SECAM Serial port SIF Signal to noise ratio The area of a video display that is covered by sweeping the electron beam of the display in a series of horizontal lines from upper left to lower right from viewer s perspective Redundant superfluous information can be eliminated during the image compression During decompression the images can be rest
90. et as for video recording The DC50 project presets determine a data rate for effect rendering at maximum video resolution 4MB s This rate is also used for video capture If you are using another rate for video capture you should adapt the data rate for effect rendering correspondingly menu Make command Compression Please check if the hard disk on which the ppj project file has been saved to is fast enough The settings determined by the DC50 project presets should not be changed video standard resolution codec For further details on how to work with Adobe Premiere please refer to the Adobe Premiere user s manual Usingt the DC50 under Windows 95 98 51 After mounting To use the features of miroINSTANT Video 5 you need Adobe Premiere 5 1 After having mounted the video clip proceed as follows 1 Save the project Save the project via the File menu and the Save command Enter the drive the directory and the file name then click OK 2 Press lt Enter gt In the activated timeline window press the lt Enter gt key to start the video playback For further information on miroINSTANT Video please refer to the chapter miroINSTANT Video starting on page 72 SOUND SETTINGS Use the Microsoft Mixer application to define the settings for sound playback and recording Audio playback This application is identified by a speaker icon on the task bar Simply double click the icon to start Playb
91. ft justified Full vertical justification makes the text flush or even with both the top and bottom of the text field box Spread justification makes all lines of text flush with both the left and right sides of the text field box including the last line This is full This is full horizontal vertical justification on a text field This is now spread justification on Maen on a text field a text field TOOLS AND SELECTION HANDLES Three buttons Move Resize Rotate Skew and Kerning Leading have dual functions depending on the handle you select The current function is denoted by cursor shape The following text explains these cursor shapes and how they function on text and other objects ae When you select an object handles appear on the corners and midpoints as shown in the illustration on the left In the case of Rotate and Skew a single handle appears in the upper right corner as shown on the right Kerning Leading Tool Kerning leading Tool This multifunction tool is used to change several characteristics The Kerning and Leading cursors appear only on the handles lh TitleDeko 99 Kerning Kerning is adjustment of the space between words and letters Kerning is typically used for very large letters Some characters in combination produce spacing that is visually unpleasant AWAY BIS AWAY To kern text click the Kerning Leading button select the characters to kern hold down Alt and press the
92. ge 117 Important If you use Windows NT you should skip this chapter and see Using the board under Windows NT on page 56 Recording quality You can adjust the recording quality to your hard disk s speed by changing the data rate or the compression factor If the hard disk is too slow to write all the images some will not be stored dropped and the video playback will look jerky and stuttering Solution Select a lower data rate Overlay If your system contains a graphics board that supports DirectDraw the DCS50 board can add a real time overlay Check whether displaying an overlay while simultaneously recording weakens the recording This may be due to a lower transfer rate on the part of the graphics board In this case either reduce the overlay resolution or simply turn off the overlay function while recording You should always use your television to control the video colors Because of gamma values phosphors etc that differ from those of a TV the computer may not show the correct colors Usingt the DC50 under Windows 95 98 45 DIGITIZING VIDEO CLIPS In order to digitize video clips it is necessary to connect the breakout box to the DC50 and to connect a player to the breakout box The player must be switched on so that it provides a video signal First you need to set the preferences necessary for the digitalization This manual describes the necessary steps for digitizing video clips under Adobe
93. h no image loss dropped frames For more detailed information refer to the chapter Tips amp tricks beginning on page 117 The optimum frame formats and compression factor together with the attainable data rate are displayed Please keep in mind that your hard disk will exhibit a lower data rate on its inner tracks When recording hard disk tracks are written to starting at the outer edge and working inwards 11 Enable Audio recording checkbox To determine the attainable video data rate in conjunction with audio data activate the Audio recording checkbox Specify the quality with which you want sound to be recorded 12 Test additional hard disks If necessary test additional hard disks 13 Select hard disk for recording click Store Select the hard disk if more than one is available that you wish to use for recording Click Store to save the settings The last measured value will be taken into consideration when later setting the data rate in the Video Format dialog box 14 Click Close Click Close to return to the configuration dialogue 15 Click OK To complete the installation procedure click OK to exit the DC50 Hardware Test dialog Starting the DC50 hardware test at a later time There are two methods of starting the DC50 hardware test at a later time e g to select another language version receive information about the driver version or to test the hardware 1 By using the Start menu and
94. he following chapter is designed so that you can start using your DC50 board immediately This is useful if you have already experience in working with other video boards and Premiere and if you are familiar with the installation of hardware and software under Windows For more detailed installation instructions please refer to the subsequent chapters in the manual INSTALLATION Proceed as follows to install the DC50 hardware and software 0 Install Adobe Premiere M Place the Adobe Premiere CD ROM in your CD ROM drive M Select Run from the Start menu M Depending on your drive enter for example e setup setup then click OK M Follow the installation instructions on the screen Install the DC50 board Turn your computer and all peripherals off Remove the necessary cables Open the computer s housing Remove the slot cover Insert the board Reassemble your computer NANQANANARRA Reconnect all cables Connect video source s to the video input s M Connect the video source depending on the output signal to the component composite or S Video input of the breakout box L Connect a VCR television to the video output M Connect the VCR television to the appropriate video output composite S VHS or component For help with this refer to the layout of the breakout
95. he word in the center has not been changed The widths of the words on the left and right are narrowed and expanded respectively WIDTH WIDTH VVID TH Rotate Skew Tool Rotating Q The Rotate cursor indicates rotating is enabled It appears anywhere on the selection box except at the upper right handle Skewing The Skew cursor appears only when you position it on the upper right handle Use the Skew function to make objects appear slanted eer TitleDeko 101 USING AND MODIFYING LOOKS AND STYLES Looks Styles Details About Looks and Styles A you have seen applying a look changes the appearance of text and objects A look consists of a face edge and shadow Each of those has a variety of parameters you can also adjust A style includes a look plus any other formatting or transformations that can be applied to text or objects For example styles can include typeface size and rotation in addition to a look Applying Looks to Text and Objects e To select and change looks click the Looks button E The Looks browser graphically displays the looks you can pick Just double click the look you want Losk Biomi a Aa Aa Aa z In 1 T Aa Aa Aa Os 7 Editing Looks To create your own custom effect change the detail attributes of the current look You cannot save your changes in the Looks browser However you can save them as part of a style Each look detail face edge or shadow
96. her information about all options of the dialog box mew IDEO DESO Wideo Imput E Connector Corponsni r A r B E von a O PINNACLE Fe Video joopthnough FF Activate aerea guip Video settings a f o Comast i i Cancel Salwa 4 fn O C a i 4 ue Connector Here you choose the connector of the breakout box to which your video source is connected to Composite S Video Y C or Component Y R Y B Y Several sources can be connected at the same time but only the selected signal will be digitized Refer to the chapter Connecting breakout box and video devices in the miroVIDEO DC50 user s manual Video Here you determine the video standard of the connected video source PAL NTSC SECAM DCS50 does not convert between standards i e if you digitize PAL video you need to choose a PAL Premiere preset and the result will be output in PAL format by DCSO Video loopthrough If you activate the Video loopthrough check box the input video signal will be directly transmitted to the output connectors of the breakout box and will be output on a connected control monitor Deactivate the check box in order to view a test picture on the monitor If your player is at the same time the recording device i e it is connected to the video input as well as to the video output of the breakout box you need to deactivate the Video loopthrough check box in order to avoid video feedback Usingt the DC50 under Windows
97. her than your own properly authorized employees or k make any alteration modification connection disconnection improvement or adjustment of any kind to or use the Pinnacle Systems DV500 hardware except as explicitly contemplated in the enclosed programming materials It is agreed that the violation by you of any of the prohibitions described above shall be a material breach by you of this license agreement and any attempt to sublicense assign or transfer any of the rights duties or obligations under this agreement except as expressly provided herein is void Term The license is effective until terminated You may terminate it at any time by destroying the program together with all copies in any form It will also terminate upon conditions set forth elsewhere in this agreement or if you fail to comply with any term or condition of this agreement You agree that upon such termination you will destroy the program together with all copies in any form Limited Warranty The program is provided as is without warranty of any kind either expressed or implied including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose with the sole exception of defective diskette s and Pinnacle Systems DV500 hardware described below The entire risk as to the quality and performance of the program is assumed by you If the program proves defective you and not Pinnacle Systems its Licensors or its
98. ight click the title icon on the Timeline Do one of the following Select Duration and enter a new duration Click OK Select Speed and enter a new rate You can also enter a new duration from this Clip Speed window Click OK Selecting Roll or Crawl allows you to use more text than will fit in the video safe area Select File gt Scrollable to roll or crawl additional text TitleDeko 113 Example 4 Creating a Scrollable Crawl In this example you launch TitleDeko and create a scrollable crawl This will allow the title to crawl horizontally from the left of the screen toward the right You also trim the title from the Main Menu Bar of Adobe Premiere 1 114 mirovIDEO DC50 Launch TitleDeko from the Main Menu Bar of Adobe Premiere Choose Project gt Create then click TitleDeko Enter the title text TitleDeko launches and a text I Beam cursor awaits text entry Type the words Happy Birthday to You Happy Birthday to You Happy Birthday Dear You Select the text Press lt Ctrl gt lt A gt to select the text The text is now surrounded by a selection box with handles on its sides Apply a Preset Style to the text A sampling of styles is displayed in the window to the right of the Preview Area If the Style window is not visible select View gt Preset Styles Scroll down to number 3 and click it Make this title a Crawl Click the File Type drop down arrow Select Crawl Allow
99. imeline window At it s top there is a small bar that indicates if audio temps exist for this place of the timeline see Adobe Premiere manual for details You may need to zoom in and scroll the timeline to locate the sections without audio temps To force Premiere to create audio temps even for parts of the work area that contain no audio as required for miroINSTANT Video 5 playback you can add dummy audio clips to these parts which either contain silence or have their volume set to zero Hint After the rendering took place you may play the same area again by either hitting lt Enter gt again or setting the timeline out point to any place within the work area setting the timeline cursor to any place in the work area before the out point and finally clicking the Play to out button in the monitor window miroINSTANT Video 79 LIMITATIONS Video clips that have any other speed than the standard 100 cannot be played directly by miroINSTANT Video 5 To make these clips play they must first be rendered to the new speed This happens automatically during the Premiere 5 1 effect render process if you use the project presets supplied with your Pinnacle board Uncompressed still images or any clips that are not compressed with the compression format supported by your miroVIDEO editing board cannot be played to TV out directly they must be rendered and transcoded to the correct compression format first The same applies to clips with
100. ion number Windows 95 Version 4 00 950 3 Close the MS DOS Prompt Appendix A Identifying the Windows version l Appendix B JPEG image data compression JPEG IMAGE DATA COMPRESSION 4 2 2 Subsampling Discrete Cosine Transformation Il miroVIDEO DC50 What is JPEG image data compression JPEG image data compression is a so called lossy compression procedure i e a portion of the original data is lost during compression JPEG data compression provides considerably higher compression factors than loss free procedures Lossless compression procedures can only compress at a factor of 2 1 which is not sufficient for the compression of image data A total of 21 Mbytes must be processed for one second of digitized PAL SECAM video material The lower the compression factor during compression the better the result How does JPEG image data compression work JPEG data compression occurs in the following steps The first step of JPEG data compression is the image conversion from the RGB format i e computer image to the YUV format In this format Y contains the brightness information luminance U and V deliver the color information chrominance Since the human eye can discern differences in brightness better than differences in color the Chrominance Subsampling method reduced scanning of color information can be used to capture video The miroVIDEO DC50 uses the 4 2 2 ratio where there are four bits fo
101. ips amp Tricks you learn how to optimize if necessary your computer for capturing and editing digital videos Troubleshooting If you face problems while working with DC50 please refer to the chapter Troubleshooting Technical data The chapter Technical data contains all important data of DC50 Appendix The Appendix gives you general information about digital video and it contains furthermore the support questionnaire which you can fill out and send us back in case of problems Index A detailed index concludes this User s guide Welcome 5 Before you begin This chapter tells you which computer system components are required for the operation of the DC50 which devices you can connect to the board and what is included in the DC50 package contents SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS Please make sure your system meets the following requirements before installing the DC50 Minimum The following system configuration summarizes all minimum requirements on the system Processor Pentium133 PC or compatible computer Slot One free 32 Bit PCI Slot bus master Version 2 1 Memory 64 MB Motherboard The reachable data rate and the video quality depends to a large amount on the used PC motherboard or the chips Please pay attention to the compatibility list on the http www pinnaclesys com website System disk 500 MB free hard disk space for system software Video disk Hard disk with 10 MB s continues data rate
102. itional information index signals time codes etc and the ITI section ITI insert and track information are written to the DV tape as follows 10 tracks 1 full image NTSC 12 tracks 1 full image PAL Say F T Y Additional information Video data Audio data ITI section Recording format of a DV tape Abbreviation for Enhanced Compatible Port Enables an accelerated bi directional data transfer via the H parallel port a slight data compression may arise LL EPP A list of clips and effects in a particular order that will be recorded onto your output tape or AVI file Studio allows you to create and edit your own edit decision list by adding deleting and reordering clips and effects in the Storyboard or Timeline view of the Movie window Abbreviation for Enhanced Compatible Port Enables an accelerated bi directional data transfer via the LL parallel port LJ ECP Abbreviation for Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory Memory chip that after programming saves it s data without power supply The memory contents may be erased with ultraviolet light and can be re written A digital effect that fades up from black at the beginning the clip or down to black at the end of the clip A frame of video consists of horizontal lines and is divided into two fields All odd lines of a video frame are Field 1 All even numbered lines are Field 2 VIII miroVIDEO DC50 Field File format Filters FireWire
103. ive monitor will be shown on the PC screen and on TV out the other monitor will display on the PC screen only Audio output The audio parts of the clips and projects you play back with miroINSTANT Video 5 are being output using two different devices Under Windows 95 98 itis the miroVIDEO editing boards outputting audio through it s analog or digital connectors During the installation the DC50 hardware has been registered as the standard audio hardware in the Control Panel Multimedia Under Windows NT audio is output via the standard Windows audio device i e your SoundBlaster card The differences in audio output are explained using the symbols below Audio is output through the miroVIDEO editing board meaning the speaker icon in the miroINSTANT Video 5 window is NOT crossed out when you play an AVI file that is compatible with your DC50 editing board see details below using the source monitor or a clip window doa playback of parts of the timeline with ALL the audio in the work area having been rendered into temporary audio clips by Adobe Premiere 5 1before The audio is output through the standard audio device in all other cases when you do scrubbing if the audio scrubbing is not switched off in the miroINSTANT Video 5 menu playback in the program monitor and some parts of the audio in the work area have not yet been rendered by Premiere play a clip in the source monitor or clip window that has an i
104. k another directory click on the Browse button and define the hard disk the directory The driver software should be installed on the system hard disk and not on the video hard disk Click Next Click on Next to proceed with the installation If necessary select the components If you have chosen Custom as setup type you can directly choose those components in the dialog box Select Components which you want to install By clicking on Details you open the window Select Sub components Here you can determine the components even more precisely Select Cipin Selec the compenents ou vani ip iial des the conmpeonenis year che red vam bey areal Conponents uP Lites HHE af Sabe Frares Addi na 101 F Extended presets bor Adobe Premise FE Documentation 2441 E Darpio Handan hiver Diegi ard Dawit Hada Changs Space Aequred HAE Space Armide BIEI E emen System Software DCS0 driver and Microsoft DirectX The system software must be installed in order to use the functions of DC50 Utilities Tools helps and ReadMe file You should absolutely install and use them miroINSTANT Video Adobe Premiere plugin allows to save valuable computing time when creating projects You should absolutely install miroINSTANT Video if you want to use Premiere 4 2 The Details button lets you choose between two intro movies for PAL and NTSC The intro movies avi sequences help you switch on the VCR j
105. ks Clicking on a specific look applies a set of appearance attributes to the selected object E Edit Look Click the Edit Look button to modify the currently selected look There are numerous fine adjustments that are explained in greater detail later fA Grid Horizontal Vertical Alignment Browsers Alignment browser tools are active depending on whether the selected object is text or a non text object such a circle For example you can right align a circle but you can t kern it like text by spreading out the words and letters HEIE Grid Click the Grid button for a browser that gives you a fast way to align objects Horizontal and Vertical To change the horizontal or vertical alignment and or justification of text characters click the respective button and choose the type of alignment you wish Note that some alignments also work on objects Undo Redo Click Undo to undo the last action Undo will undo multiple levels of action limited only by available memory Redo undoes the last Undo sjal Move Resize Rotate Skew Depending on the object handle selected these controls have different functions Move the cursor over the object The cursor shows the active function Text Kerning Leading Spreads text lines vertically leading or adds removes space between individual letters and words horizontally kerning ak TitleDeko 93 Add Rectangle Ellipse Click to add these shapes OC Insert Pict
106. l is connected to the Line audio outputs of the breakout box If you have chosen the Balanced option under Input selection the 20 dB input gain will not be available If this option has been activated accidentally the input signal will be enormously overloaded and can not be adjusted properly with the level adjustment sliders Please deactivate the 20 dB input gain in this case Default The Default button resets all values to the default setting Data rate The Data rate slider allows you to determine the date rate with which the video sequence is to be recorded If you change the position of the data rate slider the compression factor will change automatically A high data rate signifies high quality If a certain material dependent data rate is reached the maximum quality no visible difference compared to the input signal is reached as well further increase of the quality is not possible e Specify the data rate If the set data rate exceeds the performance of your computer the maximum data rate will appear in red letters It displays the data rate KB and the compression factor Drive info Displays all the connected drivers on which video clips can be recorded with the necessary additional information Name The name of the drive i e of the hard disk the partition the removable disk or something similar Max drive rate If the measurement has already been completed Testing button the maximum data
107. le you create a title selecting Roll as the File Type This will allow the title to roll vertically from the bottom of the screen to the top You also trim the title from the Timeline 1 Launch TitleDeko from the Main Menu Bar of Adobe Premiere Choose Project gt Create then click TitleDeko Enter the title text TitleDeko launches and a text I Beam cursor awaits text entry Type the words Best Wishes from Your Fan Club on Your Birthday You will change the type size and apply a new style to it but you must first select the text Select the text Press lt Ctrl gt lt A gt to select the text A selection box with handles on its sides now surrounds the text Apply a Preset Style to the text A sampling of styles is displayed in the window to the right of the Preview Area If the Style window is not visible select View gt Preset Styles Scroll down to number 2and click it Center the text horizontally To center the text click the Horizontal Justify button to display its pop up choices Click the center button Fully Justify the Text Vertically Click the Vertical Justify button to display its pop up choices Click the Full button Make the title a Roll Click the File Type drop down arrow Select Roll Save the title Click the Save button to save the Roll Return to Adobe Premiere Press lt F12 gt to accept the title and return to Adobe Premiere 10 Trim the title R
108. low the exclusion of liability for incidental or consequential damages so the above exclusion may not apply to you This warranty gives you specific rights and you may also have other rights which vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction Updates Periodically Pinnacle Systems may introduce new versions or releases of the software To qualify for notification of the availability of these new versions or releases and their prices you must first complete and return the enclosed program registration card All new versions or releases which are provided to you shall become part of the program and shall be governed by the terms of this license agreement XXII miroVIDEO DC50 KONFORMITATSERKLARUNG DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY Gerateart Video Editor Type Auf equipment Video Editing Device Produkt Product miroVIDEO DC50 Das bezeichnete Produkt stimmt mit den Vorschriften folgender EU Richtlinie n berein The aforementioned product complies with the following European Council Directive s 89 336 EWG Richtlinie des Rates zur Angleichung der Rechtsvorschriften der Mitgliedstaaten Uber die elektromagnetische Vertraglichkeit Council Directive 89 336 EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to electromagnetic compatibility Zur vollstandigen Einhaltung dieser Richtlinie n wurden folgende Normen herangezogen To fully comply with this these Directive s the following standards have been used EN 55022 Clas
109. m top to bottom Broadcast quality 1 2 inch video cassette format developed by Sony This system has continued to be developed over the years to offer models for the industrial and professional markets Basic Input Output System Basic In and Output commands saved in a ROM PROM or EPROM The essential task of the BIOS is the control of Input and Output When the system has been started the ROM BIOS carries out some tests Parallel port IRQ I O Appendix C Multimedia glossary V Bit Bitmap Blacking Black and white BMP Brightness Byte CD ROM Channel Chroma Clip Clipboard Clock frequency Closed GOP CODEC Color depth Color model VI miroVIDEO DC50 Binary Digit The smallest element of a computer s memory Among other things bits are used to record the color values of pixels in an image The more bits used for each pixel the greater the number of available colors For example bit each pixel is either black or white 4 bit each pixel can be any one of 16 colors or gray shades 8 bit each pixel can be any one of 256 colors or gray shades 16 bit each pixel can be any one of 65 536 colors 24 bit each pixel can be any one of 16 7 million colors An image format made up of a collection of dots or pixels arranged in rows The process of preparing a videotape for insert editing by recording video black and continuous control track on the entire tape If the recording deck supp
110. meline 90 107 110 111 113 114 Tips amp Tricks 45 Title icon 90 110 113 114 Titles 89 Tool 91 92 99 101 109 Toolbar 91 92 TransActive 116 Transfer speed 126 Transform 94 101 Transition XIV Transitions 115 Transparency 97 105 110 Trimming 89 107 113 114 TrueColor XIV TruQuads 116 TV standards 134 Twain driver XIV Typeface 92 97 102 Typographical Characteristics 92 Unbalanced Audio 134 136 Underline 92 97 Undo 93 Undo Redo 93 Uniform 116 User interface 89 91 Utilities 34 43 Variable 116 VCR XIV Vertical 93 98 99 VHS XIV VidCap32 128 Video 110 Video CD XIV Video channel 110 Video for Windows XIV Video format 49 Video input 8 47 Video inputs 135 Video loopthrough 47 Video output 8 Video outputs 135 Video safe area 91 95 113 Video scan rate XV Video settings 48 Video SpiceRack 9 Videogami 116 View 102 104 108 113 114 VISCA XIV Wav XV White balance XV Width 101 Window 104 Windows 95 OSR 2 31 Release August 95 30 Windows 98 32 Wipes 116 Y C XV YUV I XV Index T Y NOTES
111. menu click on Settings Control Panel Display and on the tab Screen Saver Deactivate the screen saver Choose the option None Windows NT To profit from the possibilities under Windows NT in the most effective way consider the following aspects Windows NT needs a maximum amount of memory space RAM for running rapidly and without any problems For video editing 64 MBytes are the minimum 256 Mbytes are recommended Some motherboards are not able to address memories of more than 64 Mbytes via the system cache These systems experience a performance loss when more than 64 Mbytes of RAM are used Please consult your retailer in order to find out if your system can be improved Tag RAM Deactivate the AutoRun function of your CD ROM drive Open in the directory winnt the program regedit exe Change the value for KEY_LOCAL_MACHINES SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Services Cdrom Autorun from 1 to 0 When using E IDE hard disks you should install an IDE busmaster driver under Windows NT Such a driver is usually supplied together with the computer motherboard In order to check if an IDE busmaster driver is installed and is able to operate start the Task Manager lt Ctrl gt lt Alt gt lt Del gt Choose the tab Performance Under the menu item View activate the option Show Kernel Times Start a capturing process If the display CPU Usage mounts to more than 30 no IDE busmaster driver is installed under Wi
112. miroVIDEO DC50 USER S GUIDE miroVIDEO DC50 User s Guide Version 2 0 GB December 1999 160897 Pinnacle Systems 1999 All rights reserved No part of this manual may be reproduced or transferred to other media without explicit written permission from Pinnacle Systems Braunschweig Germany All brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders This manual is printed on chlorine free paper using environmentally safe ink Pinnacle Systems has written this manual to the best of its knowledge but does not guarantee that the programs systems will fulfill the desires of the user No warranty is made as to the specifications of features Pinnacle Systems retains the right to make alterations to the content of the manual without the obligation to inform third parties All tenders sales supply and manufacturing contracts from Pinnacle Systems including consultancy installation and other contractual performance are subject exclusively to the General Sales and Delivery Terms of Pinnacle Systems Contents WELCOME 1 WHAT Is DC50 1 WHAT ELSE IS REQUIRED 3 ABOUT THIS USER S GUIDE 4 BEFORE YOU BEGIN 6 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 6 PACKAGE CONTENTS 9 EXISTING MOTION JPEG CAPTURE BOARD 10 DEFRAGMENTING THE HARD DISK 10 UICK START 11 INSTALLATION 11 VIDEO RECORDING WINDOWS 95 98 12 VIDEO RECORDING WINDOWS NT 13 VIDEO EDITING 14 PLAYBACK WITH MEDIAPLAYER 15 VIDEO REPLAY UNDER ADOBE PR
113. mitations section later in this chapter With miroINSTANT Video 5 some things in Premiere work not exactly as described in the Premiere manual So please make sure to read all the miroINSTANT Video 5 documentation miroINSTANT Video 73 HOW DOES IT WORK Whenever you play video clips or parts of the timeline in the Premiere 5 1 monitor window miroINSTANT Video 5 does two things It plays back the video using the miroVIDEO editing board so that it can be watched on a TV in addition to the usual display on your computer screen It makes sure that all source clips and rendered effects play back smoothly without interruptions between the single AVI files This way the playback from the timeline can directly be recorded to tape Without miroINSTANT Video 5 there would be stuttering and dropped frames during the timeline playback so you would have to render the whole project before you re able to print it to tape miroINSTANT VIDEO 5 WINDOW When miroINSTANT Video 5 is installed is selected as Editing Mode and is active see above the miroINSTANT Video 5 window is visible It is displayed in front of other Premiere 5 1 windows but may be hidden by Premiere s floating tool palettes in this case move the palettes to see and access the INSTANT Video 5 window Price YSTEM Click right for options The window indicates by it s existence that miroINSTANT Video 5 is active Speaker symbol Whenever miroINST
114. more than one frame of text to crawl Click File gt Scrollable Save the title Click the Save button to save the Crawl Return to Adobe Premiere Press lt F12 gt to accept the title and return to Adobe Premiere Trim the title Do one of the following Select Clip gt Duration and enter a new duration Click OK Select Clip gt Speed and enter a new rate You can also enter a new duration from this Clip Speed window Click OK You can also adjust the duration of the title by dragging the left and right edges of the title icon on the Timeline Video SpiceRack KEY CONCEPTS OF VIDEO SPICERACK Video SpiceRack offers a collection of 300 top quality transitions and dynamic effects The key concepts and possibilities are explained below Video SpiceRack uses grayscale gradient images specially designed for video to create custom transitions and effects For further details please refer to the section How does a gradient image make a transition To easily choose from the vast range of Video SpiceRack alternatives we ve organized our effects into distinct categories Video SpiceRack gradients are organized into five groups as shown in the section Video SpiceRack Categories The five groups together hold several categories of transitions Each category is visually distinct and in a separate folder making it relatively easy to compare and choose from the available effe
115. mputer but another I22 based hardware If the DC50 board has been installed in your computer remove the board from its slot and reboot the system If this does not solve the problem another 22 based board is installed in your computer Insert the DC50 board in a PCI slot which is located in front of the other hardware Troubleshooting 131 P ya E Ae Coder init failed 0x000A Coder defective Consult your retailer or No DC30 board but another 122 based hardware is installed in your computer If the DC50 board has been installed in your computer remove the board from its slot and reboot the system If this does not solve the problem another 22 based board is installed in your computer Insert the DC50 board in a PCI slot which is located in front of the other hardware Z016 init failed OxOOOB Z016 defective Consult your retailer or No DCS50 board has been installed in your computer but another 122 based hardware If the DCSO board has been installed in your computer remove the board from its slot and reboot the system If this does not solve the problem another I22 based board is installed in your computer Insert the DC50 board in a PCI slot which is located in front of the other hardware miroINSTANT VIDEO i os When using miroINSTANT Video there are dropped frames during the playback This problem is typically present during transitions The Limit Data Rate setting in Adobe Premiere may not be
116. n have its own level of opacity TitleDeko 105 Background is a color gradient HE To make the top a single color that merges into a single color at the bottom choose the same color for both the top and bottom sets of Color buttons Picture Backgrounds To use a picture as the background select Background is a picture Type in the path name or click the Browse button navigate to the directory that contains the file and choose the file Selecting Colors and Opacity Colors Color Picker To select color and opacity for a solid or gradient background click on the corresponding Color button The Color Picker appears Except for opacity the choices in this screen are self explanatory and conform to Windows Color Picker standards uM jue 1160 Red 64 Green 64 J roo ColefSold Lum 60 Blue 64 Cancel Add to Custom Colors ae A a Basic colors mE E E ee ee EC ERE Custom colors cpp yp pe cee p ee Opacity Opacity The following illustrations show that as you adjust the Opacity slider down from 100 the background becomes increasingly transparent Opacity 106 miroVIDEO DC50 LET S MAKE A TITLE Example creates a basic title and inserts it into the Timeline in Adobe Premiere Examples 2 3 and 4 build on this basic title to show more advanced TitleDeko features Example 2 enhances the text in a number of ways including resizing rotating and skewing This exampl
117. n to display a grid that resembles a tic tac toe grid To use the grid select the text or object and click the button that indicates how you want the text justified or where you want the object positioned Keypad The numeric keypad also emulates the functions of the grid and thus offers a quick way to position or justify text and other objects which is particularly useful if you have many repetitions to do Hold down the Ctrl key and press one of the numbers on the numeric keypad to quickly justify text and objects Notice that the position of the marker in the grid button changes as do the Horizontal and Vertical Justification buttons 7 8 9 Top Top Top Left Center Right 4 5 6 P Middle J Middle J Middle Left Center Right a 1 2 3 Bottom Bottom ff Bottom Left Center Right Cancel i Justification Off The Horizontal and Vertical Justify buttons display controls to manipulate text and objects in those axes In addition these buttons also contain Full and Spread functions that apply only to text Select the text or object click the button that indicates how you want the text justified or where you want the object positioned The choices are obvious except for Full and Spread 98 miroVIDEO DC50 Full Horizontal Full Vertical and Spread Justification Full horizontal justification makes the text flush or even with both the left and right sides of the text field box except for the last line of text which remains le
118. ncompatible format Rendering previews You have read that the miroINSTANT Video 5 behavior depends on if the audio and the video effects have already been rendered or not Here s a summary about how you can do this rendering The following always applies to the currently selected work area in the timeline window and only renders things that haven t already been rendered To render audio only select Project Render Audio To render audio and the necessary parts of the video select Project Render Selection To render audio and the necessary parts of the video and immediately start the playback of the work area can be stopped by hitting the lt ESC gt key select Project Preview or hit the lt Enter gt key While all of these functions belong to the Preview according to the terminology of Adobe Premiere 5 1 when it comes to miroINSTANT Video 5 output they are of the highest quality What to do to have the audio output through the miroVIDEO editing board Set the work area to the timeline area you want to play and hit the Enter key to make Premiere render everything necessary and automatically start playback If the speaker is STILL crossed out this indicates that there are one or more sections within the work area that contain no audio for a duration of ten seconds or more so that Premiere did not create audio temp files for these sections You can locate these parts of your project by checking the t
119. ndows NT If the video hard disk is connected to an SCSI adapter which is not connected to the system hard disk deactivating the SCSI adapter s BIOS can increase the performance Please refer to the SCSI adapter s user manual After having deactivated the SCSI adapter s BIOS you need to repartition the video hard disk Format the video hard disk always with FAT 16 and not with NTFS Open the Start menu click on Settings Control Panel Display and on the tab Screen Saver Deactivate the screen saver None Open the Start menu click on Settings Control Panel System and open the dialogue box System Properties Click on the tab Performance and activate the option Maximum in order to increase the performance of applications in the foreground Deactivate the network board and the network functions Don t log in Tips amp Tricks 119 SOURCE MATERIAL CAPTURE The better without noises well exposed the source material the better the compression without any visible compression losses Problems occur with noisy image material as it is the case after copying video material several times Even if the video material itself does not have a high level of detail the noise must still be compressed which results in a considerable quality loss Deactivating Network drivers and applications As network operations often cause interruptions during recording and playback it is better not to work in a network Color dep
120. ne 92 94 FireWire IX FLC 122 Font 102 Format 38 97 102 120 Frame IX FreeFX 82 Full justification 98 Function fault 37 General 57 GOP Ix Gradient background 105 106 Gradient colors 103 Gradient image 115 Grid 93 98 Handles 93 95 96 99 100 101 111 114 Hard Disk 117 Hardware 2 Hardware CODEC IX Hardware test 123 129 Height 101 Hi8 IX HiColor IX Horizontal 93 98 99 109 113 Hue IX Huffman Coding IHI Huffman Coding IX VO XI I Beam cursor 108 113 114 IDE Ix IEEE X TEEE 1394 X Image X Image area 95 Image quality 127 Insert cut X Insert Picture 94 105 106 Installation 11 DC50 Software 33 Interlaced X Interleave XI Iris Essentials 116 IRQ XI IRQ sharing 123 Irrelevance XI Italic 92 97 ITI XI JPEG XI JPEG algorithm III Justification 93 98 99 Justify 98 109 113 Kaleidos 116 KByte XI Kerning 93 99 100 Kerning Leading 93 99 100 Key color XI Key frame rate XI Key Type 105 110 Keypad 98 Laser disk XI Launch 90 107 114 Layer 94 100 112 Leading 93 99 100 Livelrises 116 LiveWipes 116 Long shots XI Look 93 97 102 LPT XI Luminance II XI MIV XI Mark In Mark Out XI Marker 98 MByte XI MCI XI Media player 51 65 Memory area 124 Menu 91 92 98 Menu Bar 91 94 95 104 107 112 114 miroINSTANT Video 2 35 43 miroVIDEO Capture 67 miroVIDEO DCS50 Control 26 56 125 miroVIDEO Expert 2 37 miroVIDEO EXPERT 37 miroV
121. ngs are only useful for special applications Please do not change these settings if you are not sure about the technical background Stand Out The tab Stand Out advanced settings for the Composite and S Video outputs allows you to determine if the output signals for the Composite or the S Video output of the breakout box are to be optimized video bandwidth The other settings are only useful for special applications Please do not change these settings if you are not sure about the technical background Comp In On the tab Comp In advanced settings for the component input you select the type of the connected component signal player standard In case of a separate sync signal you choose the connector sync source used for this signal In addition to that as a control function the tab displays if a video signal is present at the component input The other settings are only useful for special applications Please do not change these settings if you are not sure about the technical background Comp Out On the tab Comp Out advanced settings for the component output you determine settings which change the component output into an RGB output or the use of further S Video and Composite outputs These settings are only useful for special applications Do not change these settings if you are not sure about the technical background Help The Help button gives detailed information about each page and each element
122. ntation supplied with your computer Quick start 15 16 miroVIDEO DC50 Installing Adobe Premiere The following chapter describes the procedure to install Adobe Premiere You must install Adobe Premiere before installing the DC50 board in your computer because the DC50 presets must be copied to the appropriate Adobe Premiere folder during the installation of the DC50 software and software installation starts immediately after the hardware installation Proceed as follows to install Adobe Premiere 1 Place the Adobe Premiere CD ROM in your CD ROM drive 2 If the installation program is not started automatically select Run from the Start menu 3 Depending on your drive enter for example e premiere setup If your CD ROM drive has a different drive designation change the path accordingly Click on Browse switch to your CD ROM drive and to the directory mentioned above and double click the setup exe file 4 Click OK 5 Follow the program installation instructions on the screen After you have installed Adobe Premiere on your computer you can install the DC50 board If you ever need to reinstall Adobe Premiere please remember to run the DC50 installation again selecting at a minimum the Presets and PlugIns DC50 will not work correctly if these components are missing Installing the hardware The following chapter explains how to install the DC50 board into your computer REMOVING A VIDEO CAP
123. o Date Asie MED EBs Hard Disk Speed EPD 125RIE free of 21H How a GE 0 Rest A N 1s Wideo Settings C PALAECAM W Gudo DCO plus F HTSC E O Oar ees F TWCreping mnviDEO DCSO Audo Saira F Ado Peconding E Pies KH E liro PGES AL a FP AAEH E Shipa amp 15 Bit Sampling f 44 100 46 000 kHz Enarmout Rendering Bower Dubomat Aabo vdeo Sprosto e L High Productivity Installing the software for Windows 95 98 37 38 miroVIDEO DC50 10 Select hard disk click Start test Select the hard disk whose performance you wish to test then click Start test In order to provide you with realistic values the disk being tested should be defragmented The program indicates that you have installed a DC50 board miroVIDEO Expert also works together with other miroVIDEO boards this is for example the reason for the audio setting of lower quality The main purpose of miroVIDEO Expert is to detect the reachable data rates of the hard disks for this purpose you can ignore the settings on top of the Save button The hard disk test first examines the speed with which data can be written to or read from the hard disk After this the test determines the optimum frame format with its corresponding compression factor Using the PCI storage link data together with your hard drive s write speed the program calculates the data rate at which an M JPEG video sequence with sound can be recorded wit
124. o the DC50 board you need suitable cables Cinch S Video or BNC cables PACKAGE CONTENTS Please make sure your DC50 system is complete before you begin the installation The system includes DC50 board CD ROM with drivers extended Adobe Premiere Adobe Premiere presets After Effects miroINSTANT Video Pinnacle FreeFX and online documentation Sodio Pixelan Video SpiceRack Effects TitleDeko Documentation 2 Adapters Cinch to BNC BNC to Cinch If any parts are missing please contact your retailer Computer components are sensitive to electrostatic charge Do not take the DCS50 board out of its antistatic package until you install it a S Depending on the delivery scope the package contents may vary from the contents listed in this manual For model and serial number of your board refer to the label on the board Before you begin 9 EXISTING MOTION JPEG CAPTURE BOARD If you have already installed a Motion JPEG video board in your computer it is recommended that you remove this board before installing the DC50 board To do so it is required that you also remove the corresponding software You have to remove the software while the board is still installed Start gt Settings gt Control Panel gt Software Windows 95 98 For doing so please try the following possibility first Go to the program group of your video capture board via the Start menu and the command Programs Then
125. o the same value will make the effect static which is useful for picture in picture type effects By default the two video sources for the transition are represented in the preview window by A and B bitmaps Selecting this option will show the actual source videos By default the preview of a transition in this dialog has a fixed duration of some seconds Selecting this option makes the preview run at the same duration the transition currently has in the timeline At the top of the FreeFX window an indicator shows if the FreeFX rendering is currently hardware accelerated rendering in Hardware or not rendering in Software How fast is FreeFX This depends on the Pinnacle editing board you use on the speed of your PC CPU and hard drive on the FreeFX render mode you use and if you use hardware rendering on your VGA card and it s drivers Using a modern 500Mhz PC a modern VGA board with proper drivers and a DC50 video editing board we have measured render times of about 12 seconds per second of FreeFX transition being about 12 1 If you see slow rendering you should first check if hardware rendering is being activated This is shown on top of the FreeFX settings dialog If it is not active check the following the hardware slider must be set to medium or high position hardware rendering must not be disabled by the checkmark in the dialog your VGA must support 3D rendering must have a Direct3D 6 compatible
126. of hard disk power management in the computer s BIOS Install the busmaster driver for the motherboard and activate the DMA Therefore open the Start menu click on Settings Control Panel System and Device Manager Select the Properties button and activate the check box DMA Activate Fast E IDE in the BIOS while the computer is booting up Please refer also to the computer s user manual Windows 95 98 To use the functions under Windows 95 98 in the most effective way please consider the following aspects 118 mirovIDEO DC50 Use the Windows Media Player and the miroAVI Cache located in the Media Player under Devices in order to playback a video sequence If you wish to playback a complete project in the activated timeline window press the lt Enter gt key to start the video playback Open the Start menu click on Settings Control Panel System and on the tab Performance Click on the File System button and set the Read ahead optimization to None Open the Start menu click on Settings Control Panel System and on the tab Performance Click on the File System button activate the tab Troubleshooting and the option Disable write behind caching for all drivers Open the Start menu click on Settings Control Panel System and on the tab Device Manager Select your CD ROM drive and click on the Properties button Activate the Properties button and deactivate the option Auto insert notification Open the Start
127. of the breakout box in a range from 6 dB to 15 dB Balanced In The Balanced In slider allows you to control the input levels in a range of 6 dB to 16 5 dB and the balance of the device e g a VCR connected to the balanced input of the breakout box Wave Use the Wave controller to control the level in a range from OdB to 33 dB and the balance of audio output from Wave and AVI files Mute The Mute control box turns the volume of the corresponding audio source internal external wave off The Mute settings of the internal and the external input depend on each other If you switch one input on the other input is automatically muted Mute The control of the Wave is not affected by these settings Mute all The Mute all control box mutes all inputs Usingt the DC50 under Windows 95 98 53 fi E Advanced Playback The Advanced buttons let you make further settings If these buttons are not visible select Advanced Controls from the Options menu Set Default Values The Set Default Values option sets all sliders to default settings The default settings are the ones that were enabled after you first installed the DC50 software Audio Loopthrough If you activate the checkbox Audio loopthrough the audio signal that is present at the audio input of the DC50 will also be looped through to the audio output of the DC50 Advanced Balance The Advanced buttons let you make further settings If these buttons a
128. oftware and tells you what you need to set up a working DC50 based editing system WHAT Is DC50 DC50 is a professional non linear video and audio editing system for the Windows NT Windows 95 98 platform State of the art technology offers not only highest performance and productivity but also best signal quality Speed optimized codec technology provides enormous rendering power for fast video editing compositing and animation A professional breakout box ensures high quality connection to studio equipment like Betacam SP machines and other component video devices All connectors and signals totally comply with the ITU R 601 studio standard The studio quality output delivered by DC50 makes it the ideal system for high quality video and audio post production needs Videos produced with DC50 can be broadcast How does it work DCS50 converts analog video and audio signals into a digital computer editable format by recording video sequences into Motion JPEG compressed AVI files at Betacam SP quality The video can then be edited digitally on the computer adding digital effects and doing any number of layers without generation loss During editing the DC50 hardware does all required compression decompression operations and generates the monitor output signals The resulting digital video can then be output to tape at Betacam SP quality or it can be transformed into lower quality CD internet video Welcome 1 Har
129. oject defaults Presets are copied to your hard disk 40 miroVIDEO DC50 THE INSTALLATION PROGRAM To install the drivers for Windows NT proceed as follows 1 Switch on the computer If you have not done so already switch on the computer 2 Insert CD ROM If have not done so already insert the installation CD in your CD ROM drive this is not the case the Autostart function of your CD ROM drive has probably been disabled In this case you have to start the installation program manually To do so elect the Run command in the Start menu and enter your drive letter SETUP SETUP EXE Click on OK to start the installation program E Under Windows NT the installation program should start automatically If The installation program is started automatically in the language specified via the Regional Settings Start Menu Settings Control Panel Regional Settings of the installed Windows version If you use other regional settings than English German or French you will have to select the language in which the installation should be carried out 3 If necessary change the language click Next If necessary select the language in which the installation should be carried out If you have activated the German English or French Regional Settings and nevertheless want to change the language of the installation program click the button Back first and then select the language Click on the Next button This installa
130. on but does handle the image data transfer in a slower mode and prevents using some sophisticated texture blending modes This can fix problems with some VGA cards The lowest setting called No 3D hardware acceleration does all 3D rendering completely in software using the CPU This is slowest but it works with any VGA card and gives the lowest amount of possible compatibility problems This setting is required if your VGA card does not support 3D acceleration or has 8 MB or less of memory Click OK to close this dialog after doing your settings Help Clicking the Help button shows the ReadMe file After reading the info you need click the button below to get back to the Pinnacle FreeFX window Ok This button closes the Pinnacle FreeFX windows applying all settings and changes you have done Cancel This button closes the Pinnacle FreeFX windows without applying the changes you did Play This button starts and stops the effect preview playback This can also be done by hitting the space bar Slider The slider shows the current position within the effect This is given as a percentage You can change the position by dragging the slider The same can be done with the left and right cursor keys 86 miroVIDEO DC50 Brackets Show actual sources Show actual length Render mode indicator The left and right brackets can be used to set the in and out points of the effect The current percentages are shown below Setting both t
131. on with custom settings In your Premiere project drag the Pinnacle FreeFX transition from the list in the transition palette to an appropriate position of the timeline window In the Pinnacle FreeFX window select one of the available effects then click OK That s it Now you can preview render and play the FreeFX the standard Premiere way and put the results to videotape with INSTANT Video Pinnacle FreeFX 83 Effect to use Background Color Background Bitmap to use 84 miroVIDEO DC50 The options in the FreeFX window Pinnecle Freel rendering in Hardersae Here you select the 3D effect you want to use for this transition by clicking it from the list Some Pinnacle FreeFX reveal a normally black background on parts of the screen which show neither video A nor B Here you can change the color of this background by clicking the Change button and picking a color Bai Galera Cmm ie a m eee Dimi i imi i5 CES eee EEE Eee Beeee mo union colors i pee 7 yf ioe ee ee 7 iste Coen Catone Hug fie leet ez sa n Gomme 55 Coed oe lh Be Tc Add bo Canton Cobe If you select a background bitmap as well this color affects the tone of the bitmap The background can be reset to show the standard black by clicking Reset to default Some FreeFX reveal a normally black background on parts of the screen which show neither video A nor B Here you can select a bitmap to be sh
132. or 130 mirovIDEO DC50 e P e0 E e gt E ee No DCS50 board has been installed in your computer but another I22 based hardware If the DCSO board has been installed in your computer remove the board from its slot and reboot the system If this does not solve the problem another 22 based board is installed in your computer Insert the DC50 board in a PCI slot which is located in front of the other hardware Decoder init failed 0x0007 Decoder defective Consult you retailer or No DC50 Board has been installed in your computer but another I22 based hardware If the DCSO board has been installed in your computer remove the board from its slot and reboot the system If this does not solve the problem another 22 based board is installed in your computer Insert the DC50 board in a PCI slot which is located in front of the other hardware Encoder init failed 0x0008 Encoder defective Consult your retailer or No DC50 Board has been installed in your computer but another I22 based hardware If the DCSO board has been installed in your computer remove the board from its slot and reboot the system If this does not solve the problem another 22 based board is installed in your computer Insert the DC50 board in a PCI slot which is located in front of the other hardware Switcher matrix init failed 0x0009 Switcher Matrix defective Consult your retailer or No DC50 Board has been installed in your co
133. ored completely A database in Windows 98 in which configuration data is stored Among other things the registry contains the Windows 98 system settings the configuration data for Windows 98 compatible applications and user specific configuration data The number of pixels which can be displayed on the monitor horizontally and vertically The higher the resolution the more details can be displayed Abbreviation for Red Green and Blue the basic colors of additive color mixing RGB describes the method used in computer technology where image information is transferred by dividing it into the three basic colors Abbreviation for Read Only Memory Memory chip that keeps it s data without power supply after being programmed once EPROM The RLE Run Length Encoding method is part of the JPEG compression Repeating values are not saved individually but with a counter which states how often the values occurs in succession Adaptation to the desired image size One or more video clips that belong together thematically Abbreviation for Small Computers System Interface SCSI is used as hard disk interface for high performance PCs because of its high data rate Up to eight SCSI devices can be connected to a computer at the same time A number that identifies a SCSI device which is connected to a SCSI host adapter Normally a SCSI host adapter is a supplement board which connects the computer host and the SCSI bus Here the DV500 bo
134. orts time code then continuous time code will be recorded simultaneously An image that contains only black and white pixels File extension for H bitmap files Also luminance Indicates the brightness of a video One byte corresponds to eight H bit With one byte exactly one character can be displayed i e letter number The encoding is binary this means in zeros 0 and ones 1 CD ROMs are mass storage media for digital data such as digital video Classifications of information in a data file to isolate a particular aspect of the entire file For example color images use different channels to classify the color components in the image Stereo audio files use channels to identify the sounds intended for the left and right speakers Video files use combinations of the channels used for image and audio files That quality of colors which embraces both hue and saturation White black and grays have no chroma Any media type that goes on the Storyboard or Timeline Can be video images video scenes images or audio files A temporary storage area shared by all Windows programs used to hold data during cut copy and paste operations Any new data you place onto the clipboard immediately replaces the existing data Rate at which individual commands are processed in a processor The higher the clock frequency the quicker the commands are processed GOP Abbreviation for Compressor Decompressor compresses
135. outputs 1 x S Video input Mini DIN 4 connector Y 1 Vpp 75 Ohm negative sync C 0 30 OVpp 75 Ohm 1 x Composite video input BNC connector 1 Vpp 75 Ohm negative sync subcarrier burst 1 x Component video input BNC connector x 3 Y 1 Vpp 75 Ohm negative sync Cr Cb 0 300 Vpp 75 Ohm 1 x Reference input BNC connector 1 Vpp 75 Ohm negative sync subcarrier burst 1 x S Video output Mini DIN 4 connector Y 1 Vpp 75 Ohm negative sync C 0 30 OVpp 75 Ohm 1 x Composite video output BNC connector 1 Vpp 75 Ohm negative sync subcarrier burst 1 x Component video output BNC connector x 3 Y 1 Vpp 75Ohm negative sync Cr Cb 0 300 Vpp 75 Ohm 1 x Reference input BNC connector Vpp 75 Ohm negative sync subcarrier burst You can select the inputs using the software The video is output on both outputs in best signal quality in parallel Technical data 135 Audio inputs audio outputs Connector data Audio Sampling rate max 48 kHz inputs outputs Resolution 16 bit linear per channel Frequency range 20 Hz 20 kHz 3dB Signal to noise ratio gt 82dB Audio inputs Impedance 20 kOhm Input amplification for microphone sensitivity 20dB adjustable via software for dynamic microphones for Line sensitivity 0 dB adjustable via software Max input for microphone sensitivity 0 1 Vrms voltage for Line sensitivity 1 Vrms Unbalanced Audio 2 x cinch connector on external breakout box 10 dBu inp
136. ow 90 miroVIDEO DC50 THE TITLEDEKO USER INTERFACE TitleDeko is a separate application with its own user interface that offers menus windows and toolbars p 3 oO oO zw 3 c Oo Oe a zo 2v A 2 25 2 225 89 av 2708 gt gt gt 00 ows o ZOV oona Ee F FAW ASD Se Horizontal justify amp Justification grid Vertical justify Move Resize 1 Rotate Skew amp Kerning Leading amp Draw rectangle O Draw ellipse amp Insert picture 8 Background as Status line Fesi Text Preview Video save Preset styles cursor window area window TitleDeko Windows TitleDeko windows follow standard Windows conventions you can open close move and resize them Menu Bar The Menu Bar provides menus of commands and other choices not shown in illustration Frequently used commands have Toolbar buttons Toolbars Toolbars contain Tool Groups that can be torn off or rearranged Preview Area A Preview Area shows a what you see is what you get WYSIWYG view of your work along with lines denoting a video safe area always visible in the final movie Preset Styles A Preset Styles window shows the style presets that can be applied to text and other objects You can modify the Preset Styles and create new ones TitleDeko 91 Still Roll Crawl Fonts Status Line A Status Line provides information about the tool in use tex
137. own as background by clicking the Change button Gi Use 3D hardware to render Reverse Swap Sources Hardware If you want to change the color of the bitmap you may add a specific color see above to it The bitmap must be in 256 colors or more use true color for best results The bitmap will be scaled to the video size to get best quality the bitmap size should be identical to your projects video resolution The background can be reset to show the standard black by clicking Reset to default Important With hardware acceleration enabled background bitmaps can use large amounts of the VGA board s offscreen memory If there is not enough memory available on the VGA board wrong render results or other problems may occur In this case you should use smaller bitmaps or no bitmaps at all This option is normally checked for every Pinnacle 3D transition you apply This means that hardware accelerated rendering will be used for this effect if the following conditions are met a3D accelerated graphics board is detected in your PC and there is enough off screen memory detected on the 3D graphics board and hardware acceleration is generally enabled in the Pinnacle FreeFX 3D system settings dialog see below You should uncheck this option if the Pinnacle 3D effect that you have selected causes problems with hardware rendering turned on This could mean bad looking results or other problems like system crashe
138. pears in front of the option DDraw primary Surface supported If currently the primary surface is not supported there will be no overlay representation with the function primary surface at the moment DDraw overlay surface supported If your computer supports Overlay Surface in the current graphic mode the DDraw overlay surface supported check box will be activated automatically Tests Notes Here the results of the hardware test Test button are displayed This indicates whether all the DC50 components are operating correctly If a faulty function is detected a corresponding message appears In this case insert the DCSO board in a different slot and test it there This section displays notes regarding the current hardware of DC50 If the DC50 is not working properly install the video board in a different slot miroVIDEO Expert If you are installing the DC50 for the first time the hard disk transfer test program will automatically start once the hardware test has been successfully completed miroVIDEO EXPERT determines your hard disk s performance capabilities If you have linked more than one hard disk to your system you should test them all and use the hard disk with the fastest data rate for video work The online help function contains detailed information about all miroVIDEO EXPERT s options minWIDED EXPERT Extended PERdomance Tet Test Result Fom FAM Pot La Compscrion 251 ze1 iep Avadeble Vide
139. ple format 16 bits stereo are used which corresponds to audio CD quality 60 miroVIDEO DC50 oo amp ol Ror NTSC only Settings The Settings tab allows you to choose the Image settings control the Audio level and to adjust video compression data rate For details please refer to the online help by clicking the Help button DCS Senlimge i E xj 165 dB 66 e ode 2 TINT TINT W ked e B mE 1 Chel aul Daa raie Daa raie 40 EE i A A li BODIED s TIMED Compress 43i 7 Drive ini Has dive raie 770 RB Mae recoding tee 1 218 ob Hele Image settings Here you can select the Brightness the Contrast the Saturation the Sharpness and the Hue the latter for NTSC only Thus the video is changed while recording in real time Please do not change the position of the sliders unless you want to make specific changes in complete video clips Further image changing alienation effects can be made under Adobe Premiere If you want to digitize the unchanged video footage please do not change the standard position of the sliders Use this slider to adjust the brightness Use this slider to adjust the contrast Use this slider to adjust the saturation Use this slider to adjust the sharpness Use this slider to adjust the hue Using the DC50 under Windows NT 61 62 miroVIDEO DC50 Audio level On the left side you find the two sliders for the level adjustment of the t
140. pture programs and devices that supply graphical information If the TWAIN driver is installed the capture function of the respective program i e MS Imagine can be used to load images directly from your video source into the graphics program The TWAIN driver supports 32 bit programs only and captures images in 24 bit mode Abbreviation for Videocassette Recorder Abbreviation for Video Home System System commonly used for home VCRs to record and play back images and sound using a 1 2 tape VHS systems use amp composite signals consisting of brightness and color information Video system using a 8 mm tape Video8 recorders generate composite signals CD ROM standard with LX MPEG compressed videos Converts digital information into analog signals Converts analog signals into digital information Video for Windows is a Microsoft Windows system extension which records stores and plays back video sequences from hard disk digital video A protocol used by several devices for controlling external video sources from computers XIV miroVIDEO DC50 Video scan rate Wav White balance Y C YUV Frequency with which the video signal is scanned onto an image display The higher the video scan rate the higher the image quality and the less noticeable the flicker File format for audio signals generally also the file extension for audio files wav In an electronic camera the amplifiers for the three color channels red
141. r brightness information and two bits for color information the U and V color information of every second pixel only is used A TV image delivers YUV signals so that no information is lost when digitizing video Each TV image delivers one brightness signal and two color signals per pixel The DCT Discrete Cosine Transformation converts these signals into a frequency coefficient containing the color and the brightness information Then the signals can be compressed more easily The Discrete Cosine Transformation is the most computation intensive step of the JPEG data compression The DCT is lossless Quantization Run Length Encoding Huffman Coding Playback By applying complex mathematical operations the quantization ensures that image parts which are important to the human eye are represented precisely and irrelevant information is represented with less precision The Run Length Encoding RLE method makes use of the fact that many parts have the value zero after the DCT and the quantization operation have been applied Instead of saving all zeros individually zero is only saved once together with a counter which states how often it occurs in succession The last step of image compression is the Huffman Coding method which makes use of the statistical properties of the data to be coded This method evaluates how often and with what probability certain values occur Values that seldom occur receive a long
142. rate lt gt of the drive is displayed Max recording time If the measurement has already been completed Testing button the total duration lt gt of video clips which can still be saved on the drive at the currently chosen data rate is displayed Testing The Testing button allows you to test your hard disk with regard to the maximum data rate and the maximum capture time The detected values will be saved automatically Please make sure to detect the hard disk which you selected within Adobe Premiere as your capture hard disk via the File menu and the Preferences and Scratch Disk commands For further information see the Adobe Premiere user s guide Using the DC50 under Windows NT 63 Input The Input selection tab allows you to select the Audio and Video inputs DiC Settings Audio Allows you to determine if you want to use the Line or the Balanced input of the breakout box for audio capturing If you choose the option Balanced the option 20 dB input gain is not available under Audio level adjustment The chosen input connectors are marked in the figure of the breakout box below the options Audio data will only be recorded if Capture audio has been activated on the Format tab Video Allows you to determine which video input of the breakout box you want to use for video capturing S Video Composite or Component The chosen input connector for Component connectors will be marked in the fig
143. re for Windows 95 Windows 98 as of page 33 Windows NT If you use Windows NT please read the Installing the software for Windows NT 4 0 chapter as of page 40 Among other things installing the DC50 software copies the DC50 drivers to your hard disk The DC50 program group is created and the expanded Adobe Premiere project defaults Presets are copied to your hard disk Installing the software for Windows 95 98 29 INSTALLING DRIVERS FOR WINDOWS 95 Windows 95 Release August 95 Before installing the DC50 drivers for Windows 95 we recommend you to identify the Windows version you use first This is necessary as the different versions react differently during the installation of the drivers You can check which Windows 95 version you use by entering the DOS command ver The Windows 95 OSR 2 OEM Service Release 2 version has the version number Windows 95 Version 4 00 1111 or Version 4 00 950b the August Windows 95 Release has the version number Windows 95 Version 4 00 950 For detailed information on how to use the DOS ver command refer to the appendix in the section Identifying the Windows 95 version page I To install DC50 please refer to the corresponding sections Installing the drivers for Windows 95 Release August 95 as of page 30 Installing the drivers for Windows 98 OSR2 as of page 31 Windows 95 Release August 95 1 Switch computer on Switch your computer on Windows 9
144. re not visible select Advanced Controls from the Options menu Mic Boost On The Mic Boost On button lets you enable an additional amplification of 20 dB for the external input if you want to connect a microphone Sound recording The settings for recording audio are made in the Recording Control mode To start the Recording Control application select the Options menu from the Playback Control window then select the Properties and Record commands You can only select one device at any one time for recording Recoding control miio IDEO DESI Recording intemal let Ewbemal In Halanoed Input Basne Balence Bslance ES ate He ae E Ee Mink Voku Kokma Vok Youra TE P Muia Hus F Mua Aimo Advanced mA DEO DESO 54 miroVIDEO DC50 Pooperties Achaia Conis Pooperties e Gcharierd Conkeok Record Control The Record Control is the master control for adjusting the levels of both inputs Controlling the balance is not possible To adjust the balance use the balance sliders of these inputs The level sliders have an adjustment range from 6 dB to 16 5 dB Normally the slider should be set to the lowest setting it can however be used in order to amplify quiet sounds Internal Lets you adjust the input level and the balance for the device you connected to the internal DC50 audio input e g the audio cable of a CD ROM drive or a sound board External Lets you adjust the input level and the balance of the device e g
145. return to Premiere Rejects the title and returns you to Adobe Premiere Use this command when you do not want to save changes to the title Clear Selected Text and Select All Selection From the main menu bar select Edit gt Clear Selected Text or Select All These functions are analogous to those of a word processor SELECTING TEXT AND OBJECTS TitleDeko is character oriented Consequently text selection feels a little different than in other software particularly word processors The unique ways TitleDeko selects text are expressly tuned for editing titles and offer a great deal of graphical flexibility unlike a word processor For example you can select a single character and resize it skew it or even rotate it To select all text characters or objects Type several lines of text then try the following selection methods until text selection seems comfortable e To select all text and objects choose Select All from the Edit menu To select all text click anywhere on the text field then press lt Ctrl gt lt A gt A selection box with handles appears around the text CHARACTER ORIENTED TEXT EDITING If you click on the red dashed line indicating the video safe area a similar looking box appears However this box is larger and surrounds the entire image You have selected the image area not the text e IES TitleDeko 95 96 miroVIDEO DC50 To select a single word or object e Double click the word or
146. s This switch only applies to one individual Pinnacle FreeFX transition on the timeline so you can turn off hardware rendering for one effect while leaving it on for the others To generally turn on and off hardware acceleration use the 3D system settings dialog This option is identical to the Reverse function in the standard Premiere transition dialog it makes the transition run from end to start This option is identical to the Swap Sources function in the standard Premiere transition dialog it makes the transition run video B to A instead of A to B and vice versa This button opens the 3D system settings dialog Here you can change the general 3D hardware acceleration mode of Pinnacle FreeFX Changes done here apply to all Pinnacle FreeFX Pinnacle FreeFX 85 3D System settings x Hardware compatibility Full 3D hardware acceleration V Show all warnings oe The hardware compatibility slider offers three settings The topmost called Full 3D hardware acceleration makes the Pinnacle 3D engine render the effects as fast as possible making full use of the available 3D graphics hardware This may cause compatibility problems with some VGA cards and drivers With a modern 3D accelerator this results in render times of less than 10 1 meaning a one second transition is being rendered in less than ten seconds The center setting called Reduced acceleration still uses the 3D graphics hardware for accelerati
147. s described later in this chapter in the section on Backgrounds A Blur slider which varies the fuzziness of the face edge or shadow detail You can adjust the slider or type in a precise number Face bis amount i Face edge and shadow details differ in these respects The face detail has a checkbox that turns off the face altogether leaving only the edge and shadow l Face i hidden The edge and shadow details allow adjustment of the edge or shadow size and thickness Make adjustments either with the slider or by typing in a precise value Edge sae 0 Zz 10 TitleDeko 103 The shadow detail also allows you to change the direction of the imaginary light source that creates the shadow Shadow direction Accessing the Style Window Styles are accessed in the Style window Aa 1 wey 2 To display the Style window select View gt Preset Styles or Window gt Styles from the menu bar The Style window contains graphic representations of 24 Preset Styles To select a style double click on it Creating your own Styles You can replace any of the 24 Preset Styles with a style of your own Create text or an object with the attributes you want for your new style right click on the Preset Style you wish to replace Select Deposit Current Style Here Shift F1 104 mirovVIDEO DC50 THE BACKGROUND Backgrounds fill the screen behind all the text and objects Titles can have
148. s you may use the line audio inputs of the breakout box instead Connecting the breakout box and the video devices 23 24 miroVIDEO DC50 Recorder S Video device Choose this type of connection if an S Video device is used as a recorder The following table and the illustration give an overview of the connections Breakout Box Out Recorder In S Video Output gt S Video Input Audio Output R gt Audio Input R Audio Output L gt Audio Input L 0000C 000006 O If your recorder is equipped with S Video inputs as well as with Composite Video inputs please choose S Video for quality reasons If you use a component device as video source then you must additionally connect a cable between a video out jack comp or ref not a component output of the component device and the reference input of the connection box If your player does not have cinch audio connectors for the direct connection to the breakout box you need an equivalent adapter available in a specialist store for electrical devices Recorder Composite video device Choose this type of connection if as a recorder a Composite video device is used The following table and illustration give an overview of the connections Breakout Box Out Adapter Recorder IN Composite Video Output O gt BNC Cinch gt Composite Video Input Audio Output R gt Audio Input R Audio Output L gt Audio Input L 0000C oo 00000 O
149. s B 1994 A1 1995 class B EN 50082 1 1992 ICE 801 2 4 ENV50140 ENV 50141 Dieser Erkl rung liegt zugrunde Pr fbericht e des EMV Pr flabors This certification is based on Test report s generated by EMIl test laboratory Aussteller Holder of certificate Pinnacle Systems GmbH Frankfurter Stra e 3c D 38122 Braunschweig Braunschweig 2 Juni 1998 Braunschweig June 2nd 1998 Oliver Hoheisel Georg Blinn Engineering Manager Gesch ftsf hrer Managing Director Rechtsverbindliche Unterschrift Legally binding Declaration of Conformity XXIII NOTES XXIV miroVIDEO DC50 4 2 2 Subsampling II Accept title return to Premiere 94 112 Activate reference output 48 ActiveMovie V Address V Adobe After Effects 3 Adobe Premiere 3 16 51 65 89 90 94 95 105 107 110 114 121 128 Adobe Premiere 89 Aliasing V Alignment 93 Alpha Channel 105 110 Animation 121 122 Anti aliasing V Appearance 93 97 Aspect ratio 101 V Attributes 93 97 102 103 104 Audio data 38 Audio input 136 Audio inputs 136 Audio output 136 Audio playback 52 Audio recording 38 AVI V Background 94 103 105 106 Balanced Audio 135 136 Batch Capture V Betacam V BIOS V Bit VI Bitmap VI Blacking VI Blur 102 103 Index Bold 92 97 Breakout box 1 20 Brightness II VI Bring Forward One Layer 94 Bring to Front 94 Byte VI Cables 8 Capture resolution 49 Capturing 117 Channel VI
150. s are linked to a common house sync you can link the DC50 output timing to that common sync as well To do this you must connect a sync signal to the reference input connector of the DC50 breakout box and must do the appropriate settings in the DC50 Control If the DC50 Control has not been placed as program into the task bar start the DC50 control via the Start menu the command Programs and the program group DCSO If the DC50 Control has already been started activate it by clicking on the symbol in the task bar Click on the More button and determine the genlock sync source under General Se ae Be iol ent Og a co Piekalne Hep Wideo bandvadih Automatic adaptation Hamun bandh ey frees FF Color signal snot med ergoe F Color burst F ocdcbre E NTS pede E ATSC pedesto AML Cache senge General culput settings F Use suge Garlick spre dunce f ae Fe Syemchnonined shat rau IF High essokation aa Ty Prw Note that if DC50 is set to genlock playback meaning if it s not in the freerunning playback mode there must be a stable video sync signal at the selected sync input Otherwise DCSO video output doesn t work 26 miroVIDEO DC50 PLAYER AND RECORDER IN ONE DEVICE Up to now player and recorder have been treated as two separate devices In video editing with DC50 it is also possible to have both functions combined in one single video device In this case connect the device to th
151. s are listed under Video Capture Devices make sure the DO NOT use this capture device option is activated for them Troubleshooting 129 WINDOWS NT e8 ao Nan P er e ae gt The DC50 driver outputs the following error messages in case of malfunctions Device not found 0x0001 No DC30 board has been installed in your computer or the hardware is defective Install the DC50 Memory allocation failed 0x0002 Not enough memory available Upgrade the memory of your computer The memory has to have at least 32 MByte Use the Device Manager to remove drivers you do not need Start menu Settings System Settings System Device Manager Resource allocation failed 0x0003 Not enough system resources available Use the Device Manager to remove drivers you do not need Start menu Settings System Settings System Device Manager Symbolic link failed 0x0004 Deinstall the DC50 driver Install this driver again after restarting the system Connecting to interrupt failed 0x0005 No interrupt could be allocated to the PCI slot where the DC50 has been inserted Insert the DC50 board into another PCI slot or The DCS50 board has to share an interrupt with another board and this device does not support interrupt sharing Insert the DC50 board in another PCI slot or allocate a separate interrupt to the DC50 in the computer BIOS Init failed 0x0006 122 component defective Consult you retailer
152. s scheme can be restored to their original state with no change to their original data Lossy schemes discard data during compression so the file when reopened is slightly different Choosing the area of an image to be displayed A cut is the switch from one camera angle to another Digital Audio Tape A format for storing music on magnetic tape developed in the mid 1980s by Sony and Philips Data per second i e amount of data which a mass storage medium hard disk or CD ROM saves plays back per second or the amount of data of a video sequence per second The measurement of the speed at which information passes between storage mediums ex CD ROM or Hard Disk and the display device ex Monitor or MCI device Depending on the devices used some transfer rates may offer better performance than others Abbreviation for Discreet Cosine Transformation Part of the JPEG image data compression The brightness and color information is saved as frequency coefficient A unit of sound measurement that expresses the loudness of sound Digital videotape format which records DV coded audio and video data on Hi8 tapes Currently sold only by Sony Digital8 camcorders VCRs can play Hi8 and 8mm cassettes Digital video stores information bit by bit in a file in contrast to analog storage media System extension by Microsoft for multimedia application under Windows ActiveMovie System extension by Microsoft for multimedia applications under
153. sary select the language in which the installation should be carried out If you have activated the German English or French Regional Settings and nevertheless want to change the language of the installation program click the button Back first and then select the language Click on the Next button This installation step is not required if you have activated the German English or French Regional Settings 2 Select a setup type In the Setup Type window select whether you prefer a typical a compact or a user defined installation Cc iha ipp ol Seiup pou prefs ther cick Hist F ya Pigia wal bea irrthaled vats Bre icd corra Apie Aeniiaee i ee ined l Compact Fiegen vA be mtaka vih eeu egas opii C iton You may choose hhe options pou sarni bo nala Recommended for advanced users dif pare C AProgramme PinnaclesDC50 Bwe omes Installing the software for Windows 95 98 33 34 miroVIDEO DC50 Typical Installs all components and uses the default settings Compact Skips some components e g online manual and uses the default settings You should not choose this option Custom Lets you select the components and allows to adjust the settings individually You should only choose this option if several versions of Premiere are installed on your computer if your system hard disk is very slow If necessary change the hard disk directory If you wish to copy the files to another hard dis
154. section below This message remains in the status line until you do another action miroINSTANT Video 5 menu By moving the mouse pointer to any part of the miroINSTANT Video 5 window and clicking the right mouse button you can activate the miroINSTANT Video 5 menu There are three menu items mins TANT vidan 5 PP PINNACLE STSTEMS Chick right for options ne Hala Menace Audio By default audio scrubbing is switched on This means if your project scrubbing contains audio you will hear the audio playback when playing clips or the whole project as well as when scrubbing within the project see the Premiere 5 1 manual for details on scrubbing and playing This is the standard Premiere 5 1 behavior but it results in a slight performance loss when scrubbing sections of audio that have not previously been rendered see the Premiere 5 1 manual for details on audio rendering and how to see which parts have been rendered If you switch off Audio scrubbing in the miroINSTANT Video 5 menu by selecting the Audio scrubbing menu item there will be a different behavior You will hear audio only when playing clips or the project but not when scrubbing and the scrubbing performance and frame rate will be higher Help You can access this miroINSTANT Video 5 online help by selecting the menu item Help from the miroINSTANT Video 5 menu Please do this if you have any questios or problems using miroINSTANT Video 5 76 miroVIDEO DC50
155. sics then start working with DC50 A minimum amount of patience to read this manual the ReadMe file and the online help And then creativity because with your DC50 system you are able to do everything with video you can imagine not more and not less Have fun Welcome 3 ABOUT THIS USER S GUIDE 4 miroVIDEO DC50 Welcome The following chapter gives a short instruction of the user s manual and an overview of the features of the DC50 video capture boards Before you begin The chapter Before you start describes the system requirements and the package contents of DC50 Please read this chapter carefully before you start the installation of the board Quick start Do only use the Quick Start if you have already worked with other video boards and Premiere and if you are familiar with the installation of hardware and software under Windows Installing Adobe Premiere The chapter Installing Adobe Premiere gives a short description of the software installation Adobe Premiere must be installed before installing DC50 For more detailed information about Adobe Premiere please refer to the corresponding user s manual Installing the hardware In the chapter Installing The Hardware you will find important information on how to delete an already installed video capture board from your computer and how to mount DCS50 Connecting the breakout box and the video devices The chapter Connecting the bre
156. space on this hard disk several video effects will be saved Ai Choose Movie Capture Choose File Capture and Movie Capture Make Settings for Video Source Choose Movie Capture and Video Source Choose under Connector the type of video source and under Video the video standard 12 miroVIDEO DC50 i Set frame rate Choose Movie Capture and Record settings Choose for PAL and SECAM 25 fps for NTSC 30 fps ai Choose Video Format Choose Movie Capture Record settings and Video Format Click on Default if necessary modify the preferences The resolution must be the same as the one you wrote down before BE ina Choose Audio Format Choose Movie Capture and Audio recording options Choose 44 1kHz 16bit stereo non compressed a Fs Activate Overlay if necessary Choose Movie Capture and Video Display Choose Overlay while recording Be k Activate Record Audio Activate the command Record Audio via Movie Capture if necessary Save the Settings Save the settings via Movie Capture and Save settings A Choose hard disk Choose the hard disk which has been detected as being optimal for recording by miroVIDEO EXPERT via File Preferences and Scratch Disk f Capture Video Click on the Record button in order to start video recording Click lt Esc gt in order to stop video recording VIDEO RECORDING WINDOWS NT a Start miroVIDEO Capture Start miroVIDEO Capture from the
157. stem Hard Disk hard disk on which the operating system is installed E IDE SCSI Wide SCSI Ultra Wide SCSI others Manufacturer and type Video Hard Disk hard disk on which the video data is digitized and edited E IDE SCSI Wide SCSI Ultra Wide SCSI others _ Manufacturer and type 2 Which primary graphics board is installed in your computer Manufacturer and type Graphics chip 3 Which base addresses Hex interrupts Int and DMA channels are used by other hardware components i e scanner fax modem sound board serial interface etc To make things clear please add a printout of the device manager under Windows 95 Appendix D Support questionnaire XVII miroVIDEO Pinnacle Systems products 1 Which boards are installed in your computer 1 miroVIDEO 2 miroVIDEO Which board version does the inserted board have 1 Version _ 2 Version Which installation CD version do you use see label on the installation CD 1 Version date for Pinnacle _ 2 Version date for Pinnacle Which addresses do the miroVIDEO board s use 1 Address h Interrupt 2 Address h Interrupt Which video editing software do you use 1 Manufacturer version 2 Manufacturer version Which audio device do you use
158. t Troubleshooting 133 GENERAL Board JPEG Processor Power supply System requirements TV standards Colors Data rate Settings Unbalanced Audio Technical data 32 bit PCI board with bus mastering ZORAN ZR36050 Standby 4 Watt Operation 7 Watt Pentium or compatible PC 133 MHz or higher with a free PCI slot at least 64 MByte memory 256 MByte recommended Sufficient hard disk capacity Microsoft Windows 95 or Windows NT 4 0 PAL NTSC SECAM PAL N PAL M Internal color representation always YUV 4 2 2 24 bit RGB up to 7MBytes s sustained data rate to hard disk for compressed data up to 5 5MBytes s sustained data rate to graphics board for video overlay Brightness contrast saturation sharpness cropping recording format data rate compression Level 10 dBu Input Headroom 16 dB Output Headroom 15 dB SNR 78 dB 1 kHz THD N 0 025 1 kHz 20 Hz 20 kHz bandwidth Frequency response 0 dB 0 6 dB 20 Hz 20 kHz bandwidth Input gain 6 dB to 16 5 dB in steps of 1 5d B Reference 0 dBu 0 775 Vrms 134 mirovVIDEO DC50 Balanced Audio Level 4 dBu Input Headroom 12 dB Output Headroom 10 dB SNR 72 dB 1 kHz THD N 0 025 1 kHz 20 Hz 20 kHz bandwidth Frequency response 0 dB 0 4 dB 20 Hz 20 kHz bandwidth Input gain 6 dB to 16 5 dB in steps of 1 5 dB Reference 0 dBu 0 775 Vrms CONNECTORS Video inputs Video outputs Video inputs video
159. t cursor coordinates movement setting Coarse or Fine and so forth Tool Functions At the top and left of TitleDeko are Toolbars that offer fast access to frequently used TitleDeko functions In addition all functions can be selected via the menus Frequently used functions also have keyboard shortcuts New Open and Save Files oal These are standard Windows functions File Type Select a File Type for the title Choices include Still Roll and Crawl Choosing Still creates a title that appears on the screen remains for a set duration and disappears Choosing Roll creates a title that rises onto the screen moving from the bottom edge to the top Choosing Crawl creates a title that moves onto the screen from the right and progresses to the left sti Rolls and Crawls are rendered in Adobe Premiere Cut Copy and Paste Ea These are standard Windows functions Typographical Characteristics Before you can change typographical characteristics select the text you want to change Click the drop down list arrows to choose a typeface and its size To preview the typeface before you select it click the Typeface Browser button then choose the face you want from the browser window T To make text bold italic and or underline click the respective button B z ul 92 miroVIDEO DC50 Look Browser Edit Looks Look Browser Click the Look Browser button to display a window that contains all the preset loo
160. t offers 75 80 data reduction with the same visual quality MPEG file that contains both video and audio data M1V MPA MPEG file that contains video data only MPA MPG Image refresh method where the complete image is generated without skipping lines A non interlaced image like your computer monitor flickers much less than an interlaced image like your TV Abbreviation for National Television Standards Committee also a color TV standard created by this group in 1951 using 525 lines and 60 image fields per second NTSC is used in North and Central America as well as other countries Abbreviation for Phase Alternation Line Color TV standard developed in Germany using 625 lines and 50 image fields per second It is the predominant European TV standard By the parallel port data is transmitted via a 8 bit data line This means that 8 bit 1 GL byte can be transmitted at the same time This kind of transmission is much faster than via a H serial port but it is very sensitive over long distances Parallel ports are indicated with LPT and a number i e LPT1 Peripheral Component Interconnect Local Bus concept by Intel 32 bit bus a PCI bus can transfer 132 MByte per second max at a H clock frequency of 33 MHz L PCI slot There are two kinds of expansion slots on most PCs PCI and ISA PCI slots are usually made of white plastic and are much smaller than ISA slots Abbreviation for picture element Pixels are the small
161. tab areas provide context sensitive menus click the right mouse button to access additional functions 2 miroVIDEO Capture 67 PROJECTS Gi Changing the settings Hilfe 68 miroVIDEO DC50 A project contains video sequences clips of the same image resolution and audio sampling rate This is important for working with miroINSTANT Video later on For the files of a project one or if the project covers several hard disks partitions several common folders exist Project data is saved under a filename with the ppf extension the individual video clips are saved with the avi extension DE prat DEO Capiteie H IDLIFE PADWECTI Premet Sangi Fesce Cor PRILELTS Vite M8 icp can 39 Welles forded Menage arent ican A C P C MUA ear E i Bih MTEC Mi Ferara Canpary Toii a i 2 Weg MTEM aa O aia Firei Gree ae Frameritsee oer ss aj Few Tami tale a an bH Gria krea ah kee 16m fiee All settings you select in the Projects tab are saved automatically and cannot be changed after you have captured the first clip The settings apply to all clips of this project After you have captured a video clip you cannot change the settings anymore You have two possibilities to select new settings Delete the project and create a new project with the desired settings Delete all files in the Clips tab and make the desired settings e Determine the Settings Determine the settings of Video Standard Im
162. tal video sequences which can be played back without special hardware The quality of these sequences depends on the performance of the complete system VHS quality is not achieved Method of creating still images or freeze frames from video Improved version of VHS using S Video and Metal Particle tape to deliver higher luminance resolution resulting in sharper pictures than VHS With S Video Y C signals the brightness luminance or Y and the color chrominance or C information are transferred separately using multiple wires avoiding modulating and demodulating the video and the resulting loss of picture quality The time code identifies the position of a frame in a video sequence with respect to a starting point usually the beginning of the clip Its usual form is Hours Minutes Seconds Frames e g 01 22 13 21 Unlike a tape counter which can be zeroed or reset at any point in a tape time code is an electronic signal written on a videotape and is permanent once it is assigned Transitions divert the viewer s attention from the actual action enabling filmmakers to make chronological jumps for example without the viewer being conscious of them An image that contains enough color to appear true to life For an image this normally means 24 bit color providing up to 16 7 million colors TWAIN defines a standardized software interface for communication between graphics and or ca
163. tallation of the DC50 If you have not executed this installation step at the beginning please do this now Start FreeFX Before starting Premiere you should make sure that your VGA screen runs at 16 bit 32 768 or 65 536 colors Many 3D accelerated graphics boards do not support proper FreeFX rendering while running the Windows display in TrueColor mode Start Premiere after the Pinnacle FreeFX installation Open the transition palette The Pinnacle 3D transition should now be visible in the top area of the screen window 82 miroVIDEO DC50 When you access the Pinnacle FreeFX settings dialog for the first time click the Hardware button and set the slider to the proper position depending on the graphics board used in your PC Important If you are not sure if your graphics board and drivers support full FreeFX acceleration you should start working with FreeFX using the lowest slider position For more information on the current compatible graphics boards please visit our FreeFX web site www pinnaclesys com freefx Working with FreeFX I Merete A father irria imaga E Band Shag pee khe D simhick irar traja e in horicanbal vertical ar digora bare Badal ipa iru Boo reeled under irreg A Gry horirarha eer toa ir H bee Barn Doorn bros N ie ravasi ander Freep A Tror thek oanien Wia Ceber EE p A aT biho BaF prt aed aided ie tie carla io reveal iraga D FreeFX works like using any other Premiere transiti
164. th adjustment For graphics boards it generally applies that a high Windows resolution together with a high color depth and high refresh rates will among other things result in poor overlay quality Reducing the resolution color depth and or the refresh rate will probably produce better overlay quality The overlay setting effect only the display on the computer monitor while recorded sequences will always appear in TrueColor at the video output Format Decide on one format one resolution before you begin a project This applies to both the video as well as to bitmaps and animation Doing so saves a lot of time during computations and allows a conversion via miroINSTANT Video Cropping When digitizing video images it is not necessary to include the entire image because the frame will contain invisible and unimportant areas around its borders These areas can be cropped without the loss of any information Cropping reduces the amount of data and in turn permits digitizing to be carried out at a higher level of quality and without dropping frames Therefore choose the option 672x544 TV Cropping as Capture resolution in the DC50 Video Format dialogue box 120 miroVIDEO DC50 EDITING General Information Closing programs applications You should always close all programs applications e g mail screen saver which are not used at the moment and if necessary in order to increase the memory possibly delete
165. the User s Guide This User s Guide explains how to install and use the miroVIDEO DC50 hardware and software Instead of using the complete product designation the abbreviation DC50 is used for a better readability 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 TitleDeko Bullets mark instructions for optional steps the order of which is not important e Connect the board to the camcorder All keyboard commands appear in this font install Menus commands options or buttons which the user can select are written in italics User s Guide V For your own safety In the interest of your own safety and the flawless functioning of your new 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 wall outlet For changes or supplements that could not be included in the printed documentation please refer to the ReadMe file on the CD ROM supplied with your system Vi miroVIDEO DC50 Welcome The following section gives you an overview of the features and the fields of application of the DC50 hardware and s
166. the background picture via the Control Panel Text If you wish to add text to digitized video sequences during editing make sure you have prepared your text in advance Text has very sharp contours edges During compression sharp edges produce very high frequency elements that will be lost during JPEG compression If a video sequence that contains text and that has been JPEG compressed is output to an analog device the quality of the text will be unacceptable if the video sequence is not recompressed at a maximum data rate To avoid this you should use a suitable graphics program to soften any text entries before adding them to a video sequence Refer also to the section JPEG Problems in the appendix DC50 and Adobe Premiere If you use Adobe Premiere in order to create digitized video sequences please note the following to achieve optimum results Use one of the default settings for DC50 that was copied to the hard disk during installation If you installed Adobe Premiere after the DC50 you can go back later and install the project default files preset Record all clips belonging to the same project in the same format e g always with half resolution both fields PAL Thus you can avoid Premiere having to go through the long and computer intensive process of bringing all movies to one size when the final movie is being created Please use the Cropping TV setting when recording video images to the hard disk One vid
167. the commands Programs miroVIDEO DC50 Tools and miroVIDEO DCS50 Hardware Test 2 By using the Start menu and the commands Settings Control Panel Multimedia Advanced Windows 98 Devices Video Recording Device miroVIDEO DC50 Properties Settings Installing the software for Windows 95 98 39 Installing the software for Windows NT 4 0 Once you have installed the DC50 into your computer you can install the DC50 drivers and software The installation steps for the Windows 95 OSR2 Windows 98 and Windows NT are slightly different Windows NT If you use Windows NT please read the The Installation program section as of page 41 Windows 98 If you use Windows 98 please proceed with the Installing the drivers for Windows 98 section on page 32 The complete installation consists of the following steps Installing drivers for Windows 98 as of page 32 Installing the software for Windows 95 Windows 98 as of page 33 Windows 95 If you have Windows 95 installed on your computer please proceed with the section Installing the drivers for Windows 95 as of page 31 The complete installation consists of the following steps Installing drivers for Windows 95 as of page 31 Installing the software for Windows 95 Windows 98 as of page 33 Among other things installing the DC50 software copies the DC50 drivers to your hard disk The DC50 program group is created and the expanded Adobe Premiere pr
168. the wrong resolution note that the resolution of a project is defined by the first video clip all others must have the same resolution to play back with miroINSTANT Video 5 without transcoding e To transcode all parts of the work area into the correct format use the preview function lt Enter gt key Before transcoding the incompatible clips will not be shown on TV out All video clips in a project must have the same video resolution the same frame rate the same compression format and the same audio format same sampling rate same sample size and same number of channels in order to be played by miroINSTANT Video 5 without previous rendering miroVIDEO DC50 AND mirolINSTANT VIDEO 5 The required driver version for running miroINSTANT Video 5 is 1 41 or higher You should always use the latest highest version number released driver please see http www pinnaclesys com Recommended audio settings 48 kHz 16 bits stereo Supported video and compression formats See miroDCSO0 presets When using Windows 95 98 the DC50 can act as the default audio device and handle all audio output Operating Systems Windows 95 OSR 2 1 or Windows 98 recommended Windows NT 4 0 SP 3 recommended When using Windows NT 4 0 a separate sound card is required Recommended graphics card Must support DirectDraw overlay surface see compatibility list on http www pinnaclesys com 80 miroVIDEO DC50 CHANGES FROM PREVIO
169. tices of the proprietary restrictions from Pinnacle Systems products or manuals License and Prohibitions You may a use the enclosed program Pinnacle Systems DV500 hardware and accompanying written materials programming materials in connection with a single computer A copy of the program is being furnished to you along with this license agreement If you wish to use this program on more than one computer you must license additional copies of the program b use the program and accompanying written materials on a licensed computer network A computer network is any combination of two or more terminals or computers that are electronically linked and capable of sharing the use of a single software program A licensed computer network is a computer network for which you have purchased from Pinnacle Systems or its dealer sufficient copies of this program so that the number of concurrent users of this program on the computer network at any given time is not greater than that number of copies of the program so purchased c copy the program once only solely for backup purposes in support of your use of the program so long as you prominently label the backup copy with the appropriate copyright notice d use the program for your personal use or in your business or profession Permitting unauthorized users access to the program and program materials is a violation of this license agreement and XX miroVIDEO DC50
170. tion step is not required if you have activated the German English or French Regional Settings 4 Select a setup type In the Setup Type window select whether you prefer a typical a compact or a user defined installation nstalling the software for Windows NT 41 Chek iha pp ol Seat pou prefer ther chek Hist E Typical Progra wal bes orectabed wath fhe moet porii dpan Ainoa fod d ba l Compact Fiogemn vA be nected wth mem eguas ri C ion You may choose Hue options pou sarni bo naal Recommended for sdvanced usei Pe i Back EEEN Cancel Typical Installs all components and uses the default settings Compact Skips some components e g online manual and uses the default settings You should not choose this option Custom Lets you select the components and allows to adjust the settings individually You should only choose this option if several versions of Premiere are installed on your computer if your system hard disk is very slow 5 If necessary change the hard disk directory 42 miroVIDEO DC50 If you wish to copy the files to another hard disk another directory click on the Browse button and define the hard disk the directory The driver software should be installed on the system hard disk and not on the video hard disk Click Next Click on Next to proceed with the installation If necessary select the components If you have chosen Custom as setup type yo
171. to work with your miroVIDEO DC50 board As an integrated title editor program TitleDeko allows you to create professional quality titles and graphics quickly and easily Titles can contain words shapes background colors and photos or graphics imported from other programs TitleDeko offers professionally developed Preset Styles for quickly making titles along with virtually endless custom styling You can modify titles for a variety of effects such as titles that roll in vertically or crawl horizontally You can also adjust the duration the title appears in your movie This chapter begins with a brief explanation of how titles are created details the more advanced features and then guides you through several examples of making and modifying titles How Titles Are Created TitleDeko appears in a separate window with its own user interface It creates titles that are inserted in your Adobe Premiere project You can also save titles separately to use in other Adobe Premiere movies You create the title in the Preview Area of the TitleDeko window You type in text apply a style and complete it by resizing repositioning or rotating the text and by adding shapes or pictures When you re done save the title and press lt F12 gt The title is automatically inserted into the Adobe Premiere Project window Titles and graphics are trimmed in Adobe Premiere See the Adobe Premiere User Guide for complete instructions on trimming TitleDeko 89
172. tsourcing file which has been detected by miroVIDEO EXPERT as being the fastest one Click on OK Now you have made all settings which are necessary before digitizing the first video clip 11 Click on Record Cue your player to that position from which you want to begin recording and click on the Record button in the Movie Capture window in order to start recording Click on the capture window or use the lt Esc gt button in order to stop recording Record some clips of about 30 seconds length in order to edit them later on in Adobe Premiere VIEWING VIDEO CLIPS Adobe Premiere Media player After having recorded some clips you can view them in Adobe Premiere or in the media player In the Clip window under Adobe Premiere you can playback single clips by clicking on the Play button If you are working in the construction window and you have edited several clips you can view them via the File menu the Export command and miroINSTANT Video If you want to playback a clip via the media player please choose the option miroAVI Cache from the menu Devices in order to produce a jerkyless playback The program miroAVI Cache is optimized for jerkylessly playing back video clips EDITING VIDEO CLIPS If you want to edit recorded clips with Adobe Premiere you should consider the following information When creating a project compositing several video clips you absolutely need to choose the same project pres
173. u can directly choose those components in the dialog box Select Components which you want to install By clicking on Details you open the window Select Sub components Here you can determine the components even more precisely Selec the compenents wou yeant ip iial das the compeanenis year che reai amr be areal Corporat a Utes HHE af Sabe Frares Addi na 101 F w Extended presets jor ddiobe Premise FE Dlonumentation 2447 E Hadras dieer Dieci and Dect Hada Change Space Aeqared EGF Space dwelt GEIE E emen System Software DC50 drivers The system software must be installed in order to use the functions of DC50 Utilities The capture application miroVIDEO Capture tools helps and ReadMe file You should absolutely install and use them miroINSTANT Video Adobe Premiere plugin allows to save valuable computing time when creating projects You should absolutely install miroINSTANT Video if you want to use Premiere 4 2 The Details button lets you choose between two intro movies for PAL and NTSC The intro movies avi sequences help you switch on the VCR just in time when recording video Therefore you should install the equivalent intro files For this purpose choose a hard disk of sufficient speed Extended presets for Adobe Premiere 4 2 Presets for Adobe Premiere which have been developed especially for the DC50 board and the PAL SECAM and NTSC standard If you want to work with Premiere 4
174. u item is listed under the File menu and the Preferences and Scratch Disk Device Control commands 128 miroVIDEO DC50 WINDOWS 95 98 Hardware not found during installation A Solution j l From the Start menu and the Settings command open the Control Panel 2 Under System select the Device Manager and the Sound video and game controllers option 3 Delete the following entry if it exists PCI Multimedia Video device DC50 MotionJPEG Capture CODEC board 4 Restart Windows 95 98 The following message should appear during startup New hardware component detected Insert data medium If this message does not appear during startup install the DC50 in a different PCI slot If this still does not solve the problem either the DC50 is defective or the video board is having problems with your system s motherboard 5 Confirm with OK 6 Place the DC50 CD ROM in your CD ROM drive and enter the drive identifier for your CD ROM drive i e D in the Windows command line 7 Click on OK 8 Restart the hardware test from the DC50 configuration program C General crash or error function s Make sure the DC50 driver has been completely installed in Windows 95 98 Use the Control Panel Multimedia Advanced Video Capture Devices to configure the DC50 Motion JPEG Capture CODEC board driver The Use this capture device option must be activated if you want to use the DC50 to record If other driver
175. umber 5 and click it 5 Check your progress The style characteristics are applied to the text 6 Proportionally shrink the text Click the Move Resize tool button To resize the text click anywhere on the text field then press lt Ctrl gt lt A gt to select it then position the cursor on the lower right handle while pressing the lt Ctrl gt key to proportionally shrink the text 7 Center the text horizontally To center the text click the Horizontal Justify button to display its pop up choices Click the center button ema 8 Check your progress Your title is centered and appears as follows TiteDeko 109 9 Save the title Click the Save button to save the Still Bl 10 Return to Adobe Premiere Press lt F 12 gt to accept the title and return to Adobe Premiere cem e Trim the title You return to Adobe Premiere from TitleDeko Adobe Premiere places the title in the Project window From here drag the title to the Timeline and place it on Video 2 or the top video channel On the Timeline place the cursor on the title icon Right click the icon Select Video gt Transparency to view the Transparency Settings window From the Key Type drop down list choose Alpha Channel Click OK Click the Player buttons to preview your work Ha id Peec Ch Wadi Hsp doro paT UEN AET 110 miroVIDEO DC50 Example 2 Modifying the Text In this example you enhan
176. ure Click to insert an image from your hard disk or other media Pictures are treated like other objects in that you can move scale and size them You cannot however skew or rotate a picture al Replace Background Allows you to make adjustments to the color opacity and other details of the background Additional Menu Commands Coarse Fine Cursor Movement From the main menu bar select Transform gt Coarse or Fine to change the increments used in cursor movement Bring to Front Send to Back Layering From the main menu bar select Layer gt Bring to Front or Send to Back to place the selection on the top or bottom layer Bring Forward One Layer Send Back One Layer From the main menu bar select Layer gt Bring Forward One Layer or Send Back One Layer to move the selection one layer toward the top or bottom Find Find Next and Replace Search and Replace From the main menu bar select Edit gt Find Find Next or Replace to perform text search and replace functions analogous to those of a word processor Accept title return to Premiere Reject title return to Premiere Accept Save Title From the main menu bar select File gt Accept title return to Premiere Accepts the title and returns you to Adobe Premiere If you have not yet saved the title this command will first allow you to save then return to Premiere 94 miroVIDEO DC50 Return to Premiere From the main menu bar select Reject title
177. ure of the breakout box below the options If you use the Component input and the synchronous video signal is not transmitted as a part of the Y signal as usual you need to enter the used connector in the miroVIDEO DC50 Control via the Comp In tab 64 miroVIDEO DC50 5 Click OK Click on the OK button in order to accept the determined settings 6 Determine the drive for the temporary outsourcing file click OK Choose the commands Preferences and Scratch Disk from the File menu Select that fastest drive for the temporary outsourcing file Click on OK Now you have made all settings which are necessary before digitizing the first video clip 7 Click on Record Cue your player to that position from which you want to begin recording and click on the Record button in the Movie Capture window in order to start recording Click on the capture window or use the lt Esc gt button in order to stop recording Record some clips of about 30 seconds length in order to edit them later on in Adobe Premiere VIEWING VIDEO CLIPS Adobe Premiere Media player After having recorded some clips you can view them in Adobe Premiere or in the media player In the Clip window under Adobe Premiere you can playback single clips by clicking on the Play button If you are working in the construction window and you have edited several clips you can view them via the File menu the Export command and miroINSTANT Video If
178. ust in time when recording video Therefore you should install the equivalent intro files For this purpose choose a hard disk of sufficient speed Extended presets for Adobe Premiere 4 2 Presets for Adobe Premiere which have been developed especially for the DC50 board and the PAL SECAM and NTSC standard If you want to work with Premiere 4 2 do absolutely install and use these presets Documentation The user s guide is also available in PDF format and can be opened with the Acrobat Reader If Acrobat Reader 4 has not already been installed on your computer use the Documentation option to install it After having determined the components click Next This installation step is not required if you have chosen Typical or Compact as setup type 6 Select video standard click Next Select the video standard you use and click on Next Click Next In the Start copying files window all components you chose are listed If you wish to change the settings you chose click on Back Click Next to start copying Now the selected components will be installed Click Finish In the Complete Setup window you are asked to restart Windows 95 Please carry out this prompt and click on Finish to complete the installation of DCSO Installing the software for Windows 95 98 35 Hardware Test After the restart the DC50 Hardware Test program starts The hardware test program is used to test your DC50 hardware and to analyze
179. ut impedance 10 KOhm 4 pin header on PCB for CD ROM connection 10 dBu input impedance 7 KOhm Balanced Audio 2 x XLR connector female 4 dBu input impedance min 15 KOhm Reference 0 dBu 0 775 V Audio input Connector 4 pin connector internal No Function 1 Left 2 Ground 3 Ground 4 Right Impedance 10 kOhm Input amplification 0 dB Max input Voltage 1 Vrms or 1 27 Vrms Audio output Impedance 600 Ohm Min load impedance 10 kOhm Max output voltage 0 707 Vrms Unbalanced Audio 2 x Cinch connector on external breakout box 10 dBu output impedance 600 Ohm external load impedance min 10 KOhm Balanced Audio 2 x XLR connector male 4 dBu output impedance 50 Ohm external load impedance min 600 Ohm Reference 0 dBu 0 775 Vrms 136 miroVIDEO DC50 Appendix A Identifying the Windows version To identify the installed Windows 95 version you have to start the MS DOS Prompt 1 In the Start menu select the Programs command and the MS DOS Prompt ak ills EF Micros oF ord Moot Excel ak indr E a rer Bip Shut own SB Simt 2 In the MS DOS Prompt window type ver and press lt Enter gt The installed Windows 95 version will be displayed MS DOS Prompt ols Ca a e e ofS Al ersion 6 111 The Windows 95 OSR 2 OEM Service Release 2 version has the version number Windows 95 Version 4 00 1111 or Version 4 00 950b the August Windows 95 Release has the vers
180. utomatically established according to the setting you have selected If you do make changes here the capture format would be different from the Premiere Rendering and Output format so that you might not be able to use miroINSTANT Video OC Settings ee x Format Settings Input selection P PINNACLE SYSTEMS vijo Video standard Frame resoun r PAL TUA Gii Bal 25 97 fT WPS 1E Ae D EM Fleaniution ETZ x 46d C ATSC a4 Gute sce Fastin If you want to create a new project with other capture format settings you should load the appropriate Preset This is the only way to keep capture format and Premiere playback format the same Using the DC50 under Windows NT 59 Gi ITU R 601 TV cropping Quarter size Video standard Allows you to determine the video standard of the signal supplied by your player NTSC PAL SECAM or NTSC 4 43 NTSC video signal PAL color carrier Depending on the installed Windows version one video standard has been preset The DC50 is not capable of transforming standards meaning footage recorded with a PAL source can only be played back as PAL video Frame resolution Allows you to determine the image resolution for capturing ITU R 601 corresponds with the standardized format 720 x 486 NTSC 720 x 576 PAL SECAM This selection creates on overscan effect which means black stripes or other interferences occur on the edges of the digitized video This is no error produced by DC
181. wo audio channels with dB scale and on the right side the level adjustment display for supervision If your audio source supplies a signal with standardized level the slider position 0 dB will be appropriate i e in this position depending on the current volume of the sound there will be motion on the level adjustment display The red section will not be reached and the red exclamation mark will not be displayed either If this is the case please do not change the position of the slider If the level adjustment display often shows the red section or if even a red exclamation mark appears you need to position the slider a little lower An overload distorts the recorded audio signal If the level adjustment display does not show any motion at all or only weak motion even during loud audio sections you need to push the slider a little higher Is the audio adjustment too low the sound will be low too and noises might occur Linked together Usually the Linked together check box is activated i e the adjustment of the audio channels level is the same If you want to adjust the audio level of the two audio channels independently from each other deactivate this check box 20 dB input gain If the 20 dB input gain check box is activated the audio input signal will be amplified by 20 dB Accordingly the scale of the level adjustment sliders will change This option should only be used if a microphone with a low output leve
182. your computer system Click on the More gt gt button to expand the dialog window to include the Extended Settings area For further information click on the Help button eoViDED DESO Mardeare Test SERVIC interrupt ma DEO DESI is O E Holes idea vilay in lhe Cured graphecs iodi Oireotiines info Stretch Mine 0 Wani Size 2a Version info Dive FEF Ew j mol cache anit Core CADE Epai A a eat STANT Video 1 223 Premiere sd PCL video overlay with graphice bosd Danis bound l Dira piney aalsa supooted l p Teita Board funcions macDED DESO is D E Sua graphecs bord dirs for best quality 9 Click Test Version info PCI video overlay with graphics board 36 miroVIDEO DC50 To test the hardware click on Test You will be shown the following information All the drivers and programs used by the DC50 together with their version numbers are listed under this heading DirectDraw found If during the hardware test a current version of DirectDraw together with the corresponding graphics board s driver will be found on your computer a green symbol will automatically appear in front of the option DirectDraw found If no current version of DirectDraw is found a red symbol will appear instead and no overlay will be possible DDraw primary surface supported If your computer supports the Primary Surface in the current graphic mode a green symbol automatically ap

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