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7. Under Options menu select
Video Capture Filter and select
Video Decoder Tab to modify
settings such as PAL/NTSC/
SECAM country video standard
settings. Select the Video Proc
Amp Tab to modify image settings
such as Brightness, Contrast,
Hue, Saturation and Sharpness
(Figure 5).
8. Under options menu select Video
Capture Pin to modify settings
such as Output Size (Figure 6).
The maximum output size is 720
x 480.
9. Under options menu select Video
Crossbar to modify video input
settings based upon the video
device attached to the Video
Capture Device IE (Figure 7).
The majority of devices will output
standard Video Composite video
signal. Higher quality can be
achieved using SVideo input.
10. Select Capture File from the
File menu and name your file
including the AVI extension name.
IE MyMovie.avi. Click Open.
11. Enter the amount of disk space
to allocate as a Capture buffer
for this data. Movie files need a
large amount of disk space. Enter
a value such as 50 Megabytes
or higher. Press ok. The size of
the captured data may be much
higher than this value depending upon number and size of frames captured.
12. Select Set Frame Rate under the Capture menu. Check the box Use Frame
Rate and type 15. Press ok.
13. Select Set Time Limit under the Capture menu. Check the box Use Time
Limit and type 20. Press ok.
14. Select Start Capture under the Capture menu.
15. Press ok when you are ready to
capture Images.
An AVI movie sequence of 300 frames
(15 frames per second x 20 seconds)
will now be recorded.
The total number of captured frames
is displayed on the bottom bar. If
frames are being dropped this will be
displayed also. To remedy this, try
increasing the capture buffer size. If
this does not resolve dropping frames
then the frame rate or resolution
should be set to a lower value to pre-
vent dropping of frames.
Macintosh
Installation
and Operation
Check your Mac OS X version
Orion Capture software requires Mac
OS X 10.3 or later.
Please go to About this Mac.
There you will find your Mac OS ver-
sion (Figure 8).
Install Driver and Application
Note: If you have any anti-virus software enabled, please disable it during the
installation of the software.
Download and run the installer
“EzCAP1.0.1R.pkg”.
Follow the onscreen instructions. You may need to enter your Mac password.
Once installation has completed please restart your computer (Figure 9).
Connect the Capture Device to a USB port on your Mac, after a short while,
the hardware will be installed in your computer. You now need to check that the
drivers are installed correctly.
Please go to About this Mac More info Hardware USB.
Figure 5. Video Capture Filter.
Figure 6. Video Capture Pin.
Figure 7. Video Crossbar.
Figure 8. Mac OS X Version window.
Figure 9. EzCap successful installation.
