Pinnacle Systems miroVIDEO DC30 Series User manual

miroVIDEO DC30 Series
USER’S GUIDE

miroVIDEO DC30 series
User’s Guide
Version 1.0 /GB August 1999
Part No. 51006044 Rev. B
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Contents i
Contents
OVERVIEW 1
WHAT IS THE miroVIDEO DC30 series? ........................................................................ 1
WHAT DOES THE miroVIDEO DC30 series OFFER? ....................................................... 3
BEFORE YOU BEGIN 5
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ................................................................................................... 5
PACKAGE CONTENTS......................................................................................................... 8
EXISTING VIDEO CAPTURE BOARD ................................................................................... 9
DEFRAGMENTING THE HARD DISK.................................................................................... 9
QUICK START 10
QUICK INSTALLATION ..................................................................................................... 10
VIDEO RECORDING—QUICK START ............................................................................... 11
PLAYBACK WITH MEDIAPLAYER—QUICK START......................................................... 12
SINGLE FRAMES—QUICK START (WINDOWS 95/98 ONLY) ........................................... 12
INSTALLING ADOBE PREMIERE 13
INSTALLING THE HARDWARE 15
CONNECTING THE VIDEO AND AUDIO DEVICES 17
CONNECTING VIDEO DEVICES......................................................................................... 18
CONNECTING AUDIO DEVICES......................................................................................... 19
INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE FOR WINDOWS 95/98 20
INSTALLING THE DRIVERS FOR WINDOWS 95 ................................................................ 21
INSTALLING THE DRIVERS FOR WINDOWS 98 ................................................................ 25
INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE FOR WINDOWS 95 / WINDOWS 98 ................................... 26
INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE FOR WINDOWS NT 4.0 33
THE INSTALLATION PROGRAM........................................................................................ 34
QUICK START GUIDE FOR DC30 PRO 37
AUDIO LOOPTHROUGH TEST .......................................................................................... 37
VIDEO LOOPTHROUGH TEST .......................................................................................... 39
VIDEO CAPTURE TEST .................................................................................................... 41
VIDEO EDIT TEST ............................................................................................................ 44
VIDEO OUTPUT TEST ...................................................................................................... 46
USING THE DC30 BOARD UNDER WINDOWS 95 / WINDOWS 9848
THE DC30 series CONTROL ............................................................................................ 49
LIVE OVERLAY ................................................................................................................ 53
SOUND SETTINGS ............................................................................................................. 55

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RECORDING VIDEO.......................................................................................................... 59
USING THE DC30 BOARD UNDER WINDOWS NT 65
DC30 series Control....................................................................................................... 65
MIROVIDEO CAPTURE 68
STARTING miroVIDEO CAPTURE.................................................................................. 68
MODE............................................................................................................................... 68
PROJECTS—STANDARD .................................................................................................. 69
PROJECTS—ADVANCED.................................................................................................. 71
SETTINGS—STANDARD ................................................................................................... 76
SETTINGS—ADVANCED .................................................................................................. 78
RECORD—STANDARD ..................................................................................................... 81
RECORD—ADVANCED .................................................................................................... 82
BATCH CAPTURE—ADVANCED (WINDOWS 95/98 AND PRODUCTIVITY PACK ONLY)..84
CLIPS ............................................................................................................................... 87
MIROINSTANT VIDEO 5 AND ADOBE PREMIERE 5.1 90
WHAT IS miroINSTANT VIDEO 5?................................................................................ 90
WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?................................................................................................... 90
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ................................................................................................ 91
HOW TO MAKE IT WORK? ............................................................................................... 91
HOW DOES IT WORK?...................................................................................................... 92
miroINSTANT VIDEO 5 WINDOW................................................................................. 92
MODES OF OPERATION ................................................................................................... 95
LIMITATIONS ................................................................................................................... 98
miroVIDEO DC30 series AND miroINSTANT VIDEO 5 .............................................. 98
CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS VERSIONS ........................................................................... 99
TITLEDEKO 100
WELCOME TO TITLEDEKO........................................................................................... 100
INSTALLING TITLEDEKO .............................................................................................. 101
LAUNCHING TITLEDEKO .............................................................................................. 101
THE TITLEDEKO USER INTERFACE ............................................................................. 102
SELECTING TEXT AND OBJECTS................................................................................... 106
FORMATTING TEXT AND OBJECTS ............................................................................... 107
TOOLS AND SELECTION HANDLES................................................................................ 109
TRANSFORMING TEXT AND OBJECTS........................................................................... 111
USING AND MODIFYING LOOKS AND STYLES............................................................... 112
THE BACKGROUND........................................................................................................ 115
LET’S MAKE A TITLE.................................................................................................... 117
TIPS&TRICKS 126
GENERAL INFORMATION............................................................................................... 126
HARDWARE.................................................................................................................... 126
SOFTWARE..................................................................................................................... 128
DIGITIZING .................................................................................................................... 129
VIDEO EDITING.............................................................................................................. 130
miroVIDEO DC30 series AND ADOBE PREMIERE 4.2 / 4.2LE ................................... 131
miroVIDEO DC30 series AND COMPUTER ANIMATION .............................................. 135
JPEG ISSUES ................................................................................................................. 135
TROUBLESHOOTING 136

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INSTALLATION............................................................................................................... 136
OPERATION.................................................................................................................... 138
PERFORMANCE PROBLEMS DURING DIGITIZING .......................................................... 138
PROBLEMS PLAYING BACK AND EDITING VIDEOS ........................................................ 139
VIDCAP .......................................................................................................................... 140
AUDIO PROBLEMS.......................................................................................................... 140
ADOBE PREMIERE ......................................................................................................... 144
WINDOWS 95 / WINDOWS 98......................................................................................... 145
WINDOWS NT ................................................................................................................ 146
miroINSTANT VIDEO .................................................................................................. 149
TECHNICAL DATA 151
GENERAL ....................................................................................................................... 151
CONNECTORS................................................................................................................. 152
APPENDIX A: HARDWARE CONFIGURATIONS 154
DIGITIZING WITH THE miroVIDEO DC30 series........................................................ 154
DIGITIZING AND RECORDING WITH THE miroVIDEO DC30 series........................... 156
DIGITIZING WITH THE miroVIDEO DC30 series AND A SOUND BOARD .................... 158
DIGITIZING AND RECORDING WITH THE miroVIDEO DC30 series
AND A SOUND BOARD ..................................................................................................... 159
APPENDIX B: GLOSSARY 161
APPENDIX C: SUPPORT QUESTIONNAIRE 168
APPENDIX D: FCC COMPLIANCE STATEMENT 172
INDEX 174

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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 main socket.
For changes that have occurred after the manual has been printed, refer to the
ReadMe file/s on the CD-ROM supplied with your system!
About the User’s Guide
This manual explains how to install and use the hardware and software of your
miroVIDEO DC30 series product. It also contains many tips and tricks to make
optimal use of it.
In the margins are subheadings to help you quickly find your way through this
manual.
Important text passages are marked with the “notepad”and this format.
Numbers mark step by step instructions:
1. Start Windows.
Bullets mark instructions for optional steps the order of which is not important.
•Connect the board to the camcorder.
All keyboard commands appear in this font:
install <↵>
<↵>represents the enter key.
Menus, commands, options, or buttons which the user can select are written in
italics.
Subheadings

Overview 1
Overview
The following chapter gives you an overview of the fields of application and
the features of the miroVIDEO DC30 series hardware and software.
WHAT IS THE miroVIDEO DC30 series?
The miroVIDEO DC30 series contains the following Pinnacle boards:
miroVIDEO DC30
miroVIDEO DC30 with miroVIDEO Productivity Pack*
miroVIDEO DC30 SPEED (Germany only)
miroVIDEO DC30 plus
miroVIDEO DC30 pro (USA only).
This manual covers all of these products, and “miroVIDEO DC30 series”
stands for “miroVIDEO DC30 or miroVIDEO DC30 plus or...”and so on. The
main differences between these products are different bundled additional
software packages.
Differences to note:
miroVIDEO DC30 has a data rate limit of 6 MB/sec, the others can do up to
7 MB/sec. All miroVIDEO DC30 series products except miroVIDEO DC30
support miroINSTANT Video. Only the Productivity Pack allows for device
control and batch capture with the Pinnacle capture application and Windows
95/98.
The miroVIDEO DC30 series is a system of hardware and software, for IBM
compatible PCs with a PCI bus, used to digitize, compress, process, and play
back video sequences in Motion-JPEG format. The sound is digitized, as well.
You can also add the sound to your video clips after they have been recorded.
The miroVIDEO DC30 series also lets you digitize, compress, process, and
reproduce individual images as TrueColor bitmaps.
*Windows 95 / 98 only.
Differences

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Where to use it?
Boards of the miroVIDEO DC30 series convert video into a computer-
understandable format by digitizing video sequences to uncompressed or
Motion-JPEG compressed data files. The video sequences can then be edited
on the computer and output in good to very good S-VHS quality to a VCR,
television, or computer monitor. The higher the quality of the video input and
the higher the computer’s data transfer rate, the better the output quality of the
video image.
The miroVIDEO DC30 series’video post-production recording capabilities
combined with video editing software, Adobe Premiere, provide a complete
video studio plus cutting table on your desktop.
The miroVIDEO DC30 series’capabilities result from optimally integrated
hardware and software.
System components
Hardware
The miroVIDEO DC30 series hardware is a state-of-the-art PCI video digitizer.
The miroVIDEO DC30 series includes a JPEG processor to compress video as
well as a video encoder and an audio codec to digitize and decode audio
signals. For capturing and playing back the PCI bus mastering mode is used.
Software
The miroVIDEO DC30 series software includes the miroVIDEO DC30 series
drivers to control the video capture, compression, decompression, and
playback. miroINSTANT Video, miroVIDEO Capture, and
miroVIDEO EXPERT, a hard disk test utility are also part of the miroVIDEO
DC30 series’software. Adobe Premiere and the presets for Adobe Premiere
offer you a wide range of options for video and audio editing.

Overview 3
WHAT DOES THE miroVIDEO DC30 series OFFER?
The miroVIDEO DC30 series system stands out for its quality (Hi8),
compression capabilities, performance, and digital video editing capabilities.
Combined with a suitable graphics board, the miroVIDEO DC30 series offers
digital real-time overlay. Please also see our website
(http://www.pinnaclesys.com) for hardware compatibility.
The following diagram illustrates the possible connections:
Inputs:
Camcorder, VCR, TV tuner, ...
VCR
TV for image preview (optional)
TV
VCR
VCR
TV
VCR VCR
VCR
Combined audio
input/output
Composite video input
S-Video input
Composite video output
S-Video output
Audio output of the video source,
microphone, tape recorder, CD player, ... TV, loudspeakers, ...
Audio input of the VCR,
Outputs:
•Video inputs
The miroVIDEO DC30 series connects to any video source (VCR, video
camera, TV tuner, laserdisk, still-video camera) that generates a composite
video signal or an S-Video signal (such as VHS, S-VHS, Hi8, Video 8).
•Video outputs
To record video sequences back to tape, connect a composite or S-Video
VCR to the miroVIDEO DC30 series. Video sequences can also be
displayed on a TV or computer monitor.
•Audio codec
The audio codec integrated on the miroVIDEO DC30 series board digitizes
the sound during video digitization, providing synchronous playback of
video and audio.

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•Video formats
The NTSC and PAL and SECAM (video input only) TV standards are
supported.
•Video compression
The integrated JPEG processor on the miroVIDEO DC30 series compresses
video sequences in real-time in Motion-JPEG format.
•Optimized bus interface
The miroVIDEO DC30 series supports the PCI bus mastering mode and is
therefore capable of transferring the uncompressed video data for the video
overlay to suitable PCI graphics boards simultaneously to the compressed
audio and video data.
•Digital video editing
The miroVIDEO DC30 series offers all the possibilities of a digital video
studio: cuts, filters, transparency effects, integration of computer graphics
and computer animation, and much more.
•Best color quality
The video image is scanned at a high color bandwidth at a 4:2:2 ratio
(brightness by color information in accordance with the YUV model).
•Full Screen—Full Motion Video
The performance of a video digitizer is defined on the frame size, frame rate,
and color depth. miroVIDEO DC30 series can digitize full size, full motion
video with 16.7 million colors (24 bits color depth) in real-time.
•Adobe Premiere
The miroVIDEO DC30 series package includes Adobe Premiere. Adobe
Premiere is a software for capturing, editing, and playing back digital video
under Windows.
•Hardware-independent playback
Software, such Adobe Premiere, can generate AVI files using suitable
compressors such as Cinepak. These files can be played back without
specialized hardware.
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miroINSTANT Video
miroINSTANT Video is a playback plug-in for Adobe Premiere.
miroINSTANT Video 5 integrates itself into the Adobe Premiere interface.
The plug-in handles the video clips and effects in the timeline and controls
playback and scrubbing directly from the timeline.
Important: miroINSTANT Video does not run on a single miroVIDEO DC30.
Please refer to the chapters describing miroINSTANT Video on Page 90.