User Manual

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the monitor) and it is abbreviated 800x600. MovieStar has seven
preset sizes, ranging from 160x120 to 1600x1200, all with a
standard aspect ratio of 4:3 (the same as your computer monitor
and your TV picture at home). This means that for every four pixels
across, the image is three pixels high. This 4:3 ratio is the standard
for normal video images. Custom Size allows you to choose other
sizes. Deselect the Keep Correct Aspect option if you want a size
not in the 4:3 ratio. The default size is 320x240.
3Quality
Here, Quality refers to the video source. Since most videos contain
moving images, Moving Scene is the default choice. There are also
three levels of still scenes - Still Scene, High Quality Still, and
Highest Quality Still. Choose the option that most closely matches
your input source and the type of image you want. (That is, when
recording from video that has motion in it, use Moving Scene;
when capturing video with little or no motion, such as from a
tripod-mounted camera focused on a flower, use the highest-quality
still setting that yields good results.)
Save Options
There are two Save Options: Color and Format.
1 Color
The Color option lets you choose the color depth of your still
images. Color depth is the color quality of a picture, i.e. how many
colors you want the computer to be able to use to display the
picture. The more colors the computer can use, the better the
picture will look. Of course, with more colors the image's file size
will also be larger.
The default color choice is True Color (24-bit). This means your
computer will be able to use up to 16.7 million colors to display
your image! The four other choices, in descending order of quality,
are High Color (16-bit), 256 Color (8-bit), 16 Color (4-bit), and
Black and White (1-bit).
Which color depth you choose depends on what you plan to do
with the image after you capture it. If, for example, you plan to
paste the image into a newsletter which will be printed on a
grayscale printer, 256 Color could be enough, since that would be
the limit of the printer's printing capability.