User Guide

Large...
Certain devices offer a large snapshot mode. The device is reconfigured and a high quality, "large" snapshot is taken. Reconfiguring the device is time consuming, so the video frame
that is captured will be one that occurs one or two seconds later. This option is unnecessary, and is not available for most digitizers.
Snapshot Time Lapse...
Use this option to take a snapshot every few seconds. You can optionally specify the length of time over which to take snapshots. Clicking "Snapshot Settings…" will open the Snapshot
Settings dialog where the format of the snapshot files can be specified. After clicking "OK" you will be asked to specify the name for a new folder into which the snapshots will be saved.
Snapshot Auto-Name Setup...
If Auto-name is checked, you may specify a destination folder and a "base" file name for snapshots. This information will be used to save snapshots automatically, without the need to
specify the location each time. The first snapshot taken will have the name "base-name_0000", the second will be "base-name_0001", etc.
Record Menu
Use the "Record" menu to make recordings of the video.
Video Settings...
The Video Settings dialog has 4 or more panels. The panels may look somewhat different depending on the combination of system software installed, but all the information is basically
the same.
Compression Panel
Compressor menu:
Choose the QuickTime format of the captured file here. "YUV422 Video" is the native format of your digitizer. However, the files generated using this format are enormous:
approximately 1 gigabyte per minute. Many hard drives may not be able to keep up with the pace of the data, even if there is sufficient space available. Using any compressed format can
dramatically lower the amount of space required. A good choice is "Photo - JPEG" -this offers fairly high compression rates, excellent quality and low processing requirements. For higher
compression rates MPEG-4 or H.264 are good choices -however, these require very powerful processors to keep up with the video data. Be sure to check the frame rates being obtained in a few
test samples before capturing important material. Note that if Final Cut Pro is installed, "YUV422 codec" is not listed and "Uncompressed 8-bit 4:2:2" is shown in its place.