User guide

34 Matrox Marvel – User Guide
Video line input
When the PC-VCR Remote LINE button is selected, the video window displays the signals coming
from a device connected to your Matrox
VIDEO IN or S-VIDEO IN connector. This can be a video
camera or video player (see “Matrox Marvel input”, page 16).
You can record from your video camera or video player to a digital video file. You can then play back
this video file with PC-VCR Remote, or edit it with another program (see “Avid Cinema program”,
page 42).
Before you record to a video file
„ Make sure the video camera or video player is properly connected to your Matrox
VIDEO IN or S-VIDEO IN connector. For more information on how to connect video
devices, see “Connection setup”, page 9.
„ Make sure your Windows sound card settings are correct. For more information, see
“Sound”, page 64.
„ Make sure your PC-VCR Remote property settings are correct. Click
the
Properties button ( ) on the PC-VCR Remote to access its
setting controls:
ƒ On the Video property sheet, select the Matrox input line you
want to use (composite or S-video) and the TV standard your
video camera or video player uses (NTSC in North America; PAL
in most of Europe; or SECAM in France). For PC-VCR Remote
to automatically detect the TV standard, enable the
Automatic
check box. If this check box is enabled, there may be a delay of a few seconds when
you change the
INPUT setting.
ƒ On the Recording property sheet, select the path where you want to save your video
file and select your video capture options for PC-VCR Remote. Move the
Recording
settings
slider to increase or decrease the frame size and rate of recordings. The
higher the frame size, the higher the video quality, but also the more disk space
you’ll need.
Look at the
Max recording time box to see the maximum amount of time you can
record to a video file. This time is based on the currently selected capture settings
and the amount of free space on the disk where your video file will be recorded.