User guide

24 Matrox Rainbow Runner G-Series – User Guide
For more information on PC-VCR Remote property settings, click “ ” on the title bar of the
dialog box, then click a dialog box item.
Recording to a video file
1 Click the LINE button on the PC-VCR Remote. You should see video in the PC-VCR Remote
video window; if not, see “Before you record to a video file”, page 23.
2 Click Record ().
If you click
Record once, PC-VCR Remote will record to video file until you click Stop
( ) or run out of disk space. If you click
Record again, PC-VCR Remote will record for
2 minutes; click again and PC-VCR Remote will record for 4 minutes; and so on.
Mini remote
If you don’t want to use the full-sized PC-VCR Remote, you
can use the “mini remote”. The mini remote is a toolbar
added to the PC-VCR Remote video window. The mini
remote replaces the “full remote”. To use the mini remote, right-click the PC-VCR Remote, then
click
Use Mini Remote on the resulting pop-up menu.
Pause your mouse pointer over each mini remote button to see a pop-up tooltip identifying it. There
are different buttons on the mini remote depending on the type of input selected.
To return to using the full remote again, right-click the PC-VCR Remote video window, then click
Full Remote on the resulting pop-up menu.
Capture options
On the Recording property sheet, click the Capture Options button to select your video
capture type:
MJPEG – Click this button to use hardware-based Matrox MJPEG (Motion-JPEG) video
compression. Video files you create with this button selected are smaller, and as a result,
your disk can store longer videos and handle more video at a time. When your disk can
handle more video at a time, you get higher-quality video file recording and playback.
Video files you create with this button selected are still Audio Video Interleaved files
(*.avi), but only someone with a Matrox video editing card and its software drivers can use
them. This is because Matrox video editing cards have special hardware to decompress
MJPEG-encoded video files. You can adjust the image quality of Matrox MJPEG digital
video by moving the
MJPEG quality slider in the same dialog box.
RGB
*
– Click one of these buttons to record uncompressed video files.
* With PC-VCR Remote,
RGB
digital video is always in overlay mode. For more information on overlay mode, see
“Overlay and preview modes”, page 28.
Mini remote toolbar (FILE input)