User guide
26 Matrox Rainbow Runner G-Series – User Guide
Video snapshots
Click the Video Snapshot button ( ) on the PC-VCR Remote to
save a digital still image (“frame capture”) of the current PC-VCR Remote video window.
Video snapshots can be saved as bitmap (*.bmp) or JPEG (*.jpg) files. You can adjust the
quality, and as a result the file size of JPEG video snapshots.
Video window cropping
If the PC-VCR Remote LINE or TV button is selected, hold
down the [Shift] key, then click the video window display area. This opens a dialog box that
lets you trim the edges of the video window display. This is useful for hiding information along
the edges of a video image or if you just want to see part of your video window display. You
can also hold down the [Ctrl] key, then drag in the video window to crop. To restore cropping
settings, right-click the video window, then click the
Reset Cropping menu item.
Hot keys
Assign keyboard shortcuts to many PC-VCR Remote controls.
Audio
With a sound card installed in your computer, you can adjust your computer’s sound
output with the PC-VCR Remote.
TV tuner
With the TV tuner built into your Rainbow Runner G-Series card, you can:
Simultaneously preview up to 30 channels in a single window.
Change channels with PC-VCR Remote controls.
Schedule TV program timer events for different channels.
Password-protect certain TV channels (“parental lock”).
Auto Scan for tunable TV channels.
Define certain channels as your favorites and quickly skip to those channels with the
PC-VCR Remote channel up and down buttons.
To turn some features on or off, click the PC-VCR Remote mode indicators ( , , , ,
). For more information on PC-VCR Remote features and controls, see its context-sensitive
Help. Click “ ” on the title bar of a dialog box, then click a dialog box item.
Note: In a video window with no cropping, the edges of video images may appear
distorted. You normally don’t see this distortion on a TV because most TVs crop the edges
of video images. Professional video equipment doesn’t produce this distortion but
consumer-quality video equipment may. You can use the cropping feature of PC-VCR
Remote to hide this distortion.