Operation Manual

Niagara SCX User Guide
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Contents
About This Guide ...................................................................................................... 1
Conventions for this guide .................................................................................................. 1
Welcome to Niagara SCX ......................................................................................... 3
System features .................................................................................................................. 3
Quick Start ................................................................................................................. 5
Setting up Niagara SCX environment .................................................................................. 5
Beginning to encode ........................................................................................................... 5
Niagara SCX and Explorer Basics ........................................................................... 7
Niagara SCX window design ................................................................................................ 7
Toolbar ................................................................................................................................ 8
Menu bar............................................................................................................................. 9
File menu ....................................................................................................................................9
Edit menu ................................................................................................................................ 11
View menu .............................................................................................................................. 11
Insert menu ............................................................................................................................. 11
Creating a new Niagara SCX Explorer connection ............................................................ 12
Inserting a new encoder .......................................................................................................... 14
Sample encoder views ............................................................................................................. 15
Encoder menu ................................................................................................................... 16
Starting an encoder ................................................................................................................. 16
Stopping an encoder ............................................................................................................... 16
Resetting an encoder .............................................................................................................. 17
Help menu ......................................................................................................................... 17
Stopping the Niagara SCX Explorer ................................................................................... 17
Windows Media Options and Settings .................................................................. 19
Auto/Name tab ................................................................................................................. 19
Input tab............................................................................................................................ 20
Video Settings tab ............................................................................................................. 22
Audio Settings tab ............................................................................................................. 23
EQ Properties window............................................................................................................. 24
Compressor Properties window .............................................................................................. 25
Output tab ......................................................................................................................... 26
Filters tab .......................................................................................................................... 28
Profile Settings tab ............................................................................................................ 30
Video Cropping tab ........................................................................................................... 31
Watermarking tab ............................................................................................................. 32
Closed Caption tab ............................................................................................................ 33