User guide

J: CCD/CCTV Video Setup for Discontinued Hardware
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maximum desktop area size for a particular Window color palette size.
For example, if your FlashPoint board contains less than 2 MB of
memory and you choose a true color Windows palette, your desktop
area will be limited to 640 by 480 pixels. This means that any larger
value in the Desktop Area slider field will be automatically revised
downward to “640 by 480 pixels”
• Those with 2MB FlashPoint ISA boards should note that the extra 1MB
is for increased performance and does not offer you any additional VGA
modes over the 1MB FlashPoint ISA board.
• The B.A.S.I.S. software’s user interface was designed to fit within a 800
by 600 pixel desktop area, so a desktop area of at least 800 by 600 pixels
is highly recommended, especially for CCTV video stations.
• A 1280x1024 desktop should not be used. It does not have square pixels
(a width:height ratio of 4:3). Its 5:4 ratio causes video, photos and
layout graphics to appear to be squashed vertically.
• Beware that some VGA Windows color palette – desktop area
combinations can be selected but actually require the higher amount of
VGA RAM available for the model of FlashPoint board you have. For
example, those with a 2MB FlashPoint Lite 128 board can select a VGA
mode of 1024 by 768 with a true color Windows palette (a valid
combination for 4MB FlashPoint Lite 128 boards) but will find that the
Windows color palette is really limited to 65536 colors when a 1024 by
768 desktop is selected.
5. Those setting up a capture station: Using the table that follows, set the
Desktop area and then the Windows color palette based on the model of
FlashPoint board you have and the amount of VGA frame buffer memory
(VGA RAM) it has. The table favors a true color (i.e. 16.7 million colors or
24-bit) Windows color palette over a larger desktop area to achieve the
highest quality for your photos. (More advanced Windows users can choose
other settings as long as they use the guidelines listed in step 4.)
Model(s) VGA
RAM
Desktop
area
Windows 98
color palette
Windows
2000 color
palette
Captures image
quality
FlashPoint Lite 128,
FlashPoint 128
4MB 1024 by
768
True Color (24
bit)
16777216
Colors
Best
FlashPoint Lite 128,
FlashPoint 128,
FlashPoint Lite PCI,
FlashPoint PCI
2MB 800 by 600 True Color (24
bit)
16777216
Colors
Best
FlashPoint ISA 1MB or
2MB
640 by 480 True Color (24
bit)
16777216
Colors
Best
FlashPoint ISA 1MB or
2MB
800 by 600 High Color (16
bit) (actually 15
bit, see step 5d)
65536 Colors Good under 2000,
Marginal under 98