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Phantom Camera Control Application - Help 73

4.1.1 Menubar

The Menubar provides access to pull-down menus that provide various functions. The availability of

these functions is dependent upon the active control panel.

Menubar Example

The Menubar contains the following options:

Cine

The Cine pull-down menu provides the following commands:

Open File

The 'Open File' command is used to open a previously saved cine file. The opened file will

be added under the Files group in the Manager Control Panel, and will be displayed in the

Playback Panel when the Manager or Play Control Panels are selected.

Save to File

The 'Save to File' command is used to save image data recorded in a camera's DRAM to a

user specified location, (for example, your system's hard drive, a networked drive or to some

peripheral drive such as a floppy drive, Zip drive, or tape drive).

The command will only be available when the:

· Play Control Panel has been selected, and the camera has been triggered, or a

previously saved cine file has been opened and selected for playback.

· Manager Control Panel has been selected and a cine file for a specific camera has

been selected, or a specific previously saved file has been selected.

Save All RAM to File

The 'Save All RAM to File' command is used to save all cine image data recorded in a

camera's DRAM to a user specified location, (for example, your system's hard drive, a

networked drive or to some peripheral drive such as a floppy drive, Zip drive, or tape drive).

This feature is extremely useful when the MultiCine feature has been implemented in the

camera as it will save all memory segments, with image data stored into it, to the specified

location.

The command will only be available when the:

· The camera has a cine file stored in its' DRAM.

· Play Control Panel has been selected.

· Manager Control Panel has been selected and a cine file for a specific camera has

been selected.

The Phantom Camera Control application will save the cine files from each of the memory

segments, of the selected camera, with a user specified file name along with an appended

extension (Cine#) for each of the cine files.

Save All Flash to File

The 'Save All Flash to File' command is used to save all cine files stored in the non-volatile

Flash memory or an attached Phantom CineMag, of the selected camera. It will save the

files with a user specified file name along with an appended extension,