User manual ADS TECH INSTANT DVD + DV

[. . . ] If you have any problems or questions on this product, please call : 0 is an innovative, hassle-free device that is designed to let you edit and archive your home movies easily. ADS Technologies respects the rights of copyright owners and asks that you do the same. The Copy Right Act gives owners of copyrights the exclusive right to reproduce and prepare derivative works as well as to publicly perform, display and distribute their works. This means that you must obtain permission to engage in any of these activities when using works that are copyrighted by another person. [. . . ] If there is a check mark next to this an "ADS" splash screen will appear on your screen when you start Capture Wizard. If there is a check mark next to this, the "Capture Wizard" screens will appear on your screen when you start Capture Wizard. If this has a check mark next to it; video will begin previewing automatically when you start Capture Wizard. This will open a dialog box which will allow you to set the audio bit rate for your video capture. The default settings for VCD, SVCD and DVD are 224 kilobits per second, but you can select a range from 112 kbps to 384 kbps. This will allow you to playback captured video at any standard playback resolution regardless of the capture resolution: 1. ) if you select Full Screen, then you can manually drag the playback window to any size. Selecting this will open a dialog box that allows you to change the playback resolution of captured video. This will allow you for example to playback SVCD (480 x 480) video at 720 x 480 if you like, and so forth. When this setting is chosen, a full screen video window will open, but it is manually sizable by dragging any edge of the window. Only use this setting if you have some trouble using the "Seek" bar for playback. When this is enabled, CapWiz will use any MPEG decoder that is found on your system. If you have more than one MPEG software decoder installed there could be some confusion between MPEG decoders. To ensure that you use the Instant DVD software encoder, uncheck this setting. This presents a Recording Options dialog box with the following selections: ENGLISH If this is enabled, you will receive a confirming prompt when ever you click the Record button. This may be used to more accurately time the beginning of a recording session. Enabling this feature will cause the "Recording Options" box to appear when you click the Record Button. When you click the Record button you will be presented with a dialog box with allows you to set the hours, minutes and seconds for recording delay. For example if you want to start recording in 1 hour, set to one hour, after one hour, recording will start automatically. If you are doing a long capture you may want to disable your screen saver. Sometimes, depending upon the graphics card you are using, a screensaver, can disrupt the video capture. If you know you want to record for exactly 1 hour, you can set the record duration, hours, minutes and seconds exactly. [. . . ] When I playback captured video in Video Studio, it has lines across the screen. The MPEG-2 decoder used in Video Studio does not de-interlace MPEG-2 during preview. Try playing the same clip in a DVD software player such as PowerDVD or export out to a TV and you will see it looks fine. You can set custom capture settings to set your de-interlacing preference. [. . . ]