User Manual

CapWiz Tips
• Try CapWiz first –have video playing from your camcorder, VCR or DVD
player, follow the Wizard steps and choose “View in DVD (MPEG-2)” in
Step 4, then press PREVIEW on the CapWiz interface and you will see
video fill the preview window. Not only can you capture Video, but you
can see it at full broadcast resolution. With CapWiz, what you see is what
you get. What ever video type (VCD, SVCD or DVD) you select, you will
see it displayed in the proper size within CapWiz. No Tiny Video Preview
Window Here! No other video capture application lets you do this. You
always know what “Good, Better and Best” quality mean and you can see
the difference!
• Custom Settings – You may find you want to go beyond the “Good, Better
and Best” settings and customize your video capture settings. CapWiz
gives you that flexibility.
o Choose Variable bit rate – this
uses a special algorithm to
analyze the video as it is
compressed and automatically
adjusts the video bit rate based
on the amount of motion in the
scene. The result is better
quality video and smaller file
sizes.
o MPEG Video is like Golf – the
lower score Wins -good quality
at a low file size (capture bit
rate) is the goal. You’ll
probably want to fit as much
video on a CD or DVD disk as
possible. Play around with
captures at 3 Mb/sec. with
Variable bit rate turned on and
we’ll bet you’ll be surprised at
the video quality. With 3
Mb/sec and MPEG Audio, you should be able to get about 2 ½
hours of movie on to a single DVD disk! You can’t do that with
competing products!
o Noisy old Video Tapes? Video tapes degrade over time, so you’ll
want to get all of your family memories and video tape collection on
to disk before they fade away. Try the Video Pre-processing Filters
to help remove some of the noise. The Temporal filter removes
noise detected across 2 or more frames of video. The Spatial filter
looks for noise within each field of video. Use these filters in
combination for the best noise reduction for your tape. Don’t over
use the filters as they may soften the image too much. And you