Enhancing System Performance And Video Quality - Smart Technologies SMART BOARD User Manual

Enhancing System Performance and Video Quality

Follow these tips to improve system performance during recording:
1 Reduce your screen resolution and the colors setting on your display as explained
below. Smaller screens and fewer colors result in smaller files.
2 Select a local hard drive for the target files in the SMART Recorder options (see page
34). Network drives are slower and hurt performance.
3 Disable hardware acceleration as explained below.
4 Try a different video card. Some video cards perform better than others. Accelerated
Graphics Port (AGP) video cards generally provide faster performance than Peripheral
Component Interconnect (PCI) cards.
5 Select a lower video quality setting (see page 34). You'll need to balance your
expectations for video quality against the limitations of your computer system. The
higher the video quality, the larger the files and the demands placed upon your
computer system.
Follow these tips to improve playback quality of videos:
1 Select the SMART Recorder Video format with 16 million colors rather than the Microsoft
Video format that uses 256 colors (see page 34).
2 Select a higher video quality setting in the SMART Recorder options (see page 34).
You'll need to balance your expectations for video quality against the limitations of your
computer system. The higher the video quality, the larger the files and the demands
placed upon your computer system.
3 Disable hardware acceleration as explained below.
To reduce screen resolution and display colors:
1 Press the Start button and select Control Panel from the Settings menu.
The Control Panel will appear.
2 Double-press on Display.
The Display Properties dialog will appear.
3 Press the Settings tab.
4 Press the down arrow in the Colors or Color Quality box and select a lower setting.
True Color (32 bit) is the highest setting and 16 Colors is the lowest. The lower the
setting you choose, the better the performance you're likely to get when using SMART
Recorder.
5 Drag the slider in the Screen Area or Screen Resolution to a lower setting than the one
currently selected.
6 Press the Apply and OK buttons.
To disable hardware acceleration:
1 Press the Start button and select Control Panel from the Settings menu.
The Control Panel will appear.
2 Double-press on Display.
The Display Properties dialog will appear.
3 Press the Settings tab.
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