Thermo Scientific Apreo User's Operation Manual page 137

Operating Procedures: Recording Movies (Saving Multiple Images)
Movie Timer
The parameters in this section can be changed when the digital video is inactive, but are disabled during recording.
The digital video is recorded asynchronously to the scanning.
• Save AVI Movie check box – Period list box: 
After the Period time, the image of each active display is stored immediately
(even in the middle of the frame) as a new frame in the video stream.
• Save TIF Images check box – Period list box: 
After the Period time, series of each active display images are stored at the
end of the running scan in TIF format.
If both TIF and Movie check boxes are ticked, AVI and also TIF files are stored.
In this case, the AVI file is not reconstructed from TIF files, which means the
directly recorded movie could be different from the movie reconstructed from
TIF files.
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Note
In many cases it is better to save TIF files, as they can be built into a faster AVI and
the databar display can be customized when building an AVI file.
If both AVI and TIF are recorded, the AVI may be jerky due to delays when writing
TIF files to a disk. TIF delay must always be equal to or longer than the Movie delay.
File Settings
Names of Movie [TIF] files are composed as follows: 
File name, (display name), Numeric seed, [- series number].avi [tif]
For example: MovieName (Channel1) 015 [- 00023]. avi [tif]
[The series number always has a five digits form with leading zeros.]
• File Name – enter a generic file name here. Do not use punctuation, dashes or other non alpha-numeric
characters, otherwise the movie maker would not be able to build an AVI.
• Save in – enter a path to an existing folder here. Use the Browse button to find the location.
• File Type – the list box with supported video compression format types. Try to change the format if the resulting
movie files are too big or if the system is overloaded during movie recording.
• Numeric Seed – enter any number from 1 to 999, which is converted to the three digit form with leading zeros.
The numeric seed is automatically incremented after the recording has stopped or the video file size limit has
been reached.
• Video File Size – the maximum AVI video file size (lower than 2 000) in MB must be entered here, otherwise the
Movie section cannot be closed. After reaching this size, the video file is closed and a new one is automatically
created without interruption of the recording process. A warning dialog appears if the hard drive lacks sufficient
free space.
• Record Databar check box – allows the databar to be included in the video (tif files).
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Revision A Feb 2018
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