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- Page 1 SPEA CRUNCH IT User Manual Benutzerhandbuch Manuel d'emploi Manual del usuario Part Number 1740 4040.3 Rel. 0695 Copyright by SPEA Software AG...
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Page 3: Registered Trademarks
Installing the Software from the SPEA Media-Gallery CD It is possible that you have received the SPEA software on CD rather than on diskette. If this is the case, then please note that the descriptions in this manual should be changed accordingly. For example, the instructions "Put the disk 'Drivers for Windows' in drive A:"... -
Page 4: Table Of Contents
PART 3 WINDOWS 3.X DRIVER INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION ........17 Software Configuration of the SPEA CRUNCH IT under Windows ............18 If you use the SPEA CRUNCH IT together with a SPEA SHOWTIME PLUS........18 The SPEA CRUNCH IT driver dialogues ....................18 Video Format............................19 Video Source............................21... - Page 5 Creating a Rotating Logo ........................33 A Multiple Rotating Logo with a Background Image................34 APPENDIX A UTILITIES ........................37 CRUNCH IT INIT - Protecting the Video Monitor and TV from damaging Signals ......37 Test- / Diagnostics program ........................37 APPENDIX B TECHNICAL DETAILS ....................38 Technical Data ............................38...
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Page 6: Quick Installation
(e.g. correct bus type and version). 3. Disconnect your computer from the main power and peripheral equipment. 4. Install the SPEA CRUNCH IT in a free extension slot and secure it. 5. Reassemble your PC, connect peripheral equipment and reconnect the power cable. -
Page 7: General Information
Directory names mentioned in this manual are examples and are written in capital letters. The SPEA software is delivered on 3,5" disks. Therefore, the documentation refers to disk drive A:. Please enter B:, if your 3,5" disk drive is addressed with B:. -
Page 8: Last-Minute Changes - Readme File
SHOW README.ENG Warranty You have a 3 year warranty for your SPEA graphics card. To ensure your warranty, it is necessary that you keep the invoice of the graphics card. If your graphics card is damaged, contact your local retailer first. -
Page 9: Part 1 Introduction
Menu driven installation program to easily what is it used for? install the software The SPEA CRUNCH IT enables you to transfer Software drivers for Windows and Video for videos from your video recorder to your PC and Windows vice versa. -
Page 10: Part 2 Hardware Installation
(recommended: at least 1 MB/s) see that it doesn't happen. 32 Bit Hard disk driver (Enhanced IDE or 1. Hold the SPEA card on ist edges only. Don't SCSI) touch edge connectors or exposed circuitry. (recommended: hard disk with AV (Audio / 2. -
Page 11: Preparing The Installation
Installing the SPEA Card CRUNCH IT. Secure the cable on the SPEA Movie Bus so that the red stripe is The SPEA card is installed in a free ISA bus positioned at pin #1 on both boards (see expansion slot . -
Page 12: Connecting External Equipment
This can be connected to a video source The connectors on the board are standardized, such as a video recorder or a video camera. with the exception of the SPEA Movie Bus (see Note that the antenna signal from the Appendix B, Technical Details). For this... -
Page 13: Installation Of The Spea Crunch It (Stand Alone)
CRUNCH IT) are installed in your system, (Stand alone) connect the peripheral equipment as follows: If you want to use the SPEA CRUNCH IT 1. Connect the PC monitor cable with the VGA output of the VGA board. without an additional board (multimedia 2. -
Page 14: Installation Of The Spea Crunch It With The Spea Showtime Plus
SPEA SHOWTIME PLUS in a As soon as you have installed the drivers of the window on the PC monitor. In this case a video SPEA CRUNCH IT, the video input of the monitor is not strictly necessary. SPEA SHOWTIME PLUS will be disabled! Warning! 3. -
Page 15: Installation Spea Crunch It With A Soundboard (V7-Media Fx)
As soon as you have installed the drivers of the connections meet. SPEA CRUNCH IT, the video input of the SPEA SHOWTIME PLUS will be disabled! Note for the Software Installation: Install the software of the SPEA SHOWTIME... -
Page 16: After Installing The Spea Board
It is very important that a 32 bit driver (.386) for Windows is available for the hard disk (E- If you have correctly installed the SPEA board, IDE) or the SCSI host adapter used, otherwise the DOS prompt will appear on your monitor Windows will not be capable of using the high when the boot procedure is finished. -
Page 17: Part 3 Windows 3.X Driver Installation And Configuration
Part 3 Windows 3.x Driver Installation and Configuration Notes for the Software Installation: If you have also installed a SPEA SHOWTIME PLUS is your system, run this software installation BEFORE you install the software for the SPEA CRUNCH IT! ... -
Page 18: Software Configuration Of The Spea Crunch It Under Windows
SPEA SHOWTIME PLUS Warning! During the driver configuration, or when you If you use the SPEA CRUNCH IT in start the video editting software system, combination with a SPEA SHOWTIME PLUS, software crashes may occur if there is no video... -
Page 19: Video Format
Video Format Image Dimensions Defines the resolution which you want to use for digitizing. Depending on the video standard set, you will have the following resolutions: PAL: 384 x 288 pixels, NTSC: 320 x 240 pixels, these resolutions are also called SIF (Source Image Format). - Page 20 Setup.Code Volume Defines the compression rate: Note: Only one setting at once is active. All options have an influence on the compression rate. Bits/Pel [2.0] Bits per Pixel element (dynamic compression rate) Example: Frame resolution x (Bits/Pel / 8)= Size of the compressed frame 384 x 288 x (2.0 /8) = 27648 = 27kB Compression Ratio...
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Page 21: Video Source
Video Source Video Input Selects one of the video inputs - Composite 1 (Video Input #1) - Composite 2 (Video Input #2) - S-Video (Y/C Input) Video Standard - NTSC (USA) {60 Hz} - PAL (Europe) {50 Hz} - SECAM (Europe) {50 Hz., e.g. -
Page 22: Video Display
- [X] Enable Video Encoder If, in a video network, another video device (than the video encoder) should produce a video output on the video output of the SPEA CRUNCH IT, deactivate this button [ ]. By default, the video encoder should be enabled [X] to generate video signals on the video output. -
Page 23: Part 4 Windows 95 Driver Installation And Configuration
Video Maestro Installation and VideoMaestro Programs Configuration The SPEA CRUNCH IT driver works with VideoMaestro is a collection of powerful tools Windows 95. As a final Windows 95 version is for capturing, creating and editing digitial video. not available yet, and additional changes and... -
Page 24: Video Morph
file can be played at once during the video, video file, settings for the size, color, number of thus 'mixing' the audio track (i.e. useful for frames etc. can be made. playing music in the background with spoken commentary overlayed). Video Screen Saver Image files can be inserted inbetween video sequences or two video sequences can be... -
Page 25: Mediamaestro Demo Software
8. If "Build Program Group" was selected, the MediaMaestro Demo Software MediaMaestro LE program group appears on the screen. Click on the Readme icon to Also included on the VideoMaestro CD is a read the latest release notes before starting demo version of Software Dynamic's popular the software. - Page 26 To view a sample presentation with MediaMaestro LE: 1. From the MediaMaestro LE program group, double-click the Runtime Player icon. The Open dialog box will appear. 2. Select the desired demo from the MM_LE>Demos subdirectory. 3. Double-click the desired filename to start. To test the MediaMaestro LE software: 1.
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Page 27: System Requirements
- we can be contacted from 10:00 - 15:00 on our support hotline at the following Windows compatible sound card telephone and fax numbers: SPEA Showtime board SPEA CrunchIt board Telephone: 0421/219884 Fax: 0421/216718 Software Requirements ... -
Page 28: Videomaestro Getting Started
VideoMaestro Getting Started Creating a Simple Video Clip The following steps describe how to create a simple video clip in the Video Editor using Video Editor existing video files. Playing Media Clips in the Video 1. When you open the Video Editor program, Editor an empty Construction window will appear. -
Page 29: Creating A Complex Video
sound track must be edited separately. 2. A new Construction window will appear on Select the sound file in the Audio Track by the screen. The filename [Untitled] will clicking in the blue area on the right hand appear in the title bar. side of the file. - Page 30 downwards. Click several times on the Note: middle line to add more blue squares. Move To delete files from the Construction window, each blue square down to achieve the select each file using the Ctrl + mouse before desired fade out effect. At the end of the clicking on the Delete button on the Tool panel.
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Page 31: Video Morph
will appear in the same position on the Video Morph destination image. 13. Click on the Horizontal Line button on the Creating a Morph Video Control panel. 14. Move the cross to the desired position and click on the mouse to draw the line. A line With Video Morph you can create a video file will appear in the same position on the from two images or captured frames from an... -
Page 32: Video Logo Generator
Use the many possibilites available for three 24. Click on the Delete Mesh button on the dimensionally rotating and moving a logo on Control panel. the screen. 25. All grid lines will be deleted. Decide on the number of transitions required to achieve the desired result. -
Page 33: Creating A Rotating Logo
19. You can now use the preview function to Creating a Rotating Logo make a preview of the logo. To generate a The Video Logo Generator requires at least faster preview, it will be displayed in wire two transitions to be able to generate a video mesh mode. -
Page 34: A Multiple Rotating Logo With A Background Image
29. Click again on the Light Direction button. Note: The solid model of the logo will be The filename and the directory where the displayed. Set the desired space depth in output file will be written is the same as for the the Options dialog box. - Page 35 6. The background image will be displayed in the preview window.
- Page 36 For faster display, set the points per curve to 1 Note: in the Points per Curve list box in the Options When the image has been loaded into the dialog. preview window, the horizon should be adjusted to the image. The Horizon button in the Edit window is used to turn the horizon 19.
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Page 37: Appendix A Utilities
Signals After you switch on or reset your PC, the video output of the SPEA CRUNCH IT finds itself in an undefined state. If this signal is sent to a TV or video monitor for a longer period, the device can be damaged. -
Page 38: Appendix B Technical Details
Appendix B Pinout of the SPEA Movie Bus Technical Details The SPEA CRUNCH IT is equipped with a digital video bus connector. This is not a Feature Connector, but the 'SPEA Movie Technical Data Bus'. This connector can be connected with the multimedia board SPEA SHOWTIME PLUS or ... -
Page 39: I/O Addresses Of The Spea Crunch It
For connecting a S-VHS or Hi-8 video CRUNCH IT recorder. A free IRQ has to be assigned to the SPEA CRUNCH IT. Default for the SPEA CRUNCH IT is IRQ 15. You can also use IRQ 10, 11 or 12 instead. -
Page 40: Appendix C Troubleshooting
Your AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS file 300 - 31F various network cards may contain commands that are interfering with the operation of the SPEA board (e.g. if an elder graphics board or an MPEG Deocoder Input Video Signal was installed before). Try booting your system During the driver configuration or when you without these files. -
Page 41: Frequently Asked Questions
- DEQUOPLE REFRESH, to date software driver. (You can find them REFRESH=HIDDEN, REFRESH=AT- in the SPEA mailbox. If you don't have a STYLE or REFRESH to 'disabled'. modem, please contact your local dealer). Use COM port #2 for your mouse. - Page 42 Q: It seems that the video playback is not smooth. A: Please consider all notes for the question before. Besides that: Changing the settings: If the video data stream contains dropped frames, the video is not played back smoothly. Please take note of the steps described above.
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Page 43: Appendix D Glossary
contents of the rectangular area are rapidly Appendix D refilled with the orginal contents. Glossary BMP (Windows Bitmap) This format enables Microsoft Windows to Analog Display display images on devices with similar A monitor that uses variable color control capabilities in a consistent way. Save pictures voltages to display a very large number of in this format if you wish to continue to process colors but requires very few inputs. - Page 44 CODEC Compressor / Decompressor, responsible for the compression and decompression of image data.
- Page 45 and change options on computer boards, Color Display printers, and other peripherals. A type of monitor capable of displaying information in color. It is often called an RGB (red, green, blue) monitor, referring to the signals needed to drive it. Color Palette Conversion Conversion of video data from the YUV color model into the RGB color model, or v.v.
- Page 46 Driver Fixed Frequency Monitor Part of a software program that interacts with a An analog monitor which can only sync to a particular piece of equipment in your computer very narrow range of scan frequencies. system (i.e. video boards, printers, and keyboards).
- Page 47 Hexadecimal Notation Horizontal Frequency A base-16 numbering system that uses The rate at which a monitor displays each scan numbers and letters. The hexadecimal line. Usually measured in kilohertz (kHz). sequence begins: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F, then 10, 11 etc.
- Page 48 compression method in that it works with MPEG quality loss. This means that some of the Motion Picture Expert Group. The compression original data is lost during the compression method known as MPEG 1 is suited to digital phase. In order to surpass this visual effect video playback.
- Page 49 to as TrueColor. It is believed that the human eye can discern no more than 16.7 million colors.
- Page 50 the three basic colors create a color model PCX (PC Paintbrush) whose origin is the colour black and the This file format was developed by Zsoft opposite value is the color white. Corporation for PC Paintbrush, one of the first computer drawing programs.
- Page 51 Secondary Display Video CD The monitor connected to the graphics card The VideoCD specification was published in that is co-resident with another card/monitor in 1993 by JVC, Matsushita, Sony and Philips as your computer system. Is not active upon the so-called 'Whitebook' standard. Using this booting your system.
- Page 52 Zooming Increased display of an image section.
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Page 53: Index
I/O port address ..........35 Video Maestro ..........21 Input Video Signal..........35 Video Out ............8 Installation with a Soundboard.......13 Video Outputs ..........34 Installation with the SPEA SHOWTIME PLUS12 Video Source..........19 IRQ setting .............34 IRQ settings ...........35 Warranty ............6 Monitor .............8 Zone Bit Recording (ZBR)......14...
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