Software User's Guide

Snazzi* Movie Studio S5 DVD Pro

For Product Numbers :SN78xx

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Published March 2005 P/N: 78-001-9082 Rev A

License Agreement
Copyright 2003 V One Multimedia Pte Ltd. All rights reserved. No part of this documentation may be reproduced in any form or by any means or used to make any derivative work (such as translation, transformation or adaptation) without permission from V One Multimedia Pte Ltd. V One Multimedia Pte Ltd reserves the right to revise this documentation and to make changes in content from time to time without obligation on the part of V One Multimedia Pte Ltd to provide notification of such revision or change. V One Multimedia Pte Ltd provides this documentation without warranty of any kind, whether implied or expressed, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. V One Multimedia Pte Ltd may make improvements or changes in the product(s) and / or the programs(s) described in this documentation at any time.

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INTRODUCTION

Contents
License Agreement..........................................................................................................1-1II CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION & INSTALLATION ................................................... 1-4 Whats Snazzi* V DVD PRO ............................................................................................ 1-4 System Requirements ....................................................................................................... 1-5 Hardware Installation ....................................................................................................... 1-6 Connections ..................................................................................................................... 1-7 Driver & Software Installation ......................................................................................... 1-8 CHAPTER 2: USER INTERFACE IN DEPTH ................................................................2-12 User Interface ..................................................................................................................2-12 Mode Buttons .................................................................................................................2-13 Control Buttons .............................................................................................................. 2-14 Seek Bar ..........................................................................................................................2-15 Setup Button ..................................................................................................................2-15 Adjust Color Button ....................................................................................................... 2-15 Version Info Panel ...........................................................................................................2-16 Duration Button .............................................................................................................. 2-16 Snapshot Button .............................................................................................................2-16 Volume Slider Button .......................................................................................................2-16 Mute Button ................................................................................................................... 2-17 Media Gallery Button ......................................................................................................2-17 About Button ..................................................................................................................2-17

CHAPTER 3: INTRODUCTION TO BASIC FUNCTIONALITIES ...............................3-18 Introduction ....................................................................................................................3-18 Recording Mode .............................................................................................................3-18 Start Capturing ................................................................................................................3-19 Playback Mode ...............................................................................................................3-20 Snapshot .........................................................................................................................3-21

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CHAPTER 4: INTRODUCTION TO SETUP CONFIGURATIONS .............................. 4-22 Introduction ....................................................................................................................4-22 Recording ........................................................................................................................4-23 Capture Options .............................................................................................................. 4-23 Setup Options ................................................................................................................. 4-24 File Saving Options ......................................................................................................... 4-28

CHAPTER 5: INTRODUCTION TO MEDIA GALLERY .............................................. 5-29 Introduction ....................................................................................................................5-29 Opening Media Gallery ...................................................................................................5-29 Action Buttons ...............................................................................................................5-30 Supported File Formats ...................................................................................................5-31

CHAPTER 6: CUSTOMER SUPPORT ......................................................................... 6-32 Contacting Technical Support ........................................................................................ 6-32 World Wide Web ............................................................................................................6-32 Online Chat Support ....................................................................................................... 6-32

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INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION AND INSTALLING Snazzi*V DVD PRO

Welcome:
Welcome and thank you for purchasing Snazzi* V DVD PRO. This product turns your PC to a all in one capture solution and provides a high quality video capturing experience. Before you proceed using this product, we recommend you read this user manual to get an overview of the product. This chapter provides introduction to Snazzi* 5 DVD PRO and installation steps to configure the Snazzi* V DVD PRO PCI device.

What is Snazzi*V DVD PRO:

From V One Multimedia, Snazzi* V is a professional high quality MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 encoder and decoder supporting both MP@ML and IFrame encoding.Snazzi* Movie Studio S5 features :

Real-time hardware video capturing in MPEG-1 and MPEG-II formats. Digital video conversion with hardware encoder. Advanced controls for I-Frame encoding with CBR/VBR support. Superior quality hardware decoder for watching/playback captured movies on TV. Locked video and audio synchronization. Records in full motion at upto 720*576/25fps (PAL) and 720*480/30fps (NTSC). Still image capturing. Daily, weekly, multiple scheduled recordings and pre-defined file sizes. Instantly PAUSE/RESUME video during recordings. Fast resizing of compact GUI.

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System Requirements:
To use Snazzi* V DVD PRO, youll need to make sure that your PC meets the following requirements. Computer: As a minimum, you should have Pentium IV with 1.6GHz or higher processor. Memory: 256 MB RD RAM Hard Disk: 7200 RPM Hard Disk Drive Operating System: Windows XP

Assumption:

This guide is written with the assumption that you have the basic working knowledge of the Windows operating system and have the required software and video source.

Package Contents:

The Snazzi* V DVD PRO package includes Snazzi* V DVD PRO PCI card, Video/Audio cables, Users Manual, Installation CDs and Product Warranty and Registration card.

Registration:

V One Multimedia offers dedicated technical support and keeps you informed about product updates. Please register your product in order to access all these services.

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INTRODUCTION

Hardware Installation:

Switch off your PC and attached peripherals.Disconnect the computer from the power supply. Unplug all the cables and open the housing of your PC. Locate an available PCI slot in your computer. Insert the Snazzi* V DVD PRO PCI card into the PCI slot by holding the card at the top and gently pushing both ends into the slot at the same time. Fasten the cards bracket at the back of the computer.

Snazzi* PCI card

PCI slots Fig:1

NOTE: PCI slots are usually white in color (other slots are usually black or brown). We recommend installing the card in first of 2nd PCI slot for better performance.

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Connect Your Video/Audio Inputs (Capturing) For capturing, you need to have extenal video source connection with your Snazzi* V DVD PRO PCI card. For video connections, plug one end of the yellow (RCA cable) from the video source into the Composite-In jack as illustrated in Fig 2. If you are using a device with an S-Video port, connect the S-Video cable to the S-Video-In jack. Likewise, for device with a component port, connect the 3 green, blue and red cables into the Y,Cb and Cr jacks respectively. Plug the audio cable into the Audio-In jack of the Snazzi*V DVD PRO for audio input from the external video source device. Note: Y-Cb-Cr, or commonly refer as component video or color difference

video, was invented to simplify video electronics and reduce the overall bandwidth requirements for transmitting video compared with RGB. In practice it provides one luminance signal with full horizontal resolution and two color signals with reduced horizontal resolution. Component video can give better resolution of side by side color details compared with S-video because there is more bandwidth available for color information.
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INTRODUCTION
Driver & Software Installation
For software installation, insert the Installation CD in the CD-ROM device. The installer will start automatically and installation wizard will finalize the installation for you. If the installer does not start automatically, you can manually install the Snazzi 5 DVD PRO software by double clicking the CD-ROM drive and selecting Snazzi 5 DVD PRO\setup.exe. After Snazzi 5 DVD PRO setup completes, it prompts a message to restart the computer. We strongly recommend you to please restart the computer before launching Snazzi 5 DVD PRO software. As soon as you restart your computer after installing the Snazzi* V DVD PRO PCI card, Windows Found New Hardware Wizard will automatically detect the device as Multimedia Video Controller and ask for driver installation as shown in Fig:4.

Fig:4 Please make sure that you select Install the software atuomatically (Recommended) and click Next to proceed.

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NOTE: During the driver installation, you may see a warning message that this device has not passed WinXP logo testing and may not work properly as shown below. This has nothing to do with the functionality of device so please press Continue Anyway button to finish the installation.

Fig:5 As soon as you press Continue Anyway, Windows will start copying files to complete the driver installation. You will be indicated about the driver completion process as shown in Fig:6.

Fig:6

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INTRODUCTION
The driver completion process dialog shows that the drivers for Snazzi* V DVD PRO device have been installed successfully. To make sure the driver status, we will also check the driver entries in the Device Manager. Here is it how:

Click Start- Settings- Control Panel In Control Panel, double click the

System icon. You see the system properties window. In System Properties, click the Hardware tab, then click on Device Manager button. Locate the icon for Sound, Video and Game Controllers and click the +sign next to it to expand the entry list. Look for an entry for V One S5 DVD PRO.
V One S5 DVD PRO

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If there is no yellow exclamation mark against this entry, it means the drivers have been installed and the device is ready to use. However if you find any yellow exclamation mark with driver entry, please uninstall and try reinstalling the drivers.

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Trade Marks: Snazzi*V DVD PRO is a trademark of V One Multimedia Pte Ltd. All other trademarks are registered trademarks belong to their respective owners.

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USER INTERFACE

USER INTERFACE IN DEPTH

Key Features:
To help you learn the software quickly, this chapter will take you through the Graphical User Interface and buttons.This high level view gives you a complete basic introduction of this software. For more detailed explanation of each functionality, please refer to the individual chapters designated for each operation later in the manual.

Main Graphical User Interface:

When you start Snazzi 5 DVD PRO software, the main interface will appear on your computers desktop. Lets start the application and discuss some of the basic GUI elements of Snazzi 5 DVD PRO software.

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Mode Buttons These buttons allow you to choose between different modes of the Snazzi 5 DVD PRO applicaion.These buttons open the path between your Snazzi* software and your input/output devices, such as VCR, VCD or camcorders. Clicking on a Mode button begins initialization of the device path and the control buttons beneath the video window.

Snazzi* V DVD PRO provides two modes Capture Mode Playback Mode

Capture Mode

Recording/Capture mode button allows you to see the video preview and capture video clips from any external video source, such as a VCR, VCD Player or DVD Player which is connected to the Snazzi*V DVD PRO. Clicking this button again will switch the software to idle state.

Playback Mode
Playback mode button allows you to play your recorded video/audio contents on your monitor.

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USER INTERFACE
Control Buttons
Control Buttons are located just below the Video Window.

The information in the Control Buttons area is as follows: 1. Play/Record Starts playback of the captured file in Playback Mode or starts capturing videos in Capture Mode. 2. Step Forward The Step forward button is used to go forward one frame in a playback video file.This button will only enable in the Playback mode. 3. Step Backward The Step Backward button is used to go back one frame in a playback video file. 4. End of Clip Clicking End button moves the seek bar to the end of the selected clip to allow you to move around the project quickly 5. Start of clip Clicking Start button moves the seek bar back to the beginning of the selected clip to allow you to move around the project quickly

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Seek Bar
Seek Bar is used for quickly moving forward or backward through a video clip. Drag and Drop feature by mouse is also included in seek bar operations, which makes it more interactive.The Seek bar is located beneath the Video Window.

Setup

Clicking on setup button lets you select the video standards, video source, working directory, recording template, snapshot type and recording scheduler. You can make adjustments to the Input Video using the available sliders for each option. These adjustments for color correction can be applied in real-time.

Color

Brightness This slider adjusts the brightness of the Input Video. Hue This slider adjusts the Hue of the Input Video Contrast This slider adjusts the contrast of the Input Video. Saturation This slider adjusts the saturation of the Input Video.

User can see the effect of these options on runtime so that it becomes more user friendly and interactive to set their own preference.

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USER INTERFACE
Version Info Panel
This panel is located just below the Seek Bar.

The information in the above field is as follows. 1. Open File Opens a captured video file. Clicking this button will open a select file dialog box from where you can load the required clip, which is to be played. 2. Duration Duration Option provides three ways. Limit Capture Time Limit Capture Time enables automatic stop of manual capture after a specified time. Limit File Size Limit File Size with auto-splitting in selected number of files. Manual Limit capturing via user interface. 3. Snapshot Captures still images from your videp spurces and lets you save them in any of the 4 formats : BMP, JPG, PNG and TIFF. 4. Volume Slider You can control volume by dragging the volume control slider. You can also minimize and maximize the volume.

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5. Mute This button will Mute the sound. You can view voiceless video by clicking Mute button. Pressing Mute button will not affect the video file being encoded.

Media Gallery
About Dialog

Pressing this button will launch the Media Gallery where you can manage the video files. This is from where you can see the application version number and other details.

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BASIC FUNCTIONALITIES

INTRODUCTION TO BASIC FUNCTIONALITIES

Introduction

This section is designed in the perspective to give you the working knowledge about using Snazzi*V DVD PRO. We will show you how to accomplish primary tasks:

Capturing Mode - Capture video clips from external

video source and encode the videos in desired format.

Playback Mode - Play and view your captured clips.

In order to perform these tasks you need a video source, Snazzi*V hardware, and a Personal Computer with Snazzi 5 DVD PRO software installed.

Recording Mode

Snazzi* V DVD PRO allows you to encode your videos in many formats i.e MPEG 1, MPEG 2, WMV, DivX and DV(type 2). Before you can start capturing, you need to set the Encoding Parameters. You can open the Setup Dialog to set these parameters. The Setup dialog will appear on the screen with different options. You can set the working directory and the way how clips store. Set the capture template and video in settings.

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Start Capturing
Click the Capture Mode Button to initialize the software for capturing video. You can see a Preview in the Video Window which indicates that the Snazzi*V DVD PRO device is ready for capturing.
Note: Improper cable connections might result in No Video Source Found error message. Please also make sure that you have DirectX 9.0b installed in your system otherwise you may not get MPEG-1 preview videos.

To Capture Video

Click on the record button in the control buttons bar to start recording. The recording will start with a preview in Video Window.

Click stop button to finish recording. A message will appear that a clip is successfully stored.

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Playback Mode

You can play and scrub (quickly move through) video using the Playback buttons and the slider. You can play MPEG (Audio+Video) and AVI files. Click on the Playback mode button to load the movie clip. A file open dialog box will prompt you to open the cap tured clips, select the desired clip (filename) and press Open button. After pressing the OPEN button, the desired file will load and appear in the video window.

Drag the slider to the left or right to scrub through the video file being played in the video window.

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To move frame-by-frame through the entire video clip, pause playback and press the Step Forward and Step Backward buttons respectively. Please keep in mind that these two buttons will only enable after pausing the playback.

Snapshot

Snazzi*V DVD PRO provides a very user-friendly way for capturing snapshots. It provides you a lot of options from snapshot type to the way of managing it right on your desktop. Now you can take snapshots in four different formats (bmp, jpeg, png, tiff).

Click the Setup Button on the Side Panel of the Snazzi 5 DVD PRO software to open the property pages. Click the Snapshot property tab and select the Snapshot type. Start taking snapshots by clicking the snapshot button on the main graphical interface.The snapshots will save automatically in the pre-defined working directory. However if you select Preview before saving option in Setup-Snapshot, Snazzi 5 DVD PRO will show you the still image before saving and prompts for file name.

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Setup Dialog box button is located on the right side of Snazzi 5 DVD PRO interface. Setup dialog box configures your settings for capturing or recording video from any external video source. This actually behaves like an engine which runs the whole aeroplane. In this chapter, we will discuss all the options provided by Snazzi*V DVD PRO.

Introduction:

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Recording

The most important settings which allow you to choose the Capture format for your Snazzi* V DVD PRO.

Capture Options

Snazzi 5 DVD PRO allows you to capture video in following formats. We will discuss each format with its option.

MPEG 1 MPEG 2 WMV DivX DV (Type 2) All the above capture options are dependent of the Video-In source selection.

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MPEG-1 Selecting MPEG 1 capture format provides 2 options for video capturing. VCD ( Video CD) and Normal Quality MPEG 1.

VCD : Vcd stands for Video CD. VCD format generates a

multiplexed MPEG-1 file with both audio and video in the same file. Use this format when you want to author the VCDs as this will automatically set the appropriate encoding parameters for White Book Video CD. Video CD is captured at a bitrate of 1.15Mbps.VCD format captures video at SIF resolutiion. Please check the supported resolutions table for more information.

Normal Quality MPEG 1 : MPEG-1 Normal Quality generates a multiplexed MPEG-1 file with both audio and video in the same file. The bitrate can set from 1Mbps to 5Mbps You can use the bitrate slider to increase or decrease the bitrate. The bitrate viewer provides an exciting feature to check the bitrate in both the commonly used units i.e Kbps and Mbps. Most of the users get themselves confused when they merge Normal MPEG-1 option with VCD. We provide Normal Quality MPEG-1 option for those who want to capture high quality video content for professional purpose like TV Broadcasting quality.

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MPEG-2 Selecting MPEG-2 capture format provides 2 options for video capturing. SVCD and DVD.

SVCD: SVCD stands for Super Video CD. It is based on MPEG-2 technology. SVCD can deliver up to 2 times sharper video images than the previous VCD standard. It specifies MPEG-2 video at 576*480 (PAL) and 480*480 (NTSC) resolution,almost four times the MPEG-1 resolution. The default video bit rate for making SVCD is 2.4 Mbps however you may change the bitrate from 2 Mbps to 2.4Mbps.

DVD:You can stop your work whenever you are happy with your VCDs.But if you would like to make a longer video clip in hi-quality, a MPEG-2 compression is necessary. Thats why DVD is preferred over VCDs. The bitrate can vary from 2Mbps to 9.8Mbps.

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WMV WMV stands for Windows Media Video. Developed and controlled by microsoft coporation, its a generic video encoding solution.

Snazzi 5 DVD PRO provides 27 demanding video encoding profiles which help the users from playing back the video on Pocket PCs to stream video over internet. As soon as you select a profile, its description comes just beneath the profile.
DivX DivX is a video technology that compresses digital video so that it can be downloaded over DSL or cable modems in a relatively short time with no reduced visual quality.

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DV DV is the most popular format for the video editing. It provides high quality video for best results. Type-2 generates a DV AVI file suitable for Adobe Premiere. Type-2 AVI files extract the audio from the DV stream and add this as an additional AVI format stream to the AVI file due to which Type-2 file is around 5% larger than the Type-1 equivalent.

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File Saving Options: Click on the Browse button to set the Working
Diretory for the clips.

There is also a unique feature that Snazzi* Movie Studio S5 DVD PRO provides the users. This is a file name option feature. This feature gives the option for the File name selection. Save Automatically: Selecting this option will let Snazzi* Movie Studio S5 DVD PRO to auto save the clips without promoting for the file name prior to save the clips. Prompt For Name: Selecting this option prompts a window for the file name of your choice.

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This chapter examines in detail the key features of the Media Gallery of Snazzi* Movie Studio S5 software. Media Gallery is used for creating and organizing your work or in a more simpler way we can say it a home place for the recorded clips.These files can be stored and accessed in an efficient manner. Snazzi* Media Gallery can be opened by simply clicking the Media Gallery tab on the upper left corner of Snazzi* Movie Studio S5 GUI.

Introduction: Media Gallery:

After clicking this button, a gallery will appear in front of you. You can see all your work like clips and snaps in the gallery. Files within the Media Gallery are refer enced from a specific location. If you later move or delete the files, as the function suggests, its thumbnail will also be disabled with a cross sign on it showing that there is no media file referenced to this thumbnail. Lets have a look how Media Gallery appears when you click the Media Gallery button

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Your work starts from here with several action buttons on the top of gallery. Lets take a look on these action buttons and their effect on the gallery.

Action Buttons: On the top of the gallery window there lies the control buttons of the gallery. These action buttons include Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete, Delete All and properties for simple tasks. Delete & Delete All: These buttons will be quite helpful in deleting a one specific item from the gallery or emptying the whole gallery. When you delete a clip from a default location, its thumbnail will appear disabled having a cross sign on it. If it is not, please make sure to click the Refresh button available in Gallerys right click features. Properties: You can check any gallery item properties by just selecting that specific file and pressing the properties button. As soon as you press this button, the selected files properties dialog will come infront of you to check the complete details.

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Attach/Detach: As the name suggests, this button is used to attach or detach the Media Gallery from the main Snazzi* Movie Studio S5 GUI. It helps to keep your focuss on gallery as an individual unit for working and allowing you to interact with different applications. For example, dragging any supported media file to Snazzi*V DVD PRO galley for quick way around without pressing import button. Import: Import your desired clips in the gallery by just pressing the import button on the bar. You can also import the clips by just right clicking anywhere in gallery. Refresh: Press this button to refresh the gallery items for example, if you delete any clip you wont be able to see red mark indication until you press the refresh button. Note:Gallery will not import the invalid media files. Snazzi* V DVD PRO also allows you to do some tasks on right click features. Right click anywhere in gallery and choose how you want your gallery items to appear. You can choose between thumbnail view or detailed view. Besides these two features, you can also import, cut, paste and check the properties of thumbnails respectively.

Supported File Formats: Audio & Video

MPEG 1 MPEG 2 WMV DivX DV ( type 2)

Graphics BMP JPEG PNG TIFF

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

Technical Support: Our Technical Support Engineers are dedicated to help

Complete description of the problem System Specifications

you. Having the following data available will provide us a comfy way to help you

Send an E-mail at support@vonemm.com or fill a Technical Support Fast Response Form available on Snazzi site. After sending us your E-mail, you will soon be contacted by our Technical Support Engineers.

World Wide Web:

Access the latest information about our video products on Snazzi official website by entering our URL into your Internet browser: http://www.snazzi.com This service features news and information about Snazzi products, customer service and support, Snazzis press releases and much more. Our Technical Support page includes an online Fast Response Form.

Online Chat Support:

Snazzi serves its valued customers through Online Chat Support, the fastest and effective way of getting help. Our Engineers are online to provide you the technical support. Chatting with a Technical Support Engineer is just a click away. Browse for the Snazzis official website and click the Instant Chat Button.