User manual PINNACLE MOVIEBOX USB QUICK START GUIDE

[. . . ] Power supply with separate power cable (no illustration) If any parts are missing, please contact your retailer. Depending on the delivery scope, the actual package contents may be different from the package contents listed in the manual. Please be sure to read the license agreement in the appendix of the Studio manual before opening the CD-ROM packaging and installing the software, as by opening the CD-ROM packaging you will be expressing your absolute agreement with the conditions contained in the said license agreement. If you do not agree, do not open the software package and return the complete package to the point of purchase. [. . . ] If the hard disk works too slow, the PC cannot save the digitised images fast enough and the drop-out rate increases. The drop-out rate is the number of images which are not saved during capturing. Your hard disk should offer a transfer rate of 5 MBytes/sec under Windows. To take advantage of the full transfer rate, the option "DMA" should be checked in the Device Manager for your hard disk (see "Settings in Windows Me" or "Settings in Windows 2000 and Windows XP"). If you can choose between the Composite- and the S-Video input, for quality reasons prefer the S-Video input. With some E-IDE hard disks, high data rates result in an unsmooth playback when playing back video files, because the hard disk is recalibrated while a file is read. This is not a malfunction of our product but is due to the functionality of your hard disk and the other system components. If you have received a disk with special busmaster drivers with your E-IDE hard disk and/or motherboard, please install these drivers in your system, because the disk performance will be improved considerably. For accelerating the transmission of large amounts of data like in this case the video data, activate the DMA (Direct Memory Access) for all hard disks of your computer (see "Settings in Windows Me" or "Settings in Windows 2000 and Windows XP"). During capturing of videos a large amount of data is transferred from the capture board to the hard disk. You might find that your system cannot keep up with the required amount of data transfer for the settings you have chosen. When capturing, your system might pause, the video might be jerky or jitter (not smooth), and some of the frames might be dropped (not saved to disk). To avoid such problems, we herein have described a number of practices to optimise your system. Something that improves performance on one system might not be effective on another system. Please check in Start/Settings/Control Panel/System/Device Manager whether your hard disk drive or your SCSI controller has been detected by Windows correctly (no yellow or red warnings in the Device Manager behind the device groups). If not, the data transfer rate of your hard disk will not suffice for a satisfying quality when recording and playing back video. If possible, install a second hard disk for capturing and saving all of your video clips. For recording and playing back video a SCSI hard disk with SCSI controllers should be preferred. You can save temporary files to your system hard disk or another partition. the Windows operating systems access system files during recording and playback. If these files are located on the same hard disk as the video clips, the head has to be repositioned, which leads to one or more dropped frames (unsmooth playback). Because capturing of videos is a very hard-disk intensive procedure, optimising the files on the hard disk that you will use for capturing is the most important task in optimising capture performance. [. . . ] NOTE: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. [. . . ]