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- Important Notes for VideoWork v1.5 Rev.3
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- Welcome to the world of multimedia video production!
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- VideoWork is your best choice for video capturing and editing to produce
- your multimedia presentation programs. This revision of VideoWork can give
- you even more. Most enhanced functions that are not included in the user's
- manual will be explained in the on-line help provided with the software.
- The following lists the important information about VideoWork that is not
- contained in the documentation or VWORK.HLP in the software.
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- 1. New enhanced functions are as follows:
- . The 'Import' function now includes FLI and FLC animation file formats
- and image files like BMP, TGA, JPG, TIF, PCX and PCD.
- . Now you can use the drag-and-drop feature to edit the AVI files:
- 1) Open multiple AVI files for editing.
- 2) Click and drag the mouse left button in the source AVI window
- and then move the mouse to the target AVI window.
- 3) When you release the mouse button in the target window, a pop-up
- menu will appear listing three functions to combine the videos.
- 4) The three functions are Insert, Paste Insert and Paste Overwrite
- which are the same as the corresponding commands in "Edit" menu.
- With drag-and-drop, it is much easier for you to combine any
- two videos.
- 5) If you drop the video in the client area of VideoWork in Step 2,
- a new AVI file will be extracted from the source AVI file.
- . New 'Undo' function is included in 'Edit' menu.
- . New 'Magic' function included in 'Edit' menu which provide panning,
- zooming, 3D rotating and color keying functions all in one.
- . New 'Print to Video' function in 'File' menu.
- . New 'Clean' function in 'Edit' menu.
- . New 'Synchronize' function in 'Audio' menu.
- . New 'Close All' function in 'Window' menu.
- . A 'rebuild' button included in media window.
- . Film Edit window now can move audio and video separately.
- . New 'Preference' setting included.
- . New 'Palette' function under Capture menu.
- . New 'Compress...' options under Capture Video Sequence settings.
- . When capture single frame from video source, Video Work will also
- build a new AVI document.
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- 2. Questions & Answers listed below would give you assistance on operation
- in VideoWork.
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- Q: It takes very long to execute every command in VideoWork. How could I
- configure my system to obtain the best performance?
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- A: If your system RAM is large enough, open a RAM drive and set VideoWork
- working directory to this drive in the Preferences dialog box. Also,
- if your hard disk contains much free space and is fast enough, set
- your AVI file compressor to "None" and then use a better compressor
- when saving the file. Please close any unused AVI file while using
- a RAM drive.
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- Q: My hard disk still has very large free space. Why can't I open files
- for running out of space?
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- A: First, check on your working directory specified in the Preferences
- dialog box and see if there is enough space in that hard disk. (Please
- switch to DOS or File Manager to check it out.) If the space is not
- enough, please close all the unused files for editing. If the space is
- enough and you can still not open files, maybe the resources of the MCI
- driver are all occupied. Please close all the unused MDI windows. If
- there is still no improvement, try to change your working directory.
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-
- Q: Why the Video Viewer been dimmed (disabled)?
-
- A: Video Viewer will be disabled when the driver of the capture
- card is not installed or failed, or when the capture card encounters
- a failure on installation, i.e. hardware conflict. Please check on
- your hardware manual to figure out the problem.
-
-
- Q: Why the audio capturing function been dimmed (disabled)?
-
- A: The audio capturing function is disabled while the driver of the sound
- card fails or sound card installation fails.
-
-
- Q: I have successfully installed the sound card and drivers, but I still
- cannot capture the Video with sound?
-
- A: First, check to see if the "Capture With Audio" is set in the capture
- dialog box. Second, check to see if you have turn on the 'line in'
- volume of your sound card.
- Check the "Capture With Audio", turn on the line in volume (Normally
- in a Mixer program) and try it again.
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-
- Q: When will the Preview or Overlay mode been dimmed (disabled)?
-
- A: Not all the capture cards both support Preview and Overlay mode.
- One of them will be dimmed if the capture card does not support
- the corresponding mode.
-
-
- Q: Why the video become blurred and the video looks darkened
- after applying several effects?
-
- A: Some compressors, including Microsoft Video 1, Intel Indeo, SuperMac,
- and Microsoft RLE, are lossy compressors which would cause data lost
- if applied too many times. As a result the video look blurred.
- Please change the video format to Non-Compressed, and then
- proceed to applying the effects.
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-
- Q: Before I apply the Insert or Paste Insert function, there are 16 frames
- in clipboard. Why are there only 10 frames left after pasting?
-
- A: VideoWork will make some transformation to the pasted fragment to fit
- the destination AVI, such as video format, compressor, frame rate,
- audio format, sampling rate, etc. If the frame number after pasting
- does not match that before pasting, maybe the frame rate is different
- between the pasted fragment and destination AVI. If you want to keep
- the original frame number, please change the frame rate of the selected
- frame fragment to be the same as the destination AVI with the "Keep
- Playback Speed" option disabled before cutting or copying it to the
- clipboard.
-
-
- Q: I edited .AVI file that came from my CD-ROM. When I try to play the
- edited file before saving to harddisk, I cannot have it played in
- normal speed. Why ?
-
- A: You should rebuild the edited .AVI files first. Simply click "rebuild"
- button at video window. This action will rearrange the .AVI files that
- are suitable to be playback with MCI driver.
-
-
- Q: The captured avi file have strange numbers at fps (frames per second)
- when I click to see file information. Why ?
-
- A: It is probably a kind of calculation trade-off between capture driver
- and system capturing capability. However, this does not affect normal
- operation of Video Work and the captured file is no problem.
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-
- Q: What is the maximum capture time in Video Work ?
-
- A: There are "no Capture Time Limit" and "Capture Time Limit" modes.
- When check at Capture Time Limit under Capture Video Sequence dialog
- box, the maximum capture time is 500sec.
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