. Getting started 2. Software installation 3. Hardware installation 4. Using FusionMPEG2 Application 5. Using Ulead Videostudio 7 SE DVD 6.
1 GETTING STARTED ..............................................................................................3 1.1 1.2 1.3 2 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION................................................................................7 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 3 GETTING STARTED..................................................................................... 26 SUMMARY OF SCREEN AND FUNCTIONS ................................................... 27 Configuration .....................................................
1 GETTING STARTED 1.1 FEAT URES Thanks a lot for purchasing the FusionMPEG2. FusionMPEG2 is the most advanced and feature-rich MPEG1/MPEG2/VCD/SVCD encoder ever made. FusionMPEG2 has the following outstanding features: 1. Converts all analogue signals to MPEG1/MPEG2 including audio. FusionMPEG2 converts all type of analog audio/video signals to MPEG1/MPEG2 digital stream. Since it has composite video, S-VHS, it accepts all type of signals from VCR/ Camcorder/ DVDP/ LDP.
pause/ instant replay/ time-shifting by scroll bar/ fast-forward/ fast-rewind. It also has multiple files playback mode as well as repeat mode. 9. Intuitive user interface. FusionMPEG2 provides the simple and intuitive user interface, which includes the resizable video screen, the time-shifting scroll bar and configuration windows. 10. Pause the recording / live broadcasting. You can pause the recording or live broadcasting with FusionMPEG2, and playback at that position after your urgent work.
1.2 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS lCPU : Pentium II/Celeron 500MHz or faster lBUS : USB 2.0/1.1 lO.S. : Win’ 98SE/ ME/2000 Professional/XP (Home, Professional) lMemory : 128MB or above lH.D.D. : Ultra DMA33 or faster HDD lVGA : DirectShow(DirectX 6.
1.3 PACKAGE CONTENTS FusionMPEG2 package contains the following items. .
2 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION Software installation of FusionMPEG2 before hardware installation is recommended. Warning! You should have… Windows 98/ME/2000/XP installation disc is required to install the FusionMPEG2 software. And check the latest the FusionMPEG2 setup software at http://www.dvico.com. 2.1 INSTALLING APPLICATION Insert Fusion MPEG2 Installation CD into the CD-ROM drive. Execute the ‘ INSTALL.EXE’ at CD-ROM drive. The below screen should appear.
2.1.1 Uninstall Drivers 1) When you select Uninstall Driver in the menu on the FusionMPEG2 INSTALLER program, it will remove all the old drivers previously installed. 2) When all the drives are removed, you will see following message.
2.1.2 Installing FusionMPEG2 Software Important: Installation on Windows 2000 Professional or Windows XP Before you install FusionMPEG2 software, be sure that you logged on as an account with Administrator privileges. 1) Select “ Install FusionMPEG2”. 2) At the FusionMPEG2 Installation dialog opens, click on the “ Next>” button. 3) Click on ‘Next’. You should be asked the FusionMPEG2 application setup directory. You can skip it to install it to the default directory.
4) Program folder selection dialogue box will appear. The default name is ‘FusionMPEG2’ and you can select another by typing another name. 5) The “ Setup status” window will appear.
6) Select recording File directory.
8) Press Y to install latest drivers 9) You will see the progress window.
12) By clicking the Finish button, the software installation is done. 13) After installation of hardware, all the setup will be done.
2.1.3 Installing Microsoft DirectX 8.1 Important! Installing on Windows 2000 Professional or Windows XP Before you install FusionMPEG2 software, be sure that you logged on as an account with Administrator privileges. You can check the version of DirectX by typing “ dxdiag” on the command line which appears with menu selection “ start->run” If you have DirectX8.1 or later already, you do not need to install DirectX8.1 again. 1) Run ‘ Install.exe’ and then select “ Install Direct8.1X” .
2.2 Driver installation under Windows 98SE/ME 2.2.1 Installing the Windows 98SE/ME driver 1) Insert the FusionMPEG2 board into the PCI local bus slot. When Windows ME starts, the Add New Hardware Wizard will pop up automatically. 2) Found New Hardware window will pop and ‘FusionMPEG2, USB WDM Encoder’ driver will be installed automatically.
2.2.2 Checking Windows 98SE/ME driver If driver are found in the device manager, the Windows ME driver is installed properly. Otherwise, you must reinstall the driver. Right click the “ My Computer” icon and select “ properties” from the popup menu. Check whether you see new device starting with “FusionMPEG2, USB WMD Encoder” under the “ Sound video and game controllers”.
2.3 Driver installation under Windows 2000 Professional 2.3.1 Installing Windows 2000 driver 1) Connect the FusionMPEG2 board with USB cable. When Windows 2000 starts, the Add New Hardware Wizard will pop up automatically. 2) When the Digital Signature Not Found window appears, Click on “ Yes”. 3) After the files are copied, Click “ Finish” . The F ‘ usionMPEG2, USB WDM Encoder’ driver is properly installed.
2.3.2 Checking the Windows 2000 driver If driver are found in the device manager, the Windows 2000 driver is installed properly. Otherwise, you must reinstall the driver. Right click the "My Computer" icon and select "properties" from the popup menu. Check whether you see new device starting with "FusionMPEG2, USB WMD Encoder" under the "Sound video and game controllers"..
2.4 Driver installation under Windows XP 2.4.1 Installing Windows XP drivers 1) When the “ Add New Hardware Wizard window” appears, select “ Install the software automatically (Recommended)” and then click “ Next”. 2) When the “FusionMPEG2, USB WDM Encoder” window appears, Click “ Continue Anyway”.
3) After the files are copied, Click “ Finish” if the FusionMPEG2, USB WDM Encoder’ driver is properly installed.
2.4.2 Checking the Windows XP driver If driver are found in the device manager, the Windows XP driver is installed properly. Otherwise, you must reinstall the driver. Right click the "My Computer" icon and select "properties" from the popup menu. Check whether you see new device starting with "FusionMPEG2, USB WMD Encoder" under the "Sound video and game controllers"..
3 Hardware Installation 3.1 About the Hardware RESET Resets the internal hardware of the FusionMPEG2 and USB controller. S-VHS INPUT Accepts S-VHS signal from VCR/ Camcorder/ DVDP/ LDP AUDIO/VIDEO INPUT Accepts composite video and audio signal from analogue sources.
3.2 Before Installation Warning : 1) Before installing the board, the system’ s power should be turned off. Installing the Board when the system’ s power is “ ON,” will damage the system or the Board. 2) * Note : It may cause malfunction due to shortage of power from USB depending on various PC .
3.3 Install FusionMPEG2 Connect the USB cable to the PC USB port and FusionMPEG2. Turn on the PC .
4 USING APPLICATION 4.1 GETTING STARTED Please confirm the power LED is ON in case of FusionMPEG2. Click on ‘ Start’ -> ‘ Program’ -> ‘Dvico’ -> ‘FusionMPEG2’ to start the FusionMPEG2 application. The splash screen should appear. After a while, main control panel and display screen should appear.
4.2 SUMMARY OF SCREEN AND FUNCTIONS FusionMPEG2 software consists of display screen and control panel. 4.2.1 Display Window Display window will be set to 640x480 initially. You can move it by clicking the upper boundary of the display window and drag-and-dropping it. You can resize of the window by drag-anddropping the boundaries. To switch to full screen mode, double click on display window. If you click right on the video window, a popup menu will appear.
• Configuration: Refer to 4.3: Configuration • Show Controller: Show/Hide Fusion MPEG2’ s controller. • Recorded Program List: Shows recorded list of EPG. • Reserved Program List: Shows reserved list of EPG. • Input Source: Change input source. • Display Size: Resize display. • Aspect Ratio: Adjust display ratio. • CUT mode file playback: Change cut edit playback mode. • Always On Top: Shows Fusion MPEG2 application always on top. • File Playback: Play input signal(or file).
4.2.2 Controller This indicates Control Buttons. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 14 9 16 30 11 10 12 13 17 27 15 28 25 19 20 18 22 29 31 21 23 24 26 1) Exit button 2) Minimize 3) Maximize button 4) Configuration button 5) Help button 6) Reserve REC button: is used to Reservation record. 7) LiveTV button: Changes to live input (SVHS/ Composite) mode. 8) Input button: is used to select input signal. 9) Time: Total elapsed time played.
24) Stop button Tip You can press stop when recording if you want to record the content without viewing. 25) Instant Replay button: goes 10 sec backward by default. You can configure the instant replay time in the configuration menu. 26) Record button 27) Cut Edit button: Is used to edit a recorded file. 28) Mark in button: Mark in the start point where the cut starts. 29) Mark out button: Mark in the end point where the cut ends. 30) Time moving slider: Shows location currently playing.
4.3 Configuration Configuration: ( ), you can Configure many parameters. 4.3.1 Video Video settings tab. Input Source : Selects between multiple external video sources. You can select antenna input S-VHS or Video Cropping : flickering lines near the top or bottom of the picture can be removed with cropping function Video tap is possible with adjust Brightness/contrast/Hue/Saturation/Shatpness. Click on the " OK", and you can play adjusted display..
4.3.2 Display You can select the display options (like AV decoders/ aspect ratio) on ‘ Display’ tab. Repeat playback: It will play the file endlessly if checked. Show as hh:mm:ss: Shows time from 00:00:00. CUT mode file playback Aspect Ratio : Is used to fIx screen ratio.. Video Decoder: Is used to select a video decoder among the various decoders. You can select one of those decoders.
Audio Decoder: Is used to select audio decoder among the various audio decoders. You can select one of those decoders.
4.3.3 Quality This section indicates Quality settings You can set the various recording quality here. You can choose the pre-setting bitrates from drop-down list box. If you want to more specific settings, you can choose the ' Optional' bitrate. You can also adjust the recording resolutions like full D1 (720x480 NTSC, 720x576 PAL), 66 percent D1 (480x480 NTSC, 480x576 PAL), half D1 (352x480 NTSC, 352x576 PAL) and CIF (352x240 NTSC, 352x288 PAL). You can adjust the MPEG1 bitrate from 0.7Mbps ~ 4.
Recording Capacity / Time Table MPEG -2 Quality Bitrate Standard 5Mbps Res. Space for 1 Min Space for 1 Hour Time to 20GB HDD ~37MB ~2.3GB ~8.7 hrs Time to 650M CR-R 720*480 (720*576) ~16 mins 720*480 High 8Mbps ~60MB ~3.6GB ~5.5 hrs (720*576) ~11 mins 720*480 Highest 10Mbps ~75MB ~4.5GB ~4.4 hrs (720*576) ~8 mins 480*480 SVCD 2.5Mbps ~19MB ~1.1GB ~17.6 hrs (480*576) ~40 mins 720*480 DVD 5Mbps ~40MB ~2.1GB ~9.6 hrs (720*576) ~17 mins 720*480 Divx 2Mbps ~17MB ~1.
4.3.4 Record Folder – Video : Sets the folder where the video being recorded. Folder – Snapshot : Sets the folder where the snapshot (still image) being captured Folder – Timeshift : Sets the folder where the time-shift temporary file resides Limitless Recording : If the record drive is formatted with NTSF, you are able to record a file continuously on a hard drive. REC SIZE per file : Sets maximum file size to be recorded.
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4.4 Record There are two types of recording in the FusionMPEG, they are manual and reserved mode recording. 4.4.1 Manual Record Press the (record button) on control panel to record instantly. Press the STOP button or record button again to stop the recording If you want to terminate recording, click on the “ Finish” button. The files recorded within that time will be saved. If you want to cancel recording, click on the “ Cancel” button.
4.4.2 Reserve Recording Press the (reserved recording button) on control panel to reserve the future recording. You can set the date/ start time / duration/ channel/ quality/ periodical/ name in this menu. On ‘ Date’ section, you can select the date when you want to record. On ‘ CH’ section, you can select the VIDEO or S-VHS port that you want to record. On ‘ Save term’ section, you can select the recorded file saving period. After save period expired, the file will be purged automatically.
4.5 Playing Files If you click on the 'open file' ( ) button on the controller, you can play a file.
4.6 SnapShot Capturing FusionMPEG2 provides high resolution still screen capture capability in live playback as well as in file playback mode. Click the snapshot button for capturing a snapshot of Live while in playback or file playback mode. In the Record Tab, you can set the file name and file format.
4.7 Cut Editing You can cut the recording files as well as recorded .mpg file with the cut-editing feature of the FusionMPEG2. 1. The cut-editing window will appear if you hit the ‘ Cut’ button. (Mark-in/out button also brings the cut-editing window) 2. You can set the prefix name on the ‘ Prefix’ edit-box to generate the prefix of cut -edited file name automatically. 3. You can set the output folder by pressing the right-side button of output folder edit-box.
can type the filename. To change the IN/OUT position, just click the spot you want to change. The edit-box and up/down buttons will appear for you to change the position. To change the hour / minute/ second, click each area you want. Then type the actual position, or hit the up/down arrow button to adjust. 6. You can delete unwanted clips by hitting the ‘ Delete’ key on the keyboard. 7. After all mark-IN/OUT done, hit the ‘ Cut’ button to start the cutting.
5 Using VideoStudio 7 SE DVD 5.1 Getting started VideoStudio gives you much room to explore your options and experiment by letting you work with Project files (*.VSP). Since all changes (i.e. cuts, edits, transition effects, etc.) are saved in the project file, you can freely edit the clips in a project without having to worry about ruining your source files. A project file is not the finished movie and can only be opened in VideoStudio.
5.2 Effect Transition effects offer creative ways to shift from one scene to the next. They are applied between clips in the Video Track and their attributes can be modified in the Options Panel to suit a specific purpose. VideoStudio allows you to mix and match a variety of preset effects while editing your project. Effective use of this feature can add a professional touch to your work. 5.2.1 Creating effects The Library provides a wide range of preset transitions from cross fades to explosions.
5.2.2 Customizing effects VideoStudio pretty much takes care of all the details to make your transitions smooth and professional. You can, however, further customize your effects after adding them to your project. The Options Panel displays the settings of your selected effects so that you can change their various parameters. This gives you complete control of xactly how your effects will behave in your movie. 5.
2. Click the Motion Tab, and apply a motion style to create a blending effect between the selected clip and the clip simultaneously running in the Video Track. Note: Just like in the Title Step, the Overlay Step does not support drag and drop of multiple clips. To make Overlay clips with transparent backgrounds, you can create a 32-bit alpha channel AVI or Image file with an alpha channel. You can further achieve your desired effects by using the Motion Tab.
buttons to customize fonts. Options are available in the Edit Tab. 4. When you are done typing your text, click Update Title. 5. To add effects to your title, switch to the Animation Tab. Select an effect from the Type drop-down list, and choose from the available options to animate the title. The blue triangle represents the position of the title clip in the Timeline. When entering a text title, a faint rectangle is visible in the Preview Window.
opening credits with a slow fade, or as captions with a quicker fade. To create fading titles: 1. Select a text title or create a new one. 2. On the Animation Tab in the Options Panel, select Fade from the Type drop-down list. 3. Select a fading option. (Crossfade makes the title gradually appear and then disappear.) 4. Specify a Pause setting (No Pause, Short, Intermediate, or Long). 5.
5.5 Creating disc This is the place where you can output your project (together with other VideoStudio projects or video as needed) to create VCD, SVCD, or DVD. First, choose an output format. Second, decide whether you want to add other projects and videos. See the following sections for more information. To add videos: 1. Click Add Video. 2. Locate the folder where the videos are, and then select one or more video clips you want to add. 3. Click Open.
Notes: • You can add video formats such as AVI, QuickTime, and MPEG files. You can also add VCD video (DAT) files. • After a video clip is added to the Media clip list, sometimes you may see a black thumbnail. This is because the first scene (frame) of this video clip is a black screen. To change it, doubleclick to select this video clip and move the Jog Bar to the scene you want. Next, right-click the thumbnail and select Change Thumbnail. To add VideoStudio projects: 1. Click Add VideoStudio Project.
• VCD player compliant Ulead VideoStudio uses the VCD 2.0 format when creating VCDs. For navigation menus with background music, Ulead VideoStudio uses a format that requires "variable-bit-rate (VBR)" decoding. However, some VCD players do not support VBR decoding and therefore VCDs created in Ulead VideoStudio will not play correctly in these players. Select this option to make sure that the VCD created will play in these players.
• MPEG properties for file conversion Displays detailed information about the selected video setting. • Change MPEG Settings Select the type of video setting of your project. Select Customize to personalize video settings. • Do not convert compliant MPEG files Select to retain settings of every MPEG compliant file. • Auto repeat when playback ends Select to automatically replay the video every after playback. To create or edit chapters linked to a video clip: 1. Select a video in the Media clip list. 2.
• If you click Auto and your video is a DV-formatted AVI file captured from a DV camcorder, Ulead VideoStudio can automatically detect scene changes and add chapters accordingly. • If the selected video is an MPEG-2 file with scene change information, Ulead VideoStudio automatically generates these chapters for you when you click Auto. 4. Repeat Step 3 as needed. You can also use Remove or Remove All to delete unwanted chapters. 5. Click OK.
3. To change the image shown on each video thumbnail, click it then drag the Jog Bar to change. Note: If you skip Step 2, “ My Title” and the thumbnail name will be used as the menu heading and the text description respectively. If you don’ t want to show the menu heading or the text description, simply delete it. 4. To change a menu layout, use the Menu template list and select another preset. 5. You can also click to use your own background image, or click to use your background music.
6. When you’ re done, click Next to preview the movie. Preview your movie Now, it’ s time to see how your movie looks like before you burn it onto a disc. Simply move the mouse and click Play to watch your movie and test the menu selection on your computer. Use the navigation controls here as you would on a standard remote control of a home DVD player. Output your movie This is the final step before your video disc or output file is ready.
5. The burning progress bar shows you the burning status. Once it is done, click Close. Notes on how to choose an appropriate recording format: • Ulead VideoStudio provides an option, DVD-Video (fast editable), that allows you to still use the industrial standard DVD-Video format, however, it will only burn the necessary files you need so you can edit your video content (e.g. menus) in the future.
6 FusionMPEG2 APPENDIX 6.1 TROUBLESHOOTING Symptom: Jerky screen. Solution: 1. Slower CPU If you’ re using slower than 500 Mhz CPU, you can change the recording resolution size to 480x480 or 352x480 to get the more natural screen. 2. Main board chip set and VGA driver. A lot of bugs and errors are reported when using VIA 693x chipsets with most of the multimedia cards. It requires the VIA’s latest patches.
Symptom: Shows blue screen on Windows 2000. Solution: It requires the VIA’s latest patches. If you’ re using the VIA 69x chipset, please visit the VIA’s WEB page and download the latest VIA patch driver, then apply it. Or you can visit the Dvico’s home page (www.dvico.com) which provides the appropriate links to VIA. Symptom: FusionMPEG2 does not work in Windows 2000 Advanced Server. Solution: Because of enforcement of securities, Windows 2000 Advanced Server sets a lot of limitation regarding to registry.
6.2 SPECIFICATIONS FusionMPEG2 Specification Item Features Input/Output Compatibility (System) Compatibility (Video & Sound) Drivers Application Software Specifications l Real time MPEG1/MPEG2/VCD/SVCD/DVD encoder l Using the superb Conexant CX23416 MPEG2 chipset l Up to 15Mbps MPEG2 encoding bitrate l USB 2.
6.3 CUSTOMER SUPPORT Please contact below address or WEB, if you have further questions or problems. WEB EMAIL TEL FAX : : : : ADDRESS : http://www.dvico.com cs@dvico.
