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AVS4YOU Help - AVS Capture Wizard

AVS

4

YOU Programs Help

AVS Capture Wizard

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Contact Us

If you have any comments, suggestions or questions regarding AVS4YOU programs or if you have a new feature that you feel can be added to improve our product, please feel free to contact us.

When you register your product, you may be entitled to technical support.

General information:

Technical support:

Sales:

Help and other documentation:

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

Technical Support

AVS4YOU programs do not require any professional knowledge. If you experience any problem or have a question, please refer to the AVS4YOU Programs Help. If you cannot find the solution, please contact our support staff.

Note: only registered users receive technical support.

AVS4YOU staff provides several forms of automated customer support:

AVS4YOU Support System

You can use the Support Form on our site to ask your questions.

E-mail Support

You can also submit your technical questions and problems via e-mail to [email protected]

.

Note: for more effective and quick resolving of the difficulties we will need the following information:

Name and e-mail address used for registration

System parameters (CPU, hard drive space available, etc.)

Operating System

The information about the capture, video or audio devices, disc drives connected to your computer

(manufacturer and model)

Detailed step by step describing of your action

Please do NOT attach any other files to your e-mail message unless specifically requested by AVS4YOU.com support staff.

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Resources

Documentation for your AVS4YOU software is available in a variety of formats:

In-product (.chm-file) and Online Help

To reduce the size of the downloaded software installation files the in-product help was excluded from the installation although you can always download it from our web-site for your convenience. Please, visit AVS4YOU web-site at

http://www.avs4you.com/OnlineHelp/index.aspx

to download the latest available version of the help executable, run it and install into the AVS4YOU programs folder. After that you will be able to use it through the Help menu of the installed

AVS4YOU software.

Online Help include all the content from the In-product help file and updates and links to additional instructional content available on the web. You can find the Online Help at our web-site -

http://www.avs4you.com/OnlineHelp/index.aspx

.

Please note, that the most complete and up-to-date version of AVS4YOU programs help is always on the web.

PDF Documentation

The offline help is also available as a pdf-file that is optimized for printing. All PDF help files are available for download at the programs pages at AVS4YOU web-site (both

http://www.avs4you.com/index.aspx

and

http://www.avs4you.com/OnlineHelp/index.aspx

). To be able to read and print AVS4YOU PDF help files you will need to have a PDF reading program installed.

User Guides

You have access to a wide variety of resources that help you make the most of your AVS4YOU software. The step-by-step user guides will be of help not only to the novice users but also to the users that face a certain task to be performed and look for a way to do it. Please, visit our User Guides section of AVS4YOU web-site at

http://www.avs4you.com/Guides/index.aspx

to read the detailed instructions for various software and tasks

Technical Support

Visit the AVS4YOU Support web-site at

http://support.avs4you.com

to ask your questions concerning AVS4YOU software installation, registration and use. Feel free to also use our e-mail address

[email protected]

.

Downloads

Visit the Downloads section -

http://www.avs4you.com/downloads.aspx

- of our web-site to find free updates, tryouts, and other useful software. We constantly update the software, new versions of the most popular programs and new software are also frequently released.

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Overview

AVS Capture Wizard is a special separate utility that enables you to capture video from any video capture device connected to your computer. You can transfer video from DV and VHS cameras and recorders to hard drive and create movie DVDs, capture video from

TV tuners, DVB cards and WEB cameras, encode video directly to MPEG-4 instead of native hardware uncompressed video format and save free space on your computer.

To capture video please launch AVS Capture Wizard by clicking the corresponding icon on your desktop. After that AVS Capture

Wizard application will start. Depending on video capture device its interface will look differently.

Note: if you'd like to capture video from VHS cameras, you'll need a TV tuner or a TV card.

Step 1: Selecting Device and Setting Parameters

As has been mentioned before, the wizard window will look differently depending on the capture device used. For example, if you are using a TV tuner as capture device, you should set the following parameters for video capturing at Step 1:

1. Select Video Device from the list of the available video devices. It is the list of devices available in the system.

Note: it's possible to change video device parameters by clicking the

Configure

button.

2. Set Video Input. It will define the type of the input that receives the video signal.

3. Set Video Standard from the list of available video standards. Sometimes it can be necessary to change this setting so that the video picture became colored instead of black-and-white.

There are the following TV standards: NTSC (N, M, J) , PAL (N, M), SECAM.

NTSC is used in the United States, Canada, Mexico;

NTSC-M is used in the most of the Americas and Caribbean, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan;

NTSC-J is used in Japan;

NTSC-N is used in Paraguay and Bolivia;

PAL is used in the most of European countries;

PAL/SECAM is used in France;

PAL-M is used in Brazil;

PAL-N is used in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay.

For the full list of the countries using different TV standards see the Appendix section.

4. Select the Output size in the drop-down combo box.

Note: you can change the Frame Rate clicking the appropriate button.

5. To modify audio parameters, first select Audio Device or mute it checking the appropriate check-box and select Audio Input and the output Audio Format.

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6. You can also adjust Audio input device parameters by clicking the Configure button located near Audio Device

Parameters box.

After you finished please click the Next>> button to proceed to the second step.

Step 2: Output File Format Settings

At Step 2 of AVS Capture Wizard you should specify output file format settings.

Note: you can select between the several types of format: Xvid (MPEG-4) or DVD (MPEG-2), and set the parameters of each format in the drop-down boxes below. In case you select Xvid (MPEG-4) video format you can modify video codec parameters clicking the Advanced... button.

You can also change the audio track settings of the output video file.

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After it, please click the Next>> button to go to Step 3.

Step 3: Output File Name and Location

At the next step of AVS Capture Wizard you should enter the file name for your saved movie and set the location. Select

Browse... in the Path drop-down box to open the standard windows explorer menu and select the movie location. At this step you can also split the output file by size or by time. Besides all, it's possible to set start/stop capture parameters for your convenience.

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After you are done, click the Next>> button.

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Step 4: Capturing Video

You can find the capturing information at Step 4. To start/pause/stop capturing please use the appropriate buttons. You can visually judge the capturing process with the help of Preview. To switch the sound off or back on use the Mute check-box.

Note: if you want to speed up the capturing process, you should untick the Preview check-box.

After you record all the necessary video, click the Next>> button to proceed to the final step.

Step 5: Preview the Result

After capturing process is complete, you get to the final step where you can preview and check the captured material by clicking the

Play button located under preview window.

Note: you can rename, remove the captured files and burn them to an optical disc if you need to. To do it, just click Rename, Remove, Burn to disc buttons at the bottom of the AVS Capture Wizard Step 5 window.

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After it click the Close button to finish the work with AVS Capture Wizard.

Configuring Capture Device

You can configure your capture devices to better handle the capturing process. To adjust the necessary video properties please press the Configure... button on the AVS Capture Wizard window. In the opened window you can manually set the audio parameters required:

1. click the Default button,

2. left-click and move the slide forward or backward the line of the chosen property,

3. select if available the necessary Flicker and Light Condition parameters.

4. press the Apply button and after it the OK button.

Note: you can also enable color by checking the appropriate box in the Properties window.

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You can also select configure options for your audio data:

1. in the drop-down menu of the Audio Device parameters box located in the AVS Capture Wizard window choose the corresponding parameter of audio device you use.

2. select audio input and audio format in the appropriate boxes,

3. you can also mute the audio data by checking the Mute box,

4. click the Configure... button on the same window,

5. in the opened new window you will see the available mixer properties for the selected Audio Device parameter.

Note: the number of properties available for configuring depends on the Audio Device you use.

You can also use the alternative way of configuring your audio data:

1. double-click the Volume icon at the rightside bottom of the desktop,

2. in the opened window Volume Control select the box Options >> Properties,

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AVS4YOU Programs Help - AVS Capture Wizard Page 10 of 13 by clicking the selected box you will open a new window - Properties where you can adjust the necessary volume parameters by checking the appropriate boxes on the same window.

After selection click the Ok button and close the window.

Note: the windows that are shown above will look differently depending on the capture device used, sound card installed on the computer and the operation system used.

Watching and Capturing TV Channels

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You have also a possibility to watch and capture TV using AVS Capture Wizard. To do that you should press the Tune TV button situated under the preview window at Step 1:

In the opened window you can select Country and TV Source:

To scan for channels automatically, click the Autotune button.

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It'll take a couple of minutes to tune channels, after that they will appear in the list on the right hand side. The channels with a good signal will have a certain mark nearby and will appear in the Channel dropdown list under the preview window at Step

1. You can easily navigate through them using the arrow buttons or clear the channels list:

If you'd like to capture video from TV, you should proceed further. For that click OK to close the Channels Configure window and then the Next>> button. At Step 2 you can set the output file parameters:

The output file name and its location can be specified at Step 3. Here you can also split the captured file by size or time and set start/stop capture parameters:

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At Step 4 you can begin, stop or cancel capturing the TV channel by pressing the appropriate buttons:

Here you have still a possibility to switch between channels in the Channel dropdown list or tune them by clicking the Tune

TV button.

Note: if you'd like to watch TV with conveniece using advanced features, find a certain channel by entering its frequency or schedule recordings, you should use our

AVS TV Box

software.

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