ATI 100-703138 User Guide - Page 36

36 Using Your ATI TV Wonder™ USB Edition Digital VCR The Digital VCR provides simple controls and powerful capture options. You can capture a clip of full-motion video and audio from your video source and save it as an AVI file. Double-click AVI files to open them in the File Player (see File Player on page 61). The Schedule feature lets you record TV programs on the dates and times you specify (see Schedule on page 66). To start the Digital VCR When you capture video (see To record a clip of video and audio on page 35) from TV, the Digital VCR opens automatically. If you want the Digital VCR to prompt you before recording, click the Prompt before Recording checkbox in the Digital VCR tab of the TV Player Setup page (see Digital VCR settings on page 37). Saving and compressing captured video The Digital VCR Custom Settings... page lets you compress your captured video and save it in several industry-standard formats (see Recording Quality in Digital VCR settings on page 37). The quality of the video that you capture depends on the following conditions: • speed of your system (CPU) • amount of system memory (RAM) • performance of your hard disk • size of the video capture window • video codec (encoder-decoder) used When you compress a file, your original file is Note deleted. To keep the original file, save it under a different name.