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Need Help Capturing Your Video

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Getting Help Need Help Capturing Your Video? ■ If your analog video device, such as a VCR or camcorder, is not powered on, after about 1 minute, you will get an error message. To allow MyDVD to recognize and capture the video: a Click OK to close the error message. b Click Done to close the Capture window. c Press the Power on button on your video device. d Click Capture. ■ For optimum quality when creating DVDs, use the Best setting (in the MyDVD Capture window) when capturing video clips. However, if you have limited disk space, Adaptec recommends that you choose the Better or Good capture setting. Use this table to estimate the amount of disk space required: Sonic MyDVD Disk Space Usage Quality / Resolution DVD (MPEG-II) VCD (MPEG-I) Capture Setting Good Better Best Good Disk space required for 1 minute of analog video 10 minutes of analog video 42 MB 420 MB 49 MB 490 MB 57 MB 570 MB 21 MB 210 MB Note: Due to Windows' FAT file system, the largest file you can capture is 4 GigaBytes (GB). If possible, use a NTSF formatted hard disk drive. ■ If you are capturing video using the Best quality setting and the image appears choppy in the preview window, make sure your AVC-2310 is connected to a USB 2.0 port, or capture video using the Better or Good quality setting. ■ MyDVD may not be able to recognize video from a damaged or degraded video tape. 52

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Getting Help
Need Help Capturing Your Video?
If your analog video device, such as a VCR or camcorder, is not
powered on, after about 1 minute, you will get an error
message.
To allow MyDVD to recognize and capture the video:
a
Click
OK
to close the error message.
b
Click
Done
to close the Capture window.
c
Press the
Power on
button on your video device.
d
Click
Capture
.
For optimum quality when creating DVDs, use the Best setting
(in the MyDVD Capture window) when capturing video clips.
However, if you have limited disk space, Adaptec recommends
that you choose the Better or Good capture setting. Use this
table to estimate the amount of disk space required:
Note:
Due to Windows’ FAT file system, the largest file you
can capture is 4 GigaBytes (GB). If possible, use a NTSF
formatted hard disk drive.
If you are capturing video using the Best quality setting and the
image appears choppy in the preview window, make sure your
AVC-2310 is connected to a USB 2.0 port, or capture video using
the Better or Good quality setting.
MyDVD may not be able to recognize video from a damaged or
degraded video tape.
Sonic MyDVD Disk Space Usage
Disk space required for
Quality / Resolution
Capture
Setting
1 minute of
analog video
10 minutes of
analog video
DVD (MPEG-II)
Good
42 MB
420 MB
Better
49 MB
490 MB
Best
57 MB
570 MB
VCD (MPEG-I)
Good
21 MB
210 MB