ADS Technologies PIXEDV For Mac

Overview

OVERVIEW

The PixeDV for Mac application allows you to do the following:

• Capture Real-Time from any video source into an MPEG1 or MPEG2 Movie

• Output MPEG1 or MPEG2 Video les to a VCR or TV

• Import other media(QuickTime, DV, Etc) into the PixeDV Album

• Manage and organize your media in the PixeDV Album

• Easily remove unwanted scenes from your captured MPEG movies.

• Built-In players allow you to play MPEG Movies or QuickTime Movies

About MPEG:

MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group) is the international Standard Organization to generate
standards for digital video and audio compression.

MPEG1 is intended for VideoCD creation with VHS level quality.

MPEG2 features higher quality video and is used for DVD Creation. MPEG2 offers the best Video
quality in relation to le sizes.

PixeDV Capture Settings

LAUNCHING PIXEDV

If you plan to capture video, make sure the USB Instant DVD , your video sources and your Macintosh
are all connected properly. Please refer to the HARDWARE INSTALLATION section of this manual
if you need help.

Open the USB Instant DVD folder that you may have copied to your desktop or inside your
Macintosh Hard Drive.

USB Instant DVD for MAC

You will see the following icons:

Depending on your View settings for OSX, this may appear as Icons, as a List or display in column mode.
Double Click on the PixeDV Icon on your G3 or G4 Mac. You will see this startup Screen:

You can click on any of the ve functions at any time. The buttons are not sequential. Which means it would
not matter whether you clicked Capty or Album rst.

Clicking Quit will exit the application.

When you click on CAPTY, IMPORT, ALBUM, you will always have a navigation bar on the topmost side of the
screen that can take you to all the various functions of the PixeDV for MAC application as shown below:

For best performance, since you will be dealing with large les when capturing video, turn off the screen
saver and power saving on your Mac. It would also be best that you have no other programs running
when capturing video.

CAPTURING VIDEO

Clicking on the CAPTY button will take you to this window:

The rst step is to check your capture settings. Click on the tab that says capture. This will take you to
this window:

From this window you can select:

Video Input

S-Video – Sometimes referred to as SVHS, select this input if you have a video source that is plugged into the
S-Video connector on the USB Instant DVD for MAC

Composite – Sometimes referred to as RCA jacks, select this input if you have a video source that is plugged
into the Composite connector.

Capturing Format

MPEG1
Select MPEG1 if you plan to create a VCD Movie.

Select your quality level. For a more detailed explanation about Quality Levels, check the Capture Settings
table in the USING PixeDV for MAC Overview section of the MANUAL.

MPEG2

Select MPEG2 if you plan to create a DVD Movie.

Select your quality level. For a more detailed explanation about Quality Levels, check the Capture Settings
table in the USING PixeDV for MAC Overview section of the MANUAL.

Customize

Customize your capture settings. You can select your bit rate, capture image size and change the capture
settings from CBR to VBR. This means:

CBR – Constant Bit Rate
The video stream is always encoded and xed to a constant value. High motion scenes and low motion
scenes are always allocated the same number of bits. A video stream of a an area of the sky which constantly
stays blue gets the same number of bits as a fast action scene.

VBR – Variable Bit Rate.
The video stream is encoded at variable bit rates depending on the scene being captured. High motion scenes
will be allocated more space to capture more detail.