Microtek GNC M EYESTARMAILV3 0399 User Manual

User Guide

Microtek, International, Inc. March 1999

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Microtek and EyeStar Mail v3.0 are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microtek, Inc.

Microtek International, Inc.

6, Industry East Road 3, Science-based Industrial Park, Hsinchu 300,

Taiwan, R.O.C.

Welcome to EyeStar Mail V3.0

Congratulations and thank you for using EyeStar Mail v3.0, the complete package for capturing live actions and cool snapshots that you can easily and quickly send to your family and friends over the Internet. This consumer video mail product allows you to record video and audio clips that can be saved in a self-executable file format, which is compatible in all types of mail clients that run on Windows 98 and NT. Keeping in touch with your loved ones has never been as easy as recordand-send.

And not only that, create personalized greeting cards with your favorite pictures in it. You can capture a snapshot of yourself and place it on a card with your special message. Then, send the card online so that the person who will receive it will get this extraordinary surprise in no time at all.

What's Inside

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Introduction............................................................................... 5

Getting User Support................................................................ 6

System Requirements .............................................................. 6

Installing EyeStar Mail v3.0

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Getting Started - before connecting to the Internet .................. 9

To run Send Mail ................................................................................. 9

To define your default mail settings .....................................................9

Get Your Work Done Quickly .................................................. 10

Sending a video mail ......................................................................... 10

Sending a audio only mail ................................................................. 10

Sending a greeting card mail.............................................................11

Preparing Your Audio, Video, and Image Files........................ 15

To run Video Panel ............................................................................ 15

Defining Your Video Settings .................................................. 17

Creating Live Messages......................................................... 18

Recording a video/audio clip ............................................................. 18

Capturing a single image frame ........................................................ 19

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Creating a Personalized Card ................................................ 21

To run Card Maker............................................................................. 21

Working on a card project ................................................................. 24

Sending Messages Online ..................................................... 28

Using the Send Mail program............................................................ 29

Managing Your Files Visually .................................................. 30

To run Album ..................................................................................... 30

To save files to an album, you can .................................................... 31

License Agreement ................................................................ 32

Technical Support................................................................... 34

Introduction

EyeStar Mail v3.0 is a complete consumer video package for recording audio and video clips that you can send to your family and friends. This package includes all the software you will need for capturing, creating personalized cards, and sending messages online. You can also visually organize your files as they get bigger. EyeStar Mail v3.0 offers:

ideo Panelideo Panel

ideo Panel - Serves as your video, audio, and image data source. Capture

ideo Panelideo Panel those data using your video or digital camera and microphone. Here, you can also play back video and audio files.

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d Makerd Maker

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d Maker - Creates unique greeting cards using images of your choice.

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d Makerd Maker Simply take snapshots from Video Panel using your digital camera and send them directly to Card Maker.

AlbumAlbum

Album - Allows you to organize your files more efficiently by using visual

AlbumAlbum representation of the source files.

Send MailSend Mail

Send Mail - Allows you to send messages and files to virtually anybody and

Send MailSend Mail anywhere in the Internet world.

Getting User Support

The different programs that are included in this package are all easy-to-use. In any case, you may have some questions that you want to ask about certain features. To find out more about EyeStar Mail v3.0, you can use the following resources:

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User Guide - Offers an overview of the whole package and also basic information on the function of each program. This will help you get started right away .

Online Help - Offers explanations of the different buttons and items you will find in each program. It also contains additional information on how to complete various tasks.

Readme T ext File - Contains additional information about the program that are not included in the User Guide or Online Help.

Via E-mail - Contact any of our support centers. Before sending your inquiries, please provide us information about the system you are working on and a complete description of the situation of the problem. You can find the e-mail addresses in the Readme text file.

System Requirements

OS: Windows 95 PC: IBM PC compatibles CPU: Pentium or higher (133MHz or higher recommended) RAM: 16 MB (32MB recommended) Monitor: 256 color or more (16-bit High Color recommended) HDD: 25 MB or more V oice: Sound Blaster compatible sound card Video: Digital video camera or analog video camera with video capture

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Network: Network environment such as telephone line, ISDN, and LAN to

connect to Internet.

Note: Please make sure that all your hardware are correctly installed. For more

information about them, please refer to your vendor’s manual.

Installing EyeStar Mail v3.0

The EyeStar Mail v3.0 installation program runs from within Windows and contains complete instructions on the installation process. Make sure you use this program to install EyeStar Mail v3.0 as some files require decompression during the installation process and may need to be copied to a specific destination.

To install EyeStar Mail v3.0:

1. Read the license agreement found on page 32 as it contains various legal requirements that you need to be aware of before continuing the installation process. If you agree to abide by it, continue with the installation.

2. Insert the EyeStar Mail v3.0 CD into your CD-ROM drive.

3. Windows should detect the CD and automatically run the installation program.if automatic detection fails, please run disk1\Esmail\Setup.exe directly from the insatllation CD.

4. Once the installation program is running, you will see the Welcome page on the screen. Please read the important recommendation and warning before continuing the Setup process. Click Next to continue or Cancel to quit installation.

5. Please enter the user’s information and most importantly, the serial number to enable the Next button and continue the installation. (Your serial number is printed on the back of CD jacket.)

6. Locate the target destination where to copy the program files. Click the Browse button if you want to store the program files to another location other than the default destination.

7. Click the Next button to continue the installation process or Back if you want to change any information that you previously provided.

8. In the Select Program Folder dialog box, specify a name for the Program folder. This will determine the name of the folder where the program files are going to be saved.

9. EyeStar Mail v3.0 installation program will then start copying the program files to the target destination and also create a program folder for shortcuts in the Windows Start menu. Once you see the message that Setup is complete, click OK to finish.

Tips: To move between entry boxes in the installation program, use your mouse

or press Tab (not Enter). It is recommended that you close other applications that are running in the background during insatllation. You can switch to other programs anytime during the installation process by clicking Alt+Tab. Your serial number is printed on the back of CD jacket.

Getting Started - before connecting to the Internet

Now that you have installed EyeStar Mail v3.0 into your system, it is time to get you up and going. But first, in order to make sure that your line of communication in the Internet world is always available and ready , it is recommended that you set up your work environment first before doing anything else.

To run Send Mail:

1. Click Start on the Taskbar and locate the EyeStar Mail v3.0 program folder.

2. From the submenu, select Send Mail to run it.

To define your default mail settings:

1. In the Send Mail program window, click the Mail Setup button to open the Mail Setting dialog box.

2. Specify the following necessary information about your mail server.

➪ Mail encoding - Select from MIME or UUCode. MIME is

the default and is commonly used by most mail clients.

➪ Character set - Select from US-ASCII or ISO-1 ➪ Mail server - Specify the SMTP mail server you area

connected to.

➪ User name - Specify the name of your internet account. ➪ Reply address - Specify the e-mail address to which you

want the recipient to reply to. This will automatically appear in the “From” entry box when you are sending an e-mail.

➪ Waiting time - Specify how long to que the e-mail

message before actually sending it to out to your mail server.

➪ Keep copies - Select to save a copy of the e-mail

message to your hard drive after sending it out.

3. Click OK to close the dialog box.

Notes:An IP (Internet Provider) account is required before you can set up the

above-mentioned options. You can directly run the Send Mail program from either Video Panel or Card Maker. Simply click the appropriate button on the program window. Whatever you are working on at that moment will be sent to the Send Mail program as an attachment. On the left-hand side of the Send Mail program, you may sometimes see one or more icons appearing on the panel. These may indicate video, audio, and/or snapshot file attachments coming from Video Panel or Card Maker. For more information on sending messages online, please refer to page

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Get Your Work Done Quickly

EyeStar Mail v3.0 offers everything you need to help you get the work done as easy and as fast as it can be. Sending messages, images, videos, and audio have never been as convenient as before. The following topics will give you a quickest way of completing the most common tasks you probably will want to do it such a short period of time.

Sending a video mail:

Create and send a video mail using the Video Panel program. Run Video Panel and adjust your camera to the desired view that you want to capture.

4. Click Send Mail to run the Send Mail program

1. Click Record to start capturing video and audio data.

2. Click Stop to end recording.

with the captured data automatically attached to your e-mail message.

3. Click Play to preview what you have just recorded.

Sending a audio only mail:

If you prefer, you can just record audio data and disable the video capture feature. From the Video Panel program:

1. Click Video Channel to disable the video capture feature. (It should then change to gray to indicate that it’s inactive.)

2. Click Record to start recording audio data.

3. Click Stop to end recording.

4. Click Play to listen to what you have just recorded.

5. Click Send Mail to run the Send Mail program with the captured audio data automatically attached to your e-mail message.

Sending a greeting card mail:

Create a greeting card in no time at all and send it through the Internet so that the person on the other end will get your card right away . Here’ s how:

Run the Video Panel program. Then from the Video Panel program interface:

1. Watch the preview on the Video Capture panel to determine if your camera is focused properly.

2. Runs the Card Maker program for creating personalized greeting cards that you can send to your family and friends.

3. Opens the Album dialog box for choosing an album where to save the captured image frame to and also give its item name.

5. Select the Card Maker option and click OK.

6. Click the Album button to run the Album program.

4. Click the Snapshot button to open the Snapshot dialog box.

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