Connecting to a Video Source.
One of the best things about any media asset management program is the ability to make "visual" information a part of the package. Connecting a video source to your computer has become so easy and so inexpensive that there is almost no reason why you wouldn't want to do it.
There are several requirements that you should keep in mind when you are working with Log This® and importing video. First, we recommend that you have at least a 600mhz processor, 128 meg. of RAM, and a video card with a maximum resolution of at least 800x600 supporting millions of colors (16 or 24 bit.) It is also much better if the video card has it's own memory, preferably 2 meg. or more. If you don't have at least this much "horsepower" you will be asking a lot of your computer to keep up.
Second, your video capture device should be Windows AVI compliant with analog inputs. Almost any video card, TV tuner card, or external video capture device with analog inputs will work. A good example of something that won't work would be an IE-13394 Firewire card. Unless it also has analog inputs. The reason for this is that our software uses traditional Windows MCI calls to support video preview and frame capture. While these functions are not as good as the newer Direct show interfaces, they are standard across almost every Windows operating system and have very few issues with version compatibility problems.
Last, if you are using an external capture device on a laptop computer you should expect that grabbing video frames will make your laptop seem sluggish. The reason for this is that most laptops have internal drives with a fairly slow read/write access times. When you "grab" a frame of video you are actually sending a short but fairly large burst of data to your hard drive and this may tend to make some of the other screen functions "hang up" for just a second.
All that being said, please choose from one of the options below for more specific help information.
Video Window Basics.
Settings
Troubleshooting.