General Tools and Instruments DCS050 - Manual (Page 7)

To start capturing video, click the icon on the toolbar. When you do so, note that on
the right side of the status bar the word “Connected” changes to “Capturing…” and that
a stopwatch begins running at its right.
To stop capturing video, click the icon again. Note that this stops the stopwatch on
the status bar and creates a thumbnail of the video just captured in the Preview Pane.
To play back a captured video, click its thumbnail in the Preview Pane. The video
will play from start to finish in the main window over a video control bar
that indicates both its total duration
(at the right) and the current time position (at the left). Use the play, pause and stop
icons to control playback.
To preview, save, delete, or change the name or storage location of a captured
video, or display its properties, right-click the video’s thumbnail in the Videos tab of the
Preview Pane and left-click the desired action.
By default, all videos and photos captured by the Seeker050 are stored in a folder
named ScopeView that the application creates in your My Documents folder. To change
the default storage location of videos and/or photos, left-click the Settings tab of the
main menu. On the screen that appears, you can also change the default format and
size of photos and the size and type of compression applied to videos. The Settings tab
also lets you change the default language of ScopeView from English to Mandarin
Chinese.
(All of the functions accessible through the Settings tab on the main menu are also
available from the
tab on the toolbar. Similarly, the Tool tab on the main menu
provides access to the Connect, Photo, Capture and Set Timer functions accessible
from the toolbar.
To take a picture of what your Seeker050’s probe is currently viewing, click the
icon on the toolbar. Note that doing so creates a thumbnail of the picture (often called a
screen capture or vidcap) under the Photos tab of the Preview Pane.
To view a captured photo in the main window, double-click its icon in the Preview
Pane. Note that when a picture is displayed in the main window, the Photo Control bar
also appears below it. Use the controls on the bar to zoom in or
out on the picture or rotate it 90 degrees in either direction. To view the next or
previous photo, either click the right or left arrows on the control bar or click the yellow
directional arrows that appear within the main window to the right and left of the
displayed image.
To configure ScopeView and your Seeker050 to automatically capture videos
and/or photos on a regular schedule, click the
tab on the toolbar. You can choose a
daily, weekly or monthly schedule, or specify a date, a time or a duration (for a video).
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