Advanced

This property page is used to select the properties specifying the format and synchronization options of the video



Select from the following options:

Pan

Move the slider to adjust the pan of the camera. Depending on the camera model, it can control the mechanical pan by physically moving the camera in the horizontal plane or the electronic pan by choosing the horizontal position of the effective image area on a CCD sensor. Note that this option is available only for the cameras that support the software focus control.. Equivalent to the Pan property.

Tilt

Move the slider to adjust the tilt of the camera. Depending on the camera model, it can control the mechanical tilt by physically moving the camera in the vertical plane or the electronic tilt by choosing the veritcal position of the effective image area on a CCD sensor. Note that this option is available only for the cameras that support the software focus control.. Equivalent to the Tilt property.

Focus

Move the slider to adjust the camera lens to the subject distance. Note that this option is available only for the cameras that support the software focus control.. Equivalent to the Focus property.

Zoom

Move the slider to adjust the optical zoom of the camera lens. Note that this option is available only for the cameras that support the software zoom control.. Equivalent to the Zoom property.

Each of the sliders has a corresponding check box On located on the left and Auto located on the right. If an On box is unselected, the corresponding feature will be disabled. If an Auto box is enabled, the camera supports an automatic mode for the corresponding feature. Checking the box will put the camera to the continuous automatic control of the feature, unchecking it will restore the manual control.

Register

Lets you perform asynronous reads and writes to a selected register in the camera 1394 address space. To perform the read operation, enter the desired hexadecimal offset to the Offset filed and click the Read button. The offset should be given relative to the 1394 base address FFFF:00000000 h. The result will be displayed in the Hex Value box. To perform the write operation, enter a desired offset and 32-bit hexadecimal value to the Offset and Hex Value fields respectively, and then press the Write button. Use the Refresh button to synchronize ActiveDcam properties with possible changes in the camera settings that might have occured after changing the values of 1394 registers. Equivalent to the ReadRegister, WriteRegister and LoadChannel methods.

Memory channel

Select the internal EEPROM channel for loading or storing camera settings. Use the Save button to write the current setting to the internal camera memory. Use the Load button to load the settings from the internal memory. Channel 0 corresponds to the default factory settings and cannot be overwriten. Equivalent to the LoadChannel and SaveChannel methods.

Save image

Lets you save the current frame buffer in an image file. When you click this button, the Save As dialog box will appear where you can select the file name and one of the image file formats: BMP, TIF and JPEG. Note that BMP and TIF files will be recorded with no compression while JPEG files will be recorded with quality 75. Equivalent to the SaveImage method.