User manual SHARP VNEZ1 OPERATION MANUAL (VNEZ1 FLOPPY DRIVE ADAPTER)

[. . . ] q The background design and layout can be selected to combine HTML document with image files. q Web pages can be made using the created HTML files. PixLab offers the features described below. ASF Extractor PixLab Media Browser q Thumbnails of movies with sound and still pictures stored on a SmartMedia card can easily be displayed. q Movies with sound and still images stored on a SmartMedia card can be copied to and viewed on a computer. q Thumbnails of movies with sound and still pictures stored on the hard disk can created and displayed as lists. [. . . ] q File names compatible with the VN-EZ1 are given automatically when: (1) Image files are dragged & dropped into a quick folder (2) Image files are copied onto the clipboard then pasted into a quick folder 21 Clearing the cache Use this procedure to delete the current cache file and create a new cache file corresponding to the current content of the folders. q Select "Clear Cache" from the "View" menu. This deletes the current cache file. "Cache" When a folder is first selected in the PixLab Media Browser, the folder is scanned and the file data and thumbnail images are stored in a file called the "Cache". Creating this cache increases the speed with which the thumbnails in the folder are displayed. Clear the cache in the following case: qWhen the thumbnails differ from the actual images (For example when a thumbnail could not previously be created because you did not have the CODEC for a certain movie, but that CODEC has been added by installing another application and the thumbnail can now be created. ) 22 USING THE PIXLAB VIEWER The PixLab Viewer is launched when you double-click on the thumbnail of a still image in the PixLab Media Browser. (The associated Windows application is launched when you doubleclick on the icon of a still image. ) In this section we describe the functions that can be used with the PixLab Viewer. Saving Still images Select "Save" , "Save As" or "Save at present size" from the "File" menu to save the still image. q Select "Save" to save the still image, overwriting the previous data. q Select "Save As" to save the file with another name. q Select "Save at present size" to save the picture, reducing it to the currently displayed magnification. notice The saved still picture cannot be restored to its original form. Launching the PixLab Viewer q Double-click on the thumbnail of the still image you want to view. The PixLab Viewer opens and the image is displayed in actual size. Changing the Display size q Select "Display size" from the "View" menu and select the display size (25%, 33%, 50%, 66%, 71% or 100%). Changing the Image Size When the still image viewer is set to "Other Selected Viewer" under "Folder Options" in the "View" menu, the PixLab Viewer does not open. Instead, the associated Windows application is launched. q Select "Width and Height" from the "View" menu and select the image size (160 x 120, 320 x 240, 640 x 480 or 800 x 600). Only files stored in JPEG format in such a way that 640 x 480 images are 128k or less in size can be played on the VN-EZ1. button. Preparations 1 Launch the PixLab Media Browser. Operations For a description of the startup window, see page 7. Compress the movie file using the Bit Rate Adapter. 1Select the movie file which you want to compress, from the list display area in "PixLab Media Browser". 6 Specify where you want to save the file and the file name. Conversion starts. 2Select "Bit Rate Adapter" from the "Tools" menu. The Bit Rate Adapter is launched. The Bit Rate Adapter can also be launched by clicking on the on the tool bar. To display the icon, select "Tool Selection" from the "Option" menu and select "Bit Rate Adapter". icon 8 Once conversion is completed, use your e-mail application to attach the file. For a description of the startup window, see the following page. 26 Description of Startup Window Settings Image Quality Information on file to be converted Check "File Condition" icon and then Select the Image Quality. It is not possible to select a Image Quality higher than the current Image Quality. File This is the name of the movie file to be converted. The playing time and file size are displayed under the file name. Width and Height This indicates the vertical by horizontal size of the movie. Estimate file size This indicates the file size after conversion. Preview button Click this to play the converted file for about 10 seconds. (This is only an estimate, and may differ from the actual size of the converted file. ) File Condition OK button Click this to start compression. The and marks indicate that the movie can be attached to an e-mail message without causing many problems. Help Click this for help. Close button Click this to exit the Bit Rate Adapter without compressing the movie. 27 EASILY CREATING HTML DOCUMENTS (HTML CREATOR) With PixLab you can paste image and sound files onto HTML document. In this section we describe the functions that can be used with the HTML Creator. After selecting the images to be displayed, just choose the arrangement and background design and the HTML document is created automatically. The created HTML document can easily be displayed on Internet Explorer or another web browser, so using the HTML Creator is smoother than the process of pasting images into a word processing application. With HTML Creator, HTML document is created with the following procedure: q Selecting the image file in the PixLab Media Browser q Launching HTML Creator q Selecting the folder in which the HTML file is to be created and saved q Selecting the background design and image arrangement q Pressing the Create button q There are four preset screen arrangements and a choice of five background designs. [. . . ] 2 MOV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Movie files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Movie properties (PixLab Media Browser) . . . . . . . . . . . 16 MPEG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ]