User manual TERRATEC GRABSTERAV400

[. . . ] Manual (English) Version: 29. 10. 04 CE Declaration We: TerraTec Electronic GmbH, Herrenpfad 38, D-41334 Nettetal, Germany hereby declare that the product: VideoSystem Grabster AV 400 to which this declaration refers is in compliance with the following standards or standardizing documents: 1. EN 55024 The following are the stipulated operating and environmental conditions for said compliance: residential, business and commercial environments and small-company environments. This declaration is based on: Test report(s) of the EMC testing laboratory The information in this document is subject to change without notice and shall not be deemed as a warranty by the seller. No warranties, express or implied, are made with regard to the quality, suitability or accuracy of this document. [. . . ] Foreign manufactured products Devices that are not manufactured or distributed by TerraTec Electronic GmbH will be returned and a processing fee will be charged. Repairs liable to your expense Repairs out of the warranty period are liable to your expense. Transportation costs The dispatcher pays all costs associated with shipping and insurance for the goods for repair to TerraTec Electronic GmbH. If the goods are covered by warranty, TerraTec Electronic GmbH will pay the shipping costs for returning repaired goods. COD shipments will not be accepted for organizational reasons. Final regulation TerraTec Electronic GmbH reserves the right to change or supplement the general terms and conditions of service at any time. Otherwise the General Terms and Conditions of Business of TerraTec Electronic GmbH are considered to be accepted. 14 Grabster AV 400 (English) Glossary AVI--A Windows video format. Bit rate--The bit rate indicates the volume of the data stream per second. A higher bit rate results in higher quality. A distinction is made between constant bit rates (e. g. for -> VCD) and variable bit rates, e. g. Unlike constant bit rates, variable bit rates adjust the size of the data stream according to the video material. Blue screen--A variation of -> Chroma keying Capture--Recording. Chroma keying--Chroma keying uses a surface with a single color in front of which an actor, for example, is filmed. This color area is then made transparent during subsequent editing and can be replaced by a different background. Chrominance--Chrominance refers to the color signal in -> YUV, which is comprised of two color components: U, the balance between red and cyan, and V, the balance between yellow and blue. Composite video--Composite video is a transmission method common in the consumer sector that is generally realized using cinch connectors and which is frequently used, for example, on TVs. The DV format used in the professional sector supports playing times of up to three hours. DV-In--Usually, the DV jack of a camcorder can transport video data in both directions-- to and from the camcorder. Many camcorders in Europe do not feature DV-In, however. Enabling--Due to European import duties, imported digital video recorders are more expensive than imported digital video playback devices. For this reason, manufacturers of camcorders have begun to modify their products for the European market and to disable the digital input -> DV-In. Needless to say, clever developers found a way around this restriction very quickly. [. . . ] One second of video in the RGB color space would therefore require around 31. 6 MB of storage space. Using this process, a 2 GB hard drive would have a video capacity of around one minute. No current hard drive can deliver this volume of data in real time, but a number of options are available to reduce the data volume of the video signal substantially through transformation to a different color space (usually YUV) and compression (usually MJPEG). S video--Unlike -> Composite video, chrominance and luminance are transmitted separately in S video, resulting in higher quality. [. . . ]