Additional DiGiCam Features & Setup, Requirements

1. Disk Space usage:  Curious as to how much disk space (hard drive space) the program uses during recording? Here's an example. If you recorded a B/W camera at 5 frames per second with only 10 Gigs of available hard drive space, you could record for 2500 hours! Folks, that's more than 3 months of recording. It digitally compresses the data for storage and then during playback, it decompresses that particular data for viewing.

2. More Features: One beautiful feature the program offers is that you can choose how many frames per second you want to record, as well as the image quality! Choosing exactly how many FPS you wish to record is something a Time Lapse VCR cannot do! Nor can a VCR record 'Digitally'. Your images will be crisp and clear and unlike VHS tapes, your data will not degrade over repeated playback. With its added features of 'Slow Motion, Fast-Track, Time/Date Stamp', viewing is precise and timely.

Another feature which is sure to be useful is your Motion Detector mode. Besides it's regular setup, it also includes a 'Pixel Sensitivity' mode. You can either increase or decrease the pixel change sensitivity varying from small or extreme pixel changes before triggering recording. Now if that's not enough, there is a Mask mode you can use - simply take your mouse and draw around as many sections as you like of each camera image in the areas you want the Motion to ignore (not record from). The DiGiCam 'Motion Detector' mode will then ignore those portions you drew around and trigger recording from rest of the screen(s) activity. Is that slick or what?

Other features that will come in handy are a 12x Zoom function, Password/Lock-out protection, customize individual cameras i.e. if there shouldn't be any activity in a particular cameras view, have that camera call you when triggered while others simply record, send video to a remote PC for video storage (just in case original PC is destroyed), an optional Alarm feature that sounds via your computer speakers when a camera is triggered, Multiplexing abilities - simultaneous Recording and Playback of any camera, an optional 'Digital Watermark' applied during recording to be used in court proceedings, screen size settings of 640x480 per camera (rather than the usual 320x240) and a host of other features!

3. Installation:  Turn off your computer and then unplug it. Then remove your PC's casing cover and then pop in our DiGiCam PCI board/card into an available PCI slot. Now place the PC's casing cover on your computer, plug your camera(s) into the back of the PCI card and then power up your computer. Once powered up, Windows will detect your new PCI card. Load the included CD into your CD slot and then direct Windows to your CD for the new drivers it requires. After this, install the DiGiCam software (also included on the CD). Now you're ready for action! Note: For the Single DiGiCams, instead of using a PCI slot, you use your computers USB port (plug our USB connector cable into your USB port which is located outside of the PC).

Further detailed information on the software will be included with your CD. If you do not know what a PCI slot or a USB port is (USB port only for Single DiGiCam) or where they are on your PC, please refer to your PC's instruction manual.

4. DiGiCam Software Ver. PC or Laptop Minimum Requirements: Windows 98 SE, 2000, ME (Millennium Edition) or XP, one USB Camera, IBM PC compatible with CPU Pentium II, 350MHz, 64MB of RAM, 4MB of RAM on the VGA card. For Remote Access, modem capable of 33.6 bps. For Audio, modem with voice feature and Full-Duplex sound card (Sound Blaster compatible).

4A. Single Input DiGiCam PC or Laptop Minimum Requirements: Windows 98 SE, 2000, ME (Millennium Edition) or XP, one USB port, IBM PC compatible with CPU Pentium II, 350MHz, 128MB of RAM, 4MB of RAM on the VGA card. For Remote Access, modem capable of 33.6 bps. For Audio, modem with voice feature and Full-Duplex sound card (Sound Blaster compatible).

4B. All other DiGiCam's PC or Laptop Minimum Requirements: Windows 98 SE, 2000, ME (Millennium Edition) or XP, one PCI slot (two PCI slots for 32 Cam), IBM PC compatible with CPU Pentium II, 500MHz, 128MB of RAM, 16MB of RAM on the VGA card. For Remote Access, modem capable of 33.6 bps. For Audio, modem with voice feature and Full-Duplex sound card (Sound Blaster compatible).

4C. All other DiGiCam PC or Laptop Recommended Requirements: IBM PC compatible with CPU Pentium III, 800MHz, 256MB of RAM, 32MB of RAM on the VGA card. For Remote Access, modem capable of 56K or better i.e. cable/DSL connection.