You can use the Video Monitor program to display a live video image in a window on the screen and to capture one frame of the video image. Basic instructions for this program are included in the Getting Started manual that came with your computer.
IMPORTANT: To use the Video Monitor program, you must have a Power Macintosh 6100/60AV, 7100/66AV, or 8100/80AV; and you must have video equipment connected to your computer's video ports.
Additional Video Monitor options include
• Preferences: Choose Preferences from the File menu to change a captured frame from a PICT file to an image on the Clipboard or to turn off compression of the captured frame.
• Printing a frame: Choose Print from the File menu to print one frame of the video image in the Monitor window.
• Capturing a frame: Choose Copy from the Edit menu to capture one frame of the video image in the Monitor window. (A message is displayed if the memory available is not sufficient to capture a frame.) The preset choice for frame capture saves the frame on the desktop as a PICT file. The file is named PICT 0 (or the lowest number not already used). You can use the Preferences dialog box to change frame capture from a PICT file saved on the desktop to an image stored on the Clipboard.
• Turning off sound: Choose Mute from the Monitor menu to turn off the sound accompanying the video displayed in the Monitor window.
• Resizing the Monitor window: Choose a size from the Monitor menu to resize the window displaying video. Or drag from the lower-right corner of the window. Hold down the Shift key while dragging to maintain the horizontal and vertical proportions of the image as the window is resized.
• Changing video settings: Choose Video Settings from the Monitor menu to adjust options for the video image.
• Changing sound settings: Choose Sound Settings from the Monitor menu to adjust options for sound accompanying the displayed video.
If you use speech recognition
When the Video Monitor program is open, you can’t give spoken commands unless Mute is selected from the Video Monitor menu. When you quit Video Monitor, you may need to change the Sound In device setting to Microphone before you can begin or resume using speech recognition. (To change to Microphone, click the Options button in the Sound control panel and select Microphone as the sound input device.)
