Changes and enhancements you will find with this update:
- If you have multiple capture drivers installed, you can now choose a specific driver from the Setup menu.
- You can now specify the audio codec used in preview mode. The Audio tab has also been removed
from the Preview Options dialog box and placed as an Audio button under the Compression tab.
- The preview window size may be dependent or independent of the frame size specified in the
preview options. This option can be found on the General tab of the Preferences dialog box.
- Changes made to the size of the Video Editor Scratch Pad are retained across all Scratch Pad sessions.
- Thumbnail generation has been improved by allowing you to specify a maximum of 10 codec formats.
To enable more than one hardware acceleration codec format, for example, MJPG, DVCS and DVSD,
you have to specify them in your Ulead32.ini file, found in your Windows directory, separated by commas as shown below:
[HardwareAcc]
HwCodecID=MJPG,DVCS,DVSD
- Depending on your video capture board, you can now playback multiple clips directly from the timeline
(bypassing the dreaded Windows 2GB file size limit). To utilize this feature, however, your video capture board
needs to have the appropriate plug-in (provided by your board manufacturer). At present plug-ins are available
only for the ///FAST AV Master and DV Master boards. (Although more are on the way.) In all you can specify a
maximum of 9 third party playback plug-ins. (For more on when these will arrive, please contact your board manufacturer.)
To install playback plug-ins for preview, first copy the plug-ins to your hard drive and then add the following to your Ulead32.ini file:
[Playback]
Playdll[n]=c:\temp\mpb.dll
where n is the plug-in number, ranging from 1 to 9, c:\temp is the path where you saved the plug-ins, and
mpb.dll is the file name of the plug-in.
- Users can now specify how many audio buffers are used during capturing (in Video Wizard and
Video Capture) by changing the Ulead32.ini file as follows:
[VCAP4_AUDIO]
AudioBuffers=2
- You can now abort a capture when using the Video Wizard by pressing the Esc key.
- In the Save Audio File dialog box, the WAV file format is now the default.
- In Video Capture, the NTSC drop frame time code has been changed from 00:00:00:00 to 00:00:00.00.
- Video Capture default preview options have been changed as follows:
NTSC: 720*480 29.97
PAL: 720*576 25
- A setting can now be added to the Ulead32.ini to prevent the capture driver and the codec
driver from being active at the same time.
[VCAP4_CAPTURE]
DisableDriverBeforePlayback=1
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