UPMOST UPG400A
Motion JPEG Video Editing Card
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Version 1.3.1
September 25,2000
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Thank you for purchasing the UPMOST UPG400A!
This README file contains up-to-date information that supplements
the UPG400A Help File and User's Guide.
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For information about installation and quick start, refer to
the UPG400A User's Guide.
For information about using the UPG400A, refer to the UPG400A User's
Guide for complete information or which working in a dialog box,
click the Help button for brief descriptions.
You are welcome to visit our Web site to get up-to-date information
http://www.upmost.com.tw
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Table Of Contents
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* What's New
* System Requirements
* Compatibility List of VGA Cards
* History of Driver Changes
* Important Notes
* Working with Ulead MediaStudio Pro 5.x Video Edition
* Known Restrictions/Anomalies
* Troubleshooting Tips
* Reporting Problems And Suggestions
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* What's New
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Support Microsoft DirectX 5.0
Support AGP(Accelerated Graphics Port) VGA Card
Support Ulead Media Studio Pro V6.0
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* System Requirements
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Pentium 166MHz (or higher) IBM Compatible PC
Windows 95 or Windows 98 Operating System
One available PCI 2.1 compliant bus slot
32MB DRAM (more recommended)
600 MB of free hard disk space (more recommended)
Fast seek time disk preferred, e.g. wide SCSI
Super-VGA graphics card with Direct Draw capability
Support both PCI and AGP buses
at least 2MB Video memory is recommended
CD-ROM drive
16-bit sound card and speakers
Video Input Source : Camcoder, VCR, TV etc.,
either composite or S-Video
Video Output Device : Camcoder, VCR, TV monitor,
either composite or S-Video
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* Compatibility List of VGA Cards
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Following VGA cards with at least 2MB Video memory,
running at 16-bit color palette, 800x600 mode are recommended.
- AGP VGA Cards
AGP VGA Card VGA Chip
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UPMOST UP390TV S3 ViRGE/GX3
UPMOST UP385TV S3 ViRGE/GX2
UPTECH UTK400 S3 ViRGE/GX2
UPMOST UP740 Intel i740
UPMOST UP6326 SiS6326
UPMOST 3D Banshee 3DFX Banshee
ELSA Gloria-Synergy Permedia 2
ELSA Victory-Erazor Riva 128
ELSA Victory-Erazor LT Riva 128ZX
ELSA Victory-II 3DFX Banshee
ATI XPERT@Work AGP 2x ATI 3D RAGE PRO AGP 2x
ASUS 3DP-V385GX2 S3 ViRGE/GX2
ASUS 3DexPlorer V3000 SGS-THOMSON RIVA 128 2D/3D
WinFast S700 AGP SiS 6326
Matrox Productiva G100 MGA G100A
Matrox Millennium G200 MGA G200
WinFast 3D L2300 AGP 3Dlab PERMEDIA 2
S3 Virge GX2 S3 ViRGE/GX2 On Board
Trident 985 AGP Trident 3DImage 9850
Trident 975 AGP Trident 3DImage 9750
ASUS AGP-V2740 Intel i740
ASUS AGP-3500ZX NVidia Riva 128
- PCI VGA Cards
PCI VGA Card VGA Chip
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UPMOST UP375 S3 ViRGE/DX
UPTECH UTK300P S3 ViRGE/DX
UPMOST UP385TV S3 ViRGE/GX2
UPTECH UTK400 S3 ViRGE/GX2
ELSA Gloria-Synergy Permedia 2
ELSA Winner-2000/Office Permedia 2
ATI 3D PRO TURBO PC2TV 3D RAGE II + DVD
Matrox Millennium II MGA 2164W
HP Vectra VGA OnBoard S3 Trio64V2/DX
WinFast 3D S680 S3 ViRGE/GX2
Trident 975 PCI Trident 3DImage 9750
Cirrus 5446 Cirrus 5446
- Other VGA Cards using the following Chips are also recommended.
Intel i740
S3 Trio64V2/GX
S3 Trio64V2
S3 Trio 3D OnBoard
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* History of Driver Changes
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Version 1.3.1, March 22, 2000
- Fixed the system hang up problem running under MediaPlayer in
Windows 98 SE
- Fixed the problem of incompatible with ASUS AGP VGA Card
- Fixed a bug that window can't update when window moved.
- FOR Ulead MediaStudio Pro 6.0
Version 1.3.0, July 26, 1999
- Add the driver Install\Uninstall functionality for users to more
easy to install\uninstall the driver.
Version 1.3.0, Mary 15, 2000
- Add the driver Install\Uninstall functionality for users to more
easy to install\uninstall the driver.
Version 1.2.4, February 5, 1999
- Fixed a bug that the Compression ratio didn't work if the Compression
dialog box is displayed from under "Compression...\Configure..." when
doing "Make Movie..." within Adobe Premiere 4.2.
Version 1.2.3, December 30, 1998
- Fixed a bug that the captured video displayed in wrong format
when output to televsion if driver has re-installed.
- Fix a bug that VGA overlay has been suspended while doing capture
even had set "Display When Capturing" on.
Version 1.2.2, December 16, 1998
- Fixed a bug that cannot support VGA overlay function with the
following VGA cards. This has been certified under 800x600
16-bit high color mode in our lab.
Matrox Productiva G-100 AGP
Matrox Millennium II in certain system
Matrox Millennium G-200 AGP
WinFast 3D L2300 AGP
- Fixed a bug that nothing output to your television if you are using
the following VGA cards.
Matrox Productiva G-100 AGP
Matrox Millennium II
Matrox Millennium G-200 AGP
NOTE : Everytime when you re-install your VGA driver after MV-300
has installed, you have to re-install the MV-300 driver again.
For more information, please refer to "Important Notes"
- Corrected the video color distortion after applying effects
in Video Editor.
- Fixed the black image problems after playing captured video back
in Video Capture or Video Editor program with system running
Pentium II with Intel 440LX chipset.
Version 1.2.1, October 21, 1998
- Improve the video quality after applying effects in Video Editor.
- Improve the color distortion.
Version 1.2.0, October 9, 1998
- Fix a bug that the video quality is bad after applying effects in
Video Editor.
- If capturing video with 'Even first' Field Order option in Video
Capture program, the video may not be smoothly played back. Now
this bug has fixed.
- Fix a bug that the capture funtion cannot work if set compression
ratio to 4:1 in PAL.
Version 1.1.0, September 18, 1998
- Previously there were horizontal static lines that appeared in the
magenta color bar. This problem has been resolved.
- Provide a patch program to play a video project smoothly with
SmartRender in Video Editor.
Version 1.0.0, August 27, 1998
- New release
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* Important Notes
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- DO NOT RUN VIDEO CAPTURE AND VIDEO EDITOR IN THE SAME TIME
Due to the system resources limitation, We suggest you not to open
VIDEO CAPTURE and VIDEO EDITOR in the same time.Otherwise, the video
may be misplaced in one of the applications.(For Ulead MediaStudio Pro 6.0)
- FOR Ulead MediaStudio Pro 5.2 USER...
I. DIRECTX 6.0 IS REQUIRED IF YOU ARE NOT RUNNING WINDOWS 98...
The Microsoft Media Player which comes with the Ulead MediaStudio
Pro 5.2 CD is a new version using Microsoft DirectShow technology.
Unfortunately, this new technology begins to be supported by
Microsoft DirectX 6.0. If you are not running Windows 98 but are
using Ulead MediaStudio Pro 5.2, please make sure that you have
DirectX 6.0 installed. Otherwise, running Media Player from the
Video Editor program may cause serious system crash problem.
To install DirectX 6.0, please follow the instructions below :
1) Insert Ulead MediaStudio Pro 5.2 CD into your CD-ROM drive.
2) Click the "Install drivers" button on the initial screen that
comes up after you inserted the CD.
3) Click the "DirectX 6.0" button and follows the step-by-step
instructions to complete the installation.
II. Thumbnail Acceleration VS. Microsoft Media Player...
In Ulead MediaStudio Pro 5.2, the Video Editor program takes
advantage of hardware accelerators, called Thumbnail Acceleration,
for faster generation of thumbnails. However, there will be
NO VGA OVERLAY if you run the Media Player from within the
Video Editor program. AVerMedia Systems has worked around this
problem in our PATCH.EXE program by adding the following
statements to Ulead32.INI which is under your Windows folder.
[HardwareAcc]
DisableAcc1=1
Please take note that this workaround might cause you to WAIT A
LONG TIME while opening a project file.
If you do not need to run the Microsoft Media Player from within
the Video Editor program and want to take advantage of Thumbnail
Acceleration, you can change that statement to "DisableAcc1=0".
- IF THERE IS VGA OVERLAY BUT NOTHING OUTPUT TO YOUR TELEVISION...
This might happen when you re-installed your VGA driver after
the UPG400A driver has been installed. If you encounter this problem,
there are two ways to solve it :
a) Re-install the UPG400A driver.
b) Open SYSTEM.INI which is located at your Windows folder. Check
if the line "VIDS.DRAW=DVIDEO.DLL" exists. If it does, please
remove it. Then restart Windows for the changes to take effect.
- IF THERE IS NO VGA OVERLAY AND NOTHING OUTPUT TO YOUR TELEVISION...
As for the overlay support, it depends on your VGA card and the
display mode you selected. Not all display modes supports this
overlay function even in the same card. If you have this problem, it
may because of your VGA display mode was not set properly. In most
case, overlay function can be supported under display mode which is
800 x 600 16-bit high color. For how to fix it, please refer to
next section in this README.TXT file, named Video Capture Q&A.
- PATCHING THE Ulead MediaStudio Pro 5.x...
In this Version of Ulead MediaStudio Pro 5.x, you MUST execute
the PATCH program from the "UPMOST UPG400A Patch Disk" (Disk 2).
After doing this, it should playback video smoothly when using
SmartRender (in Video Editor) to Preview a video project with
multiple clips and transition effects.
- DIRECTX 5.0 OR HIGHER IS REQUIRED....
For better performance, UPG400A requires DirectX support.
To check if you have DirectX drivers installed on your system,
go to Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs icon, click on the
Install/Uninstall Tab. See if "DirectX Drivers" is listed in
the Installed Programs Window. If it is not, you need to install
the DirectX drivers.
You can get DirectX executable files from your VGA Card
Installation Disk.
Or go to the Microsoft Website to download the zip file for free.
Use the keyword "DirectX" to help search for the file.
- ONLY MJPEG AVI FILES CAPTURED BY THE MV-300 WILL OUTPUT TO YOUR
TELEVISION WHEN PALYING BACK...
An AVI file may be captured by using different video codec drivers.
For example, an AVI file may be captured with the UPG400A using MJPEG,
RGB or YUV capture formats. You may playback a captured AVI file and
view it with your VGA display under Microsoft Windows 95, however,
ONLY MJPEG AVI FILES YOU CAPTURED WITH THE UPG400A CAN BE SEEN ON
TELEVISION THROUGH THE "VIDEO OUT" CONNECTION ON THE UPG400A CARD.
If you need TV output for a non-MJPEG format AVI file, you should use
Ulead Video Editor to first convert the file to MJPEG file format.
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* Working with Ulead MediaStudio Pro 5.x Video Edition
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I. Video Capture
Q. I cannot select 'Overlay' from within the 'View' menu.
What can I do?
A. There are two possible things to try :
1) Check your 'Color palette' in the 'Settings' tab from the
'Display' icon in the 'Control Panel'. Select 16-bit High
Color if the current setting is 16 or 256 colors.
2) Set the display resolution to 800 x 600.
3) If the above method doesn't work, try to remove the UPG400A
driver and re-install it again.
Q. I capture 100% of the Video but the Audio does not get captured.
What can I do?
A. The Ulead MediaStudio Pro 5.x VE default is not set to capture
audio with video.
Go to "Capture\Video...", check "Capture audio" on.
Q. I always got a lot of frames drop when capturing video. Why?
A. You may not set to the proper frame rate before capturing.
Go to "Capture\Video...", select 'Options' tab, set "Frame rate"
to the right one. For example, set 25 Frames/Sec for PAL, and set
30 Frames/Sec for NTSC.
II. Video Editor
Q. A zig-zag pattern appears when I preview a video project.
A. We recommend that you to go to 'Preview Options', select the
'Video Editor' tab, choose 'Frame-based' from within 'Frame type'
drop-down list.
Q. After I created a video project with some video clips and have
added transition effects, why doesn't video Preview play back
smoothly?
A. We recommand you execute the patch program from Patch Disk.
If you are using an older UPG400A driver than Version 1.1.0,
download the new driver from UPMOST Systems web site to update.
Q. When using the 'Preview' function, it displays the message
'Unable to Compress Video'.
A. Be careful to set the correct parameters in 'Preview Options'
before you use the preview function. The 'frame size' MUST be
properly set. The width should be set to multiples of 16 and the
height should be set to multiples of 8. For example, you can set
the frame size to '640 x 480' where 640 = 16 x 40 and
480 = 8 x 60.
Q. When using the 'Preview' function, it looks quite slowly during
Video Editor preparing your video project in the first time.
A. Go to 'Preview Options', select 'Compression' tab, choose
'UPMOST UPG400A MJPEG Capture/Codec Driver' for 'Compression'
item.
Q. After I have created a video project (file), why can't I play
it back?
A. Choose 'Properties...' from the 'File' menu. Select the
'Attributes' tab. Make sure the settings match your
video project's original settings. For example, TV Standard,
Frame rate and Frame sizes should all match the settings when
you recoded your project.
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* Known Restrictions/Anomalies
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1. If you are Using an AGP VGA display card, the Video Editor preview
window may not fit into the right position. This happens only when
the Ulead Video Editor program is open and while the Video Capture
program is still running.
AVerMedia System has recognized this problem and will remedy it in
the next release. We recommend to close both Video Editor and
Video Capture programs. Then ONLY re-open the Ulead Video Editor
again. It's OK if you only run the Video Editor.
2. If you captured an AVI file that exceeds 1 GB, it can only be
played up to 1 GB. This problem is a known limitation of Microsoft
Video for Windows API. AVerMedia Systems is also working with Ulead
to solve this problem. We suggest not capturing video larger than
1GB in current version of Ulead MediaStudio Pro 5.02 VE. However,
you can still edit this AVI file with Ulead Video Editor.
3. If you captured an AVI file that exceeds 1 GB, it can only be
played up to 1 GB. This problem is a known limitation of Microsoft
Video for Windows API. AVerMedia Systems is also working with Ulead
to solve this problem. We suggest not capturing video larger than
1GB in current version of Ulead MediaStudio Pro 5.02 VE. However,
you can still edit this AVI file with Ulead Video Editor.
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* Troubleshooting Tips
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1. Instructions to update drivers :
a) Go to 'Control Panel\System\Device Manager'
b) Click on the 'Sound, video and game controllers'
c) Click on the 'UPMOST UPG400A, Motion JPEG Video Editing Card'
d) Select the 'Drivers' tab
e) Click on the 'Update Driver...' button to let your system
complete the installation.
2. Instructions to reinstall drivers completely :
a) Go to 'Control Panel\Multimedia\Advanced'
b) Select the 'Video Capture Device'
c) Click on the 'UPMOST UPG400A MJPEG Capture/Codec Driver',
then click 'Remove' to remove it.
d) Go to 'Control Panel\System\Device Manager'
e) Click on the 'Sound, video and game controllers'
f) Remove the 'UPMOST UPG400A, Motion JPEG Video Editing Card'
g) Restart your system
h) After system startup, a dialog box displays "PCI Multimedia Device"
i) Insert 'UPMOST UPG400A Installation Disk' into drive A:
j) Click OK to let your system complete the installation
k) Restart your system again
3. If the driver does not work properly, follow the instructions below:
a) Make sure neither the Video Capture nor the Video Editor
program is running
b) Remove UPG400A.INI from your windows folder
c) Execute the Video Capture or Video Editor program again
4. If the problem persists, try to...
a) Remove the driver completely and then re-install it again.
b) Follow the complete instructions list in Tips 2.
c) Read the next section for how to report your problem to us.
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* Reporting Problems And Suggestions
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If you have a problem that you cannot solve it, please provide
the following information when contacting UPMOST TECHNOLOGY CORP. :
1. UPG400A.INI and SYSTEM.INI files which are under your Windows folder.
2. DRIVER VERSION printed upon your "UPG400A Installation Disk".
3. System configuration (Processor, Memory, Number of IDE/SCSI
Hard disks/CDROM Drives, etc.). From Device Manager in Windows 95/98
also note the resources (Memory, IRQ & DMA) used by this device.
4. Information about VGA Card, including manufacturer, chip vendor,
and the size of video memory.
5. Symptoms, such as what is displayed during or after configuration,
etc..
After you have prepared the above information, contact or send email
to the following addresses :
upmost@upmost.com.tw
TEL : 886-2-2883-7222
FAX : 886-2-2883-7145
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(C)Copyright 1999, UPMOST TECHNOLOGY CORP.
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Expand the archive file (if the download file is in zip or rar format).
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Find the device and model you want to update in the device list.
Double-click on it to open the Properties dialog box.
From the Properties dialog box, select the Driver tab.
Click the Update Driver button, then follow the instructions.
Very important: You must reboot your system to ensure that any driver updates have taken effect.
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