Control Panel Help

All applications can be started from the Application Panel.  The Application Panel can be started by clicking on the VP-EYE icon or by using the Start menu.  If you are using the Start menu, select Programs followed by VP-EYE. Once the Application Panel appears, there are eight applications to select from:

1.	Video Monitor	6.	Photo Special Effects
2.	Video E-Mail	7.	Photo EZ
3.	Video Games	8	NetMeeting
4.	Digital Movie Producer
5	Photo Greeting Cards

* Your CD may not have some of the above programs due to the version of software package


Setting

Click Settings button to access the Application Panel settings.  Use the Settings dialog to change the video driver, language, sound, start menu and auto-run options.


Video Monitor

The Video Monitor can be used in many ways, such as video monitoring, recording and playback.

Close: close the Video Monitor

Message indicator: show whether you have new messages

Security indicator: show whether security mode is working

Minimize: minimize the Video Monitor window to an icon on the toolbar

Layout: toggle the layout between small and large footprint (use red arrow)

On top/Not on top: force Video Monitor always on top of the desktop or not.

Setting: change the video monitor settings (General, Timer, Security, Message, Alarm)

Playback: retrieve captured image data

Size: change to 160x120 or 320x240 resolution.

Help: explain how to use Video Player

Message: start recording a video message

Security: enter into security mode

Trackball: move Video Monitor to any corner on the desktop


Video E-Mail

The Video E-Mail is your digital recorder.  Set the video size and start recording.  Amazingly simple, you will wonder how you ever lived without it.  You may record and save the video to a file or better yet, email it to a friend.

Size: set video size

Play: play current captured video

Pause: pause current video, press play to resume

Stop: stop playing video or cutting process.

Record: start recording captured video

Save: save video in the file

Email: send compressed video to email

Setting: set options for video source, recording time limit and compression


Video Games

Do you like video games?  Gophers, Black Jack, and Fishing are three popular games included in this software package.  All three work with your camera.

Important: For best results playing any of these games, move the camera to a position where you can easily move your hands in front of the camera.  Before the game logo appears, the camera will be calibrated.  During the calibration, it is important not to move the camera.  After proper calibration, the camera will be more capable of detecting your hand movements.

Gophers

Requires a camera to play.  Object of the game is to hit the gophers.  Beware of snakes.

Black Jack

Requires a camera to play.  Object of the game is to get 21 or less.  Be careful, you have to have more points than the dealer to win.  Same rules as Las Vegas 21.

Fishing

Requires a camera and a mouse to play.  Object of the game is to find matching photo cards.  Use the camera to make your own photo cards, then send your game to a friend.


PhotoEZ

Use Photo EZ to create one or more photo albums.  Each photo can include additional information like date, author, place and other comments.  Looking for a certain photo in all your albums?  Search will look for all photos matching your search criteria.  In addition, you can apply basic and special effects to your photos.


Photo Greeting Cards

Use Photo Greeting Cards to create electronic cards.  Photo Greeting Cards has 20 categories containing over 100 different cards.  Give it a try!  Select a card, add some text, add your voice then make some final changes. There you have it, an electronic card!  Next, send it to your family or a friend.

Select a category then select a card.

Photo: add a photo, maybe a snapshot of you

Record: add background music or record your voice

Flip: flip your photo side to side

Scale scroll bar: adjust the size of your photo

Opacity scroll bar: adjust the background of your photo

Save: save your card to a file

Print: print your card on paper

Email: send your card to a friend


Photo Special Effects

Use Photo Special Effects to add special effects to your photos.  Photo Special Effects has more than 50 different special effects.  The effects are separated into color manipulation, transformation and blurring categories.  It is fun, easy and fast to add special effects to your favorite photos.  Give it a try!

Open: open a photo image file.

Undo: remove the last applied special effect

Redo: reapply the last removed special effect

Reset: reset the image to the original photo

Save: save the result to a file

Close: close Photo Special Effects

Capture: capture a photo from the camera

Special Effect: add special effects to the photo.


Digital Movie Producer

It is a powerful and easy-to-use program for editing and converting video data. The user interface is simple. It may convert the photos acquired by digital camera into a video file. You may also add photo in the video stream or put two video streams into one. It allows you to add music and record the sound into the video file. Anyone can enjoy the fun of making video file by a few steps of this program!

Open: open an existing video file.

Save: save the result into a file.

Play: play the result of video file.

Select: select the input source of camera.

Acquire: download the photos from the PC Camera.

Convert: convert the photo and audio data into video stream.

Record sound: record the sound from the microphone or line-in device.

Add sound: open a sound file and add it into the video stream.

Clear: clear the selected photos.


NetMeeting

A program uses the standard communication protocol to transmit and receive video and audio data over the network. You may use it to talk to a person and watch him or her at the same time. If you use high-speed network system, the quality of video and audio transmission are much better than using telephone line.