Access to controls in full screen

[timjwilson]

Hi;

I'm a new member. I've been using ulead vs 10 and now corel vs x4 pro to interface and record video from a microscope. I produced a DVD for microbe identification which has been purchased by 100s of amateur scientists and organic farmers.
I record direct to hard drive via firewire with a Sony HD camcorder with a remote control 10X analog zoom; 37 mm lense. It is a lovely old camera.

I am frustrated by a few things, at least occasionally.

1/ The recording controls are not accessible when in full screen mode which means I need to start recording, open the full screen then focus and start tracking my organisms with the microscope stage controls. To stop recording I need to go to small screen again first. Has this function been changed in the x5 version?

2/ When using the HD settings on camera and software, there is a delayed reaction to the computer so this makes tracking the microbes impossible. I doubt this is caused by lack of RAM I have 24 GB on a windows 7 64 bit. Does anyone have any suggestions?

3/ Occaisionally when I am observing and/or recording, the transmission freezes. I think this is likely something trying to run in the computer....PCs huh? I'd greatly appreciate any suggestions, perhaps with creating a dedicated profile where I could stop any of this interference.

4/ I've been using an external USB 2.0 hard drive for storage but it is too slow. I've been thinking of a SATA external drive or USB 3. Does anyone know if there are huge advantages for the extra money to get a SATA external drive over USB 3.0?

If anyone is interested in my work my webpage is microbeorganics dot com

Thank you;
Tim

[lata]

Hi Tim

Welcome to the forums..........

I'll try to help with some of these issues ................

Full Screen mode

VS X4 workstation is comprised of three panels, these can be resized by dragging the thin black border between the panels. Resizing the preview screen may overcome your size problem, not quite full screen but much better than the default size.

The Panels can also be detached allowing them to float, drag the small grey dots top left of panels.
The panel can now be minimised to the bottom of the window....Do this for the timeline panel

Then detach the Capture control panel....resize and position in one of the corners.

Double clicking the grey bar containing the dots will reset/restore the window.
Press F7 to set back to default
Settings--Layout Settings to save your workspace.
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Delay in recording, can be annoying, not sure if this is associated with the pre-role of the camera or the software,
Try Settings-Preferences-Capture--tick Press OK to Capture.
When you press capture you will be prompted again to start capture, certainly this seems to help when I capture from tape, but there may be some delay?

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[timjwilson]

Thank you for the suggestions. I'll give it a whirl.