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The Camera/Digitizer properties window

Introduction

The camera/digitizer properties window allows you to alter the low-level settings of a camera or digitizer. Specifically you can alter such things as contrast and brightness, image size, frame rate, etc.

These settings actually directly control the physical camera or digitizer and this has two repercussions:

 1.The settings available will depend on the camera or digitizer. For example, some cameras include an ability to zoom while others don't - obviously you'll only be able to use this setting if your camera actually has this ability. 
 2.Changes you make will affect all video sources which capture images from the camera or digitizer. This is actually fairly obvious when you think about it - for example, if you increase a camera's brightness, then anything which asks the camera for a picture is going to receive a brighter image.  

How to open this window

To open the camera / digitizer properties window, you simply need to right click over a video image and select Properties from the menu which appears.

If the properties option is disabled, it means that you can't edit the properties because a test is actually running.

You can also open this window when you're editing a video source by clicking the Properties button in the ribbon bar.

Details

The camera/digitizer properties window can include six different pages, although exactly which ones are available will depend on the camera/digitizer's abilities. The pages are:

 •The General information page 
 •The Camera control page 
 •The Video signal page 
 •The Image format page 
 •The Image control page 
 •The Lighting level page 

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