Copyright: Copyright© 2000 - 2001, Intel Corporation
Citation: Copyright© 2000 - 2001, Intel Corporation


Welcome to Intel PC Camera Picture Manager
Welcome to Intel® PC Camera Picture Manager

Thanks to Picture Manager, downloading, saving, and organizing the snapshots, videos, and audio clips that you create with your Intel® PC Camera disconnected from your computer is just a few clicks away.

Picture Manager downloads to Intel® Create & Share® galleries to make finding and using your media files quick and easy.

What do you want to do?

Save all media files

Save selected media files

Delete all media files

Delete selected media files

Preview a video

Preview a snapshot

Preview an audio clip

Transfer media files to a TWAIN application

Troubleshoot the Picture Manager

For advanced users, you can take snapshots directly from your camera to a TWAIN application with Image Source.


Previewing a snapshot

Picture Manager allows you to preview a full size version of the snapshots in your camera before you save them to your computer.

To preview a full size snapshot in Picture Manager:

1	Download your media files from your camera.

2	Double-click the snapshot thumbnail in the Camera Contents window.

Snapshot Thumbnail

3	To close the preview window, click the Close button

Note

Snapshots taken in HQ (high quality) mode are larger than those taken in normal and multi-snap mode.

Related topics

Save all media files

Save selected media files

Preview a video

Preview an audio clip


Downloading media files from your camera

When you open Picture Manager after connecting your Intel® PC Camera, Picture Manager automatically downloads your media files.

When you connect your camera after opening Picture Manager, your media files won’t automatically download.

WARNING:

If your Intel PC camera has a removable media card, do not remove the card while the software is downloading your media files.  Removing the card while downloading will interrupt the download and could result in the loss of media files stored on the card.

To start the download:

1	Make sure that your Intel PC Camera is connected.

2	Click Refresh.

After download is complete, the Download in progress dialog box disappears and thumbnails of the media files in your camera are displayed in the Contents window.

If you close Picture Manager before you save the media files to an Intel® Create & Share® Gallery, the media files are removed from your computer and remain in your camera memory.  You’ll need to repeat the download procedure in order to save your media files.

Be Patient

Videos take much longer to download than snapshots or audio clips.  If your camera memory is full, or nearly full, downloading all of your media files can take several minutes.

Note

If there are no media files in your camera, nothing will download to the Contents window.

Related Topics

Save all media files

Save selected media files

Connect your camera

Camera memory status

Preview full size snapshot

Preview videos

Preview an audio clip


Delete all media files from your camera

Picture Manager allows you to delete all, or selected, media files from your Intel® PC Camera memory or the media card if your camera has one.

Media files CAN NOT be recovered after you delete them.  The Delete Key does not clear media files from camera memory.

To delete all media files from the camera or media card:

1	Make sure that your Intel PC Camera is connected.

2	From within Picture Manager, Download the media files.

3	Click Delete All.

4	In the confirmation window, click OK.

The Contents window and camera memory will be empty, and the Camera Status window will show all zeros.

Note

If your camera has a removable media card, clicking Delete All will not delete all images stored in the camera memory and on the removable media card.  Clicking Delete All with the Camera Memory tab selected will delete only the images stored in the camera internal memory.  You must choose the External Memory tab and click Refresh, Delete All to delete the images stored on the removable media card.

Related Topics

Delete selected media files


Camera memory status

After you’ve downloaded media files from your Intel® PC Camera, the Camera Status window at the top of Picture Manager displays:

•	% of camera memory full

•	Number of snapshots taken

•	Number of videos taken

•	Number of audio clips recorded

Related Topics

Downloading media files

Camera capacity and download performance


Transfer media files to a TWAIN application

Picture Manager does not allow you to move snapshots directly to a TWAIN client application.

To access media files with another application:

1	Save the media files from within Picture Manager.  Remember or write down the name of the file and directory where you saved the media files.

2	Open those media files through your desired application.

Note

You can transfer snapshots directly from the camera memory to a TWAIN application with Image Source.

Related Topics

Save all media files

Save selected media files


Starting Picture Manager

To start Picture Manager:

From Take Pictures and Shoot Videos, click import pictures and video.

--or--

From the Windows* Start menu, click Programs > Intel Create & Share Software >PC Camera Software> Intel Picture Manager

Related Topics

Save all media files

Save selected media files

Delete all media files

Delete selected media files

Connect your camera

Download media files


Troubleshoot Picture Manager

What are you having trouble with?

A message says that my camera is disconnected or can't be found.

I saved my media files but can't find them

It's taking forever to download my media files

Picture Manager only downloaded some of my media files

The Camera Contents window is empty

When I reopened Picture Manager, my media files are gone.


Connecting your camera

Your Intel® PC Camera is designed to be used when either connected to or disconnected from your computer.  To download media files from your camera to your computer, you need to verify a couple of connections.

The camera must be attached to its USB cable.

- and -

The camera USB cable must be connected to an enabled USB port on your computer.

If you receive the "Camera not found" message, make sure that both ends of your USB cable are connected.

Related Topics

Save all media files

Save selected media files

Download media files

Camera Memory Status


Saving all media files to a gallery

Picture Manager allows you to download and save all or selected media files from your camera memory and the media card if your camera has one.  The media files in memory are those that you take with your Intel® PC Camera disconnected from your computer.

When you save media files from Picture Manager, you save them to an Intel® Create & Share® Gallery.

To save all media files from your camera:

1	Make sure that your camera is connected.

2	From within Picture Manager, Download the media files from your camera.

3	Select Get All.

4	Type a Base Name for all of your media files.

5	Select the Gallery for all of your media files. Picture Manager defaults to the "Imported Pictures" gallery. You can create a new Gallery by clicking New.

6	Click Save.

Your media files are saved to the Gallery that you specify.  They will all be labeled with the Base Name that you typed and numbered sequentially.

The Gallery that you choose becomes the active gallery in the Intel Create & Share Home screen.

Note

If your camera has a removable media card, clicking Get All will not save all images stored in the camera memory and on the removable media card.  Clicking Get All with the Camera Memory tab selected will save only the images stored in the camera internal memory.  You must choose the External Memory tab and click Refresh, Get All to save the images stored on the removable media card.

Related Topics

Save selected media files

Delete all media files

Delete selected media files


Moving the Picture Manager window

Intel® Create & Share® allows you to move the Picture Manager window around your desktop for convenient and easy viewing.

To move the Picture Manager window:

1	Click your left mouse button on the window title bar.

2	While holding the mouse button, drag the window to your desired location.

3	Release the mouse button.

- or -

1	Click on the Picture Manager System Menu icon.

2	Select Move.

3	Press any key on your keyboard.

The cursor turns into four directional arrows.

4	Move your mouse cursor around the screen.

This will drag the Picture Manager window with it.

5	When you’ve reached the desired location for the Picture Manager window, click anywhere on the screen or press any key.


Camera Contents window is empty
The Camera Contents window is empty

When you connect your Intel® PC Camera after you open Picture Manager, the Camera Contents window is empty.

To fill the Camera Contents window, click Refresh.

Note

If there are no media files in your camera, nothing will download to the Contents window.  Also, if your camera has a removable media card, and your images are stored on that card rather than in the camera memory, you will not see your images until you click the External Memory tab.

Related Topics

Connect your camera

Camera Capacity

Camera Memory


System menu icon

The system menu icon is at the top left corner of the title bar in Picture Manager.


Where did my media files go?

Some or all of the media files that you save may not be immediately visible in the gallery that you selected.  You may need to scroll through or sort the gallery to find a particular image.


thumbnail

A graphic or image intentionally smaller to allow for the display of multiple images at the same time.


Saving selected media files to a gallery

Picture Manager allows you to download and save all or selected media files from your camera memory.  The media files in camera memory are those that you take with your Intel® PC Camera disconnected from your computer.

When you save media files from Picture Manager, you save them to an Intel® Create & Share® Gallery.

To save selected media files from your camera

1	Make sure that your camera is connected.

2	From within the Picture Manager, download the media files from your camera.

3	Select one to many media files.

4	Click Get Selected.

5	Type a Base Name for all of the media files.

6	Select the Gallery for all of your media files. Picture Manager defaults to the "Imported Pictures" gallery.  You can create a new Gallery by clicking New.

7	Click Save.

Your media files are saved to the Gallery that you specify.  They will all be labeled with the Base Name that you typed and numbered sequentially.

The Gallery that you choose becomes the active gallery in the Intel Create & Share Home screen.

Related Topics

Save all media files

Delete all media files

Delete selected media files


Selecting multiple media files

Picture Manager allows you many of the standard Windows* options for selecting multiple media files.

Hold down the Shift key and click any two media files.

Picture Manager highlights those two media files and all of the media files that are listed between them in the Camera Contents window.  Those highlighted media files are ready to be saved.

Hold Down the Ctrl key and click any number of individual media files.

All media files that you select in the Camera Contents window are ready to be saved.

Related Topics

Download media files

Save all media files

Save selected media files


Previewing a video

Picture Manager allows you to preview the videos in your camera before you save them to your computer.

To preview a video in Picture Manager:

1	Double-click on the video thumbnail in the Camera Contents window.

The Preview dialog box displays.

Thumbnail	Preview
2	Click the Play button in the Preview dialog box.

When you click the Play button, it becomes the Stop button.

3	To stop the video, click the Stop button.  It becomes the play button again.

To control the rate of the playback, or move to a specific place in the video, click and drag the frame advance bar to the left or right.

4	To close the dialog box, click the Close icon.

Related topics

Save all media files

Save selected videos

Preview a snapshot

Preview an audio clip


Camera capacity and download performance

The total number of snapshots, videos, and audio clips that your Intel® PC Camera can store in memory is determined by the size of the media files being stored, and the storage capacity of your camera.  The size of the file created by taking a snapshot or video is affected by the content of the scene captured.  Images taken of complex subjects take up more memory than images taken of simple subjects.

Selected cameras have a removable media card, in addition to the internal camera memory, for added storage capacity.

You can fill your camera memory with snapshots, videos, audio clips, or combinations of all three types of files.  In general, videos take up more memory than snapshots or audio files.  A single video can take up as much space as 4 or more high quality snapshots.

When you’ve finished downloading the media files from your camera memory, the total number of media files is displayed in the Camera Status window.

Be patient

Keep in mind that the more media files that you have in your camera memory, the longer it will take to download them to your computer.  Also, videos take much longer to download than snapshots.  If your camera memory is full, or nearly full, downloading all of your media files can take several minutes.

WARNING:

If your Intel PC camera has a removable media card, do not remove the card while the software is downloading your media files.  Removing the card while downloading will interrupt the download and could result in the loss of media files stored on the card.

Related Topics

Camera memory status

Download media files


Thumbnails in the Camera Contents window

In the Camera Contents window, media files appear in different thumbnail slides.

Audio Clip Thumbnail

Snapshot Thumbnail	Video Thumbnail

Notice that

•	The borders of snapshots and videos differ.

•	The media files are numbered based on the order that they were taken.


Picture Manager is for temporary storage

Media files that you download from your Intel® PC Camera to the Picture Manager are saved in a temporary directory on your computer.  When you close Picture Manager, that temporary directory is cleared, while the media files remain in your camera.

So, if you download media files, and then close the Picture Manager before you save them, you’ll have to repeat the download operation to retrieve your media files from your camera memory for saving.


Multi-snap

In multi-snap mode, your camera takes 5 snapshots in rapid succession when you press the snapshot button on your camera once.

A snapshot taken in multi-snap mode is displayed as 5 in the physical camera display panel, as 5 "snapshots taken" in the Camera Status window, and as 5 thumbnail Snapshots in camera window of Picture Manager.


Brand, name, or trademark owned by another company.


Delete key

The Delete key will clear highlighted media files only from the Camera Contents window.   It does not delete them from the camera memory.

If you select Get All after using the Delete Key, Picture Manager will save all media files in camera memory, including those that are no longer displayed in the Picture Manager.

If you select Delete All after using the Delete Key, Picture Manager will delete all media files from your camera’s memory, including those that are no longer displayed in the Picture Manager.


Saving from Picture Manager

When you save media files from Picture Manager, you save them to an Intel® Create & Share® Gallery.

To save media files in Picture Manager:

1	Click Get All.

2	Select the Gallery for all of your media files. Picture Manager defaults to the "Imported Pictures" gallery.  You can create a new Gallery by clicking New.

3	Type a Base Name for all of your media files.

Your media files are saved to the Gallery that you specify.  They will all be labeled with the Base Name that you typed and numbered sequentially.

The Gallery that you choose becomes the active gallery in the Intel Create & Share Home screen.

Note

If your camera has a removable media card, clicking Get All will not save all images stored in the camera memory and on the removable media card.  Clicking Get All with the Camera Memory tab selected will save only the images stored in the camera internal memory.  You must choose the External Memory tab and click Refresh, Get All to save the images stored on the removable media card.

Related topics

Save all media files

Save selected media files


Base Name

The Base Name is the prefix that is added to every media file that you save in Picture Manager.  You should use a name that will help you to remember the subject of the media files.   An incremental number is added to the Base Name for each audio clip, snapshot, and video that you save.

For example, if you’re camera is full of media files of your trip to the beach, you might want to use the Base Name "beach".

Those media files will then be saved as "beach_0001.jpg", "beach_0002.avi", "beach_0003.wav", etc.

Notice that  WAV, JPG, and AVI files are saved in the same sequence.


Selecting the gallery

When you select the Gallery where you save your media files to, you’re creating a shortcut to those media files in their respective Windows* folder.

By default, the Picture Manager will save to the "Imported Pictures" gallery.


WAV, JPG, and AVI files

WAV is the chosen file format for the audio clips that you download from your camera through Picture Manager.  WAV files contain sound data in the form of a digital representation of the recorded analog signal.

JPG is the chosen file format for the snapshots that you download from your camera through Picture Manager.  JPG files compress an image and remove unnecessary data for displaying the image.

AVI is the chosen file format for videos downloaded from your camera through Picture Manager.  AVI files are interleaved which means that it stores one frame of video, then one frame of audio, then one frame of video, and so on.


TWAIN application

An image editing application that allows you to take and transfer live snapshots from your camera while it is connected to your computer.


Picture Manager only downloaded some of my media files

If your Intel® PC Camera is connected to your computer through a USB hub, and not all of your snapshots download from your camera to Picture Manager, you need to connect your camera directly to a USB port on your computer.

1	Close Picture Manager.

2	Disconnect the USB cable for your camera from your USB hub.

3	Connect the USB cable for your camera to an available USB port on your computer.

When you connect your camera to a USB port for the first time, Windows* will launch the New Hardware Found wizard.

Follow the wizard instructions to install the camera on the new USB port.

The wizard may ask you for your Windows* CD-ROM and your Intel® Create & Share® Software CD-ROM.

4	When the driver installation is complete, open Picture Manager.

Related Topics

More troubleshooting


Previewing an audio clip

If your camera records audio, Picture Manager allows you to preview the audio clips in your camera before you save them to your computer.

To preview an audio clip in Picture Manager:

1	Double-click on the audio clip thumbnail in the Camera Contents window.

The Preview dialog box displays.

Thumbnail	Preview dialog box
2	Click the Play button in the Preview dialog box.

When you click the Play button, it becomes the Stop button.

3	To stop the audio clip, click the Stop button.  It becomes the play button again.

To control the rate of the playback, or move to a specific place in the clip, click and drag the advance bar to the left or right.

4	To close the dialog box, click the Close icon.

Related topics

Save all media files

Save selected audio clips

Preview a video

Preview a snapshot


Delete selected media files from your camera

Picture Manager allows you to delete all, or selected, media files from your Intel® PC Camera memory or the media card if your camera has one.

Media files CAN NOT be recovered after you delete them.

To delete selected media files from the camera or media card:

1	Make sure that your Intel PC Camera is connected.

2	From within Picture Manager, Download the media files.

3	Select the media files to be deleted.

4	Click Delete Selected.

5	In the confirmation window, click OK.

Thumbnails for the selected media files disappear from the Contents window, and the Camera Status window changes to reflect that the files were deleted.

The Delete Key does not clear media files from camera memory.

Related Topics

Delete all media files