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


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

Thanks to Picture Manager, downloading, saving, and organizing the snapshots and videos that you take with your Intel Pocket 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 snapshots and videos quick and easy.

What do you want to do?

Save my snapshots and videos to a gallery

Preview a snapshot

Preview a video

Delete the snapshots and videos from my camera

Transfer my snapshots 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 snapshots and videos 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 a snapshot


Downloading snapshots and videos from your camera

When you open Picture Manager after connecting your Intel® Pocket PC Camera, Picture Manager automatically downloads your snapshots and videos.

When you connect your camera after opening Picture Manager, your snapshots and videos won’t automatically download.

To start the download:

1	Make sure that your Intel Pocket PC Camera is connected.

2	Click Refresh.

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

If you close Picture Manager before you save the snapshots or videos to an Intel Create & Share™ Gallery, they’re removed from your computer and remain in your camera memory.  You’ll need to repeat the download procedure in order to save your snapshots or videos.

Be Patient

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

Note

If there are no snapshots or videos in your camera, nothing will download to the Camera Contents window.

Related Topics

Save snapshots and videos to a gallery

Connect your camera

Camera memory status

Preview full size snapshot

Preview videos


Deleting snapshots and videos from your camera

Picture Manager allows you to delete all snapshots and videos from your Intel® PC Pocket Camera and clear the memory.

After you delete the snapshots and videos from your camera, they CAN NOT be recovered.

To delete all snapshots and videos from your camera:

1	Make sure that your Intel Pocket PC Camera is connected.

2	Select Delete All.

3	In the confirmation window, click OK.

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

The Delete Key does not clear snapshots or videos from camera memory.


Camera memory status

After you’ve downloaded snapshots and videos from your Intel® Pocket 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

Related Topics

Downloading snapshots and videos

Camera capacity and download performance


Transfer snapshots and videos to a TWAIN application

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

To access snapshots or videos with another application:

1	Save the snapshots or videos from within Picture Manager.

Remember or write down the name of the file and directory where you saved the snapshots or videos.

2	Open those snapshots or videos through your desired application.

Note

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


Starting Picture Manager

To start Picture Manager:

From Take Pictures and Shoot Video, click import pictures and videos.

--or--

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

Related Topics

Connect your camera

Download snapshots and videos

Save snapshots and videos

Delete snapshots and videos


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 snapshots and videos but can't find them.

It's taking forever to download my snapshots and videos.

Picture Manager only downloaded some of my snapshots and videos

The Camera Contents window is empty.

When I reopened Picture Manager, my snapshots and videos are gone.


Connecting your camera

Your Intel® Pocket PC Camera is designed to be used when either connected to or disconnected from your computer.  To download snapshots and videos 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 snapshots and videos from your camera

Download snapshots and videos

Camera memory


Saving all snapshots and videos to a gallery

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

When you save snapshots and videos from Picture Manager, you save them in an Intel® Create & Share® Gallery.

To save all snapshots and videos from your camera:

1	Make sure that your camera is connected.

2	From within Picture Manager, Download the snapshots and videos from your camera.

3	Select Get All.

4	Type a Base Name for all of your snapshots and videos.

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

6	Click Save.

Your snapshots and videos 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.


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® Pocket 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 snapshots or videos in your camera, nothing will download to the Camera Contents window.

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 snapshots and videos go?

Some or all of your snapshots and videos 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 snapshots and videos to a gallery

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

When you save snapshots and videos from Picture Manager, you save them in an Intel® Create & Share® Gallery.

To save selected snapshots and videos from your camera

1	Make sure that your camera is connected.

2	From within the Picture Manager, Download the snapshots and videos from your camera.

3	Select one to many snapshots and videos.

4	Select Get Selected.

5	Type a Base Name for all of the snapshots and videos.

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

7	Click Save.

Your snapshots and videos 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.


How many snapshots and videos do you want to see?
How many snapshots and videos do you want to save?

Save all snapshots and videos

Save selected snapshots and videos


Selecting multiple snapshots and videos

Picture Manager allows you many of the standard Windows* options for selecting multiple snapshots and videos.

Hold down the Shift key and click any two snapshots or videos.

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

Hold Down the Ctrl key and click any number of individual snapshots and videos.

All snapshots and videos that you select in the Camera Contents window are ready to be saved.

Related Topics

Download snapshots and videos

Save snapshots and videos


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 a video


Camera capacity and download performance

Your Intel® Pocket PC Camera can hold up to:

•	26 high quality snapshots @ 1024 x 768 pixels - or -

•	128 normal quality snapshots @ 640 x 480 pixels - or -

•	6 ten second true color videos clips @ 320 x 240

When you combine snapshots and videos in the camera memory, you’ll be able to achieve some portion of each of these limits.

Keep in mind that the more snapshots and videos that you have in your camera memory, the longer it will take to complete the download.

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

Be patient

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

Related Topics

Camera memory status

Download snapshots and videos


Thumbnails in the Camera Contents window

In the Camera Contents window, snapshots and videos appear in different thumbnail slides.

Snapshot Thumbnail	Video Thumbnail
Notice that

•	The border of each slide is different.

•	The snapshots and videos are numbered based on the order that they were taken.


Picture Manager is for temporary storage

Snapshots and videos that you download from your Intel® Pocket 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 snapshots and videos remain in your camera.

So, if you download snapshots and videos, and then close the Picture Manager before you save them, you’ll have to repeat the download operation to retrieve your snapshots and videos 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 thumbnails Camera Contents window of Picture Manager.


Brand, name, or trademark owned by another company.


delete key

The Delete key will clear highlighted snapshots and videos 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 snapshots and videos 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 snapshots and videos from your camera’s memory, including those that are no longer displayed in the Picture Manager.


Saving from Picture Manager

When you save snapshots and videos from Picture Manager, you save them in an Intel® Create & Share® Gallery.

To save snapshots and videos in Picture Manager:

1	Type a Base Name for all of your snapshots and videos.

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

3	Click Save.

Your snapshots and videos 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.


Base Name

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

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

Those snapshots and videos will then be saved as "beach_0001.jpg", "beach_0002.avi", "beach_0003.jpg", etc.

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


selecting the gallery

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

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


JPG and AVI files

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.


camera storage variations

The actual limit of snapshots and videos that your camera memory can hold will vary depending on the subjects of your images.

The more complex your subjects, the fewer images you can take; the more simple your subject, the more images you can take.


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.


Intel Pocket PC Camera Picture Manager only downloaded some of my snapshots and videos
Intel® Pocket PC Camera Picture Manager only downloaded some of my snapshots and videos

If your Intel Pocket 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


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

Thanks to Picture Manager, downloading, saving, and organizing the snapshots and videos that you take with your Intel Pocket 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 snapshots and videos quick and easy.

What do you want to do?

Save my snapshots and videos to a gallery

Preview a snapshot

Preview a video

Delete the snapshots and videos from my camera

Transfer my snapshots 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 snapshots and videos 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 a snapshot


Downloading snapshots and videos from your camera

When you open Picture Manager after connecting your Intel® Pocket PC Camera, Picture Manager automatically downloads your snapshots and videos.

When you connect your camera after opening Picture Manager, your snapshots and videos won’t automatically download.

To start the download:

1	Make sure that your Intel Pocket PC Camera is connected.

2	Click Refresh.

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

If you close Picture Manager before you save the snapshots or videos to an Intel Create & Share™ Gallery, they’re removed from your computer and remain in your camera memory.  You’ll need to repeat the download procedure in order to save your snapshots or videos.

Be Patient

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

Note

If there are no snapshots or videos in your camera, nothing will download to the Camera Contents window.

Related Topics

Save snapshots and videos to a gallery

Connect your camera

Camera memory status

Preview full size snapshot

Preview videos


Deleting snapshots and videos from your camera

Picture Manager allows you to delete all snapshots and videos from your Intel® PC Pocket Camera and clear the memory.

After you delete the snapshots and videos from your camera, they CAN NOT be recovered.

To delete all snapshots and videos from your camera:

1	Make sure that your Intel Pocket PC Camera is connected.

2	Select Delete All.

3	In the confirmation window, click OK.

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

The Delete Key does not clear snapshots or videos from camera memory.


Camera memory status

After you’ve downloaded snapshots and videos from your Intel® Pocket 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

Related Topics

Downloading snapshots and videos

Camera capacity and download performance


Transfer snapshots and videos to a TWAIN application

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

To access snapshots or videos with another application:

1	Save the snapshots or videos from within Picture Manager.

Remember or write down the name of the file and directory where you saved the snapshots or videos.

2	Open those snapshots or videos through your desired application.

Note

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


Starting Picture Manager

To start Picture Manager:

From Take Pictures and Shoot Video, click import pictures and videos.

--or--

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

Related Topics

Connect your camera

Download snapshots and videos

Save snapshots and videos

Delete snapshots and videos


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 snapshots and videos but can't find them.

It's taking forever to download my snapshots and videos.

Picture Manager only downloaded some of my snapshots and videos

The Camera Contents window is empty.

When I reopened Picture Manager, my snapshots and videos are gone.


Connecting your camera

Your Intel® Pocket PC Camera is designed to be used when either connected to or disconnected from your computer.  To download snapshots and videos 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 snapshots and videos from your camera

Download snapshots and videos

Camera memory


Saving all snapshots and videos to a gallery

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

When you save snapshots and videos from Picture Manager, you save them in an Intel® Create & Share® Gallery.

To save all snapshots and videos from your camera:

1	Make sure that your camera is connected.

2	From within Picture Manager, Download the snapshots and videos from your camera.

3	Select Get All.

4	Type a Base Name for all of your snapshots and videos.

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

6	Click Save.

Your snapshots and videos 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.


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® Pocket 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 snapshots or videos in your camera, nothing will download to the Camera Contents window.

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 snapshots and videos go?

Some or all of your snapshots and videos 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 snapshots and videos to a gallery

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

When you save snapshots and videos from Picture Manager, you save them in an Intel® Create & Share® Gallery.

To save selected snapshots and videos from your camera

1	Make sure that your camera is connected.

2	From within the Picture Manager, Download the snapshots and videos from your camera.

3	Select one to many snapshots and videos.

4	Select Get Selected.

5	Type a Base Name for all of the snapshots and videos.

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

7	Click Save.

Your snapshots and videos 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.


How many snapshots and videos do you want to see?
How many snapshots and videos do you want to save?

Save all snapshots and videos

Save selected snapshots and videos


Selecting multiple snapshots and videos

Picture Manager allows you many of the standard Windows* options for selecting multiple snapshots and videos.

Hold down the Shift key and click any two snapshots or videos.

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

Hold Down the Ctrl key and click any number of individual snapshots and videos.

All snapshots and videos that you select in the Camera Contents window are ready to be saved.

Related Topics

Download snapshots and videos

Save snapshots and videos


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 a video


Camera capacity and download performance

Your Intel® Pocket PC Camera can hold up to:

•	26 high quality snapshots @ 1024 x 768 pixels - or -

•	128 normal quality snapshots @ 640 x 480 pixels - or -

•	6 ten second true color videos clips @ 320 x 240

When you combine snapshots and videos in the camera memory, you’ll be able to achieve some portion of each of these limits.

Keep in mind that the more snapshots and videos that you have in your camera memory, the longer it will take to complete the download.

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

Be patient

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

Related Topics

Camera memory status

Download snapshots and videos


Thumbnails in the Camera Contents window

In the Camera Contents window, snapshots and videos appear in different thumbnail slides.

Snapshot Thumbnail	Video Thumbnail
Notice that

•	The border of each slide is different.

•	The snapshots and videos are numbered based on the order that they were taken.


Picture Manager is for temporary storage

Snapshots and videos that you download from your Intel® Pocket 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 snapshots and videos remain in your camera.

So, if you download snapshots and videos, and then close the Picture Manager before you save them, you’ll have to repeat the download operation to retrieve your snapshots and videos 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 thumbnails Camera Contents window of Picture Manager.


Brand, name, or trademark owned by another company.


delete key

The Delete key will clear highlighted snapshots and videos 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 snapshots and videos 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 snapshots and videos from your camera’s memory, including those that are no longer displayed in the Picture Manager.


Saving from Picture Manager

When you save snapshots and videos from Picture Manager, you save them in an Intel® Create & Share® Gallery.

To save snapshots and videos in Picture Manager:

1	Type a Base Name for all of your snapshots and videos.

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

3	Click Save.

Your snapshots and videos 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.


Base Name

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

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

Those snapshots and videos will then be saved as "beach_0001.jpg", "beach_0002.avi", "beach_0003.jpg", etc.

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


selecting the gallery

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

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


JPG and AVI files

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.


camera storage variations

The actual limit of snapshots and videos that your camera memory can hold will vary depending on the subjects of your images.

The more complex your subjects, the fewer images you can take; the more simple your subject, the more images you can take.


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.


Intel Pocket PC Camera Picture Manager only downloaded some of my snapshots and videos
Intel® Pocket PC Camera Picture Manager only downloaded some of my snapshots and videos

If your Intel Pocket 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