HyperCam 1.70.03 Readme.

txt file HyperCam captures the action from your Windows screen and saves it to AVI (Audio-Video Interleaved) movie file. Your machine may run in any color mode. Sound from your system microphone is also recorded. For best performance please set your machine in 8 bit color mode (256 colors). We found out that in this configuration HyperCam can capture up to 10 frames per second of 640x480 pictures on Pentium 133 machine. You may capture more if your capture area is smaller, or you have a faster machine. In 16 bit color mode it can do about 5 fps of 320x240 frames on the same machine. For 4 bit graphics MS Video does not provide a suitable compressor, so the frames are written uncompressed. This is also slow and produces large AVI files. Installation: ------------To install HyperCam, please run HC1Setup.exe program form the ZIP file that you downloaded, or the floppy disk that you have received. Program Status: --------------HyperCam is a shareware product. While unregistered, it will place a small "Unregistered HyperCam" sign in the corner of the AVI files that you capture. To register your copy of HyperCam, please start the program, click on the "License" tab, then click on "Purchase License..." button. After we receive your payment, we will send you a license (key) by email or paper mail, which you may enter into the software to prevent HyperCam from placing the "Unregistered" mark on the new movies that you record. Note: the "Unregistered" mark can not be removed from movies that you recorded before registering your copy of HyperCam. Distribution: ------------Distribution is permitted provided you follow these instructions: You are free to make copies of the distribution archive (HYPERCAM.ZIP) and pass it along to others for their evaluation provided that no modifications or additions are made to the software, its documentation, or any associated files, and it is not bundled in a distribution of any other software. Usage: -----Select the area you want to capture, then select Start Rec. button or press a hot key. You may press the same hot key to finish. There is also a "Pause/Resume" hot key and button. You may pan (move the recorded area) by holding e.g. Shift key and moving the mouse. Please click on each tab in the HyperCam dialog and try to figure out what to do, or read the detailed help file. Updates: -------For newer versions of HyperCam please check Hyperionics WEB at: http://www.hyperionics.com/ or email us at info@hyperionics.com Thank you for using HyperCam!

Release History: ================ 2002.06.21 Version 1.70.03 Added command line parameters that control another running instance of HyperCam (another HyperCam window): -start -stop -pause -resume -hide -show -minimize -restore -exit Added automation calls to control screen notes. Fixed a small bug in screen notes, which would not save a default setting for text font. 2002.04.11 Version 1.70.02 HyperCam tried to load DDRAW.DLL when starting or even installing itself, which is not necessary. Fixed, now this DLL will be loaded only if needed. 2002.02.25 Version 1.70.01 New setting added to "AVI File" tab: Cursor/Full frame capture ratio. Added possibility to sort screen notes alphabetically. All controls except for "Mouse click sound volume" slider are now enabled on "Other Options" tab during recording or paused state to let you change options there, access screen notes menu etc. Bug fix: HyperCam would crash on Win9x/ME, if clicked on "Stop Recording" button instead of using hot key, and either "star bursts" for mouse clicks or mouse click sound was turned on. Bug fix: When recording or paused, with "star bursts" or mouse click sound on, it was impossible to show/hide screen notes. 2001.09.14 Version 1.61.02 Updated only the Setup program, to offer an installation for the Current User or for All Users of the machine. This is to conform to the standards for Windows 2000 and XP. 2001.07.26 Version 1.61 New option added to "Screen Area" tab, to record layered and semi-transparent windows under Windows 2000 or XP. This may slow down the recording performance though, so enable only when necessary. "Edit" button added to the bottom row of buttons, to send the currently recorded movie clip to VideoFramer movie editor. 2001.05.21 Version 1.60.02 Corrected a bug in license checking code, where licenses with a name containing certain characters were not recognized as valid.

2001.05.16 Version 1.60.01 Added a "Screen Notes" feature to "Other Options" tab of HyperCam. It permits annotating recorded movies with pop-up text boxes. Added "Use DirectX to capture screen" option to "Screen Area" tab. This option may slightly improve recording performance on some machines. Do not use it when trying to record from full screen games using DirectX or Direct3D drivers! Added automated check for new versions of HyperCam at Hyperionics web site. 1999.08.25 Version 1.51 Made sound recording buffers 2x longer to improve sound recording at extreme processor loads. Added extra Automation properties and methods: - Get/SetClickVolume - ActivateTab - DeleteTab - RestoreAllTabs 1999.07.05 Version 1.50 New features: The ability to record mouse click sounds. You can enable this option from "Other Options" tab, by setting the mouse click volume to anything higher than 0. The sounds itself are in small WAV files in HyperCam directory, named with two numbers (sound sample and sampling rate), followed by letter "d" for down mouse click, or "u" for mouse up. You can replace these files with your own versions, if you don't like ours, but they must be short and in their exact format. Fixes: If Windows is shut down while HyperCam is still recording, or if it runs out of disk space, the AVI file will be closed correctly. 1999.05.17 Version 1.40.00 HyperCam window now offers a new tab labeled "Other Options". Currently it contains check boxes to enable/disable cursor recording, and - new feature - add starbursts when mouse buttons are clicks. The duration, size and color of these starbursts can be also controlled on this tab. Added new button, "Configure this Codec", to display the native configuration dialog of the selected codec (provided by Codec DLL itself). HyperCam now remembers the last codec used, when exited and restarted. Added the "Record Sound" check box also to the "Sound" tab, to avoid confusion created previously, when this box was only available on "AVI File" tab. Recording and Paused mode are now visually distinguished by the thickness of the blinking frame, surrounding the recorded area. Thicker frame means recording, thin (1 pixel) frame means paused. Fixed bug where sound would go out of sync with video after several minutes, if the frame rate value did not divide 100

without a remainder. 1998.09.03 Version 1.34.00 Using Alt-Keyboard shortcuts in certain situations would hang the program, fixed. 1998.07.09 Version 1.33.00 AVI file frame size must be a multiple of 4, or else strange things happen in many players. Corrected the size entry functions to round width and height up or down to a nearest multiple of 4. Automation method: CaptureSingeFrame() did not work, fixed. 1998.06.02 Version 1.32.00 Prepared HyperCam for registrations with NetSales. Added "Delete License" button on the "License" tab. Fixed some small bugs. 1998.06.02 Version 1.31.00 Changed the visual feedback of different HyperCam states e.g. upon pause of recording, it will no longer display big X across the recorded area, which sometimes was causing problems. Instead, the HyperCam window and icon title is changed from HyperCam - Recording to HyperCam - Paused, and the icon shape in title bar and task bar button is changed. What if you hide completely HyperCam window when recording? Well, it appears in the task bar if you pause recording, and hides again if you resume. 1998.02.20 Version 1.30.00 Added automation support to control HyperCam from OLE Automation client programs, e.g. from Visual Basic. Added sound recording at 8000 samples per second. Added "Show Flashing Rectangle..." button to the "Screen Area" tab. 1997.12.04 Version 1.20.04 Released First version compiled also for DEC Alpha/NT machines. Minor fixes in license check and added -nox option (see help file). 1997.09.16 Version 1.20.02 Released Minor fixes - help file page displayed on More... button press of the About box was incorrect. HyperCam license was re-saved on each startup causing minor (barely, if at all) noticable delay. 1997.09.09 Version 1.20.01 Released HyperCam would crash on "start recording" on Windows 95. Fixed. 1997.09.08 Version 1.20.00 Released Added single frame shot hot key, that operates in "Pause" mode. Some minor bug fixes as well. 1997.05.08 Version 1.19 Released Fixed two problems: starting recording in 256 color mode would produce sometimes invalid AVI files (when, upon minimizing HyperCam window for recording, another window with a different palette would come to front and realize its palette). The other problem: selecting AVI file name with Browse button would not always work correctly.

1997.04.17 Version 1.18 Released One more problem found and fixed - starting recording in "paused" mode (F3 hot key) would cause problems. Fixed. 1997.04.15 Version 1.17 Released Fixed a problem in licenses. Fixed also a bug where HyperCam would crash after recording more than 2 minuts of video on some Windows 95 systems. Fixed problem with saving video compression quality setting. 1997.04.10 Version 1.16 Released Added a number of command line options to auto-start recording and override the defaults. See the help file for more. Increased the sound buffers for high quality sound recording. Fixed incorrect values of sound sampling rate displayed on the Sound tab. 1997.04.03 Version 1.15 Released I'm sorry, rel. 1.14 was not right. It recorded the sound with wrong format information, and you could not switch between high and low quality sound at all. It's all fixed now, honest! Added a separate Sound tab, with even more sound parameters to select from. Also (hopefully) fixed a rare problem when HyperCam would produce invalid AVI files. 1997.04.01 Version 1.14 Released Added a selection to set high quality sound when recording. It's a check-box on AVI File tab. If checked on, HyperCam records 16 bit sound samples at a rate of 22050 per second. If checked off, 8 bit samples are recorded at 11025 samples per second. 1997.03.10 Version 1.13 Released Added a separate setting for playback frame rate on AVI File tab, which may be now set different from recording rate. However, if the playback is different from recording rate, you can not record sound. Separated resources into a separate CamRes.dll for easier translation into foreign languages. 1997.01.17 Version 1.12 Released Fixed: custom shapes of Windows 95 cursors were not captured correctly - they were always dispalyed as standard cursors. Controls inside HyperCam dialog are now disabled while recording a movie. You can now use Tab key to move the focus between all controls of HyperCam dialog. Fixed GDI resource leak on Windows 95 (could prevent you from recording very long clips, or many short clips without exiting HyperCam). 1997.01.08 Version 1.11 Released Fixed a problem on Hebrew version of Windows 95 and on NT 3.51. 1997.01.08 Version 1.10 Released This is the first full release of HyperCam. It was preceeded by a number of "beta test" versions numbered 1.0 Beta nn.