HyperCam Help Index

HyperCam captures the action from your Windows 95 or NT screen and saves it to AVI (Audio-Video Interleaved) movie file. Your machine must run in 4, 8 or 16 bits per pixel color mode (maximum of 16, 256 or 65536 colors respectively) for it to run. Sound from your system microphone is also recorded.

For best performance please set your machine in 8 bit color mode (256 colors). I 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 I could do about 5 fps of 320x240 frames. 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.

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, or select a different hot key to stop recording. You may also 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. More help will come later.

For newer versions of HyperCam please check Hyperionics WEB at:

http://www.hyperionics.com/

or email the author, Greg Kochaniak, at gregko@hyperionics.com

We need an icon for HyperSnap. If you are graphically inclined, send your 32x32 and 16x16 icon (using standard Windows colors) to me. In return, if your icon will be selected for the final product, I'll give you free license for HyperCam, and mention your name/email/address (whatever you want) in the "Credits" area of the help file.

Thank you for testing!