Video/Tv menu:         

• Preview: When the preview box is checked then the displays shows a digitized preview of the image that will be captured. The overlay box is unchecked in previewmode.    
• Overlay: If the overlay checkbox is checked an overlay image is shown. During capturing only preview mode is possible. Check if your cam hardware supports overlay mode.  
• Fit : If the fit checkbox is checked then the preview image is stretched to to fit the screen. The fit to screen option will only work in preview mode.
• M.I.: motion detection indicator shows red or green when motiondetection is activated or detected, or is disabled.

• Drivermenu:  In the Driver menu you can select the capture driver that goes with your capturecard or webcam. This must be a VFW or WDM compatible driver.
• Formatmenu:Choose a videoformat by selecting the capture resolution and jpg picture quality. Check your hardware specs for the maximum capture resolution.     
• Inputmenu: The input button brings up the input video dialog that goes with your capture card or webcam. In this video dialog you can adjust settings like, contrast brightness, color, and other settings.

• Fine +: Adjust the + finetuning of the intervaltime between captured video frames to a min.of  0.10 or a max. of 1000 seconds. 

• Fine - : Adjust the - finetuning of interval. 
• Start : Press the Start button if all settings are filled in correctly. This will start the capture procces.
• If the maximum number of frames is reached then the capture process will reset and start again with picture 0.

• Step: With the step button you can increase the stepsize, so you can reach a higher number in the max. frames box more easily. 
• Clear: The clear button deletes a user defined number of pictures from the picture archive. 
• Reset: The reset button resets the program, and capture will start again with picture 0. This also happens if the maximum number of frames is reached.

 Program menu:                       

• About: Displays about box of program version info, company information, and the url of the MSL soft website.
• Info: Shows quick start info and optional timer-or motion detection report.
• Timer: In the Timermenu you can program the start/stoptime of the timerprogram and adjust or activate motion detection. When motion is detected, the start date and end time of the pictures is recorded in a motiondetection or timer report.

• Pref: Shows the preferences menu. Just check or uncheck the options in this menu.
• View: Displays the picture viewer. By clicking on a picture you can view the image full screen. A click on the full screen image displays the picture viewer again. Scrolling of pictures in 10 picture mode or fullscreen is also possible with the arrowkeys on the keyboard.
• Exit: Shuts down the program.

• To stretch the preview image to the users main desktop resolution do this: before you select a videodriver, maximize the window of the program, and then select a videodriver, or just re-select the videodriver. 
• It is not recommended to run other programs at the same time. Check also if there are no other windows programs running in the background. You should also disable scheduled harddisk routines like defragmentation or other maintenance programs, that could interfere when the program is running.
• Try to start with a clean, and reliable defragmented harddisk.
• When you are using a USB webcam consider to buy an inexpensive internal (TV)capturecard. In general they produce better picture quality and a faster framerate.
• The F1 key within the program brings up this manual.