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Automatic camera / Webcam for QV-3000
QV-AutoCam lets you use your QV-3000 as a Webcam, or you can take time-delay photos using the automatic camera. Click here for details.

Sharpen control in retoucher
A lot of pictures taken with digital cameras can benefit from some sharpening. QV-AutoCam's new Sharpen control gives you a high-quality sharpen without increasing noise. Click here for some samples.

Windows XP Users : We have tested QV-AutoCam on several XP systems with the whole range of Casio cameras. Everything works perfectly. However some users are experiencing problems getting connected under XP. If this happens to you please contact us on support@beausoft.com

QV-AutoCam is the superior alternative to the free software which comes with Casio cameras (QV-Link or PhotoLoader). It's easier to use, fetches faster, and can help you organize and catalog your picture collection. And because QV-AutoCam is designed specifically for Casio cameras it understands their special features, and can compensate for their weaknesses.

Look what you can do with QV-AutoCam --

• Fetch and Save all your pictures with a single click, or simply by plugging the camera into the PC when running Automatic Capture

• Browse your pictures once you've saved them on disk

• Print multiple pictures on a page

• Find your pictures using keywords

• Set up a Live WebCam (This function is not supported by all cameras - click here for more details)

• Take time-delay phtographs and then turn them into a movie or AVI (This function is not supported by all cameras - click here for more details)

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Support for new cameras / USB / DCF Cards
QV-AutoCam now supports the new Casio cameras that use PhotoLoader software, QV-2000, QV-5500, QV-8000 and QV-3000.

QV-AutoCam can communicate via serial or USB links.

You can now use QV-AutoCam to capture pictures from any DCF (Design Rule for Camera System) compliant camera memory card.

You need a card-reader that mounts the card as a disk drive volume, with it’s own drive letter.

Important note for Windows 2000 users: Do not install Casio's USB driver that comes with the camera on Windows 2000 systems. It can render your system unbootable. Click Here to find out how to get USB support working on Windows 2000. Click Here to find out what to do if you have destroyed your system by installing Casio's driver.

Automatic Capture
AutoCapture is the easiest way yet to download your pictures. When autocapture is active, you just plug your camera into the PC and QV-AutoCam does the rest -- downloads each picture, saves it, deletes it from the camera.

QV-AutoCam can then automatically print your pictures or even send them by FTP to a website. Apart from making picture downloads dummy-proof, here's some other things you could do with autocapture:

• Set up a webcam (especially useful for those cameras that can't take a picture under PC control). Switch the camera to REC mode, take a picture, switch the camera back to PLAY -- QV-AutoCam does the rest.
• PhotoCopier -- set up AutoCapture to print each picture. Take a picture, plug the camera into the PC and the picture is printed automatically.

Thumbnail Browser
If you've had a digital camera for any length of time you will have discovered that it's a great way to fill up your hard-disk with images. Often it can be difficult to find the one you want.

QV-AutoCam includes a handy Thumbnail Browser that lets you quickly and easily "see" the pictures (CAM and JPEG files) on your disk.

Keywords
The Thumbnail Browser makes it simple to scan your picture collection, and by adding keywords to your pictures you can find specific images easily.

You can give your pictures keywords (such as "car", "holiday" or anything you like). To make it easy, you can select a group of pictures and add several keywords in one go. Suppose you have just been to the beach taking pictures. Later you could download the pictures, select all of them and add the keyword "beach".

The purpose of Keywords is to allow you to find your pictures again afterwards. You can search your whole picture collection and QV-AutoCam will display the thumbnails of all the pictures that match. You can then use them like normal thumbnails -- print them, copy to a floppy, etc.

This very simple but powerful tool turns your picture collection from a jumble of files into an instantly viewable, organized collection.

Automatic Camera
You can use QV-AutoCam to take pictures at timed intervals (e.g. every 10 minutes). After each picture is taken it can be fetched back to the PC and deleted from the camera (if you like -- so that the camera memory doesn't fill up). Once you have captured a series of shots you can view a slide show or animation of the frames.

(This function is not supported by all cameras - click here for more details)

Live WebCam
You can extend the Automatic Camera so that after taking each picture, it sends it to a location on the Internet using FTP (File Transfer Protocol). By this means you can set up a "live" WebCam.

(This function is not supported by all cameras - click here for more details)

Faster Picture Downloads
QV-AutoCam can download at speeds up to 115,200 baud. This can make the downloads faster:
Example : Download 36 fine mode images from QV-100 and save as CAM files :

QV-Link 2.01 at 56kbps (maximum speed) : 9 Minutes
QV-AutoCam at 56kbps : 8 Minutes
QV-AutoCam at 115kbps : 5 Minutes

Better Image Quality
QV-AutoCam can often produce much better quality images than QV-Link. This is especially true for QV-xx series cameras (e.g. QV-10, QV-10A, QV-11, etc.), but less so with newer cameras. Have a look at these two images. They are both produced from the same camera picture, taken with a QV-10A.

The first picture is produced with QV-Link; the second with QV-AutoCam. Both are unretouched. The QV-AutoCam image is actually slightly smaller (18 Kbytes compared to 21 Kbytes) because the JPEG quality setting was fairly low. You can alter this setting in QV-AutoCam to produce even better images than the one shown here.

Printing Multiple Pictures on a Page
The quality of modern ink-jet printers (such as the Epson Photo range) is so good that pictures taken with a QV camera and printed look remarkably like photographs, especially when printed on Photo-Quality Glossy paper.

The only problem : this paper is expensive. But for some reason it is more economical to buy larger sheet sizes (A4) rather than the postcard sized ones. This is one reason that you might want to print several pictures on each page. (There are of course other reasons as well)

QV-AutoCam lets you print as many pictures as you like on each page. You can say how many rows and columns of pictures you want, and whether you want picture titles and borders.

You can also set the size of the margin, so that you can print right up to the edge of the paper if you like -- don't waste any more of that expensive glossy paper!

Contact Sheets
These can be useful for indexing pictures (e.g. for use on a web site). But contact sheets are also useful when you are using the built-in image retoucher to adjust Brightness, Color, etc. After each variation you can add a copy of the picture to the contact sheet so that you can compare them side-by-side.

Animation and Mini-Movies
The newest Casio cameras, (the QV-770 and the QV-5000SX and later models) have the facility to record "Mini-Movies" -- several of movie frames. You can play these Mini-Movies directly in QV-AutoCam, and then save them in standard Microsoft AVI format (this means that you can play them on any Windows PC, or with a browser such as Netscape or Internet Explorer)

Users of older Casio cameras can also make "Mini-Movies" (animated clips) from a set of single pictures. For example, you could use a series of AutoCam time-delay pictures to create time-lapse photography, or you can make an animation sequence using the "take-a-picture, move-it-a-bit, take-a-picture, move-it-a-bit" technique. As you would expect, QV-AutoCam lets you save these animations in AVI format.

Here are a couple of examples. The first one, clouds.avi (314kb), was produced using time-lapse photography and shows storm clouds passing overhead. The second, pens.avi (545kb), is a silly animation using some felt pens. (Once the file is loaded, click to see it play). Both were made with a QV-10A camera.

clouds.avi (314kb) pens.avi (545kb)

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