QV-AutoCam What's New

What's New

*NEW* Version 1.5 -- 11-September-1998
This version contains major improvements to the image processing. We have developed a special correction for Casio Cameras, which you can apply Automatically (where QV-AutoCam analyses your picture and suggests a suitable amount of correction), or manually, to override the suggested setting.

We've also improved the Retouch facility, so that you can adjust the saturation of individual colors. And to cap it all, we've speeded up the image handling.

14-August-98 - IrDA support for the QV-770 allows you to use the built-in infra-red port to transfer images to the PC.

And Dial-Up Networking support now means that QV-AutoCam can connect-to and disconnect-from the Internet when it needs to send a picture. This makes it much easier to set up a WebCam which takes pictures fairly infrequently (e.g. every hour).

17-July-98 QV-AutoCam now supports the new QV-5000SX megapixel camera for all basic functions, and now MiniMovies as well.

You can play MiniMovies directly (either from CAM or JPEG files). Orientation is handled correctly so that you can make portrait or landscape movies. You can save your movies in AVI format.

You can also make MiniMovies (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 using the "take-a-picture, move-it-a-bit, take-a-picture, move-it-a-bit" technique. QV-AutoCam lets you save these animations in standard AVI format. (see here for some samples)

We have included a new Connection Wizard to help you get your camera connected. Most of the time getting connected is not a problem, but with PCs being the way they are, there are times that a bit of help is needed.

Version 1.4 was released on 3rd June 1998.

New in version 1.4:

Thumbnails browser -- you can view your CAM files and JPEGs on disk with the greatest of ease with the new disk browser.
Picture properties -- you can give your pictures a Title, Description and up to 40 Keywords. You can then use the Find function to locate pictures at a later date.
Contact Sheets -- now you can define the size of contact sheets, the number of pictures on them, and so on. Not only useful as indexes, contact sheets can be handy when retouching (add the result of each retouch to a contact sheet, and then you can see which is best when comparing them side-by-side).
Direct FTP -- You can now send any picture file to the Internet using FTP directly from your disk.
MiniLab Wizard -- a new "expert" to help you perform common tasks. Not only can it help you fetch pictures from the camera, but also print pictures, set up their orientation, make contact sheets, etc.
Slide Show -- select some pictures from your disk and give a slide show. If you set the slide show speed to the fastest it can be used to animate Autocam-captured images.

Coming Soon

BeauSoft WebCam Village -- We'll be setting up a website where users can put their WebCams -- for free! What's more, you'll be able to "chat" to other webcam owners.
If the process of setting up a webcam seems too complicated, then fear not : QV-AutoCam will take care of all the details for you. For users who already have a webcam, you will be able to "publish" some or all of your pictures to the BeauSoft site as well. Watch this space...