VCS (Visual Communication Suite)
Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista and MacOS 8.5-9.2
Camera System: Professional, Personal, PVC-100, PVC-100C
A versatile and easy to use application suite for the Professional camera system, the Pixera Visual Communication Suite offers a full set of image capture and archiving tools.
The VCS software application is used by thousands of laboratories around world, for basic, reliable microscopy imaging.
Features
Pixera Viewfinder
The Pixera Viewfinder application provides complete, through-the-lens live viewing capability with highly sophisticated controls for adjusting color balance (automatically or manually) and other image parameters on the live image. Interactive tools are also provided for other image manipulations. The Viewfinder may be adjusted in size from fast frame rate 160x120 pixel resolution to full VGA 640x480 (800x600 for Macintosh) resolution. Images may be captured at a variety of resolutions up to 1260x960 (1280x1024 for Macintosh) pixel high definition quality.
Pixera Studio
The Pixera Studio application provides general-purpose still image editing capability for images captured directly from Viewfinder or retrieved from Album. Still images may be zoomed, panned, cropped, printed, and drawn upon. A variety of image filters are available for interactively specifying filter parameters using a preview dialog, and also for adjusting color values using slider controls. Images may be sent directly through e-mail at the touch of a button.
Pixera Album
The Pixera Album application provides a means for archiving files captured directly from Viewfinder, processed in Studio, or recorded in Motion (Windows only). A multi-level hierarchy may be created for storing and retrieving images by category and displayed in thumbnail image representation. A database file is created which stores a variety of information about each Album image or motion sequence as well as specific file locations. A query function allows images to be retrieved based on keyword combinations or properties.
Windows
Pixera Motion
The Pixera Motion application allows low to medium resolution sequences to be recorded from the Pixera camera and stored in AVI format. Audio may be recorded together with the video, and time lapse, stop motion, and delayed recording settings are also available. Recording times may be scheduled and AVI files sent through e-mil at the touch of a button.
Pixera TWAIN Viewfinder
Like the standard Viewfinder, the Pixera TWAIN Viewfinder module provides complete, through-the-lens live viewing capability with highly sophisticated controls for adjusting color balance (automatically or manually) various filters, and other image parameters on the live image. Interactive tools are also provided for flipping cropping, and other image manipulations. The TWAIN Viewfinder may be viewed in one of two different sizes. Images may be captured directly from most TWAIN-compliant applications at a variety of resolutions up to 1260x960 pixel high definition quality.
Pixera Video for Windows Driver
A Video for Windows driver is provided with the Pixera Visual Communication Suite which allows the Pixera camera to be selected as a motion sequence source within supported videoconferencing and video editing applications.
MacOS
Adobe Photoshop Plug-in
The Pixera Adobe Photoshop Plug-In allows you to capture images directly into Adobe Photoshop and other applications supporting Photoshop plug-ins using the Pixera camera. The plug-in provides complete, through-the-lens live viewing capability and allows images to be captured at a variety of resolutions from 320x240 up to 1260x1024 pixel high definition quality.
Pixera Macintosh VDIG
A Quicktime VDIG (Video Digitizer) module is provided with the Pixera Visual Communication Suite and is automatically installed in the System Extensions QuickTime folder. This allows the Pixera Camera to be selected as a motion sequence source for supported videoconferencing and video editing applications.