Elsa Erazor III Video - Supplied Software
As far as the video controls are concerned, it would seem that Star Trek truely inspired the software developers. The videotext mode doesn't appear to be very purposeful. What do you need this for if the board doesn't even have a TV tuner? The settings for color and brilliance were unsatisfactory and once you've changed them, there is no possibility to return to the standard settings. The functions are simply too rudimentary.
An absolute driver botch-job: the 'Elsa Compressed' mode is instable, only MJPEG works fine. And what for heaven's sake, are the resolutions 1024 x 768 and higher doing here? European PAL television stops at 768 x 576, HDTV doesn't exist yet and couldn't be processed by the video capture chip anyway. If you click on the 1024 x 768 resolution, or a higher one, then the system simply crashes.
The sequencer in the MainActor package makes a professional impression, but only at first glance. "Va", "Fx" or "Aa" aren't exactly self-explanatory terms, something which left a particularly bad taste in our mouths in view of the fact that a manual wasn't in the product box either. And you have to download the MainActor software from the Internet too ...
Users who were led to believe that they could use the Video Editor to directly record videos are mistaken. The integrated function only leads to fatal system crashes. After re-installing the operating system three times and after playing with various driver versions, we finally gave up. The board is good for playing with, but not for videos :-(
