Additional Notes

The text overlay is generated by VideoRay Cockpit. It is therefore only displayed on the digital video. Text overlay is not displayed on the analog Video Out signal, which is delivered raw from the ROV.

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Video Text Overlay

VideoRay Cockpit allows text to be overlaid over the video image. This text will be recorded along with the video in snapshots and video recordings. The text overlay information includes:

Date¹
Time¹
ROV Heading
ROV Depth
Water Temperature

The Windows^® date/time settings are used to format the display of the Date and Time.

In addition to text, VideoRay Cockpit supports a digital on-screen graphic, or logo, in the lower right corner of the video display. See the section on Digital On-Screen Graphic for more information.

Text Overlay Locations

The positions of these text overlay items are as indicated in the image below. The Heading is preceded by the letter "H," and the Depth is preceded by the letter "D." The depth and temperature units are based on the System of Measure selection in the System Settings tab of the User Settings window.

Controlling the Text Overlay

The text overlay can be toggled on of off by pressing the Text Overlay toggle button in the lower right of the video window. Currently, all items are toggled on or off together.

For indexing and cataloging purposes, you may want to have the text overlay displayed when you start recording a video, but then turn it off after a few seconds so it does not detract from the video image.

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