BlackMagic Book

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To experience BlackMagic at home you will need the following:

  1. A computer running the Windows 98, 2000 or XP operating system. If you are running Windows 98 you will have to copy the opengl32.dll, which you can download here, into the c:windowssystem32 directory.
2. A USB web camera. Cameras which work with this software include:
Labtec WebCam (USB)
Logitech QuickCam Pro 3000/4000 (USB)
Logitech QuickCam Express (USB)
Micro Webcam Mobile (USB)
Orange Micro Inc. iBOT 2 (USB 2.0)
Philips PCVC750K (USB)
3. The Microsoft DirectX 8.1 runtime software installed on your computer. This can be downloaded from here.
4. A copy of the BlackMagic software, which can be downloaded from here [1.8 MB]:
Please click to download
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Once you have downloaded the BlackMagic software, please use the following installation steps:
Step 1 Download the setup-file for the BlackMagicHome application.
Step 2 Install the application by a doubleclick on the downloaded file.
Step 3 Print out the patterns in the /patterns directory.
Step 4 Plug in camera.
Step 5 Start the program from the start menu.
Step 6 When the camera dialogue comes up, select 30 frames per second and click OK.
Step 7 Point the camera at the printed pattern, making sure that the entire white square is in view.
Step 8 If the video image is reversed so that text appears backwards click the 'flip horizontal'-box on the camera dialogue.
Press the ESC key to exit program.


If you have problems with downloading, installing or running the BlackMagic application,
please visit our forum.