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Instant DVD for MAC is a fun and easy way to 
get DVD and VCD video into your Macintosh 
so you can archive your home movies.  Instant 
DVD then lets you publish the video to CD or 
DVD disk or publish to the Internet or send 
the video back to a VCR or camcorder for 
distribution on Tape.

All the video compression takes place in the 
Instant DVD device so when the video comes 
through the USB port it is already compressed
in the format you desire such as MPEG-1 for VCD (Video on CD) or MPEG-2 for  DVD 
(Digital Versatile Disc).

USB Instant DVD includes several flexible and dynamic software tools for your video 
projects:

Instant DVD for Mac Overview

USB Instant DVD for Mac 4

 

USB Instant DVD for Mac 5

 

Summary of Contents for INSTANT MUSIC FOR MAC -

Page 1: ...USB Instant DVD for MAC www adstech com Technical Support 562 926 4338 Technical Support Hours 8am 5pm M F PST User s Guide Second Edition USB Instant DVD for MAC...

Page 2: ...USB Instant DVD for Mac 2...

Page 3: ...antability and fitness for a particular purpose The information furnished within this written document is for information purposes only and is subject to change without notice ADS Technologies assumes...

Page 4: ...ck to a VCR or camcorder for distribution on Tape All the video compression takes place in the Instant DVD device so when the video comes through the USB port it is already compressed in the format yo...

Page 5: ...k This is very important to know since 3 hours 180 minutes of video that you capture at 4 Mb sec would result in a file size on your hard drive of 5400 MB MegaBytes or about 5 4 GB GigaBytes This is m...

Page 6: ...nterface is sufficient since USB offers up to 12 Megabits of throughput per second Plenty of bandwidth to capture video with DVD quality If you plan to make DVD or VCD movies USB Instant DVD for Mac i...

Page 7: ...er that you can buy uses either a Panasonic or Pioneer drive You can also take an internal IDE DVD Burner from either Panasonic or Pioneer and mount them inside an external 1394 enclosure You can purc...

Page 8: ...nimum hard disk space recommended for capturing and editing video Available USB Port Additional Requirements for Publihsing VCD ir DVD Disk CD RW drive required to write burn VCD or SVCD disk DVD R RW...

Page 9: ...nd USB connection 5 Verify Hardware Installation 6 Start Making DVD Movies Check USB Instant DVD Contents Hardware a USB Instant DVD device b 5 VDC Power supply c 6 ft USB Cable d 6 ft A V In Cable RC...

Page 10: ...s to the RCA Video In jack and Audio In jack on the back of your USB Instant DVD This step is optional if you dont plan to send video back to tv or vcr skip to software installation Connect your USB I...

Page 11: ...SB Instant DVD CD on your Desktop 4 Go to the Finder File Menu on the upper left and click duplicate 5 The CD will now be copied to your desktop Plug It In In this section you will Connect USB Instant...

Page 12: ...y remove unwanted scenes from your captured MPEG movies Built In players allow you to play MPEG Movies or QuickTime Movies About MPEG MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group is the international Standard Or...

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Page 14: ...ntosh are all connected properly Please refer to the HARDWARE INSTALLATION section of this manual if you need help Open the USB Instant DVD folder that you may have copied to your desktop or inside yo...

Page 15: ...cked Capty or Album first Clicking Quit will exit the application When you click on CAPTY IMPORT ALBUM you will always have a navigation bar on the topmost side of the screen that can take you to all...

Page 16: ...VIDEO Clicking on the CAPTY button will take you to this window The first step is to check your capture settings Click on the tab that says capture This will take you to this window USB Instant DVD f...

Page 17: ...els check the Capture Settings table in the USING PixeDV for MAC Overview section of the MANUAL MPEG2 Select MPEG2 if you plan to create a DVD Movie Select your quality level For a more detailed expla...

Page 18: ...blue area of the interface about 1 second after you click Start Capture This one second delay should be accounted for when you start capturing video With the capture process started you will notice th...

Page 19: ...This error would normally be caused by selecting the wrong video Source under capture settings Please make sure that you select S Video if you have an S Video source or Composite if you have a composi...

Page 20: ...n whatever order and play them back Click on the START Button to start the export process Click on the STOP Button to stop Once the export process is started you will see this activity at the bottom l...

Page 21: ...SCREEN or the IMPORT button from MENU BAR will take you to this screen You can browse easily to any directory on any drive eg local drive firewire drives etc and drag other media like DV QUICKTIME PIC...

Page 22: ...compatible files and pictures that you have imported into PixeDV for Mac via the IMPORT function On the top left you can see a series of 5 buttons that can organize the view options of the specific al...

Page 23: ...after another without user intervention For this function to work two or more files must be hi lighted Create a browser album Create another ALBUM where you can store organize and capture video files...

Page 24: ...ALBUMS ETC You can also click on the SOURCE Button to manage the MEDIA Files that you have inside the hi lighted ALBUM Here you can Move Copy Delete etc any of the files that you might have in a speci...

Page 25: ...ility to accurately trim and cut MPEG2 files Cutting up MPEG2 files is very hard to do and the ability to do this is a very key feature of this software package To open MPEG FILES in MPEG CUTTER hold...

Page 26: ...RT Drag the Slider to a part of the video where you want to STOP the trimming process A frame will display in this box where you stopped the slider Drag that frame into the box labeled END The process...

Page 27: ...st above the EXECUTE Button To SAVE your trimmed video you have to click on the EXECUTE Button This will save the TRIMMED FILE to your hard drive The original file will be left untouched MPEG CUTTER S...

Page 28: ...mount at 1 Sec clicking on the arrow Key s will move the frame in the main PREVIEW WINDOW forward approximately 1 second Setting up your Step amount for 1 Minute will moved the frame forward approxima...

Page 29: ...t will take a standard MPEG FILE Some applications though require something called an ELEMENTARY MPEG2 FILE This is a file format where MPEG VIDEO and MPEG AUDIO are on two separate files PixeDV for M...

Page 30: ...SOURCE FOLDER1 and so on If you open the folder you will see the MPEG2 AUDIO and VIDEO FILES The AIF extension is for AUDIO MPEG FILES The M2V extension is for VIDEO MPEG FILES The files can now be e...

Page 31: ...de Double clicking on any of the video thumbnails will play the file in the MPEG PLAYER shown below You can resize the window change the volume level and start pause and stop the video playback The MP...

Page 32: ...reen that appears when you play DVD Video or Video CD A sub menu screen which consists of movie buttons inserted in the Title menu An image data file for DVD Video or Video CD The image for DVD Video...

Page 33: ...based on your country There are two main kinds of video format NTSC and PAL NTSC is mainly used in Japan and U S A and PAL is mainly used in Europe and China Select an Audio format CaptyDVD supports...

Page 34: ...MPEG2 movie is not listed above you cannot use the movie file as content If the resolution of your MPEG1 movie is not listed above even if captured by a Capty series product you cannot use the movie f...

Page 35: ...um Title menu mode is where you create your Title menu This is an example screenshot of the Title menu mode 1 Mode selection icons By clicking on these you can switch between modes 2 Layout tools By c...

Page 36: ...the status of the title menus that have been set up Title menus are numbered to show order and color coded to show status they are blue if there is a relevant title menu gray if there is no title men...

Page 37: ...there is no Title button placed in the first Title menu you cannot create a second Title menu How to add a Text object When you add text to your title menu you can also add shadows or adjust text size...

Page 38: ...t the movie button you have placed Then Title menu movie panel will appear Scroll slider to select a scene to be the movie button image How to resize a button In order to resize a button check the Fre...

Page 39: ...own menu in the panel How to use the Contents list window Your album contents within the PixeDV for Mac will be displayed as thumbnails in the Contents list window Icons in the Contents List window 1...

Page 40: ...p method directly from your desktop to the Title menu If you use the Drag Drop method for a still image the image will be placed as a background for the Title menu In order to set markers double click...

Page 41: ...lay area This TV display area becomes the title menu during disc playback 2 Text Object The text placed in the layout is a called a text object Text objects vary from titles of a chapter menu to regul...

Page 42: ...it into layout When a thumbnail is placed in the layout window a chapter button will be created Add shadows to the Chapter buttons Display the Chapter menu Chapter panel by clicking a chapter button...

Page 43: ...tle menus then the last title menu will be displayed As a result if you wish to create a disc with looped playback you should only create one title menu because the timeout will only be functional for...

Page 44: ...een menus Use the Play key to play back the title button selected in the menu However this key may not function in some players Operation During Movie Title Playback In Capty DVD VCD you can perform t...

Page 45: ...k key to play the previous title When the first still image is played Use Play key to start playback from a temporary stop Pause key Stops playback temporarily Stop key Stops disc playback TITLE key d...

Page 46: ...the Chapter menu Select chapter button and menu navigate button with the Direction keys Press the Action key to start selected highlighted button Stop key Stops disc playback Title key Displays the ti...

Page 47: ...o move between menus Use the Play key to playback the 1st title in the menu Operation During Title Menu Display In Capty DVD VCD you can perform the operations listed below during playback of a movie...

Page 48: ...s to move to the next or previous image Use Play key to start playback from a temporary stop Pause key Stops playback temporarily Stop key Stops disc playback Return key Diplays the title menu where t...

Page 49: ...per slideshow You can edit in the Slideshow edit mode by double clicking a slideshow button you have placed on the title menu or by clicking the Slide option while selecting a slideshow button Adding...

Page 50: ...nction will not be applied Contents order In the Slideshow contents will be played in the order of the thumbnails displayed in the Slide list window To change content order change location of thumbnai...

Page 51: ...to preview your contents before you start writing When you are ready to write preview your project to test your menus buttons etc Use the remote control image just like a real one Note In the Preview...

Page 52: ...back to current Title menu 5 Menu key Only available for DVD Video Goes back to Chapter menu 6 Arrow keys Only available for DVD Video Moves selection of displayed buttons 7 Confirm key Only available...

Page 53: ...xt should be one bit characters A to Z alphabet 0 to 9 numbers and 30 maximum characters Click the check box Compile disc and select a drive you will use Without a check on Compile disc it will not st...

Page 54: ...button shape A mask image that specify the form or shape of the button itself The part inside the shape is black the deleted outside part is white Create this image in gray scale 3 Thumbnail mask This...

Page 55: ...n the recent version this function cannot be used Saving buttons Click Save and create a button from the setting Indicate the destination folder and name in the save folder dialog box and save Re edit...

Page 56: ...uld be in the preview window button and then click Save to save it When you save button image file in the place stated below you will be able to choose it from the list in Capty DVD VCD For MacOS 8 6...

Page 57: ...button a bounding box for adjusting position and size will appear in the button preview window Drag any of the four corners to change the display size Press the mouse within the box and drag to adjust...

Page 58: ...lled a codec Compression Making a file smaller by removing redundant data Nearly all digital video is compressed in some way or another Compression is achieved through a codec Data Rate The amount of...

Page 59: ...fps There are other differences In the world of DV and DVD NTSC has the video resolution of 720x480 pixels while PAL has 720x576 pixels Source The source or origin of your media usually a camcorder or...

Page 60: ...eived by ADS 5 Once the product is received at the factory it will be tested and then repaired or replaced 6 Turn around time is approximately one week A repaired or replacement product will be shippe...

Page 61: ...g the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation between...

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Page 63: ...Cerritos CA 90703 Phone 562 926 1928 Technical Support 562 926 4338 Technical Support Hours M F 8am 5pm PST Fax 562 926 0518 European Office Shannon Industrial Estate Shannon Co Clare Ireland Phone 35...

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