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Create or Author a New Project

Authoring or creating a movie project involves:

Creating video

Creating menus with buttons

Adding movie clips to your project

Previewing the project

Recording to disc from the project

For advanced editing and story creation capabili-
ties, use the Pinnacle Systems’ Studio 7 software.

1. Click 

New MyDVD Project

 

on the Wizard, then

the 

Next

 

button or click 

New Project

 on the

toolbar.

Choose Your Style

A style consists of a background image and a layout
for menu buttons and labels. For more information
on editing styles, see the MyDVD User Guide.

2. Select a category of menu styles from the

Category

 drop-down list.

3. Scroll through the list, click the style to use for

your layout (for example, background, menus,
and buttons).

4. Click the 

Finish

 

button.

Add Movie Clips to Your DVD Menu

5. Click 

Get Movies

 on the toolbar.

6. Locate the clip you want to link to your menu.

Note: 

MyDVD saves movie clips to the 

My Videos

 folder

located in the 

My Documents

 

folder on your desktop. You

can save movie clips in other locations.

7. Click 

Open

 

to add movie clips to your DVD

project.

Scroll to
desired style

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Summary of Contents for Compaq Presario,Presario 6021

Page 1: ...Compaq Presario MyMovieSTUDIO Getting Started My Movie Final p65 2 6 2002 7 20 PM 1 ...

Page 2: ...r rented DVD movies are encrypted to prevent illegal copying Take a moment to familiarize yourself with the components that enable you to create professional looking DVDs With your Compaq Presario MyMovieSTUDIO bundled solution you should have A DVD R RW and CD RW Combo drive installed in your computer Digital Video Center 1 IEEE 1394 port with 2 USB ports MyDVDsoftware packagedwith this booklet T...

Page 3: ...mpaq Presario computer Next connectthehardware Connect your camcorder or other recording device to the IEEE 1394 port on the front of your Compaq Presario computer Insert a DVD or CD disc into the DVD R RW and CD RW Combo drive and you are ready to make DVDs or CDs Create home DVD discs Create CDs What can you do Store data on CD RW DVD RW discs Now that you have the Compaq Presario MyMovieSTUDIO ...

Page 4: ...ut advanced editing If you are a video enthusiast who wants to perform advanced editing on your DVD movies Studio 7 is available With Studio 7 you can enhance your movie with titles transitions music and other special effects You can create video audio and graphic files in other applications and use them in your DVD projects For more information see Preparing files using other applications in the ...

Page 5: ...on on your desktop or from the Start button click All Programs MyDVD then MyDVD It is recommended that you view the MyDVD software at a screen resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels To modify your screen resolution 1 Right click your desktop 2 Click Properties then the Settings tab 3 In the Screen Resolution area click and drag the slider to 1024 x 768 pixels 4 Click Apply then OK If you need additional ...

Page 6: ...d Direct To DVD Wizard Start the Capture Wizard Create a DVD Click to create a button that links to a new menu Click to open the Select a Style window lets you choose and edit the menu styles This button links to the next menu in a sequence of menus This button links to the previous menu in a sequence of menus Indicates how much disc space the project will fill Menu label Click to edit the text Bu...

Page 7: ...roject name maximum number of characters is 20 and click the Next button Choose Recording Media You must have media in the drive or you will not be allowed to proceed If you record DVD video content on a CD R or CD RW disc you can only playback the CD on a desktop computer with a CD ROM or DVD ROM drive This CD does not playback on a DVD set top player The MyDVD software includes a special version...

Page 8: ... button to finish recording A message displays on the screen to indicate the process is complete You can fit this amount of video on the disc If you select a video DVD 4 7 GB CD 700 MB CD 650 MB quality setting of Best 60 minutes 9 minutes 8 minutes Better 120 minutes 18 minutes 16 minutes Good 180 minutes 27 minutes 24 minutes Scroll to desired style Note A typical Direct to DVD project using a 6...

Page 9: ...layout for menu buttons and labels For more information on editing styles see the MyDVD User Guide 2 Select a category of menu styles from the Category drop down list 3 Scroll through the list click the style to use for your layout for example background menus and buttons 4 Click the Finish button Add Movie Clips to Your DVD Menu 5 Click Get Movies on the toolbar 6 Locate the clip you want to link...

Page 10: ... and a dvd extension Create a DVD You can record your project to A DVD R or DVD RW disc A CD R or CD RW disc For more information on DVD and CD disc properties see the MyDVD User Guide 10 Insert a disc in your DVD R RW and CD RW Combo drive 11 Click Make Disc on the toolbar 12 Choose your recording options on the Make Disc Setup window 13 Click OK to start recording Note Depending on the size of y...

Page 11: ...nal menus Delete buttons Change menu styles Modify menu and buttons labels Add Video Clips When creating movie clips you can use chapter points to separate your video into one or more sections that are linked to menu buttons If you add chapter points while capturing your video MyDVD creates menu buttons for each chapter point and labels them consecutively with the project name For example if the p...

Page 12: ...o Clips You may want to edit or trim your video clip to remove unwanted material 1 On the menu editor double click the button you want to edit Note If the menu contains chapter points you must click the button that contains the first chapter point 2 Drag the Green Green Green Green Green slider bar to the right to modify the start frame 3 Drag the Red slider bar to the left to modify the end frame...

Page 13: ...s that are used for navigation If you delete a video clip MyDVD deletes Buttons associated with clip Buttons linked to chapter points in that project Video clip from the project but does not delete the file from your computer When you delete buttons the remaining buttons move to fill the empty space 1 On the menu editor right click the button you want to delete 2 Click Delete Chapter Delete Movie ...

Page 14: ...hange the labels of buttons and menus in your project You can only change the font size or color of text by choosing a different style or creating a custom one 1 Click the button label you want to modify 2 Enter the new text 3 Press Enter or click anywhere on the menu editor outside the text box to stop editing the text Preview your project You can preview your project at any time using the remote...

Page 15: ... ROM or DVD R RW hardware DVD R Data Yes Yes Requires DVD ROM or No only once DVD R RW hardware and software DVD Movie Yes Yes Requires DVD ROM or Yes varies per only once DVD R RW hardware model and software DVD RW Data Yes Yes Requires DVD R RW No hardware and software DVD Movie Yes Yes Requires DVD R RW Varies per model hardware and software Drive and Media Information You can use several diffe...

Page 16: ... Center with a built in 1394 connector on your Compaq Desktop PC DVD R 5 Pack DVD R 4 7 GB discs store your data swiftly and permanently They cannot be erased or overwritten Use them for making your DVD movies DVD RW 5 Pack DVD RW is rewritable up to about 1 000 times Use them as an ideal storage medium that will supersede video cassettes Note DVD RWplayback requires a DVD playback device that sup...

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