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DISCRIBE CD Mastering Software

9660 Picker window. This means that they are shared.
Good job.

Set up the options in the ISO-9660 picker window as
desired.

Resolve Aliases - When this option is checked
alias files will be resolved to the original when
they’ve been added into the Macintosh HFS Picker
window.

New Folder - Creates a new, “Untitled Folder,”
within the Macintosh HFS Picker window.

Import Session - Imports data from the previous
session into the session about to be written.

Naming - Allows choosing between Macintosh
naming, which allows for 31 characters of any
type, and ISO Level 1, which allows for the stan-
dard ISO-9660. Choosing ISO Level 1 will trun-
cate file names to adhere to the 8.3 file naming
convention, removing any foreign characters, re-

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Summary of Contents for Discribe

Page 1: ...User s Manual h a r i s M a c E n g i n e e r i n g...

Page 2: ...hich appear on and in the SOFTWARE 3 Reverse Engineering You agree that you will not attempt and if you are a cor poration you will use your best efforts to prevent your employees and contractors from...

Page 3: ...entire agreement between you and CharisMac which supersedes any prior agreement whether written or oral relat ing to the subject matter of this Agreement 11 Governing Law This Agreement will be gover...

Page 4: ...ull Down Menus 24 File Pull Down Menu 24 Utilities Pull Down Menu 27 Web Pull Down Menu 27 Discribe s Other Functions 29 Macintosh HFS 30 Multi Session Macintosh HFS CD ROMs 33 ISO 9660 35 ISO 9660 XA...

Page 5: ...ing an Image 56 Writing the Saved Image to CD 56 CD to CD RW Copy 57 Select Your Read Device 57 CD Extra 59 Video CD 61 DVD Video Audio 64 Universal Disk Format UDF 68 Troubleshooting 71 Glossary of C...

Page 6: ...hts reserved Reproduction in whole or part without prior written approval from CharisMac Engineering Inc is expressly prohibited The Discribe software is protected by copyright law and international t...

Page 7: ...new to CD record ing the Discribe Quick Start provides a unique Anti Wizard interface that can create a CD in as few as 2 mouse clicks The Quick Start performs the common CD recording tasks CD to CD c...

Page 8: ...fore installing Discribe please take the following precautions Remove any non Apple and third party CD ROM Drivers We recommend you remove any CD ROM driver extensions from other manufacturers The inc...

Page 9: ...s not open automatically double click the CD ROM icon to open the window 4 Double click on the Discribe Installer file icon Follow the on screen instructions read and agree to the end user license agr...

Page 10: ...Please Take A Moment To CompleteYour Registration Card And Drop It In The Mail or register online at www charis mac com Register Registration EntitlesYou To Technical Support and Product Upgrades Gett...

Page 11: ...and for newer versions of the software that corrects specific problems www charis mac com Support Discribe Or email sup port charismac com 3 For telephone technical support please call 530 885 4420 Be...

Page 12: ...dia is rated for approximately one thousand complete writes to the media the actual number of writes may vary depend ing upon type and brand of media CD R and CD RW drives differ only in the fact that...

Page 13: ...ter a few seconds the splash screen will give way to Discribe s Quick Start menu Discribe s Quick Start Menu While unlike a traditional wizard this menu allows for quick and easy selection of the most...

Page 14: ...lication included with Discribe To get started you can make your selection from one of the three main choices presented drag files you wish to write to CD to auto select the disc format or you can cli...

Page 15: ...write to CD Discribe will prompt you for a save location for these files when they are dragged to the in terface Select the desired location and click the Select Your Location button for the conversi...

Page 16: ...nterface Discribe will prompt you to find out where you would like the ex tracted tracks saved to Click the Audio button and you will be presented with an Audio Picker window This window will show all...

Page 17: ...ay that the Finder s List view works click and drag or by Shift clicking on multiple files Setting Audio Tracks Pre Gaps Click the Audio button and you will be presented with the Audio Picker window D...

Page 18: ...a pre gap of two and is not user definable By default Discribe will set the pre gaps of tracks 2 and higher to 2 seconds Previewing Audio Tracks You can preview the audio within the track by select in...

Page 19: ...your tracks and set the de sired pre gaps you are ready to write the CD If you are still in the Discribe Audio Picker window then click the OK button to return to the main interface Verify that the co...

Page 20: ...roof JustLink type technologies If your CD RW drive does not sup port BURN Proof JustLink writing this option will be grayed out In Background Options allows Discribe to write CDs in the background le...

Page 21: ...D button Notice the change in Discribe s interface You can pro ceed by doing one of the following Drag and Drop Directly to the DiscribeWindow Drag the data you wish to write to CD from your hard disk...

Page 22: ...cts much like the list view in a Finder win dow allowing you to rename and move files and fold ers around to suit your needs Take note that the CD name is listed as Untitled be sure to change the name...

Page 23: ...nto the Macintosh HFS Picker window New Folder Creates a new Untitled Folder within the Macintosh HFS Picker window Add You can add a single file to the Macintosh HFS Picker window by clicking the Add...

Page 24: ...he Start button to begin the write process A Word About Multi Session Macintosh HFS CD ROMs There is nothing special that needs to be done to write multiple Macintosh HFS sessions to a CD other than s...

Page 25: ...that states No reader selected Select the drive other than your CD RW drive to be used as the read source for your original CD If no CD is within the drive it will prompt you to insert a disc to read...

Page 26: ...n click the Write Disc button The Write Options dia log will show up Set up your options forTestWrite Ignore Read Errors Using BURN Proof JustLink Write In Background Write Speed Cache Disc to File Be...

Page 27: ...functions File Pull Down Menu Open Project Open a previously saved Discribe project file Save Project Saves the current Discribe project into a file Save Project As Saves the current project with a n...

Page 28: ...e Quick Start screen will appear after the Discribe application is launched Disabling this preference will take you directly to the Main Application win dow upon the launch of the Discribe software Pr...

Page 29: ...default operation Times can still be customized in Discribe s Audio Picker win dow Preferences Advanced Writing Settings Enable Background Writing on all Drives Not Recommended Generally not recommend...

Page 30: ...Write Physical Image Writes a physical image to hard disk of the data in your current project Erase Disc Allows you to erase CD RW media so it can be written to again Eject Disc Ejects the tray of the...

Page 31: ...duct Selecting this item takes you to the Discribe product section of our website Home Selecting this item launches your default web browser and takes you to the Charismac homepage Store Takes you to...

Page 32: ...werful features that can be accessed through the maininterface Upon launch of Discribe just click the close window box in the upper left corner of the interface This will reveal the main interface You...

Page 33: ...k hard disk partition CD ROM removable media mounted disk image etc of any size but must contain less than 650 MB of data This option allows you to set up a disc exactly the way that you want it to lo...

Page 34: ...Keep in mind that the name of the volume will become the name of the CD and the volume s icon will become the CD s icon Name and paste the icon you want the CD to have onto the volume you can do this...

Page 35: ...t Apple system CD available Remember that this volume has to meet certain requirements Cannot be your Macintosh s startup volume All files must be closed and must appear just as you want them on the C...

Page 36: ...then click the Write Disc button Set up your options for Test Write In Background Open Next Ses sion Write Speed and Verify After Writing then click the Start button to begin the write process Multi S...

Page 37: ...ific data but won t work well for backups for most Macintosh soft ware Select the Format Select the ISO 9660 format from the pop up menu in the Discribe main interface screen Main Screen Options Data...

Page 38: ...Data The next step is to edit the file list for your ISO 9660 CD Click the Data button to open the ISO 9660 Picker window You can add your data to the ISO 9660 Picker window by dragging and dropping...

Page 39: ...older within the ISO 9660 Picker window Import Session Imports data from the previous ses sion into the session about to be written Naming Allows choosing between Macintosh nam ing which allows for 31...

Page 40: ...ing the CD Once the data has been added and arranged to your sat isfaction just click OK to return to the Discribe main window Verify that the correct CD RW writer is se lected then click the Write Di...

Page 41: ...les like Quicktime movies etc Select the Format Select the ISO 9660 XA format from the pop up menu in the Discribe main interface screen Main Screen Options Data Clicking this button will pop up the I...

Page 42: ...cker window You can add your data to the ISO 9660 Picker window by dragging and dropping the files on the window The ISO 9660 Picker window acts much the same as a Finder window click the file names t...

Page 43: ...will truncate file names to ad here to the 8 3 file naming convention removing any foreign characters spaces and changing all letters to uppercase For example a file called CD Artwork For Ad will be c...

Page 44: ...ou always do using the instructions above While in the ISO 9660 Picker window be sure click the Import Session button when Discribe prompts you to insert the previously written CD into the re corder D...

Page 45: ...red location and click the Select Your Location button for the conversion to take place Once the conversion has completed the newly con verted file will be added to your project NOTE Note AIFF Files w...

Page 46: ...d navigating to the de sired track or you can remove tracks by selecting them in the Audio Picker window and clicking the Remove button Sequencing Audio Tracks Click the Audio button and you will be p...

Page 47: ...presented with an Audio Picker window Discribe allows you to customize the pre gap or the space at the beginning of a track from 0 to 9 seconds To set the pre gap on a track or tracks select the de si...

Page 48: ...y select ing the desired track and clicking the Play button This also allows you to listen to the tracks and make sure that the tracks are sequenced the way you want them Previewing also lets you list...

Page 49: ...peed and Verify After Writing then click the Start button to begin the write process NOTE Note Discribe allows you to write multiple Audio sessions to the same CD ROM While the written CD with two or...

Page 50: ...e of the data and the Time reflect the data that s been dragged into the window Click the Data Button Click the Data button to reveal the Macintosh HFS Picker window Here you can drag files from the d...

Page 51: ...to the original when they ve been added into the Macintosh HFS Picker window New Folder Creates a new Untitled Folder within the Macintosh HFS Picker window Add You can add a single file to the Macin...

Page 52: ...ged to your sat isfaction just click OK to return to the Discribe main window Verify that the correct CD RW writer is se lected then click the Write Disc button Set up your options for Test Write In B...

Page 53: ...s on the ISO side of the CD ROM neither platform can see each others da ta With that in mind you can share common image files between both platforms so that all the images that are common for both sit...

Page 54: ...Dis cribe interface ISO and Shared Portion of Hybrid Once the Mac portion of the Hybrid disc has been set up it s time to tell Discribe what data you would like in your ISO portion of the disc Click t...

Page 55: ...e Macintosh HFS Picker window New Folder Creates a new Untitled Folder within the Macintosh HFS Picker window Import Session Imports data from the previous session into the session about to be written...

Page 56: ...anges OK Saves changes to the current project Once you are finished setting up your ISO 9660 por tion of the CD ROM click OK to proceed Finish Up with Disc Info If you want you can set up the ISO 9660...

Page 57: ...racted data After you ve selected a save location click the Start button to begin the data extraction process Once the extraction process is complete click Cancel to return to the main interface Writi...

Page 58: ...scribe s main interface select CD to CD RW Copy from the format pop up menu Select Your Read Device From the Source pop up menu select the CD ROM or CD RW drive you wish to use as your read source If...

Page 59: ...n the write process NOTE Note Take care in selecting a write speed with the CD to CD RW Copy function Slower Macs slower CD ROM and CD RW drives may not be able to supply data fast enough to the targe...

Page 60: ...e format pop up menu Set Up the Data You can Drag Data directly to the Discribe interface or you can click the Data button to open up the ISO 9660 picker window With the picker window open you can dra...

Page 61: ...and arrange the au dio at will Set up the options in the audio picker window as de sired and when finished click OK Writing the CD Verify that the correct CD RW writer is selected then click the Write...

Page 62: ...Data Rate 1152Kbit sec some software rounds it to 1150Kbit sec or 1 125Mbit sec NOTE FILM is NTSC encoded video in 24fps or 23 976fps not fre quently used by amateurs unless they convert to Video CD...

Page 63: ...have the MPEG Picker window open click OK to return to Discribe s main window Also note that you can add Audio files to your Video CD project You can do so by dragging them into the main Discribe wind...

Page 64: ...t CD RW writer is selected then click the Write Disc button Set up your options for Test Write Using BURN Proof JustLink In Back ground Open Next Session and Write Speed then click the Start button to...

Page 65: ...reading UDF discs In theory any disc written in this format with video data will be readable in a DVD set top reader for play back Limitations will include the set top reader s ability to work with t...

Page 66: ...ing DVD video that you would like written to the media into the main Discribe window or click the Data button to open Discribe s DVD Picker window and drag the selected files there NOTE Please not tha...

Page 67: ...e resolved to the original when they ve been added into the DVD Picker window New Folder Creates a new Untitled Folder within the DVD Picker window Add You can add a single file to the DVD Picker wind...

Page 68: ...to return to Discribe s main window Writing the Disc Verify that the correct CD RW writer is selected then click the Write Disc button Set up your options for Test Write Using BURN Proof JustLink In B...

Page 69: ...nclude the set top reader s ability to work with the individual disc itself The set top reader s ability to handle different media types CD R CD RW DVD R DVD RW DVD R and DVD RW is dependant upon seve...

Page 70: ...and drag the selected files there NOTE Please not that the sizes of the media differ from one format to the next For instance CD R and CD RW media typicall range in size from 650 to 800 MB Where DVD R...

Page 71: ...ve Removes the selected file from the DVD Picker window Cancel Returns you to the main Discribe soft ware window without saving any changes OK Saves changes to the current project If you have the DVD...

Page 72: ...the reflectivity of the disc itself and have trouble reading CD RW media CD RW media in general will be far less compatible than CD R me dia will Try using different brands of CD R media un til you f...

Page 73: ...n Unplug the CD RW drive from the power outlet Reboot your Mac After the Mac has completed its boot cycle then turn the CD RW drive back on After the CD RW drive s yellow access light goes out launch...

Page 74: ...ecorders can be used to play back CD ROMs some older recorders cannot Check your manufacturer s documentation and make sure the CD ROM Extension is loaded Ensure also that the device is connected and...

Page 75: ...USB USB manager V1 2 or higher or Firewire Firewire V2 1 or higher drivers available from Apple and the USB or Firewire SIM that would have come with the hardware all of which should be loaded in the...

Page 76: ...tion on a Mixed Mode disc measuring from the very beginning of the data area including the computer data in Track 1 Absolute Time In Pre Groove ATIP Absolute time on the disc from the very first addr...

Page 77: ...grams e g multi media presentations by entering commands or menu choices without having to know a programming language Backup Backups are usually data that has been copied from one medium to another s...

Page 78: ...loaded CD recorders use data buffers to ensure a steady stream of data from the host computer to the CD re corder If a CD recorder s buffer becomes empty dur ing recording a buffer underrun error occ...

Page 79: ...interactive multimedia application to be played through a small computer disc player on a home television screen Especially good real time animation video and sound The CD I stan dard is also known as...

Page 80: ...ma tion contained on a CD they cannot write information to it The discs are created by pressing them from a stamper containing a mirror image of the disc Their cost per a unit is low and they are comm...

Page 81: ...every compact disc and the only one used for audio CD s It consists of two Reed Solomon codes interleaved crosswise Compact Disc See CD Compact Disc Digital Audio See CD DA Compact Disc Drive or Play...

Page 82: ...onstant Used with Compact Discs for recording and slower speed reading playing Cost Per Megabyte A measure of the expense in curred per megabyte of usable storage received The common formula is to div...

Page 83: ...h re fers to an optical storage medium DVD Stands for DigitalVersatile Disc a high capacity disc that looks like a CD but is capable of storing up to 4 7GB worth of data or up to 130 minutes of MPEG 2...

Page 84: ...to a CD RW disc and is compatible with standard DVD ROM drives and DVD players DVD RW uses Constant Angular Ve locity CAV for better performance than DVD RAM DVD RW drives are also capable of reading...

Page 85: ...vices on one logical bus Apple Computer is credited with the first implementation of FireWire on its G3 Macintosh computers FireWire can be used to connect digital video cameras hard drives CD RW driv...

Page 86: ...ss of the sec tor expressed as a Logical Block Number and the mode in which the sector is recorded High Sierra Format The original logical file format for CD ROM proposed by the High Sierra still bein...

Page 87: ...future when all ap pliances and computers will be linked in the home See also FireWire i LINK i LINK Sony s name for the IEEE1394 serial interface standard Sony offers digital video cameras CD RW rec...

Page 88: ...images for display on PhotoCD players attached to television sets or on compatible CD ROM drives attached to personal computers A PhotoCD is a Mode 2 CD ROM XA for mat disc Land The space between two...

Page 89: ...r both humans and computers to use the information on the disc In this CD for brevity we often call it simply the logical format or logical file system Magnetic Hard Disk Sometimes called a Winchester...

Page 90: ...288 bytes of each sector are used for storing error correction code and the remaining 2048 bytes per sector are available for user data Mode 2 used in CD I CD I ready Video CD PhotoCD Enhanced CD and...

Page 91: ...t user in volvement Multi Read MR A certification that a CD ROM drive or DVD ROM drive can read the phase change CD ReWritable CD RW disc as well as a CD R or CD RW disc that has been recorded using p...

Page 92: ...sc where packets of data are recorded at a time as op posed to tracks or discs at a time The chief benefit of packet writing is that the CD recorder can start and stop recording at will and so there i...

Page 93: ...ow Book Green Book White Book and Orange Book Physical Sector Described by the Yellow Book each Compact Disc is divided into 270 000 physical sectors of 2 336 bytes each Pit The space between two land...

Page 94: ...ta on a storage medium can be accessed randomly instead of sequentially A close analogy would be in music a cassette tape offers se quential access because you have to wind through the tape to reach a...

Page 95: ...discs encrypted with the same region code as the player or DVD ROM drive will play on that player drive How it works is the world is broken down into 6 regions for example NorthAmerica is part of reg...

Page 96: ...the amount of time it takes the drive s read head or pick up in the case of a CD recorder to find a piece of data on a disc Seek time claims can be misleading though as manufacturers can locate all t...

Page 97: ...rite the Lead Out See Disc At Once Track At Once can also be used to record a CD RW disc Track Relative Time A technique to determine the start and stop times of sound segments on a Mixed mode disc Tr...

Page 98: ...named because the develop ment project was called Winchester and the first drive model was 3030 Later the generic term for this device came to be hard disk WORM An acronym for Write Once Read Many whi...

Page 99: ...96 DISCRIBE CD Mastering Software the Red Book digital audio standard...

Page 100: ...2 OEM Kodak PCD 200 Kodak PCD 225 Kodak PCD 600 6x LACIE CDBP 121032S RW 12x10x32 LACIE CDBP 161040S RW 16x10x40 Melco CDRW S4224 Melco CDRW S4432 Melco CDRW S8432 Melco CRWS SB1610 16x10x32 Mitsubish...

Page 101: ...RW 12x10x32 Plextor PlexWriter RW 12x4x20 Plextor PlexWriter RW 16x10x40 Plextor PlexWriter RW 4x2x20 Plextor PlexWriter RW 8x2x20 QPS CD R PX W1210S QPS CD R PX W1610S 16x10x40 QPS CD R PX W4220T QP...

Page 102: ...Sony CDU926S Sony CDU948S Sony CDW 900E Sony CDW E1 W1 Teac CD R50 Teac CD R55 Teac CD R56 Teac CD R58 8x24 Teac CD RW512SB 12x10x32 TraxData CDRW2260 TraxData CDRW4260 WAITEC WT2082 RW 8x2x20 WAITEC...

Page 103: ...XS8432 CyQ ve CQ 1232 DVD CDRW 12x10x32 CyQve CRW C446plus HP CD Writer 7100 HP CD Writer 7200 HP CD Writer 7500 HP CD Writer 8100 HP CD Writer 8200 HP CD Writer 9110 8x4x32 Hercules 2 CDRW 4x4x24 OE...

Page 104: ...IDE Rewritable 2x2x6 Philips IDE CD R RW 8x4x32 Philips Rewriteable CDD3610 Philips Rewriteable CDD3801 Philips Rewriteable PCA382 Plextor PlexWriter RW 12x10x32 Plextor PlexWriter RW 16x10x40 Plextor...

Page 105: ...LTR 16102B 16x10x40 QPS LTR 16101B 16x10x40 QPS LTR 24102B 24x10x40 QPS NR 7700A 12x10x32 QPS NR 7800A 16x10x40 QPS RW 241040 24x10x40 Ricoh CDRW 4x4x20 ATAPI MP Ricoh CDRW 4x4x20 ATAPI RW Ricoh CDRW...

Page 106: ...811 8x4x32 SONY CD RW CRX1611 16x10x40 SONY CDU928E SONY CRX2000E DD CDRW 12x8x32 SONY Rewriteable CRX100E SONY Rewriteable CRX120E SONY Rewriteable CRX140E 8x4x32 SONY Rewriteable CRX145E 10x4x32 SON...

Page 107: ...2422EI Wearns CDRW 4x4x24 Yamaha CDR401 Yamaha CRW2100E 16x10x40 Yamaha CRW2200E 20x10x40 Yamaha Rewriteable CRW2216E Yamaha Rewriteable CRW4001 Yamaha Rewriteable CRW4261 Yamaha Rewriteable CRW4416E...

Page 108: ...d add support for additional drives Contact CharisMac regarding support for any CD recorder not on this list Mail Address CharisMac Engineering Inc 10000 Hill View Rd Newcastle CA 95658 Internet http...

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