
Table of Contents
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Starting and Working with Projects
1 About working with projects
2 Starting a new project
2 Opening an existing project
3 Locating missing files
3 Working with palettes and windows
Capturing Video and Adding Files
4 Preparing your system for capture
5 Connecting your DV camcorder to your computer
5 Guidelines for connecting other sources
6 Capturing video
9 Troubleshooting DV capture problems
10 File formats you can add to projects
Editing Movies
11 About editing a movie
12 Working with the Monitor window
13 Working with the Timeline window
16 Adding clips to a movie
22 Trimming frames from a clip
26 Copying, pasting, moving, and deleting clips
32 Changing clip speed
Creating DVDs
34 About creating DVDs
35 Working with DVD markers
40 Creating menu-based DVDs
45 Creating an auto-play DVD
45 Previewing a DVD
46 About burning a DVD
47 Burning a DVD
Exporting Movies
48 Recording your movie to videotape
50 Exporting video for hard disk playback
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