HP Pavilion t3200 Getting Started Guide - Page 78

Sonic MyDVD Video Projects, Creating a Video Project, Start, All Programs, Sonic, DigitalMedia

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For more information, click Start, All Programs, Sonic, and then DigitalMedia Home. When the program displays, click Help and then Sonic MyDVD Help. Sonic MyDVD Video Projects A Sonic MyDVD video project is a way to group, organize, store, play, and burn related video and still digital files. For example, if you went on a family vacation, you might have digital still and video images, and prints from a film camera. You can transfer all these images onto your PC and organize them into a project. (A scanner is required to transfer printed photos and is not included.) Projects can remain on your PC for playback and as an archive, and they can be burned to a DVD or VCD disc. Sonic MyDVD enables you to create video projects using the following interfaces: • Standard program interface (described beginning in "Creating a Video Project" on page 72). • Direct-to-Disc Wizards (described beginning in "Creating a Video Project With the Direct-to-Disc Wizards" on page 77). Note that the Direct-to-Disc Wizards do not include the editing features that are available from the standard interface. You can edit a project created with a wizard before burning it to a disc as described in: • "Editing the style of a video project" on page 75. • "Editing movie files" on page 75. Creating a Video Project To create a video project: 1 Click Start, choose All Programs, Sonic, and then DigitalMedia Home. 2 Click the Video button to display the Video Guide. 3 Click Create Project, and then DVD or VCD depending on the type of project you want to create. A project named Untitled DVD-Video or Untitled Video CD is created and displayed in the MyDVD project window. 4 Click File and then Save to change the name your project from Untitled to a more descriptive name. After renaming your project, click Save. Continue your project by performing the procedure described in one or more of the following sections: • "Adding files to a video project" on page 73. • "Capturing video to a video project" on page 73. • "Adding slideshows to a video project" on page 74. • "Adding submenus to a video project" on page 74. 72 Getting Started Guide

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Getting Started Guide
For more information, click
Start
,
All Programs
,
Sonic
, and then
DigitalMedia
Home
. When the program displays, click
Help
and then
Sonic MyDVD Help
.
Sonic MyDVD Video Projects
A Sonic MyDVD
video project
is a way to group, organize, store, play, and burn
related video and still digital files. For example, if you went on a family vacation,
you might have digital still and video images, and prints from a film camera. You
can transfer all these images onto your PC and organize them into a project. (A
scanner is required to transfer printed photos and is not included.)
Projects can remain on your PC for playback and as an archive, and they can be
burned to a DVD or VCD disc.
Sonic MyDVD enables you to create video projects using the following interfaces:
Standard program interface (described beginning in “Creating a Video Project”
on page 72).
Direct-to-Disc Wizards (described beginning in “Creating a Video Project With
the Direct-to-Disc Wizards” on page 77).
Note that the Direct-to-Disc Wizards do not include the editing features that are
available from the standard interface. You can edit a project created with a wizard
before burning it to a disc as described in:
“Editing the style of a video project” on page 75.
“Editing movie files” on page 75.
Creating a Video Project
To create a video project:
1
Click
Start
, choose
All Programs
,
Sonic
, and then
DigitalMedia Home
.
2
Click the
Video
button to display the Video Guide.
3
Click
Create Project
, and then
DVD
or
VCD
depending on the type of
project you want to create.
A project named Untitled DVD-Video or Untitled Video CD is created and
displayed in the MyDVD project window.
4
Click
File
and then
Save
to change the name your project from Untitled to a
more descriptive name. After renaming your project, click
Save
.
Continue your project by performing the procedure described in one or more of the
following sections:
“Adding files to a video project” on page 73.
“Capturing video to a video project” on page 73.
“Adding slideshows to a video project” on page 74.
“Adding submenus to a video project” on page 74.