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Sonic MyDVD Video Projects, Creating a Video Project

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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 video CD (VCD). Sonic MyDVD enables you to create video projects using the following interfaces: • Standard program interface (described beginning in "Creating a Video Project" on page 82). • Direct-to-Disc Wizards (described beginning in "Creating a Video Project with the Direct-to-Disc Wizards" on page 87). 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 85. • "Editing movie files" on page 85. 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 As to change the name of 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 83. • "Capturing video to a video project" on page 83. • "Adding slideshows to a video project" on page 84. • "Adding submenus to a video project" on page 84. 82 Getting Started Guide

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Getting Started Guide
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 video CD (VCD).
Sonic MyDVD enables you to create video projects using the following interfaces:
•
Standard program interface (described beginning in “Creating a Video Project”
on page 82).
•
Direct-to-Disc Wizards (described beginning in “Creating a Video Project with
the Direct-to-Disc Wizards” on page 87).
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 85.
•
“Editing movie files” on page 85.
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 As
to change the name of 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 83.
•
“Capturing video to a video project” on page 83.
•
“Adding slideshows to a video project” on page 84.
•
“Adding submenus to a video project” on page 84.