HP Presario SR1500 Creating Data, Audio, and Video Discs on your PC - Page 27

Creating a Video Project with Direct-to-Disc Wizard Sonic MyDVD includes Direct-to-Disc Wizards that guide you through the steps you must complete to create a DVD or VCD video project. A video project is a way to group, organize, store, play, and burn related video and still digital files. 1 Connect your digital camcorder or Web camera to your PC. 2 Click Start, choose All Programs, Sonic, and then DigitalMedia Home. 3 Click the Video tab and then Direct-to-Disc. 4 Click DVD or VCD depending on the type of project you want to create. The Direct-to-VCD or Direct-to-DVD Wizard displays. 5 Click Edit Style, and edit any of the following elements: • Background color and graphics on the menus and submenus • Button styles • Background music • Text format (font, color, and size) • Custom styles Alternately, you can click No Menus if you do not want to be able to select from multiple files in the project. 6 Type a name for your project in the project name field. 7 Click one of the following: • Record to DVD (or Record to VCD if you are creating a VCD project) - Select the device, number of copies, and write speed. • Record to hard disk - The video capture is stored by default in the My DVDs folder. Click Location if you want to select a different folder. 8 Click Next. The Capture screen displays. Make sure the output from your digital camcorder appears in the Preview window. If it does not, double-check your connections and make sure your camera is in playback mode. 9 Click Record Settings to edit any of the default settings. 10 Optionally, set a capture length, chapter points, or scene detection. Click the corresponding Help icon to display the online help for each of these features. 11 Click one of the following: • Grab Frame - The image currently displayed in the Capture window is stored as a picture file (JPG, BMP, GIF, TIF, or PNG format). • Start Capture - Starts a video capture (.mpg format). Click Stop Capturing to manually stop the capture if you did not set a capture length (step 10). 12 A confirmation message displays stating the disc or file was created successfully. Click OK. Creating Video Discs and Movies 23