User manual ADS TECH PIXEDV FOR MAC

[. . . ] Clicking Quit will exit the application. When you click on CAPTY, IMPORT, ALBUM, you will always have a navigation bar on the topmost side of the screen that can take you to all the various functions of the PixeDV for MAC application as shown below: For best performance, since you will be dealing with large files when capturing video, turn off the screen saver and power saving on your Mac. It would also be best that you have no other programs running when capturing video. CAPTURING VIDEO Clicking on the CAPTY button will take you to this window: The first step is to check your capture settings. This will take you to this window: From this window you can select: Video Input S-Video ­ Sometimes referred to as SVHS, select this input if you have a video source that is plugged into the S-Video connector on the USB Instant DVD for MAC Composite ­ Sometimes referred to as RCA jacks, select this input if you have a video source that is plugged into the Composite connector. Capturing Format MPEG1 Select MPEG1 if you plan to create a VCD Movie. [. . . ] In the ALBUM section of this manual you can create play list's for playing several files continuously. 3 ­ Slide Show Settings: You can run a slide show of the video files or any other files in an album. The first frame of every video file will be shown. EXPORTING VIDEO To export video back to a VCR , CAMCORDER or for preview on a TV MONITOR, click on the OUTPUT Button on the main CAPTY interface. Clicking on OUTPUT will take you to this screen. Drag thumbnails into the output box. You can drag as many files that you want in whatever order and play them back. Click on the START Button to start the export process. Once the export process is started, you will see this activity at the bottom left of the screen: IMPORTANT: If for some reason you don't see video out to your TV or video is not recording on your VCR, check your cable connections. Please consult the HARDWARE INSTALLATION GUIDE section of this manual for more instructions. IMPORTING VIDEO Clicking on the IMPORT button from the MAIN SCREEN or the IMPORT button from MENU BAR will take you to this screen: You can browse easily to any directory on any drive (eg: local drive, firewire drives etc) and drag other media like DV, QUICKTIME, PICTURES or MPEG files into an album. USING THE ALBUM Clicking on the ALBUM button from the MAIN SCREEN or the ALBUM button from MENU BAR will take you to this screen: ALBUM lets you organize your captured media and existing media in your Mac. It can see not only your capture MPEG files but existing DV files, QuickTime compatible files and pictures that you have imported into PixeDV for Mac via the IMPORT function. On the top left you can see a series of 5 buttons that can organize the view options of the specific album you have opened: Clicking on ALL will show all available media in the ALBUM, click SOUND will show all Sound file in the ALBUM and so on. On the top right corner you can all see a series of 3 buttons that can change the view option for a specific file. Once you have files that you captured or imported into ALBUM, hold down the CONTROL KEY on the your KEYBOARD while you click on the thumbnail, the contextual menu options will be shown for that thumbnail: Change Thumbnail Size ­ Changes the Physical size of the Thumbnails in your ALBUM Use a Album Cover ­ Use the first frame of the video or picture as your ALBUM cover thumbnail Create a Play list file ­ Creates a play list of video files that can be played one after another without user intervention. For this function to work, two or more files must be hi-lighted. Create a browser album ­ Create another ALBUM where you can store, organize and capture video files into Export ­ Export the hi-lighted thumbnail to any quicktime supported file format. For Example: MPEG2 to DV MPEG2 to FLC You can also convert existing DV FILES to MPEG2 if you have Apple Computer's MPEG2 Codec. For more information, please check Apples website. Export to MPEG ­ Please see the Exporting Files for DVD Studio Pro Section of this Manual MPEG Cutter ­ Please see the Trimming Videos with MPEG CUTTER Section of this Manual Album Menu Options On the upper right section of the ALBUM Screen, you can click on the ALBUM Button to manage your ALBUM. This is where you can delete the whole ALBUM, make a NEW ALBUM, RENAME ALBUMS ETC. You can also click on the SOURCE Button to manage the MEDIA Files that you have inside the hi-lighted ALBUM. Here you can Move, Copy, Delete, etc, any of the files that you might have in a specific Album. Please remember that you must click on a file or a group of files first to enable the SOURCE button. You can also RUN the SLIDESHOW feature from this MENU. TRIMMING VIDEO'S WITH MPEG CUTTER Although the PixeDV for Mac application DOES NOT offer EDITING functions where you can ADD transitions and titles to your Video's, it does offer the ability to accurately trim and cut MPEG2 files. Cutting up MPEG2 files is very hard to do and the ability to do this is a very key feature of this software package. To open MPEG FILES in MPEG CUTTER, hold down the CONTROL Key and click on the MPEG file that you want to open in MPEG CUTTER. 1. 2. Click on MPEG Cutter The file will now be imported into MPEG Cutter. Importing a file into MPEG Cutter bring up this interface: A B The video file that got imported into MPEG CUTTER will be shown in the PREVIEW WINDOW. [. . . ] This is a file format where MPEG VIDEO and MPEG AUDIO are on two separate files. PixeDV for MAC can export the MPEG files that it captures into ELEMENTARY MPEG Streams. Follow these steps to export MPEG FILES into elementary MPEG STREAMS: 1. Hold down the CONTROL Key and click on the MPEG file that you want to export into an ELEMENTARY FILE FORMAT 2. [. . . ]