User manual NERO VISION EXPRESS 3 REV 3.1

[. . . ] User's Guide NeroVision Express 3 Bringing the world of video closer to home - Creating your very own DVD, VCD, SVCD and miniDVD Nero AG Copyright and Trademark Information The NeroVision Express 3 User's Guide and the NeroVision Express 3 Software are copyrighted and the property of Nero AG, Im Stoeckmaedle 18, 76307 Karlsbad, Germany. This Quick Start Guide contains materials protected under International Copyright Laws. It is expressly forbidden to copy, reproduce, duplicate or transmit all or any part of the Guide or the software without the prior written consent of Nero AG. All brand names and trademarks are properties of their respective owners. [. . . ] Step 1: Select Open Saved Projekt or Disc Image from the main screen and click the left mouse button. NeroVision Express 3 Open Existing Project · 43 Step 2: Select the project that you have saved from the menu and click the 'Open' button. Step 3: You will be taken to the CONTENT page and can continue from there as described in Chapter Five. NeroVision Express 3 Open Existing Project · 44 7 Editing Your Video 7. 1 Editing Your Video You cannot edit videos or create your own movies with NeroVision Express 3 SE. In NeroVision Express 3 you can perform two types of video editing. You can trim video titles, which involves cutting out unwanted video footage at the beginning and/or end of the video title, and you can add chapter marks. Chapter marks are positions within a video title that you can access directly using the previous/next buttons on your DVD/(S)VCD player without having to fast forward or rewind through the whole video title. On the CHAPTERS screen, the slider bar below the preview monitor represents the video title from start to end. The thumb or slider button allows you to move to a certain position within the video title. The video image that exists at that position will be shown on the preview monitor. NeroVision Express 3 Editing Your Video · 45 The control buttons allow you to play and stop the video, create and delete chapter marks and change the name. Play selected video Stop selected video Change to full-screen mode (or back with 'Esc') Rename chapter Delete selected chapter mark Delete all chapter marks Start automatic scene cut detection Create chapter mark manually Click on the time run button (hours, minutes, seconds) and and `back' buttons to jump to a use the `forward' particular place in the selected video. NeroVision Express 3 Editing Your Video · 46 7. 2 Trimming video titles The editing (cutting) of videos is a non-linear process, i. e. the original file is not modified during this process. Step 1: To open the edit window, select a video file and click on the icon NeroVision Express 3 Editing Your Video · 47 Step 2: Switch over to the timeline section by clicking on the appropriate tab. Step 3: Click the button to start the cut mode. Start and end marks appear in the corresponding preview window. The color of the button will change Once the editing mode has been activated. Step 4: Move the left start mark to select the beginning of the segment you want to cut or remove. You can check the exact position of the clip in the preview window. Step 5: Move the right end mark to select the end of the segment you want to cut or remove. You can check the exact position of the clip in the preview window. NeroVision Express 3 Editing Your Video · 48 Step 6: Click the button to cut the selected segment. A dialog box appears and asks if you want to carry out this action. The first clip contains the pre-edited segment, the second clip the edited segment. NeroVision Express 3 Editing Your Video · 49 7. 3 Adding Chapter Marks Initially each video title contains only one chapter. You can manually or automatically add more chapters, rename chapters or delete unwanted chapters. If you have ticked the 'Create menu chapters automatically' checkbox, the chapters will be automatically generated during the burning process. If you click on the 'More' button, you will be able to use this checkbox when you compile a disc. 7. 3. 1 Creating chapter marks manually Step 1: Create a project, import a video and click on the 'Create chapter' field. Use the slider button to mark 'where' in the video you would like to place the chapter marks. NeroVision Express 3 Editing Your Video · 50 Step 2: when you are satisfied with the placement of where you would like the marker placed, click the 'Add chapter' button to place the marker. Step 3: after you have placed the marker, your new chapter will be displayed in the window to the right and a marker mark(s) have been placed. on the slider bar will show where the chapter Step 4: if you would like to be more precise as to which frame you would like to place your chapter marks, you can then use the 'Next Frame' or 'Previous Frame' buttons to search frame-by-frame for the appropriate place. NeroVision Express 3 Editing Your Video · 51 7. 3. 2 Adding chapter marks automatically Step 1: click on to start the Automatic Scene Cut Detection. Scene changes in the video are automatically detected and the appropriate chapter marks will be inserted. Once you click the icon, the detection process starts and afterward, it will show you how many chapters were found and created. You can then use the sliders to increase or decrease that number. [. . . ] When creating a disc image, you will need a certain amount of drive space to perform this function. DV An acronym for Digital Video, it is the format for storing and saving video and audio intended for DV products such as cameras and video cameras. DVD An acronym for Digital Versatile or Video Disc. DVD-R DVD was originally only known for being specific to the movie and gaming market, you can now burn data and your own home videos to a DVD disc that can be played by all DVD-ROMs. You have the advantage of storing much more data on this disc than that of a regular CD-R/RW. The DVD-R is a non rewritable format that is compatible with most DVD-ROM drives and DVD players. DVD+RW A rewritable format developed in cooperation by Hewlett-Packard, Mitsubishi Chemical, Philips, Ricoh, Sony and Yamaha. It is a rewritable format that provides full, non-cartridge, compatibility with existing DVD-Video players and DVD-ROM drives for both real-time video recording and random data recording for many PC and entertainment software applications. DVD-RW An acronym for DVD ReWriteable. [. . . ]