User manual SONY DCR-TRV19 IMAGE MIXER

[. . . ] Introduction About This Manual Introduction About This Manual General notes Using this manual Read Carefully About trademarks Warning About pictures and images Software Usage Contract Chapter 1 Before Use Chapter 2 Capture Environment Chapter 3 Album Environment Chapter 4 Movie Editing Environment q q q General notes q Chapter 5 Layout Environment Chapter 6 Image Editor Chapter 7 Video Disc Environment Chapter 8 ImageMixer Easy Video CD (Win) This manual is an HTML document which explains the functions of ImageMixer Ver. 1. 5 for Sony (henceforth, 'ImageMixer'). This manual does not explain the basics of Windows or Macintosh operating systems. Basic operations, such as working with individual windows, are based on general usage of Windows and Macintosh. Screenshots may differ slightly depending on each company's bundling of this product. [. . . ] All rights reserved. 4-2 Monitor Panel Edit mode Click the [Edit Mode] button. Monitor Play position slider Stop button Displays the media stream currently arranged on the Storyboard. The position at which to begin playback can be defined by dragging the slider. Stops playback and returns the movie to the beginning. Play button Pause button Time display Volume control Plays from the current position of the play position slider. Displays the currently accumulated playing time of the movie or sound file being previewed. Drag the slider to control volume. Preview mode Click the [Preview Mode] button. Monitor Click the [Play] button to preview the media stream currently being edited. Preview range select slider Stop button Play button Pause button Time display Volume control Play position slider Defines the range of the media stream to be previewed. Stops playback and returns the movie to the beginning. Plays from the current position of the play position slider. Displays the currently accumulated playing time of the movie or sound file being previewed. The position at which to begin playback can be defined by dragging the slider. Copyright © 2001-2002 PIXELA Corp. All rights reserved. 4-3 Media Selection Panel Create new project While the media stream is being edited and before it is saved as an MPEG1 file, it exists as a project. Saved projects (which have not yet been formatted as MPEG1 files) are called project files. Open a project file Clicking this button displays the 'Open' dialog box, allowing you to browse the folders on your computer. Save project Clicking this button displays the 'Save As' dialog box. Enter the file name and click [Save] once you have defined a location on your computer where you would like the project to be stored. Movie display button Displays only thumbnails of movie files existing in the current album. Since they can also be added to the media stream, still picture files are treated as movies, the "playing time" of which you can set yourself. Sound file display button Displays only thumbnails of sound files existing in the current album. Transition effect display button Displays thumbnails corresponding to the transition effects that can be used by ImageMixer. Title display button Displays thumbnails of titles created in the Layout Environment. Generate movie Clicking this button saves the edited media stream as an MPEG1 movie file. Enter the file name and click [Save] once you have defined a location on your computer where you would like the movie to be stored. Select album Select which thumbnails you wish to appear in the thumbnail list window. When you click the arrow, a dropdown list of available album files will be displayed. Copyright © 2001-2002 PIXELA Corp. All rights reserved. 4-4 Storyboard Movie files (and picture files which are treated as movie files) can be arranged on the Storyboard by dragging & dropping their thumbnails from the thumbnail list window. Trash can button Click to delete a selected movie clip, sound clip, or transition effect from the storyboard or timeline. The edit size is displayed as [VGA (640 x 480)] or [QVGA (320 x 240)]. When a moving picture file to be arranged on a storyboard is the first file put on the storyboard, make a selection using the displayed dialog box to display this. This icon indicates clips in which titles have been inserted. Doubleclicking a clip thumbnail with this icon will open the Movie Editor. From there, switch to the title editing mode to make changes relative to the appearance of the title within the clip. This is the term given to the graphic representation of movies or still picture files that have been placed on the storyboard. Doubleclicking a clip thumbnail will open the Movie Editor, whereby you can perform operations such as movie trimming. [. . . ] Slideshow number: These are the numbers that are displayed on the slideshow buttons in the main menu. These numbers correspond to the number buttons on the remote control of your playing device. 1 on your remote control, the slideshow No. 1 on the main menu will start to play. And if you press the No. 3 button, slideshow No. 3 will start to play. Copyright © 2002, PIXELA Corp. [. . . ]