User manual ULEAD BURN.NOW 4

[. . . ] Burn. Now User Guide Ulead Systems, Inc. June 2006 Ulead® Burn. Now® 4. 0 Copyright © 2003-2006 Ulead Systems, Inc. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or storing in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form without the express written permission of Ulead Systems, Inc. Software license The software described in this document is furnished under a License Agreement which is included with the product. This Agreement specifies the permitted and prohibited uses of the product. Licenses and trademarks ICI Library © 1991- 1992 C-Cube Microsystems. [. . . ] If there is a disc inserted in the burner, the program will check the write speed of the burner and the disc, and by default, choose the highest speed that both can handle. Notes: · For details on the other options available in this dialog box, see "Disc burning options". · Since the audio size to be burned onto DVD is enormous, DVD folders and files will first be created on your hard drive which will then be burned onto the DVD. Before burning a DVD-Audio or Music DVD-Video disc, make sure that your hard drive has available space that is equivalent to, or higher than, the DVD disc capacity. The temporary DVD folders and files will be deleted from your hard drive after burning is complete. 5. Click Burn to start the burning process. ULEAD BURN. NOW USER GUIDE 25 Music DVD-Video project settings When creating a Music DVD-Video disc, click on the Disc Layout Window toolbar to open the Project Settings dialog box. Here is where you can define the environment by which your audience can monitor and switch tracks. Set screen background, font, size, colors, and shadows. You can also set general preferences such as output format and TV safe area. TV system sets the standard in viewing your video. NTSC is generally used in North America and Asia while PAL/SECAM is used in most of Europe. The TV safe area defines the boundaries within which your track titles will automatically fit. Parts of the background image that fall outside the margins may be truncated when viewed on a TV screen. Archive source audio and video files burns the source audio files to an archive folder in the Music DVD-Video disc. Auto repeat when disc playback ends sets the disc to replay automatically after playback. Use the Preview Window to view the results. To display tooltips, moved the pointer over the font, size, colors and shadows controls. Burn. Now 26 ULEAD BURN. NOW USER GUIDE Making an MP3 disc MP3 is a popular audio file format that compresses sound files so that they take up only about 1/10th of their original size. Even though it is highly compressed, its sound quality is not noticeably compromised, except on extremely hi-fidelity sound systems. MP3 is ideal for playback on your computer, and for traveling, since compression enables a large number of MP3 files to be stored on disc for playback on a small portable MP3 player or CD player. (A CD player that supports MP3 playback is required for playing MP3. ) Burn. Now lets you easily collect your favorite MP3 files and burn them to disc. To create an MP3 disc: 1. In the Select a Task dialog box, select Create Disc then select MP3 disc. Select the disc type (CD, DVD, or BD) that you will be burning to, then click OK. Choose Burner: Select Burner to select whether to burn directly onto a disc or create a disc image file. (See "Choosing a disc burner". ) 4. [. . . ] A limited amount of conventional DVD-Video data can be recorded in the VIDEO_TS folder. DVD-Audio discs can only be played in DVD-Audio capable players. ULEAD BURN. NOW USER GUIDE 53 DVD-Video (DVD-V) The standard format used for recording movies on DVD. MPEG-2 is the dominant video encoding method used in recording movies for its superlative video quality, although MPEG-1 may also be used. The audio part of the video can be encoded in formats such as PCM, Dolby Digital, or DTS (Digital Theater Sound). [. . . ]