User manual CYBERLINK POWERPRODUCER 3

[. . . ] CyberLink PowerProducer 3 User's Guide Copyright and Disclaimer All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior written permission of CyberLink Corporation. To the extent allowed by law, POWERPRODUCER IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ANY WARRANTY FOR INFORMATION, SERVICES, OR PRODUCTS PROVIDED THROUGH OR IN CONNECTION WITH POWERPRODUCER AND ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. BY USING THIS SOFTWARE, YOU AGREE THAT CYBERLINK WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL LOSS ARISING FROM THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE OR MATERIALS CONTAINED EITHER IN THIS PACKAGE. [. . . ] If you do not set chapters, your movie plays automatically when the disc is inserted into a player. · If you want to specify the number of chapters in your disc, select the Set chapters evenly option, then enter the number in the entry box. · If you want PowerProducer to set chapters for you, select the Set chapters by scene detection option. You can control the relative number of chapters by increasing or decreasing the sensitivity of scene detection. (Increased sensitivity sets more chapters. ) Click to begin to set chapters. 4. 34 Chapter 2: Produce a Movie Disc Set Chapters Manually To set chapters manually, do this: 1. Use the playback controls to locate points in the video clip where you want to add a chapter, then click to set chapters at these points. Click . 3. Remove a Chapter To remove a chapter, select it, then click . You can undelete chapters in the order that you delete them by clicking . To set a still frame from a video clip within a chapter as that chapter's thumbnail in the storyboard, navigate to the frame in the preview window, then click . 35 CyberLink PowerProducer 3 Add a Playlist Adding a playlist to your DVD allows you to specify which sections of content are shown when you play your DVD. You may include several playlists that display different variations of the original content in order to provide different versions of your movie. Note: Playlists are available only when you create DVD-VR discs. To add a playlist, do this: 1. A preview appears in the playlist window. · You can remove a playlist by clicking . · You can preview and select a portion of video in the preview 3. 4. window using the playback controls and the mark in and mark out functions. Click . Select a Playlist When you create a new playlist, a preview appears in the playlist preview window. Its preview slide appears within the playlist preview window and the clips it contains appear in the Author pane. 36 Chapter 2: Produce a Movie Disc Final Output After you have acquired your media, assembled your story, edited your clips, added audio and other effects, and customized the layout and look of your disc, then it's time to finalize your production. CyberLink PowerProducer offers several methods to finalize your production, which are useful under different circumstances. You can burn your production to disc as the last step in your movie production process, save your production as a disc image for later burning, or create a DVD folder to organize your media files on your hard drive. Depending on your burning drive and disc type, one or more of these options may be available simultaneously. Set Your Burning Configuration Before you burn to disc for the first time, set your burning configuration on the Final Output window. After you set this configuration, PowerProducer uses the same configuration each time you burn until you change the settings. · The Include buffer under-run protection option ensures that your drive write without errors when your hard drive is busy or system resources are low. Click to set your configuration and return to the Final Output window. Note: You can erase a disc before burning to it by clicking . [. . . ] This causes the interlacing problem, which is most evident when the video contains motion. ) (Long Play) A video quality below Standard Play. (Moving Picture Experts Group) A family of international standards used for coding audio/ video information into digital format. Currently, MPEG-2 is the standard for digital video formats and MP3 for digital audio formats. JVC Hard Disk Camcorder Everio series use this file format. Favorite file HQ interlacing LP menu MPEG MOD file 84 Chapter 5: Reference NTSC (National Television Systems Committee) The standard video format for television broadcasts adopted by the United States, Japan, Canada, and Mexico. [. . . ]