User manual ULEAD DVD MOVIEFACTORY 2

[. . . ] November 2002 Copyright First English edition for Ulead DVD MovieFactory 2. 0. All Rights Reserved 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. [. . . ] (Use [Ctrl] or [Shift] to select multiple videos) Depending on the video time length, wait a while until the capture process completes. Note: Sometimes you might see some white video thumbnails in the Select Scenes to Capture dialog box. This is normal because the first frame for this type of video thumbnails is white or black. Trim a video You can trim a video using the Jog Bar, mark-in/out, and navigation controls. (See the illustration below. ) Trimming a video gives you the freedom to precisely edit the video length. Mark-in Set Mark-in Jog Bar Set Mark-out Mark-out Navigation controls Before trimming 9 Trimming a video: 1 Double-click a video thumbnail to select it for trimming. 2 Use the navigation controls or drag the Jog Bar to move to the starting point of your desired trimmed video. Click to open the Replace Audio dialog box where you can specify an audio track you want to use with your video. Notes: · After adding or replacing the background music, you can still remove or use the original music of your video file again by clearing the Replace audio with selected file option in the dialog box. · The availability of Replace Audio will depend on the DVD MovieFactory version you have. Split a video You can add more video thumbnails by breaking an existing video thumbnail into several ones. Simply double-click to select a video thumbnail in the Media clip list, and then drag the Jog Bar (as depicted on page 11) to move to the scene you want as the separating point. You can keep moving the Jog Bar and add as many video thumbnails as you like. Note that the original video thumbnail is still retained while new ones are added accordingly based on the number of newly added videos. 11 Add/Edit chapters This feature is only available when the Create menus option is selected. By doing so, you can create submenus linked to their associated video clip at the Setup Menu step later. Represented as a video thumbnail in a submenu, each chapter is like a bookmark for a video clip. Viewers can easily select a chapter then the video clip will immediately jump to the first scene of that chapter and start the playback. This feature is particularly useful when you want to attract your viewers by giving them the freedom to choose a particular part of the movie to watch. Note that these small video thumbnails only link to its "mother" video without generating any additional physical video files. So, you don't need to worry about the possibility of unexpected file size increase. Notes: · · You can create up to 99 chapters for a video clip. If the Create menu option is not selected, you will be guided to the Preview step immediately without creating any menus after clicking Next. Creating or editing chapters linked to a video clip: 1 Select a video in the Media clip list. 3 Click Auto to let Ulead MovieFactory help you select chapters (such as at fixed intervals), or drag the Jog Bar to move to a scene as the first frame of a chapter, and then click Add. Tips: · If you want to use Auto, your video must be at least one minute long or the video has scene change information. · If you click Auto and your video is a DV-formatted AVI file captured from a DV camcorder, DVD MovieFactory can automatically detect scene changes and add chapters accordingly. · If the selected video is an MPEG-2 file with scene change information, DVD MovieFactory automatically generates these chapters for you when you click Auto. 4 Repeat Step 3 as needed. 5 Click OK. 12 Setup menus At this step, you can create the main menu and submenus. They provide a list of interactive thumbnail-styled options displayed on a screen for your movie viewer to choose from. Ulead DVD MovieFactory offers a set of menu templates to best fit the purpose of each menu. [. . . ] Save the CD label (in TPX format) so that you can edit it in the future. Then select Disk and CD Labels (or other brands of printing paper) under Paper layout. Drag inward on the black box surrounding your label to fit the template size and center it. Specify the number of copies to print and click Print. 20 Glossary Chapter A chapter is a link to a video file in a DVD. [. . . ]