•The button “Audio mode” is used to specify the audio quality: “uncompressed” or “compressed”.
Compressed audio requires only a fraction of the capacity, but at the cost of slightly reduced quality. When creating a music video, it is recommended that you use uncompressed audio.
Note for the technically interested:
Uncompressed audio uses PCM audio with 16 bits and 48 kHz. Compressed audio uses MPEG audio.
•You are also shown the “Size approximation” for this project. The calculation takes account of the quality level (discussed above) and the duration of the project. The value displayed is only an approximation; the actual amount of required memory, once created, may be slightly more or less than this amount.
If not enough memory is present, then you must either reduce image/audio quality or remove other projects.
A message appears before a film is added if this would cause the project to become too large to fit on the DVD. In some cases the project could still fit on the DVD, because the calculated value is only an approximation.
•The displayed “free capacity” indicates how much space is still free on the DVD.
•You can divide your project into chapters by clicking on the button “Edit Chapters”. These chapters can be individually selected later when playing the DVD (with the remote control unit, not with the DVD menu). This is a significant help, especially with large projects.
Selecting the function “Edit Chapters” opens a window in which the individual storyboard scenes are displayed. The scenes are displayed, for example, as follows:
Chapter 1 | 000.05:00 | S1 |
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A chapter must always begin at the start of a scene, so scroll through the scenes displayed in this window and decide where you would like to set the beginning of a chapter. Select the line of the desired scene and click on the corresponding button “Start Chapter”.
The subsequent Chapters are numbered automatically by the system to reflect your set chapters. (Clicking on the button “Undo Chapter” removes the chapter point.)
After having set the chapter, leave this menu by clicking on “Ok” so that you are again in the “Add Film” window. Click on “Ok”, so that your settings are automatically calculated and the films are added to the
Note: For very detailed video material the film might not fit on the DVD, even though the approximation seemed to predict enough space. If this should happen, it will be at the end of the calculation. In this case try again with a lower quality level or with compressed audio.
After the project has been inserted, you can call up the “Add Film” window again in order to select another project, which is then also automatically added. Please note that only a maximum of six films can be added to one DVD.
Note: You can of course remove an already added film if you wish. You can also change the film sequence. For more on this, please read 3.2 Information / Play, item (4).