Getting Help

Need Help Capturing Your Video?

■If your analog video device, such as a VCR or camcorder, is not powered on, after about 1 minute, you will get an error message.

To allow MyDVD to recognize and capture the video: a Click OK to close the error message.

b Click Done to close the Capture window.

c Press the Power on button on your video device. d Click Capture.

e Click Start Capturing.

■For optimum quality when creating DVDs, use the Best setting (in the MyDVD Capture window) when capturing video clips. However, if you have limited disk space, Adaptec recommends that you choose the Better or Good capture setting. Use this table to estimate the amount of disk space required:

Sonic MyDVD Disk Space Usage

 

 

Disk space required for

 

Capture

1 minute of

10 minutes of

Quality / Resolution

Setting

analog video

analog video

 

 

 

 

DVD (MPEG-II)

Good

32 MB

320 MB

 

Better

39 MB

390 MB

 

Best

46 MB

460 MB

VCD (MPEG-I)

Good

10 MB

100 MB

 

 

 

 

Note: Due to Windows’ FAT file system, the largest file you can capture is 4 GB. If possible, use a NTSF formatted hard disk drive.

■MyDVD may not be able to recognize video from a damaged or degraded video tape.

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