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USB INSTANT DVD USER GUIDE
Create Video and Send Back to Tape
While Instant DVD was created to allow you to easily publish your home movies to CD or
DVD disk, we did not forget the fact that many users would still like to record finished movies
on video tape or preview on a TV before publishing to disk. Instant DVD includes two
applications that allow you to send MPEG video from your computer and back through Instant
DVD to be displayed on TV or recorded on a VCR.
NOTE: When preparing to display captured video on a TV or recording to video tape, be sure that you have
connected a video cable from the Instant DVD to the video input of your TV or VCR and that you have
connected the audio out cable from your sound card to the audio inputs on your TV or VCR.
CAPWIZ: SELECT ANY MPEG-1 (VCD) OR MPEG-2
(SVCD OR DVD) VIDEO FILE AND PLAY IT BACK ON A TV
OR RECORD TO VCD
Simply select the file from the file library or
Browse to the directory where you saved the
video file. Once the file is selected, click
Play back on “TV or VCR” and click the
Play button. If you have a TV attached to
the RCA or S-VHS out connectors you will
see the video displayed on the TV. If you
connect to a VCR, click Record on the VCR
just before clicking Play on the CapWiz
application.
VIDEO STUDIO: EXPORT MPEG VIDEO THROUGH THE
INSTANT DVD UNIT SO YOU CAN DISPLAY EDITED
VIDEO ON TV OR RECORD TO TAPE
Although Video Studio allows you to save
video in various formats such as .avi, .rm,
.asf, .mov, only .mpg (MPEG) files can be
exported out through USB Instant DVD.
To export a video, go to the FINISH step, drag
a .mpg movie to the preview window and the
export button on the left of the interface will
be enabled. Click the Export button and
select “USB Instant DVD”. A small dialog
box as shown below will appear. Click Play
to begin playback of the video file. The video
will be displayed on your TV. If you wish to
record to video tape, click Record on your
VCR a few seconds before clicking Play USB
Instant DVD dialog box. Click Stop to stop
playback.
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