HP m7181.uk manual Creating a Video Project with Direct-to-Disc Wizard

Creating a Video Project with Direct-to-Disc Wizard

Sonic MyDVD includes Direct-to-Disc Wizards that guide you through the steps you must complete to create a DVD or VCD video project. A video project is a way to group, organize, store, play, and burn related video and still digital files.

1 Connect your digital camcorder or Web camera to your HP Media Center PC.

2 Click Start, choose All Programs, Sonic, and then DigitalMedia Home.

3 Click the Video tab and then Direct-to-Disc.

4 Click DVD or VCD depending on the type of project you want to create. The Direct-to-VCD or Direct-to-DVD Wizard displays.

5 Click Edit Style, and edit any of the following elements:

■Background color and graphics on the menus and submenus

■Button styles

■Background music

■Text format (font, color, and size)

■Custom styles

Alternately, you can click No Menus if you do not want to be able to select from multiple files in the project.

6 Type a name for your project in the project name field.

7 Click one of the following:

■Record to DVD (or Record to VCD if you are creating a VCD project) — Select the device, number of copies, and write speed.

■Record to hard disk — The video capture is stored by default in the My DVDs folder. Click Location if you want to select a different folder.

8 Click Next. The Capture screen displays.

Make sure the output from your digital camcorder appears in the Preview window. If it does not, double-check your connections and make sure your camera is in playback mode.

9 Click Record Settings to edit any of the default settings.

10 Optionally, set a capture length, chapter points, or scene detection. Click the corresponding Help icon to display the online help for each of these features.

11 Click one of the following:

■Grab Frame — The image currently displayed in the Capture window is stored as a picture file (JPG, BMP, GIF, TIF, or PNG format).

■Start Capture — Starts a video capture (.mpg format). Click Stop Capturing to manually stop the capture if you did not set a capture length (step 10).

12 A confirmation message displays stating the disc or file was created successfully. Click OK.

Note that the Direct-to-Disc Wizards do not include the editing features that are available from the standard interface. You can edit a project created with a wizard before burning it to a disc as described in:

■“Editing the style of a video project” on page 84.

■“Editing movie files” on page 84.

86 Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 Software Guide