Creating Movies Using muvee autoProducer

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Creating personalized and professional-looking video movies is simple with muvee autoProducer, a software program on your HP Digital Entertainment Center.

Basic Steps to Make a Movie

Movies Using autoProducer

The basic steps to produce a movie with muvee autoProducer are:

1 Capture digital video: Capture live or recorded video to your hard disk drive directly from a compatible digital video camcorder (only from the desktop muvee autoProducer version).

2 Add videos and pictures: Select video and picture files from your HP Digital Entertainment Center folders. You can easily add videos and still images to your movie production. You can use these video and still image file types in your movie project.

File extension

File type

.dv

Digital video

 

.avi

Audio Video Interleaved

 

.mpeg-1

Motion Picture Experts Group

 

 

video playback

.mpeg-2

Motion Picture Experts Group DVD

 

 

video playback

.mpeg-4

High-quality video format (for Web

 

 

streaming, wireless devices, etc.)

.mov

QuickTime movie

 

.wmv

Windows Movie Video (only in the

 

 

desktop version of muvee

 

autoProducer)

.asf

Advanced Streaming Format

 

.jpg, .jpeg

Joint Photographic Experts Group,

 

 

still image

.gif

Graphics Interchange Format, still

 

 

image

.bmp

Bitmap, still image

 

 

 

 

3Add music: Select music files on your HP Digital Entertainment Center to add to your movie soundtrack.

You can use these music file types in your movie project:

File extension

File type

.aac

Advanced audio coding

 

.mp3

MPEG Layer 3

 

.m4a

MPEG-4 audio layer

 

.wav

Windows audio

 

.wma

Windows Media audio

 

 

 

 

4Select a style: Apply a movie style editing template for different effects and picture transitions in your movie.

5Add captions: Personalize your movie with opening titles and closing credits.

6Make the movie: Automatically analyze the videos, pictures, music, movie style, and captions you added to your movie and save your movie to your hard disk drive, a CD, or a DVD.

7Burn to disc: You can burn a video to DVD, VCD, or SVCD only from the desktop muvee autoProducer version.

The following sections contain detailed instructions.

Creating muvee

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