MacroSystem Digital Video DVD-Arabesk 2 manual Info / Play DVD, Miscellaneous Read DVD

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instantly returned to the main menu of the DVD and the operating panel remains in the foreground.

With the “Chapter” button you enter a selection list in which you can directly access each chapter so long as it has already been created (see section 3.1, item (1) Edit chapter).

The button “Film” has a function comparable to the button “Chapter”. With its help you can move film-by-film through the menu.

With the two buttons in the bottom line you can move chapter-by-chapter through the menu.

With the Stop, Play and Pause buttons in the upper line you can abort playback, play the desired film or stop temporarily.

Note: At first you see the trailer, assuming that you have set the function “Trailer only” under “Control”. Then the menu is displayed. During this time you may click the right trackball key at any time to display the operating panel without interrupting the running film. The panel disappears again when you press Play to start another film from the menu.

3.2 Info / Play: DVD

(6)Clicking on the button “DVD” causes the DVD in the drive to be played. The DVD must be a DVD that has been written with “DVD-Arabesk”.

If the DVD has been created under an earlier version of “DVD-Arabesk”, then you will see the films represented not with icons, but with the terms “Film 1”, “Film 2”, etc., which can be selected.

3.3 Miscellaneous

In this section describes the three functions contained in the third block named “Miscellaneous”.

This block provides additional options for using Arabesk.

3.3 Miscellaneous: Read DVD

(7)With “DVD-Arabesk 2” you can make copies of DVDs that you have written with “DVD- Arabesk 2” or “DVD-Arabesk”.

To make a DVD copy, you Read the source DVD to the hard disk and then write a DVD-R or RW. The result is a 100% copy without loss.

This function is meant to let you copy your own finished DVDs after you have deleted the project from the hard disk and you still require additional copies.

Copying automatically includes all menus, chapter information, etc. You don’t have to make these settings again.

Note: If you wish to make a 1:1 copy of your DVD, you should not make any further changes before writing (e.g. insert projects, change background menu), because the DVD menu will not be correctly displayed once written.

An additional possibility is to modify an already existing DVD: Imagine that you have an old DVD containing video material of a vacation spot you have visited. Imagine further that you spent last summer at the same spot and you would now like to archive your new film material together with the older material.

With “DVD-Arabesk 2” you can read in the original DVD, insert additional projects (assuming enough space on the DVD) and write a new DVD.

In doing so you should take account of the following:

When you read in a DVD that has been created with “DVD-Arabesk 2” then in the window “Edit Menu” you will see your original menu. Moving backgrounds are an exception. These cannot be restored but can only be represented as gray fixed images. If your original DVD has been created with a previous version of “DVD- Arabesk”, then it is not possible to restore the original menu.