Managing pictures on a Windows computer

Copying, viewing and creating pictures

This chapter describes how to use the applications that are included in Picture Package.

There are applications that appear on [Picture Package Menu] and an application that starts up from the [Start] menu of the computer.

Applications that appear on Picture Package Menu

If you double-click [Picture Package Menu] icon on the desktop, [Picture Package Menu] appears.

The following applications appear on [Picture Package Menu].

Picture Package Viewer (p. 17)

You can view the pictures copied from your camcorder by selecting from thumbnails. Still images and movies are saved in folders by date.

Picture Package Auto Video (p. 18)

You can easily create original videos with added music and effects using pictures recorded on a tape.

Picture Package Auto Slide (p. 21)

You can select your favorites from pictures imported from a “Memory Stick” and easily create your original slide show with added music and effects.

Picture Package CD Backup (p. 23)

You can save pictures copied onto a computer to a CD-R.

Picture Package VCD Maker (p. 24) You can create a Video CD from pictures recorded on a tape.

Application that starts up from the [Start] menu of the computer MEMORY MIX Image Tool (p. 26)

You can copy images for MEMORY MIX to a “Memory Stick.”

For details of MEMORY MIX functions, refer to the separate Camera Operations Guide supplied with your camcorder.

b Notes

Managing

• For Windows 2000/Windows XP, log on as

• Before following the procedures below, make sure

 

you have installed Picture Package on your

 

computer (p. 8).

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Administrators.

 

z Tip

 

• You can change the applications that appear on the

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menu with the [Settings] screen.

 

 

Windows

Viewing video and pictures on

 

your computer

 

– Picture Package Viewer

computer

Pictures copied from your camcorder are saved

 

in folders by date.

 

You can view the pictures by selecting from

 

thumbnails.

 

1 Turn on the computer.

2 Double-click [Picture Package Menu] icon on the desktop.

[Picture Package Menu] starts up.

3 Click [Viewing video and pictures on PC].

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