USB Instant DVD for MAC USB Instant DVD for MAC User's Guide : Second Edition www.adstech.com Technical Support: 562.926.
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Table of Contents Instant DVD for Mac Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 System Requirements and Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Hardware Installation Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 PixeDV: Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 • Launching PixeDV . .
Instant DVD for Mac Overview Instant DVD for MAC is a fun and easy way to get DVD and VCD video into your Macintosh so you can archive your home movies. Instant DVD then lets you publish the video to CD or DVD disk or publish to the Internet or send the video back to a VCR or camcorder for distribution on Tape.
PixeDV: Capture, Import, Export, Organize Video PixeDV for Mac is the main application you will be using to Capture video, Organize the video you captured and even Import video from other sources PixeDV for Mac, despite its name, DOES NOT CAPTURE DV. It only captures MPEG1 and MPEG2 files. MPEG files are necessary for the creation of DVD or VCD movies.
PixeDV: Capture, Import, Export, Organize Video MPEG2 offers the best quality in relation to file size for capturing video. DV or otherwise know as DIGITAL VIDEO will need 4 GB for every 20 minutes of video. DV is good for some applications, when you want to capture in DV, Edit in DV and OUTPUT back to DV. (Back to camcorder). This is why you need firewire for DV. The data being sent back and forth from a DV camcorder is huge. 25 Megabits per second, thats 3.6 Megabytes per second.
CaptyDVD: Author and Publish to DVD CaptyDVD Starts where you left off with PixeDV. It takes the MPEG2 movies that you have captured and publishes the MPEG2 files into a DVD Movie. This process of “making” a DVD movie is known as “AUTHORING”. Authoring with CaptyDVD provides the easiest, professional level package available in the market today.
System Requirements & Contents System Requirements: To Capture MPEG-1 at 30 frames per second: Any Macintosh with built-in USB To Capture MPEG-2 at 30 frames per second: Power Mac G4 4000/AGP or greater Power Mac G4 Cube Power Book G4 400 or greater - Mac OS X - 256 MB of RAM - CD-ROM - 100 MB hard disk space for capture/editting applications - 3 GB minimum hard disk space recommended for capturing and editing video - Available USB Port Additional Requirements for Publihsing VCD ir DVD Disk: - CD-RW drive
Hardware installation Guide Getting Started The basic steps are: 1. Check USB Instant DVD package contents 2. Wire it up! - Audio and Video connectors 3. Install Application software 4. Plug it in! - Power and USB connection 5. Verify Hardware Installation 6. Start Making DVD Movies Check USB Instant DVD Contents Hardware: (a) USB Instant DVD device (b) 5 VDC Power supply (c) 6 ft. USB Cable (d) 6 ft. A/V In Cable (RCA video and audio to RCA video and 3.5 mm stereo) (e) 9 ft. Audio out to TV/VCR cable (3.
Wire it up! In this section we will connect all audio and video cables that you will use to capture audio and video and then send audio and video back to a tTV or VCR for viewing or recording. 1. Connect your video source (VHS, DVD, Laser Disc Player, TV. etc.) to your USB Instant DVD. 2. Connect your 6 ft. A/V in cable to the 3 RCA jacks to your analog audio/video source RCA line out. The other end connects to the “RCA Video In” jack and “Audio In” jack on the back of your USB Instant DVD.
Install Software In this section you will Connect USB Instant DVD to your Mac and Install the Application Software 1. Insert the USB Instant DVD CD into your CD ROM DRIVE 2. The USB Instant DVD CD Volume will mount on your desktop 3. Click on the USB Instant DVD CD on your Desktop. 4. Go to the Finder File Menu on the upper left and click duplicate. 5. The CD will now be copied to your desktop. Plug It In! In this section you will Connect USB Instant DVD to your Mac 1.
Overview OVERVIEW The PixeDV for Mac application allows you to do the following: • • • • • • Capture Real-Time from any video source into an MPEG1 or MPEG2 Movie Output MPEG1 or MPEG2 Video files to a VCR or TV Import other media(QuickTime, DV, Etc) into the PixeDV Album Manage and organize your media in the PixeDV Album Easily remove unwanted scenes from your captured MPEG movies.
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LAUNCHING PIXEDV If you plan to capture video, make sure the USB Instant DVD , your video sources and your Macintosh are all connected properly. Please refer to the HARDWARE INSTALLATION section of this manual if you need help. Open the USB Instant DVD folder that you may have copied to your desktop or inside your Macintosh Hard Drive.
Depending on your View settings for OSX, this may appear as Icons, as a List or display in column mode. Double Click on the PixeDV Icon on your G3 or G4 Mac. You will see this startup Screen: You can click on any of the five functions at any time. The buttons are not sequential. Which means it would not matter whether you clicked Capty or Album first. Clicking Quit will exit the application.
CAPTURING VIDEO Clicking on the CAPTY button will take you to this window: The first step is to check your capture settings. Click on the tab that says capture.
From this window you can select: Video Input S-Video – Sometimes referred to as SVHS, select this input if you have a video source that is plugged into the S-Video connector on the USB Instant DVD for MAC Composite – Sometimes referred to as RCA jacks, select this input if you have a video source that is plugged into the Composite connector. Recording System NTSC - Select if you have an NTSC video source. Countries that use the NTSC Standard are USA, Canada, Mexico, Japan and the Philippines.
Start capturing: Once you have selected all your settings, you can now click on the Start Capture button to start the capture process. Video should start previewing on the blue area of the interface about 1 second after you click Start Capture. This one second delay should be accounted for when you start capturing video.
To stop the capture process, click on the STOP Capture Button. A thumbnail of the file you just captured will appear, on the right. In the illustration shown above, 3 thumbnails are shown. This is for illustration purposes only. When you first start the program, you would normally not have any thumbnails shown until after capturing. The video that you just captured will be placed in the default album folder. Albums can be renamed, deleted, created etc.
EXPORTING VIDEO To export video back to a VCR , CAMCORDER or for preview on a TV MONITOR, click on the OUTPUT Button on the main CAPTY interface. Clicking on OUTPUT will take you to this screen. Drag thumbnails into the output box. You can drag as many files that you want in whatever order and play them back. Click on the START Button to start the export process. Click on the STOP Button to stop.
IMPORTING VIDEO Clicking on the IMPORT button from the MAIN SCREEN or the IMPORT button from MENU BAR will take you to this screen: You can browse easily to any directory on any drive (eg: local drive, firewire drives etc) and drag other media like DV, QUICKTIME, PICTURES or MPEG files into an album.
USING THE ALBUM Clicking on the ALBUM button from the MAIN SCREEN or the ALBUM button from MENU BAR will take you to this screen: ALBUM lets you organize your captured media and existing media in your Mac. It can see not only your capture MPEG files but existing DV files, QuickTime compatible files and pictures that you have imported into PixeDV for Mac via the IMPORT function.
Once you have files that you captured or imported into ALBUM, hold down the CONTROL KEY on the your KEYBOARD while you click on the thumbnail, the contextual menu options will be shown for that thumbnail: Change Thumbnail Size – Changes the Physical size of the Thumbnails in your ALBUM Use a Album Cover – Use the first frame of the video or picture as your ALBUM cover thumbnail Create a Play list file – Creates a play list of video files that can be played one after another without user intervention.
Album Menu Options On the upper right section of the ALBUM Screen, you can click on the ALBUM Button to manage your ALBUM. This is where you can delete the whole ALBUM, make a NEW ALBUM, RENAME ALBUMS ETC. You can also click on the SOURCE Button to manage the MEDIA Files that you have inside the hi-lighted ALBUM. Here you can Move, Copy, Delete, etc, any of the files that you might have in a specific Album.
TRIMMING VIDEO’S WITH MPEG CUTTER Although the PixeDV for Mac application DOES NOT offer EDITING functions where you can ADD transitions and titles to your Video’s, it does offer the ability to accurately trim and cut MPEG2 files. Cutting up MPEG2 files is very hard to do and the ability to do this is a very key feature of this software package. To open MPEG FILES in MPEG CUTTER, hold down the CONTROL Key and click on the MPEG file that you want to open in MPEG CUTTER. 1. Click on MPEG Cutter 2.
Importing a file into MPEG Cutter bring up this interface: A B The video file that got imported into MPEG CUTTER will be shown in the PREVIEW WINDOW. Drag the Slider to a part of the video (A) where you want to START trimming. A frame will display in this box (B) where you stopped the slider. Drag that frame into the box labeled START. Drag the Slider to a part of the video where you want to STOP the trimming process. A frame will display in this box where you stopped the slider.
The ORIGINAL File Size versus the file size for the newly created file will be displayed just above the EXECUTE Button. To SAVE your trimmed video, you have to click on the EXECUTE Button. This will save the TRIMMED FILE to your hard drive. The original file will be left untouched.
ONE STEP AMOUNT – Sets your step settings in relation to moving the current video frame via the one step arrow movement buttons as illustrated below: Arrows If you set your Step Amount at 1 Sec, clicking on the arrow Key’s will move the frame in the main PREVIEW WINDOW forward approximately 1 second. Setting up your Step amount for 1 Minute will moved the frame forward approximately 1 minute and so on.
EXPORTING FILES FOR USE IN DVD STUDIO PRO The USB Instant DVD for Mac hardware together with the PixeDV for Mac software, can capture analog video real time into an MPEG2 or MPEG1 file. The MPEG file that is captured is an industry standard MPEG file that can be used anywhere. Even on PC based DVD Authoring/Publishing Systems. Most AUTHORING/PUBLISHING Applications in the market will take a standard MPEG FILE. Some applications though require something called an ELEMENTARY MPEG2 FILE.
4. Browse to the location where you saved the ELEMENTARY MPEG2 FILES. PixeDV for Mac will split the files and sequentially save them in folders called DVD SOURCE FOLDER1 and so on. If you open the folder, you will see the MPEG2 AUDIO and VIDEO FILES. The .AIF extension is for AUDIO MPEG FILES. The .M2V extension is for VIDEO MPEG FILES. The files can now be easily imported into DVD Studio Pro via the File, Import Menu or you can drag the file into the ASSETS window of DVD Studio Pro.
MPEG AND QUICKTIME PLAYERS Clicking on the MPEG PLAYER Button from the MAIN SCREEN will take you into ALBUM Mode for MPEG FILES in your current ALBUM. DV Files, Pictures and other Media will not be shown in this mode. Double clicking on any of the video thumbnails will play the file in the MPEG PLAYER shown below. You can resize the window, change the volume level and start, pause and stop the video playback. The MPEG PLAYER will only PLAYBACK MPEG Files captured by USB Instant DVD for MAC.
Frequently Used Terms Encode Convert a file to a different format using compression. Authoring The process of creating a DVD-Video or Video CD. Object A general term used for objects placed on the Title menu or Chapter menu, such as buttons. Contents A file such as a picture, sound or movie which will be used for creating a DVD-Video or Video-CD. Thumbnail A small image of contents and templates used to preview layout. Slideshow Still images displayed continuously on electronic slides.
Launch CaptyDVD/VCD Launch CaptyDVD/VCD Double-click on the CaptyDVD icon found in the Applications USB Instant DVD folder. Project Setting Select DVD-Video and click Continue. When you launch CaptyDVD, a project dialog will appear. 1 Select DVD Video when creating a DVD-Video. 2 Select Video CD when creating a Video-CD. 3 Select Open project when continuing to work on a saved project. Select a worldwide video standard based on your country. There are two main kinds of video format; NTSC and PAL.
Select an Encoding format. MPEG2 video is used for creating a DVD-Video movie. If you have video files other than MPEG2, the movie files will be converted to MPEG2. You need to specify the quality for the MPEG2 format. If you choose High quality, video bit rate will be set to 8Mbps. If you choose the Normal quality, the video bit rate will be set to 6Mbps. If you choose the Low quality, video bit rate will be set to 4Mbps.
Creating A Title Menu The Title menu is the main menu screen that will appear first when you play a DVD-Video in a DVD player. There are several templates you can choose from for your Title menu. There are varying styles, backgrounds, B G Ms (Back Ground Music) and many other options that you can choose to make your original DVD-Video. You can create a maximum of 30 Title menus and 98 title buttons per DVD-R disc, and one Tiitle menu allows you to insert 6 title buttons at the maximum.
5 Slideshow button: This button is for viewing still picture content in continuous playback. After positioning this button, the still picture content is registered in Slideshow edit mode. You can position a maximum of 6 buttons in the title menu, and including the movie buttons, you can have a maximum of 98 buttons for the whole disc. 6 Movie button: Layout movie content positions. You can position a maximum of 6 movie buttons in the title menu.
How to create a second Title menu If you want to create a second Title menu, click the Title menu/ Layout panel. Click on the Menu list tab, then click the Add button. Note: If you want to manually place objects within the Title menu, click the check box called "Free object location". If it is not checked (selected), objects will be automatically placed and you will not be allowed to move any objects.
How to add a Movie Button When you add a movie button, you can also add shadows, choose thumbnail images, locate title text, and etc.. Click on the Movie icon from the Object layout tools. Click anywhere on the Main window to place a movie button. Click Main menu, and a dialog box will appear. Select the movie file you want to add. Select the movie button you have placed. Then Title menu/movie panel will appear. Scroll slider to select a scene to be the movie button image.
How to add a Slideshow Button If you want to add still images, you can create a slideshow button. Click on the Slide icon on the Object layout tools. Click anywhere on the main window to place a Slideshow button. How to hide the title of a slideshow button: Select a Slideshow button, then click on the Hide title box in the Title menu/Slideshow panel. (see Fig. A) Fig. A How to move the title of a slideshow button: When you click a slideshow button, the Title menu/Slideshow panel will appear.
Important: If a movie button is not created after using the Drag & Drop method, the file may be missing from the album in the PixeDV for Mac software. Note: You can use the Drag & Drop method directly from your desktop to the Title menu. If you use the Drag & Drop method for a still image, the image will be placed as a background for the Title menu. Setting Markers By inserting markers within a movie, you can quickly access the specific scene you want to view.
Creating Chapter Menus A Chapter menu is a sub menu that displays the movie buttons you have added onto the Title menu. The thumbnails of buttons are the scenes where you have inserted markers. You can create a maximum of 30 chapter menus and 98 chapter buttons per disc. One chapter menu allows you to insert up to 6 chapter buttons. When you create the Title menu, click Title from the Mode selection icons.
Positioning the chapter button After positioning the chapter buttons, you can replace thumbnail images, add shadows, re-locate the title of a chapter button, replace styles, etc.. Drag thumbnails of Marker and drop it into layout. When a thumbnail is placed in the layout window, a chapter button will be created. Add shadows to the Chapter buttons: Display the Chapter menu/Chapter panel by clicking a chapter button placed on the layout window. Click the "Apply shadows" box and choose the shadow direction.
Authoring Formation & Disc Playback: DVD Video/ Video CD Automatic & Continuous Playback In Capty DVD/VCD, you can playback in two ways: automatic or continuous. Below is the process for both. When the DVD disc is inserted and no action is taken, the first title starts to play. If playback is set to play continuously, all of the titles will play continuously.
Operation During Title Menu Display In Capty DVD/VCD, you can set several title menus for placing title buttons of still pictures, slide shows, and movie titles. - Select the title button and menu navigate button with the direction keys - Press the Enter Key to start selected button Movie button: Play mode Slide Show button: Play Slide Show Movie button with chapter menu: Displays chapter menu Menu navigate button: Moves between menus - When there are several menus, use the skip keys to move between menus.
Operation during slideshow title playback In Capty DVD/VCD, you can perform the operations listed below during playback of a slideshow movie title.
Operation During Chapter Menu Display In Capty DVD/VCD, you can set markers to movies titles and create Chapter menus using those markers. You can perform the operations listed below during display of the Chapter menu.
Operation During Title Menu Display In Capty DVD/VCD, you can set several title menus by placing title buttons of still pictures, slide shows and movie titles. - Use number keys 1 through 6 to play titles - Stop key: Stops disc playback - When there are several menus, use the skip keys to move between menus - Use the Play key to playback the 1st title in the menu Operation During Movie Title Playback In Capty DVD/VCD, you can perform the operations listed below during playback of a movie title.
Operation during slide show title playback In Capty DVD/VCD, you can perform the operations listed below during playback of slide show movie titles. - Use Skip keys to move to the next or previous image. - Use Play key to start playback from a temporary stop. - Pause key: Stops playback temporarily.
Editing A Slideshow CaptyDVD enables you to edit your slideshow and add sounds. CaptyDVD also calculates the intervals of pictures to be equal with the lengh of your selected audio. You can use up to 98 still images per slideshow. You can edit in the Slideshow edit mode by double-clicking a slideshow button you have placed on the title menu, or by clicking the Slide option while selecting a slideshow button.
Still image settings BGM Setting Click BGM (DEFINE BGM: MIDI) button to select a sound file. This sound will be played during the slideshow. When Repeat is checked, the sound will be repeated until the slideshow is stopped. Switch time You can set the playback time for each still image. There is an amount of time you can select, or manually input, between 4 to 20 seconds. When Match to BGM is checked, time will be automatically calculated to fit your slideshow length.
Preview to Confirm Writing CaptyDVD enables you to preview your contents before you start writing. When you are ready to write, preview your project to test your menus, buttons, etc. Use the remote control image just like a real one. 1 2 4 3 5 7 6 8 10 9 11 Note: In the Preview mode, the TV display area will not be shown.
Click Preview to go to preview mode. 1 Mode display: This displays DVD when you are compiling a DVD-Video, and VCD when you are compiling a Video-CD. 2 Number selection key: Only available for Video-CD. Clicking a number corresponds with the same number of the title button. 3 Title key: Only available for DVD-Video. Goes back to the Title menu. 4 Return key: Only available for Video-CD. Goes back to current Title menu. 5 Menu key: Only available for DVD-Video. Goes back to Chapter menu.
Creating a DVD-Video CaptyDVD supports direct writing to a DVD-R disc for creating a DVD-Video if you have a built-in SuperDrive or PIXELA's DVD-RAM/R drive PIX-DVRR/FW series. Also, if you choose Video TS, you can use it to play with Apple's Apple DVD Player. This is the final stage for creating a DVD-Video. You can click on the Compile icon from the Mode selection icons to go to Compile mode.
Button Builder Button Builder Screen Format Button builder is a software utility you can use to create custom buttons for images you have create. Features of Button Builder: • • • Create random form buttons Create shadows for buttons Indicate thumbnails position, display size of button and titles (including movies and still image slides) Button format: To create a button, you need at least 3 images. Create each image with a pixel size of 200 x 200. 1. Button image The images of the button itself. 2.
5. Mask of selected button. This mask specifies that the title in the DVD video menu is being selected. Create this image in gray scale. 6. Listed Thumbnail This thumbnail image can be used as a custom button in the list of thumbnails that are displayed in the Capty DVD/VCD button style settings panel. Indicating thumbnail display You can indicate the position and display size of all the button thumbnails.
6. Likewise, create the (Thumbnail mask). A mask image that specify the position of the button, and the form of the displayed thumbnail image. The white area will be where the thumbnail will be displayed. The white oval shaped becomes this portion (picture 3). 7. Create the (button shadow mask), if necessary. Use the (button shape mask) (Picture 2) as a base and add blur to create a shadowy effect (picture 4).
Thumbnail display frame setting On the button’s thumbnail display portion, set the frame where the image of the movie title or still image title registered in the CaptyDVD will be displayed. Since a thumbnail can be displayed from any random position, it is possible to create a button as the one below . If you click the “Display thumbnail setup frame” button, a bounding box (for adjusting position and size) will appear in the button preview window. Drag any of the four corners to change the display size.
Glossary Analog: A signal that is not digital. Most VCRs, radio/television broadcasting, AV in/out, S-VIDEO, and stereos are analog. Computers are digital, dealing in ones and zeros. Information from an analog source must be digitized to be used on a computer. Capture: The recording of video or images to a computer hard disk. CBR (Constant Bit-Rate): Constant Bit Rate (CBR) encoding is an encoding method that varies the quality level in order to ensure a consistent bit rate throughout an encoded file.
Mark In/Out: Points in a clip that have been marked for editing and trimming purposes. A section can be selected from a longer clip by setting its beginning (Mark in) and ending (Mark out). MPEG-1: A standard for video and audio compression used in many products like VCD. For NTSC, its video resolution is 352x240 pixels at 29.97 fps. For PAL, it works at 352x288 pixels at 25 fps. MPEG-2: A subset of MPEG-1. It’s a standard for video and audio compression used in products like DVD.
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