Operation Manual

Chapter 1

Disc Production

When your movie is ready for production, that’s the time to use

PowerProducer. Because PowerProducer offers basic video editing

tools, your movie does not have to be perfectly polished at this stage.

If you have your media clips on hand, but have not previously edited

and polished your movie, you might expect to use CyberLink

PowerProducer to perform the following tasks:

1. Specify the disc type and video quality you want to use.

2. Acquire video content.

3. Trim video content to a desired length.

4. Split your video into chapters for disc navigation.

5. Add a special effect to a video clip.

6. Adjust the sharpness, contrast, and color of a video clip.

7. Add background music to a video file.

8. Specify the buttons, background image, background music, and

layout of your menu page.

9. Preview your production.

10. Burn your production to CD/DVD.

Ready to Burn

When you are ready to burn your movie to disc,

you should have several discs on hand that are

compatible with your burning drive. Make sure

not only that the media type is correct (i.e.: that

you have DVDs for a DVD drive and CDs for a CD

drive), but that your discs are all in the correct

format (CD-R, DVD+RW, and so on).

Keep several discs on hand in case your first

production doesn’t turn out the way you expected,

or to make duplicate copies when you are satisfied

with the results.