Getting Started Guide

Creating Movies Using muvee autoProducer 89
Capturing recorded video from a DV camcorder
For best results with muvee autoProducer, capture only video footage that you are
most interested in using in your movie project.
To capture video to your hard disk drive:
1 If your project is already open, click the capture DV button, and skip to
step 4.
2 Click Start, choose All Programs, muvee autoProducer, and then click
muvee autoProducer again.
3 Open a project by selecting from the File menu either New Project or Open
Project.
4 Connect your DV camcorder to the FireWire (IEEE 1394) port on your PC, and
turn on the camcorder.
5 Set the camcorder to VCR mode using the instructions in the manufacturer’s
documentation.
6 Click the Play button onscreen to begin viewing the video.
7 Click Start Capture when you see the start of the video footage you want to
use in your movie project.
8 Click the Stop Capture button to stop capturing.
9 Repeat steps 7 and 8 to capture additional sections of video footage.
10 Click the Browse button to be able to specify a file name and folder for the
captured video file.
Selecting videos and pictures
It is easy to add video files and still image files to your muvee production. The
following formats are supported:
•Video — DV, AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2
•Pictures — BMP, JPG, JPEG, GIF
To add video and picture files:
1 If your project is already open, click the video/pictures button, and skip to
step 4.
2 Click Start, choose All Programs, muvee autoProducer, and then click
muvee autoProducer again.
3 Open a project by selecting from the File menu either New Project or Open
Project, and then click video/pictures.
4 Click Add Video to select existing video files on your PC, if desired for your
movie.
5 Click Add Picture to select still image files on your PC, if desired for your
movie.