Getting Started Guide

92 Getting Started Guide

4 Select the duration for your movie by clicking either Automatic to allow

muvee autoProducer to set the duration or Manual to allow you to set the

duration.

5 If you select Manual, you can adjust the duration of the movie with the slider or

the arrow controls for minutes and seconds.

6 If you select Manual and the duration of your music is longer than the duration

of video and pictures, you can check Allow video segments to be

repeated so that video and pictures can be repeated. This allows you to use

the full duration of your music files.

7 If you select Manual and the total duration of your video and picture files is

longer than the duration of your music, you can check Allow music clips to

be repeated so that music can be used over again to fill the duration of the

movie.

8 Click Continue to start the process of creating your movie.

Previewing your movie

After making a movie you can preview the movie in the muvee autoProducer

Preview window. Use the playback controls under the preview window to play,

pause, and stop the movie preview.

Each time you make a change to a movie project, you need to click the make

muvee button again to add that change to your movie.

You can revise and preview the movie as often as you want to experiment with

different styles and the content of the movie.

Saving the movie project

Once you are satisfied with the look of your movie project, it is ready to be saved.

You can save the movie to a file on your hard disk drive or create a VCD or

DVD disc.

To save your movie:

1 Open your movie project, and click the save muvee button.

2 Choose a file type to save the movie to your hard disk drive:

• WMV-Small File

• WMV-High Quality

• MPEG1/VCD

• MPEG2/DVD

Choose a format to save your movie to a disc:

• VCD

• DVD