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C12_GettingStartedGuide.book Page ii Tuesday, June 30, 2009 10:16 AM ii Roxio Creator Getting Started Guide www.roxio.com Legal Information Copyright ©1994 - 2009 Sonic Solutions. All Rights reserved. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this program, or any portion of it, may result in severe civil and criminal penalties, and will be prosecuted to the maximum extent possible under law. Use of these products is subject to the acceptance of the license agreement included in this product.
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C12_GettingStartedGuide.book Page 10 Tuesday, June 30, 2009 10:16 AM 10 Roxio Creator Getting Started Guide www.roxio.com Welcome to Roxio Creator Welcome to Roxio Creator, the all-in-one digital media solution. Designed for beginners and experts alike, Creator makes it all easy—from simple and practical tasks, such as creating a backup copy of a disc, to fun and creative projects such as creating a home movie complete with introductions, transitions, music, and effects.
C12_GettingStartedGuide.book Page 11 Tuesday, June 30, 2009 10:16 AM Getting started with Roxio Creator Installing Creator Installing Creator Follow this procedure to install Creator. To install Creator using the installation disc: 1 Insert the Creator installation DVD into your DVD drive. If Autorun is enabled on your computer, the Creator installation window appears automatically and you can skip step 2 and step 3. 2 Choose Start > Run. 3 Type d:\setup (substitute the appropriate letter of your DVD
C12_GettingStartedGuide.book Page 12 Tuesday, June 30, 2009 10:16 AM 12 Roxio Creator Getting Started Guide www.roxio.com Getting to know Creator Start your digital media projects from Creator’s main window. Double-click the Creator desktop icon to begin. Creator’s main window, featuring the project category tabs and links to frequent tasks. Starting a task Click one of the project category tabs on the left side of the window, and a task list appears on the right. Choose a task by clicking on its name.
C12_GettingStartedGuide.book Page 13 Tuesday, June 30, 2009 10:16 AM Getting started with Roxio Creator Creator: What you can do Creator: What you can do There are so many great things you can do with Creator. Here’s a partial list and how to get started: Working with audio You will find links to these tasks by selecting the Music-Audio project tab: ■ Make an audio CD that you can play anywhere. Select the Burn Audio CDs task.
C12_GettingStartedGuide.book Page 14 Tuesday, June 30, 2009 10:16 AM 14 Roxio Creator Getting Started Guide www.roxio.com Working with photos You will find links to these tasks by selecting the Photo project tab: ■ Create multimedia slideshows and post them online for your friends to see. (English only.) Select the Create PhotoShows task. ■ Enhance, edit, and share your digital photos. Automatically adjust the exposure, saturation, and sharpness of photos. Fix common problems such as red eye.
C12_GettingStartedGuide.book Page 15 Tuesday, June 30, 2009 10:16 AM Getting started with Roxio Creator Creator: What you can do ■ Create professional-looking video productions that combine your home videos and photos with audio, transitions, and special effects. Select the Edit Video—Advanced task. ■ Make great looking video productions in a few easy steps. Select the Create DVDs task. ■ Create more elaborate multimedia stories on DVD to share with family and friends.
C12_GettingStartedGuide.book Page 16 Tuesday, June 30, 2009 10:16 AM 16 Roxio Creator Getting Started Guide www.roxio.com Importing and organizing media files You may find links to these tasks on more than one project tab: ■ Import photos and video files to your computer from your digital camera, mobile phone, or camcorder. Select the Import Photos or Capture Video tasks. ■ View and manage your media files in folders, and to organize them into personalized albums.
C12_GettingStartedGuide.book Page 17 Tuesday, June 30, 2009 10:16 AM Getting started with Roxio Creator Completing a typical task Completing a typical task Each task in Creator is a little different. Some are incredibly simple. Others take a little time to master. To help you get started, let’s walk though one of the most useful projects—creating a disc that contains files copied from your computer. 1 Open Creator by double-clicking the icon that was placed on your computer desktop during installation.
C12_GettingStartedGuide.book Page 18 Tuesday, June 30, 2009 10:16 AM 18 Roxio Creator Getting Started Guide www.roxio.com 2 When you are ready, click Burn Data Disc. In the illustration above, a link for the Burn Data Disc project appears in the suggested projects area near the top of the window and again in the Create section. The application window changes again. It now displays everything you need to set up your project and burn a disc. Burn Data Disc project window with files added.
C12_GettingStartedGuide.book Page 19 Tuesday, June 30, 2009 10:16 AM Getting started with Roxio Creator Completing a typical task files to an existing data disc, but to keep things simple for this project, use a blank disc.) 4 Use the Destination drop-down menu to select the drive holding your blank disc. If your computer only has one disc drive, it will be selected automatically. Click the Destination menu and choose from the list of available drives. 5 Now you are going to add files to the project.
C12_GettingStartedGuide.book Page 20 Tuesday, June 30, 2009 10:16 AM 20 Roxio Creator Getting Started Guide www.roxio.com ■ Next to that is the Make Bootable button. Use it to create a bootable disc that can be used to start your computer if something should ever go wrong with the Windows operating system. Before burning your data disc, look along the bottom of the project window. Here you will find several project status indicators.
C12_GettingStartedGuide.book Page 21 Tuesday, June 30, 2009 10:16 AM Getting started with Roxio Creator Where to find more information Where to find more information This guide provides an overview of Creator to help you get started. For detailed information about how to use all of the features of Creator, see the options described below. Help Most Creator components have an extensive, searchable Help Center. Each Help Center includes step-by-step procedures and answers to frequently asked questions.
C12_GettingStartedGuide.book Page 22 Tuesday, June 30, 2009 10:16 AM 22 Roxio Creator Getting Started Guide www.roxio.com Creator support options Unlimited self-help options Roxio provides a variety of self-help tools, a searchable knowledge base of support articles with troubleshooting tips, and tutorials that can help you get the most out of your Roxio products.
