ADS Technologies PixeDV, Overview

Page 1: ...V Album Easily remove unwanted scenes from your captured MPEG movies Built In players allow you to play MPEG Movies or QuickTime Movies About MPEG MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group is the internationa...

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Page 3: ...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 deskto...

Page 4: ...ether you clicked Capty or Album first Clicking Quit will exit the application When you click on CAPTY IMPORT ALBUM you will always have a navigation bar on the topmost side of the screen that can tak...

Page 5: ...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 This will take you to this window...

Page 6: ...create a DVD Movie Select your quality level For a more detailed explanation about Quality Levels check the Capture Settings table in the USING PixeDV for MAC Overview section of the MANUAL Customize...

Page 7: ...ewing 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 With the capture process started you w...

Page 8: ...ocess will be This error would normally be caused by selecting the wrong video Source under capture settings Please make sure that you select S Video if you have an S Video source or Composite if you...

Page 9: ...hat 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 Once the export process is started you will see this activity a...

Page 10: ...rom 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...

Page 11: ...les QuickTime compatible files and pictures that you have imported into PixeDV for Mac via the IMPORT function On the top left you can see a series of 5 buttons that can organize the view options of t...

Page 12: ...be played one after another without user intervention For this function to work two or more files must be hi lighted Create a browser album Create another ALBUM where you can store organize and captur...

Page 13: ...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 ha...

Page 14: ...s 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 MPE...

Page 15: ...ox 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 Drag that frame into the box labeled E...

Page 16: ...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...

Page 17: ...t 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 forw...

Page 18: ...s in the market will take a standard MPEG FILE Some applications though require something called an ELEMENTARY MPEG2 FILE This is a file format where MPEG VIDEO and MPEG AUDIO are on two separate file...

Page 19: ...rs 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...

Page 20: ...own 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 p...