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  • Page 1: Getting Started

    Compaq MyMovieSTUDIO Getting Started...
  • Page 2 Congratulations and welcome to the Compaq MyMovieSTUDIO leading edge digital video editing and DVD authoring desktop computer. You have purchased a premier desktop solution for quickly recording, authoring, and editing DVDs without needing any specialized video editing or computing skills. Compaq MyMovieSTUDIO is bundled with Sonic MyDVD Video Suite.
  • Page 3 Now that you have the Compaq MyMovieSTUDIO what can you do? Create home DVD or VCD discs How to Get Started First, install the MyDVD Video Suite software. To install this software, insert the CD into your CD/DVD drive and follow the on-screen steps.
  • Page 4 Record Directly to DVD or CD Create or Author a New Project My Movie Edit an Existing Project What can you do with MyMovieSTUDIO? The Compaq MyMovieSTUDIO makes it easy and fun to put video and audio onto recordable DVDs and CDs. MyMovieSTUDIO PC is bundled with Sonic MyDVD Video Suite package software.
  • Page 5 Take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with MyDVD. To open the MyDVD application, double click the MyDVD icon on your desktop or from the Start button, click All Programs, MyDVD, then MyDVD. It is recommended that you view the MyDVD software at a screen resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels.
  • Page 6 The Toolbar and Menu Editor You can use the toolbar to perform most of the functions in MyDVD. You can add video clips, send your video clips to ShowBiz for advanced editing, create menus and buttons, select styles, and navigate through your project using the Menu Editor.
  • Page 7 If you record DVD-video content on a CD-R or CD-RW disc, you can only playback the CD on a desktop computer with a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive. This CD does not playback on a DVD set-top player. The MyDVD software includes a special version of Intervideo’s...
  • Page 8 6. Click the Next button. Choose Your Menu Style 7. Select a category of menu styles from the Category drop-down list. 8. Scroll through the list, click the style to use for your menus, and click the Next button. Set Recording Parameters 9.
  • Page 9 6. Locate the clip you want to link to your menu. Note: MyDVD saves movie clips to the My Videos folder located in the My Documents folder on your desktop. You can save movie clips in other locations. 7. Click Open to add movie clips to your DVD or...
  • Page 10 9. Type a file name for the project and click Save. Note: MyDVD saves all projects to the My DVDs folder located in the My Documents folder on your desktop. Each project has a unique folder that contains the project file saved with the name you entered and a .dvd extension.
  • Page 11 Open Click Make your Preview edits file Save from preview your DVD or hard your DVD or drive, project DVD or and exit project project preview disc * You can record back to existing DVD or CD disc if DVD Rewriteable is being used. Your DVD project file will appear on the D drive if it is a single-drive configuration.
  • Page 12: Edit Video Clips

    1. Connect the video device to your computer. 2. Click Capture on the toolbar or choose Tools, then Capture. 3. Choose your settings from the Capture to Disk window. 4. Click Record to start recording and Stop when finished. 5. Enter a file name and click Save. Note: MyDVD saves movie clips to the My Videos folder by default located in the My Documents folder.
  • Page 13 Back to To next home menu previous menu You can delete these buttons You can not delete these navigation buttons Create Additional Menus MyDVD automatically creates additional menus when the number of buttons exceeds the maximum number for the menu style. You can also manually create additional menus.
  • Page 14 Modify menu styles You can change the style of the menus in your project. To create a custom style, click Style, then the New Custom Style button on the Menu Editor. You can also download additional styles from the MyDVD web site. 1.
  • Page 15 Drive and Media Information You can use several different types of media with your CD or DVD drives. Media simply refers to the type of disc you insert into the drive. Compatibility of DVD Rewriteable media with DVD set-top players varies per model. Some DVD set-top players may not recognize the DVD Rewriteable media.
  • Page 16 ©2002 Compaq Information Technologies Group, L.P. Compaq and the Compaq logo are trademarks of Compaq Information Technologies Group, L.P. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. All other product names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies.