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  • Page 2 In this case the 'Home Movies - Insert your own titles.tpl' was chosen. The 'insert your own titles' means that the theme has merge fields or place holders for text to be dynamically inserted at the time the project is run. The color, font and placement of the text can be seen or modified by using the disc layout editor or case wrap layout editor.
  • Page 3 If you select the first option, proceed to 'Select Audio/Video Inputs and Settings'. If you select the second option, proceed to 'Select DVD Writer'. For additional information on this Wizard Page see also (Select Live or Pre-Captured Video) Select DVD Writer On this page, you can specify where your DVD's will typically be written.
  • Page 4 To continue the Quick Start Guide, proceed to 'Select Default Printers'. For additional information on this Wizard Page see also (Select DVD Writer) Select Default Printers On this page, you can specify where your paper assets will normally be printed. The choices are either a local DVD writer robotic DVD duplicator/printers.
  • Page 5 Setup Wizard by right-clicking on the application logo (located in the upper left hand corner of the DVD-100 user interface) and then selecting 'Setup Wizard...' from the popup menu. On the setup tab of the display area on the application enter the text as shown below:...
  • Page 6 If you selected an alternate theme when stepping through the Setup Wizard, a different menu theme may be shown. That is ok! Next click the record button with the un-lit red LED. Now the red LED should appear lit and the green encode LED should be blinking. If the video is a live feed such as a TV or camera feed, simply press the play button.
  • Page 7 After a minute or so, click the stop button (with the square symbol on it shown below) to stop the video capture before the 1 hr. capture limit would have automatically stopped it for you. The display area should switch to the 'Author' tab where it should take a few seconds to author the DVD.

  • Page 8: Setting Up The Project

    Any video format of the right dimensions (Frame sizes mentioned above) that you have a DirectShow decoder for. Another way to look at it is any video file of the right size that can be played by Window Media Player. Our software uses a software MPEG-2 encoder to convert raw video to DVD compliant MPEG-2.
  • Page 9 Selecting the Audio and Video Files At this time, don't worry about the capture limit because it will not be needed. Leave all four checkboxes unchecked. Now click the button to bring up the project property pages. The four text fields are the values entered on the setup page of the display. If you changed any of the text here, the change would be reflected on the setup display page.
  • Page 10 What you need to do now will depend on the type of pre-captured files you have. Select the type of files you have on your hard disc that you will be making a DVD from. Next click the 'Enter/Edit FileList' button and the following should appear.
  • Page 11 Now click the browse button to select the video or multiplexed file. After selecting the file and closing the browser dialog, if needed follow the same steps to select your audio elementary stream. If you are using Elementary Streams, Program Stream or VOB Files, the video will not need to be encoded so you can close the 'Pre-Captured FileList' dialog as well as the project property page dialog.
  • Page 12 Proceed to 'Start Offline Encoding'. Start Offline Encoding To begin the offline encoding, click the 'Encode' button shown below. After encoding starts, the green LED above the 'Encode' button will be lit. The application display area should automatically switch to the 'Encode' tab and appear as shown. When the encoding completes, the project will automatically switch to the 'Author' display tab and continue with the DVD authoring.
  • Page 13 The application display area should automatically switch to the 'Chapter' tab and appear as shown. Based on the default chapter selection algorithm, the application must first select chapter points and then acquire bitmaps of the first frame of each chapter to use on the chapter selection menu. After the chapter section is done, the application display area should automatically switch to the 'Author' tab and appear as shown.
  • Page 14 When the DVD authoring is finished, your DVD may be viewed using the PowerDVD application that was provided with this software. For help on using PowerDVD to test your DVD before writing it to disc, go to 'Testing Your DVD using PowerDVD'.

  • Page 15: Important Note

    Using 4x DVD-R writers, a two-hour DVD can be captured and authored in approximately 2-1/2 hours, and a one-hour DVD can be authored in less than 1-1/2 hours. DVD-100 can also output to robotic CD/DVD duplicating systems The output of the completed job is: ...

  • Page 16: Setup Wizard

    What it isn't DVD-100 is not a video editing application. Using DVD-100 This section discusses how to use the DVD-100 application. Setup Wizard The Setup Wizard is automatically run the first time the application is launched. It can also be launched manually from the popup menu obtained by a right click on the application logo.
  • Page 17 Click on the '...' browse button to select a theme. A Theme will determine how your DVD menu will look as well as the disc label and the case wrap. Once a theme is selected, you can further customize your DVD if you like by using the project property pages.
  • Page 18 Select Audio/Video Inputs and Settings This page is only shown if the live video selection is made on the previous wizard page. This allows default audio video input settings to be set. On a project by project basis, this default can easily be overridden by the options on the Encoding Property Page.
  • Page 19 Some of these settings will not be applicable depending on the hardware configuration.  Audio Input Source Connector - may be used to specify analog or digital audio and possible the type or format of the audio feed.  Video Input Source Connector - may be used to specify the type of cable that is used to connect the video source to the capture card.
  • Page 20 Select your default output device from the drop-down listbox. Select Default Printers The printers to be selected here are those used for printing paper label, case wrap stock and case inserts. Again, as is the case on each other setup wizard page, on a project by project basis, these defaults can easily be overridden by the options on the Disc Label Property Page, Case Wrap Property Page or Case Insert Property Page wizard pages.
  • Page 21 If outputting to any printer that has the ability to use different settings resulting in different print qualities, such as ink jet printers, be sure to set the paper type or print quality settings from the 'properties' page of the printer selection dialog.
  • Page 22 Project Property Page Dialog This dialog box can be used as a Wizard with Next and Back buttons or as a tabbed property page dialog. This functionality is controlled by the 'Step Through Property Pages as a Wizard' option on the application preferences dialog.
  • Page 23 DVD authored. Deck Control Page This feature is not available in all versions of DVD-100. If you do not have access to this feature and you wish to use it, please http://www.dmapp.com or your local dealer. Deck control refers to controlling a remote tape deck via Firewire or Serial bus. This feature is not available in all product configurations.
  • Page 24  Use In/Out Marks to start/stop deck when capturing video - this control is used to indicate whether IN/OUT marks are to be used for the project's capture stage.  User Book Mark - allows a single timecode per job to be stored for convenience. This mark is not used with the In/OUT marks when automatically capturing video.
  • Page 25 This page can be used to specify test merge variables and their values which can be inserted into DVD menus, disc labels and the case wrap. Variables are not special objects, they are merely text objects. What makes them a variable is for the exact string value of the text object to be listed as a variable name.
  • Page 26 Pre-Captured Files Property Page This feature is not included in the standard version of DVD-100. If you do not have access to this feature and you wish to use it, please contact http://www.dmapp.com or your local dealer to purchase an upgrade.
  • Page 27 When running projects with pre-captured files, the file types cannot be combined for a single DVD. In other words, you cannot make a DVD with a program stream as the first segment and elementary streams for the second segment. When creating a DVD from uncompressed files or files that will need to be transcoded, software audio and video compressors will be used to create the DVD compliant elementary streams.
  • Page 28  Expand To Fit - will expand the columns equally to fit the width of the window.  Auto Width - will resize the columns to fit the content.  Add Row - adds a row to the end.  Set Segment Text from Filename - if this option is checked, whenever a cell in the Video File column is updated, the filename minus the path and extension will be copied over to the Title column for that row.
  • Page 29 DV Capture / Software Encoding Options...
  • Page 30  Video Source is for those systems that support more than one type of input connector, this option specifies which video connectors to capture from.  Composite - RCA type connector, usually colored yellow.  S-Video - standard S-Video source. ...
  • Page 31 OSD Property Page This feature is not available in all versions of DVD-100. It is currently available with the VM2 line of capture boards. OSD is an acronym for On Screen Display. It provides the ability overlay graphics or text onto the live captured and encoded video.
  • Page 32  Enable OSD - this control enables or disables the feature for the current project.  Edit - this button pops up the following window which allow WYSIWYG layout of the OSD graphics or text.
  • Page 33 The authoring page is where the DVD navigation and chapter selection is specified. If a DVD navigation menu is desired, a menu theme should be chosen. DVD-100 comes with a few basic menu themes and more can be created using the MenuMaker application.
  • Page 34  DVD Type - A DVD without menus is typically used for showing demo content. Such a DVD can be designed to play once through to the end and then stop or it can be made to start playing from the beginning every time the end is reached.
  • Page 35 text will also be printed on the chapter insert. If bitmaps are supplied, they must be supplied for all chapters and will be used in the same way automatically captured bitmaps are used. If the custom chapter radio button is selected, a button will appear which will allow the following dialog box to be brought up. ...
  • Page 36 DVD. If all data files need to be in a directory on the DVD, they that directory should exist inside the specified directory. Files existing directly in the specified directory will be written to the root of the DVD. When saving settings on the DVD-100 application, this option is not saved.
  • Page 37 DVD Writing Property Page The DVD burning page is used to specify whether to create a DVD disc or not. If the Write DVD option is not checked, the DVD can still be authored and the assets printed. This page is also used to indicate output to a duplicating/printing unit.
  • Page 38  – is a directory, usually on the duplicator system Destination Directory for Duplicator Job File where job files will be written. When a duplicator job file is written to that directory, the duplicator job will automatically begin. If you want the job to be created but not run immediately, you can change the directory and then copy the job file to the job directory when ready for the job to be run.
  • Page 39  – for duplicators that support it, this option is used to Specify disc rotation for printing (degrees) rotate the disc from a reference point before printing. Printing Property Pages Disc Label Property Page This page is where the disc (label) printing is specified. This page also allows the user to customize the layout of the contents on the label.
  • Page 40  – this button should be used to select a printer if printing on paper labels. Select Printer/Properties When a printer is selected, the paper or print quality settings should also be set base on the type of paper being used.
  • Page 41  – this drop-down list box allows the selection of pre-programmed page layouts as Choose Paper Stock well as a persistent user definable layout. This selection simply controls the three edit fields which specifies the location and size of the label relative to the top and left edges of the paper. Measurements are specified in millimeters.

  • Page 42: Load A Project

     – this option controls whether the Print DVD Chapter Index as an Inside the Box Case Insert chapter insert will be printed as part of the job.  Use *.PRN file – this option allows for a specifically prepared *.PRN file to be in addition to in instead of the chapter insert shown above.

  • Page 43: New Project

    The project extension should be used when setting up and saving jobs to run. When a job is run, it will automatically create a file in the default job directory using the Job ID as the base part of the filename with the extension *.job.

  • Page 44: Save A Project

    This button, which is in the lower right hand corner of the Setup Display Tab, will bring up the full Project Property Page Dialog Box. It can be used to create or edit current project properties. Save a Project Save the current project. The JobID will always be suggested as the base name of the project file but it can be overridden if you like.
  • Page 45 Default Directories  Work Directory for DVD Authoring – in this directory, a temporary folder will be created using the jobID as the folder name. This directory is where the chapter thumbnail bitmaps and the temporary bitmaps rendered for the DVD menus. To optimize the performance of the DVD authoring stage, it is suggested that the 'Work Directory' and the DVD directory be located on different physical hard drives.
  • Page 46  – this directory specifies the default location to look for bitmaps that are used Directory for bitmap files as the backgrounds for the disc label and case wrap. Any other bitmap files that might be used on the print assets would typically be stored here.
  • Page 47  – First it needs to be mentioned that sensing the end of recorded content on Audo-sense end of content a tape is not an exact science. What this feature depends on is the unchanging frames of a solid color. In cases where unrecorded tapes play as static or video noise, the auto-sense feature does not work.

  • Page 48: Save Settings

    Job Polling This feature is not included in the standard version of DVD-100. If you do not have access to this feature and you wish to use it, please contact http://www.dmapp.com or your local dealer to purchase an upgrade. On this page, a directory can be specified which is polled for jobs to launch. If this field is left blank, no directory is polled.

  • Page 49: Display Pages

    Display Pages The display area on the front panel of the DVD-100 Application serves multiple purposes but the primary purpose is to display status and job data. There are times for convenience sake that the display page will allow editing of job data but this function is secondary to the status functionality.

  • Page 50: Capture Display

    Capture Display The Capture display will show the status of the job currently being captured. The Capture display page will be automatically switched to when the REC button is pressed to setup for video capture. Chapter Selection Display The Chapter display tab displays the current progress of the chapter selection stage for pre-encoded files. The progress resets to zero at the start of each new segment.
  • Page 51 Author Display The Authoring display will show the status of the job currently being authored. The Authoring display page will be automatically switched to when a job advances from the capture stage to the authoring stage. There are various intermediate stages in the authoring stage. Some of them may not be used depending on the options selected. The overall progress is an estimate of the overall progress of the entire authoring stage.
  • Page 52 Write Display The Write display will show the status of the job currently being written. The Writing display page will be automatically switched to when a job advances to the writing stage. Video Monitor The video monitor window serves different functions depending on the hardware of software configuration. Monitor Controls The monitor provides the following controls: This button will minimize the video monitor.

  • Page 53: Capture View

     Line In (typically this is a phone type or RCA type connector)  Balanced (typically this is an XLR connector)  AES (digital audio)  Embedded AES (digital audio embedded in the SDI stream) Capture View In this configuration, when the application is launched, the monitor will appear this way: In this case, the monitor window will be used to show the video once capture has begun.
  • Page 54  This control is used to wind the tape in the remote deck backward.  If the deck is in the stopped mode, the control will wind the tape quickly with no video preview.  If the tape is playing or paused when the wind is started, it will not wind as fast and will provide a video preview.

  • Page 55: Starting A Job

     Depending on which seek button is pressed, the deck will attempt to seek to the timecode specified to the immediate left of the seek button. Starting a Job Typically, a Job will start with the video capture stage. The application provides the ability to open a previously completed job and re-run it starting from the authoring stage, the writing stage or the printing stage.
  • Page 56 button is used when your video source looks like it might outlast the pre-set capture limit by a minute or two. Each time the button is pressed, the capture limit will be bumped up by a minute. This feature should be used with caution since it could result in A/V streams that are too large.
  • Page 57 A Job can be launched or re-run by simply dropping a text file in a specified directory. This directory is specified in on the job polling preferences page. If the job is successfully launched, the extension is on the file is changed from *.txt to *.
  • Page 58 (optional) item is the value to be substituted for the variable in the DVD menus and print assets. If the substitution value is left blank, the variable will be replaced with nothing. ;======================================================================================= ===== JobTemplate = D:\DVD-100\Jobs\test.job JobID = test2 StartingStage = Author Title = New Title Subtitle = New Subtitle Date = New Date MenuTheme=D:\DVD-100\Menu\vtodvd_nss.menu...
  • Page 59 There are two occasions when a job is started at the authoring stage by pressing the silver button under 'Author'. Re-authoring a job that has been previously captured with DVD-100. The job may even have been completed but if changes to the menu are desired, the DVD can be authored again. The original chapters and thumbnails chosen during the capture stage will still be used unless custom chapters are specified.

  • Page 60: Shutting Down

    Re-Writing a Job Before starting a job at the writing (DVD burning) stage, it may be useful to understand the job file data and work directory items needed. Before going into this however, please make sure you read the page on Re-Running Part of a Job.
  • Page 61 Testing Your DVD using PowerDVD Launch PowerDVD from the Start Menu or the quick launch toolbar. You should see a Window and application as shown below. Click on the control which is circled in red. You should get the following popup menu. Make the selection shown and you should get a folder browser.
  • Page 62 Browse to the VIDEO_TS folder which should be located on the C:\ under 'My Computer'. Click OK to select 'VIDEO_TS' and if you used the menu shown in the Quick Start Guide, the PowerDVD window should show the following DVD main menu. You can now use the cursor keys on your keyboard as you would the cursor keys on a DVD remote control and the Enter key as the DVD remote select button.

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