Creating A Disc; Copying A Disc; Editing Movies; Capturing Photos From A Movie - Sony Handycam DCR-SX30E Operating Manual

Creating a disc

You can create a disc by selecting movies
and photos previously imported to your
computer (p. 24).
1
Turn on your computer, and place
an empty disc on the DVD drive.
See page 21 for the type of discs you can use.
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If any other software than "PMB" starts
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automatically, shut it down.
2
Double-click the "PMB" short-cut
icon on the computer screen to
start "PMB. "
You may start "PMB" also by clicking
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[Start]  [All Programs]  [Sony
Picture Utility]  [PMB].
3
Click [Folders] or [Calendar] on
the left side in the window, and
select the folder or date, then
select the movies and photos.
To select plural movies and photos, hold
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the Ctrl key down and click thumbnails.
4
At the top of the window, click
[Manipulate]  [DVD-Video (SD)
Creation].
The window used to select movies and
photos appears.
To add movies and photos to the previously
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selected ones, select the movies and photos
in the main window and drag and drop onto
the window for selecting movies and photos.
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5
Follow the instructions on the
screen to create a disc.
It may take a long time to create a disc.
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Copying a disc

You can copy a recorded disc to another
disc using "Video Disc Copier. "
Click [Start]  [All Programs]  [Sony
Picture Utility]  [Video Disc Copier]
to start the software. See "Video Disc
Copier" help on the operation.

Editing movies

You can cut out only necessary parts
from a movie and save it as another file.
Using "PMB, " select the movie you
want to edit, then click [Manipulate]
 [Video Trimming] on the menu to
display the Video Trimming window. See
"PMB Guide" on the operation (p. 25).

Capturing photos from a movie

You can save a frame of a movie as a
photo file.
On the movie playback window of
"PMB, " click to display [Save Frame]
windows. See "PMB Guide" on the
operation (p. 25).
Click