Dvd Writer/Cd Writer Drive Features; Creating Music Cds With Recordnow; Creating Cds To Play In Your Car Or Home Cd Players; Creating Cds To Play On Your Pc - HP Compaq Presario,Presario S7300 Supplementary Manual

Your PC includes the DVD Writer/CD Writer, which is
a DVD and CD rewriteable optical drive. This guide
tells you about the optical drive features and tells you
about how to use some of the software programs to
create DVDs and CDs.
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DVD Writer/CD Writer
Drive Features
The DVD Writer/CD Writer is a multipurpose
rewriteable optical drive that can:
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Record audio, data, and video files onto DVDs
or CDs.
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Create DVDs and VCDs that can be played on most
DVD-ROM drives and some home DVD players.
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Record directly to a DVD or CD from a digital or an
analog video source, such as a digital video
camera, a TV tuner, or a VCR.
Your PC must have an analog capture
NOTE:
card to capture video from an analog device such
as a VCR.
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Store, edit, and preserve video files from various
video sources.
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Store large amounts of data.
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Play DVD movies and music CDs.
•
Read data DVDs and CDs.
Creating Music CDs
with RecordNow!
Burn is an industry term used to describe the
NOTE:
recording of information onto a DVD or CD. Optical
recording uses a laser beam to place information onto
the disc, thus the term burning.
You can use RecordNow!
play in your car or home CD player or on your PC.
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to create audio CDs to
Creating CDs to Play in Your Car
or Home CD Players
1 Click Start, choose All Programs, CD (DVD)
Recorder, RecordNow!, and then click
RecordNow! again.
2 Click the Audio Projects tab.
3 Select Audio CD for Car or
Home CD Player.
4 Insert a music CD. Select View and then select
your CD-ROM drive to view the tracks on your CD.
Or
Click Find, and then click Browse to find music
files on your hard disk drive that you want to
record.
5 Select the tracks you want to record, and then
click Add.
You can press Control (Ctrl) on your
NOTE:
keyboard to select more than one track.
6 Click the Burn icon when you have
added all the audio files to your music
CD project.
7 Click Yes.
8 When prompted, insert a blank CD-R or
CD-RW disc.
If you want to play your music CD in your
NOTE:
home or car stereo, use a CD-R disc. CD-RW discs
may not play in some stereos.
9 Click OK. It is best not to use the PC while
recording.
10 Click Done when recording is complete.
Click ? and then select RecordNow! Help for more
information about recording music CDs with the
RecordNow! program

Creating CDs to Play on Your PC

1 Click Start, choose All Programs, CD (DVD)
Recorder, RecordNow!, and then click
RecordNow! again.
2 Click the Audio Projects tab.
3 Select Jukebox CD.
Creating DVDs and CDs
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