Sonic Mydvd Video Projects; Creating A Video Project - HP Pavilion w5100 - Desktop PC Getting Started Manual

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Creating Data, Audio, and Video Discs on your PC
For more information, click Start, All Programs, Sonic, and then DigitalMedia
Home. When the program displays, click Help and then Sonic MyDVD Help.

Sonic MyDVD Video Projects

A Sonic MyDVD video project is a way to group, organize, store, play, and burn
related video and still digital files. For example, if you went on a family vacation,
you might have digital still and video images, and prints from a film camera. You
can transfer all these images onto your PC and organize them into a project. (A
scanner is required to transfer printed photos and is not included.)
Projects can remain on your PC for playback and as an archive, and they can be
burned to a DVD or VCD disc.
Sonic MyDVD enables you to create video projects using the following interfaces:
• Standard program interface (described beginning in "Creating a Video Project"
on page 18).
• Direct-to-Disc Wizards (described beginning in "Creating a Video Project with
Direct-to-Disc Wizard" on page 23).
Note that the Direct-to-Disc Wizards do not include the editing features that are
available from the standard interface. You can edit a project created with a wizard
before burning it to a disc as described in:
• "Editing the style of a video project" on page 21.
• "Editing movie files" on page 21.

Creating a Video Project

To create a video project:
1 Click Start, choose All Programs, Sonic, and then DigitalMedia Home.
2 Click the Video tab to display the Video Guide.
3 Click Create Project, and then DVD or VCD depending on the type of
project you want to create.
A project named Untitled DVD-Video or Untitled VCD-Video is created and
displayed in the MyDVD project window.
4 Click File and then Save to change the name of your project from Untitled to a
more descriptive name. After renaming your project, click Save.
Continue your project by performing the procedure described in one or more of the
following sections:
• "Adding files to a video project" on page 19.
• "Capturing video to a video project" on page 19.
• "Adding slide shows to a video project" on page 20.
• "Adding submenus to a video project" on page 20.