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Getting Started Guide
Capturing video to a video project
You can capture live video or still images by connecting a Web camera or digital
video camera to your PC's USB connector. The video capture is added to your video
project and stored in a file on your hard disk drive.
To add a video capture to a video project:
1 Click File, Open Project, and then select a video project that you created as
described in "Creating a Video Project" on page 75.
2 Connect your digital camera to the USB port.
3 Click Capture Video to display the Capture screen.
Sonic MyDVD displays the name of the capture device (your camera), the
default capture type (audio and video), and the default quality setting
(DV format).
4 Click Record Settings to edit any of these default settings.
5 Optionally, set capture length, chapter points, or scene detection. Click
the corresponding Help icon to display the online help for each of these
features.
6 Click one of the following:
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Grab Frame — The image currently displayed in the Capture window is
stored as a picture file (.jpg, .bmp, .gif, .tif, or .png format).
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Start Capturing — Starts a video capture (.mpeg format).
7 Click Stop Capturing to manually stop the capture if you did not set a
capture length (step 5).
8 In the Save As dialog box, name the captured file, and select the file format and
the folder where you want to save it. Click Save.
9 Click OK to return to the project window.
The file is stored on your hard disk drive and added to the current project.
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