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Spruce 1.0 User Manual (205 pages)

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Copyright Notice
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Table of Contents
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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Welcome to Spruceup
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Spruceup User Forum
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Spruceup's Readme
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About this Manual
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Using Spruceup's Help
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Printing Help
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Updating Help
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Spruceup Support
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24/7 Support Resources (Free to Trial Version and Full Version Users)
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Introduction
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Spruceup Trial Version
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Learning to Use Spruceup
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Minimum System Requirements
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Spruceup
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Operating System
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Cpu
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System RAM
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Video Card
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Hard Drive Size
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Removable Media Drives
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Syzygy DVD Player
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Chapter 2: Creating Dvds
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What Is a DVD Title
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What else Is Needed to Make a DVD
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Video and Audio Capture Cards
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Movie Sources
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Editors
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MPEG Encoders
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Ulead Media Studio Pro ® 6.0
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Creating a DVD Title Overview
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Gather Your Sources
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Movies
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Backgrounds
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Buttons
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Edit Your Sources
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Encode for Spruceup
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Author the Title
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Simulate the Title
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Export the Title
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Set-Top DVD Players
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Playing Titles on Pcs
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The Syzygy Player
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Playing Titles on an Apple Macintosh
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DVD Basics
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DVD Introduction
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DVD-Video
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DVD-Audio
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DVD-Rom
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DVD-Ram
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DVD+RW and DVD-RW
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Video CD (VCD) and Super Video CD (SVCD)
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Distributing Spruceup Titles
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Set-Top DVD Players
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PC DVD-ROM Drives
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CD-ROM Drives
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Other Drive Technologies
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Replicators and DVD-R
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DVD-Video File Details
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Video_Ts Files
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Audio_Ts Files
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Other Files
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General Information
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Chapter 3: Getting Started
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Registering Spruceup
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The Registration ID
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The Software Enabling Key
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What Is the Trial Version
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Is Mine a Full Version
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The Welcome to Spruceup Dialog
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Upgrading to or Enabling the Full Version
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If You Entered a Serial Number
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If You Do Not Have a Serial Number
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Launch Window
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Preferences
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NTSC/PAL Selection
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Simulation Preview Decoder Selection
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Display Project Size
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Adding a Custom Entry
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Video Standards of the World
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Africa
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Pal
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SECAM (Use PAL Setting)
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Asia
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Ntsc
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Pal
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SECAM (Use PAL Setting)
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Caribbean
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Central America
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Europe
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Pal
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SECAM (Use PAL Setting)
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Middle East
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North America
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Ntsc
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Pal
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Oceania
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Ntsc
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SECAM (Use PAL Setting)
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South America
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Spruceup User Interface
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Main Window
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Menu Bar
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Main Control
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Media Gallery
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Along the Top
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The Main Area
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At the Bottom
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Menu Gallery
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First Play
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Work Area
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Work Area Toolbar
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Default Tools
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Text Tools
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Alignment and Sizing Tools
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Quickstart
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Creating a Simple Title
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Start a New Project
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Loading Background and Movie Assets
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Select the Opening Menu Background
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Add a Button to the Menu
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Add a Target to the Button
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Add some Text
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Saving the Project
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Something to Simulate
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Something to Export
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Working with Movie Assets
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Keyboard Shortcuts
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File Functions
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General Functions
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Edit Commands
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To Open Dialogs
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Main Control Modes
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Work Area Display
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Text Properties
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Button Resizing
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Media Gallery Shortcuts
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Alignment Tools
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Clip Properties
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Pull down Menus
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File Pull down
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Edit Pull down
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View Pull down
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Help Pull down
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Chapter 4: Assets
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Assets
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Assets in Spruceup Projects
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Asset Properties
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Important Differences between Asset Types
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Understanding the Style Gallery
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Importing Differences
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Deleting Within Spruceup
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General Asset Information
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Parsed File
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Using the Style Gallery
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Usage Hints
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The "Add Media Asset" Dialog
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Video Assets
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Introduction
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General Quality Issues
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Start at the Source
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Noisy Video
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Transcoding Artifacts
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What Is MPEG
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Elementary and Multiplexed MPEG Files
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MPEG-1 and MPEG-2
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Bit-Rates
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Video Resolution
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Aspect Ratio
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Chroma Format
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What's a GOP
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GOP Length
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Picture Frame Rate
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GOP Pattern
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Open or Closed Gops
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Supported Video Formats
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What Happens Exactly When Importing Video
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Movie Properties
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MPEG Settings Summary
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MPEG Type
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MPEG Structure
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Bit-Rates
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Audio Sample Rate
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Video Resolution
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Frame Rate
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Aspect Ratio
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Chroma Format
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GOP Size (Maximum)
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Audio Assets
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Compressed Vs. Uncompressed
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Dolby® Digital AC-3
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Spruceup Supported Audio Formats
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Disc Space Math
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Uncompressed
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Compressed
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Background Assets
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Supported Formats
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What Happens When Importing
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Background Properties
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Button Assets
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Button Properties
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Chapter 5: Tutorial
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Spruceup Tutorial Introduction
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Tutorial Assets
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Tutorial Sections
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Things to Know While Going through the Tutorial
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Tutorial Step One
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Spruceup Introduction
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User Interface Orientation
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Tutorial Step Two
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Loading Assets
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The Style Gallery
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Style Gallery Notes
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Loading Tutorial Assets
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Tutorial Step Three
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Creating Menus
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Naming Your Project
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Creating the Menus
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Creating the First Menu
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Creating the Second Menu
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Assigning a Default Button
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To Align the Button with the Text
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Tutorial Step Four
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Using Clip Properties
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Clip Properties Dialog Introduction
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Clip Properties Tutorial
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Opening the Clip Properties Window
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Changing the Eyeframe
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Making Chapter Buttons
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Changing the Menu Background
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Adding Frames to the Background Assets
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Exiting the Clip Properties Dialog
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Tutorial Step Five
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Finishing the Menus
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Tutorial Step Six
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Simulating the Title
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Using the Simulator
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Exiting Simulation Mode
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Tutorial Step Seven
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Exporting the Title
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Choose the Write Device
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If You Selected a CD-R/RW or DVD-R Drive
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If You Selected Title Set
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Choose the Items to Include
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Start the Write
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Chapter 6: Creating Menus
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Creating Menus Basics
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Buttons
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Overlapping Buttons
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Menu Backgrounds
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Creating a Menu
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Drop Shadows
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Setting the Background
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Adding and Assigning a Button
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Adding Text
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Using the Alignment and Sizing Tools
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Simulating the Menu
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A Movie as First Play
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What Is First Play
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Movie as First Play Considerations
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Right-Clicking on Buttons
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The Button Properties Dialog
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Overlapping Buttons
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Introduction
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Setting Button Priorities
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Different Kinds of Overlap
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Using the Alignment and Sizing Tools
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Surprising Results
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Selecting Multiple Items
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The Alignment Buttons
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Edge Alignment Buttons
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Center Alignment Buttons
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Evenly Spaced Alignment Buttons
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Other Alignment Buttons
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The Size Buttons
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Adding Drop Shadows
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Turning Drop Shadows on and off
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Setting Default On/Off Status
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Setting Drop Shadow Properties
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Default Versus Custom
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The Drop Shadow Settings
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Drop Shadow X/Y Position
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Drop Shadow Color
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Drop Shadow Opacity
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Drop Shadow Blur
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How Do I Get One Button's Shadow to Match Another's
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Using the Shadow as a Glow
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Layering Priorities
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Changing an Item's Priority
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Square Pixel Issues
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What Is a "Square Pixel
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Video Pixels
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What Does this Really Mean
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Menus as Simple Slide Shows
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Slide Show Tips
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Resources
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Actually Building the Title
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Chapter 7: Custom Buttons
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Custom Button Introduction
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Using Spruceup's Button Maker
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General Usage
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Creating Photoshop Buttons
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The Button File
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Basic File Settings
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Background
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Mask
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Subpicture
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Thumbnail
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Chapter 8: Typing Text
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Typing Text
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How to Start
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Setting the Color
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Setting the Font and Its Attributes
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Some Font Considerations
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Overlapping Text
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Modifying Existing Text
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Typing Text on a Button
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Applying Global Changes
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Making Text Entries Match
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Aligning Multiple Text Entries
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Chapter 9: Clip Properties
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Clip Properties Dialog
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Opening and Closing the Clip Properties Dialog
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Playing the Movie
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Setting and Naming Chapter Points
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The URL Setting
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Setting the Eyeframe
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Exporting Thumbnails of Chapter Points
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Manual Mode
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Automatic Mode
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Exporting Frames as Backgrounds or Stills
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Clip Properties Keyboard Shortcuts
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Chapter 10: The Author Mode
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Using the Author Mode
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Using this Help
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Basic Operations
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Assets
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Creating a Menu
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Working with Movies
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Chapter 11: Simulation Mode
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Simulation
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Using the Simulator
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Button Navigation
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Movie End Action
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Simulating Titles with a First Play Movie
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Exiting Simulation Mode
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Chapter 12: Export Mode
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Export Interface
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Spruceup Trial Version
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Opening the Export Interface
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Export Summary
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Project Info Section
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Export Size Section
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Export Dialog
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Basic Options
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Export Properties
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Output Destination
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Advanced Options
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Source Options
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Write on CD/DVD Media
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Working Directory
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Include
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Post Export Action
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Restore Original Settings
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Test Write
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What Happens During an Export
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Output To: CD-R/RW or DVD-R
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The Auto Insert Notification
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Writing to the Disc
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The Source Type Setting
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Output To: Title Set
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Output To: Disc Image
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The Source Type Setting
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How Long Should the Export Take
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Compiling
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Writing to CD-R/RW or DVD-R Disc
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Writing a Disc Image
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Drive Names
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Manually Copying Files to CD-R
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Introduction
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What Makes a Valid Title
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Creating the Files to Copy
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Copying the Files with Adaptec's Easy CD Creator
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Copying the Basic Files
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Copying the Syzygy Player
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Copying the Spruceup Trial Version
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Actually Making the Disc
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The Syzygy Player
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What Is "Syzygy
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Bypassing Autorun
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Syzygy Playback Problems
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Skips the First Menu
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Playing on Systems with Two Drives
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Other Players Cause Conflicts
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Playing on an Apple os
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Playing on Linux os
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Export Issues
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CD-R and CD-RW Media
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DVD-RAM and DVD+RW
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Creating Simple Title Sets
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Creating DVD-ROM Discs
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Video and Audio Quality
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Includes Items and the Working Directory
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Chapter 13: General Information
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Spruceup's URL Entry
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Finding the URL Entry
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Chapter Points
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Buttons
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The URL Entry Is Not Just for Urls
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The URL Entry in Action
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Using the Color Dialog
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NTSC/PAL Colors
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Video Basics
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MPEG Video
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Horizontal Pixels
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Vertical Lines
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Why Ntsc's 29.97 Frame Rate
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What Is 4:2:0 Component Video
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Chapter 14: Problems
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Error Messages
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General Troubleshooting
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Display Troubleshooting
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Video Playback
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Audio Playback
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Disc/Tape Writing Problems
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Syzygy Player Issues
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SCSI Issues
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