User manual ADS TECH PIXEDV FOR MAC
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Detailed instructions for use are in the User's Guide.
[. . . ] Please refer to the HARDWARE INSTALLATION section of this manual if you need help. Open the USB Instant DVD folder that you may have copied to your desktop or inside your Macintosh Hard Drive.
USB Instant DVD for MAC
You will see the following icons:
Depending on your View settings for OSX, this may appear as Icons, as a List or display in column mode. You will see this startup Screen:
You can click on any of the five functions at any time. Which means it would not matter whether you clicked Capty or Album first. [. . . ] When you first start the program, you would normally not have any thumbnails shown until after capturing. The video that you just captured will be placed in the default album folder. The one error message that you might get during the capture process will be:
This error would normally be caused by selecting the wrong video Source under capture settings. Please make sure that you select S-Video if you have an S-Video source or Composite if you have a composite source plugged into the USB Instant DVD.
Global Preference
The Global Preference button that appears on the upper right side of the capture screen manages: 1 Import File Locations: Point to the correct directory on your Mac for importing files 2 Points to the directory where you want to create PLAY LIST Files. In the ALBUM section of this manual you can create play list's for playing several files continuously. 3 Slide Show Settings: You can run a slide show of the video files or any other files in an album. The first frame of every video file will be shown.
EXPORTING VIDEO
To export video back to a VCR , CAMCORDER or for preview on a TV MONITOR, click on the OUTPUT Button on the main CAPTY interface. Clicking on OUTPUT will take you to this screen.
Drag thumbnails into the output box. You can drag as many files that you want in whatever order and play them back. Once the export process is started, you will see this activity at the bottom left of the screen:
IMPORTANT: If for some reason you don't see video out to your TV or video is not recording on your VCR, check your cable connections. Please consult the HARDWARE INSTALLATION GUIDE section of this manual for more instructions.
IMPORTING VIDEO
Clicking on the IMPORT button from the MAIN SCREEN or the IMPORT button from MENU BAR will take you to this screen:
You can browse easily to any directory on any drive (eg: local drive, firewire drives etc) and drag other media like DV, QUICKTIME, PICTURES or MPEG files into an album.
USING THE ALBUM
Clicking on the ALBUM button from the MAIN SCREEN or the ALBUM button from MENU BAR will take you to this screen:
ALBUM lets you organize your captured media and existing media in your Mac. It can see not only your capture MPEG files but existing DV files, QuickTime compatible files and pictures that you have imported into PixeDV for Mac via the IMPORT function. On the top left you can see a series of 5 buttons that can organize the view options of the specific album you have opened:
Clicking on ALL will show all available media in the ALBUM, click SOUND will show all Sound file in the ALBUM and so on. On the top right corner you can all see a series of 3 buttons that can change the view option for a specific file.
Once you have files that you captured or imported into ALBUM, hold down the CONTROL KEY on the your KEYBOARD while you click on the thumbnail, the contextual menu options will be shown for that thumbnail:
Change Thumbnail Size Changes the Physical size of the Thumbnails in your ALBUM Use a Album Cover Use the first frame of the video or picture as your ALBUM cover thumbnail Create a Play list file Creates a play list of video files that can be played one after another without user intervention. Create a browser album Create another ALBUM where you can store, organize and capture video files into Export Export the hi-lighted thumbnail to any quicktime supported file format. For Example: MPEG2 to DV MPEG2 to FLC
You can also convert existing DV FILES to MPEG2 if you have Apple Computer's MPEG2 Codec. Export to MPEG Please see the Exporting Files for DVD Studio Pro Section of this Manual MPEG Cutter Please see the Trimming Videos with MPEG CUTTER Section of this Manual
Album Menu Options
On the upper right section of the ALBUM Screen, you can click on the ALBUM Button to manage your ALBUM. This is where you can delete the whole ALBUM, make a NEW ALBUM, RENAME ALBUMS ETC.
You can also click on the SOURCE Button to manage the MEDIA Files that you have inside the hi-lighted ALBUM.
Here you can Move, Copy, Delete, etc, any of the files that you might have in a specific Album. Please remember that you must click on a file or a group of files first to enable the SOURCE button. You can also RUN the SLIDESHOW feature from this MENU.
TRIMMING VIDEO'S WITH MPEG CUTTER
Although the PixeDV for Mac application DOES NOT offer EDITING functions where you can ADD transitions and titles to your Video's, it does offer the ability to accurately trim and cut MPEG2 files. [. . . ] PixeDV for MAC can export the MPEG files that it captures into ELEMENTARY MPEG Streams. Follow these steps to export MPEG FILES into elementary MPEG STREAMS: 1. Hold down the CONTROL Key and click on the MPEG file that you want to export into an ELEMENTARY FILE FORMAT 2. Click Start.
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Browse to the location where you saved the ELEMENTARY MPEG2 FILES. [. . . ]
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