USB Instant DVD for MAC USB Instant DVD for MAC User's Guide : Second Edition www.adstech.com Technical Support: 562.926.4338 Technical Support Hours: 8am-5pm M-F PST USB Instant DVD for Mac 2 Table of Contents Instant DVD for Mac Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 System Requirements and Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Hardware Installation Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 PixeDV: Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 · Launching PixeDV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 · Capturing Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16 · Exporting Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 · Importing Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 · Using the Album . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 · Trimming Videos with MPEG Cutter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 · Exporting Files for use in DVD Studio Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29 Frequently Used Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32 Capty DVD/VCD: Launch Capty DVD/VCD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 · Creating a Title Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 · Setting Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 · Creating Chapter Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 · Authoring Formation & Disc Playback: DVD Video / Video CD . . . . . . . . . .43 · Editing a Slideshow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49 · Preview to Confirm Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 · Creating a DVD Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53 Button Builder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54 · Creating Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 · Thumbnail Display frame setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 · Special Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57 Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Service & Warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60 Copyright Notice The USB Instant DVD For Mac is an innovative, hassle-free device that is designed to let you edit and archive your home movies easily. ADS Technologies respects the rights of copyright owners and asks that you do the same. The Copy Right Act gives owners of copyrights the exclusive right to reproduce and prepare derivative works as well as to publicly perform, display and distribute their works. This means that you must obtain permission to engage in any of these activities when using works that are copyrighted by another person. © 2003 ADS Technologies. All Rights Reserved Revision 1 January 2003 Apple and Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. ADS is a registered trademark of ADS Technologies Inc. ADS Technologies (ADS) makes no warranty of any kind with regard to this material, including but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The information furnished within this written document is for information purposes only and is subject to change without notice. ADS Technologies assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors or inaccuracies that may appear herein. ADS makes no commitment to update or to keep current information contained within this document. (rtt) USB Instant DVD for Mac 3 Instant DVD for Mac Overview Instant DVD for MAC is a fun and easy way to get DVD and VCD video into your Macintosh so you can archive your home movies. Instant DVD then lets you publish the video to CD or DVD disk or publish to the Internet or send the video back to a VCR or camcorder for distribution on Tape. All the video compression takes place in the Instant DVD device so when the video comes through the USB port it is already compressed in the format you desire such as MPEG-1 for VCD (Video on CD) or MPEG-2 for DVD (Digital Versatile Disc). USB Instant DVD includes several flexible and dynamic software tools for your video projects: USB Instant DVD for Mac 4 PixeDV: Capture, Import, Export, Organize Video PixeDV for Mac is the main application you will be using to Capture video, Organize the video you captured and even Import video from other sources PixeDV for Mac, despite its name, DOES NOT CAPTURE DV. It only captures MPEG1 and MPEG2 files. MPEG files are necessary for the creation of DVD or VCD movies. Once you install the software and connect the hardware, you will be able to Preview the video live from any analog source and capture the video into the right bit rates for making a DVD or VCD Movie. USB Instant DVD can capture video up to 6 Mbits (6 Megabits per second). Most DVD movies that you rent or buy today are only encoded at 4 Mbits (4 Megabits per second). The higher the capture bit rate, the better the quality but you will also take up more hard drive space. Commercial Blank recordable DVD disks have a capacity of 4.7 GB. When capturing MPEG-2 video at 4 Megbits of data per second (Mb/sec.) you will use up approximately 2 GB of hard disk space per hour. This means you can record and burn about 2 hours of MPEG-2 video onto a single DVD disk. This is very important to know since 3 hours (180 minutes) of video that you capture at 4 Mb/sec. would result in a file size on your hard drive of: 5400 MB (MegaBytes) or about 5.4 GB (GigaBytes) !!! This is more than you can record on a 4.7 GB disk! Audio is one more thing to consider when capturing Mpeg video. The two most common audio formats for DVD video are MPEG 1 Layer 2 and PCM. PCM is essentially uncompressed audio recorded at 1.5 Mb/sec. This data rate is added to the video bit rate to arrive at the total video file size. The PixeDV for Mac software only captures audio in MPEG-1 Layer 2 format. MPEG 1 Layer 2 is a compressed format and is the cousin of the more famous MP3 audio format. MPEG-1 Layer 2 is generally captured at 224 Kbit/sec. ­ 384 Kbit/sec. This data rate is added to the total video file size, but you can see that it is much smaller than PCM. Most late model home DVD players in the North America can playback MPEG-1 Layer 2 audio. The general rule is that if the DVD player supports VCD playback, it will support DVD's with MPEG-1 Layer 2 audio format. All European (PAL) DVD players support MPEG-1 Layer 2 audio. So if your goal is to capture 2 hours of video to burn on a single sided 4.7 GB DVD disk, we recommend you set your capture rate at 4 Mb/sec. USB Instant DVD for Mac 5 PixeDV: Capture, Import, Export, Organize Video MPEG2 offers the best quality in relation to file size for capturing video. DV or otherwise know as DIGITAL VIDEO will need 4 GB for every 20 minutes of video. DV is good for some applications, when you want to capture in DV, Edit in DV and OUTPUT back to DV. (Back to camcorder). This is why you need firewire for DV. The data being sent back and forth from a DV camcorder is huge. 25 Megabits per second, thats 3.6 Megabytes per second. With the USB Instant DVD for Mac, video can be captured at relatively low bit rates but VERY GOOD quality. For connecting to your Mac, USB 1.1 as an interface is sufficient since USB offers up to 12 Megabits of throughput per second. Plenty of bandwidth to capture video with DVD quality. If you plan to make DVD or VCD movies, USB Instant DVD for Mac is the perfect solution. It captures in MPEG2, which means you are one step closer to making a DVD disk. Just run CaptyDVD and author/publish the captured video to DVD. Other DVD authoring/publishing solutions like Apple's IDVD software actually capture the video in DV. It then transcodes, in laymens terms, saves the file as an MPEG2 file. This is a two step process. Although the transcoding process via software is done very well, it is no comparison to capturing your video source REAL TIME into an MPEG2 File. USB Instant DVD for Mac 6 CaptyDVD: Author and Publish to DVD CaptyDVD Starts where you left off with PixeDV. It takes the MPEG2 movies that you have captured and publishes the MPEG2 files into a DVD Movie. This process of "making" a DVD movie is known as "AUTHORING". Authoring with CaptyDVD provides the easiest, professional level package available in the market today. With fully customizable chapter menu's, backgounds and even a built-in button maker, CaptyDVD provides the best value compared to IDVD and DVD Studio Pro from Apple. CaptyDVD has a built-in DVD Burning Engine that allows you to burn your DVD Project into blank DVD disks by using Apple's Superdrive or any external firewire DVD Burner. Currently, every external Firewire DVD Burner that you can buy uses either a Panasonic or Pioneer drive. You can also take an internal IDE DVD Burner from either Panasonic or Pioneer and mount them inside an external 1394 enclosure. You can purchase the PYRO Drive Kit which ADS Technologies also manufactures. This is an external firewire enclosure that accepts any IDE device (hard drive, cd rom, dvd rom, dvdr) and convert the devices to firewire. For more information about the PYRO Drive Kit, please check our website: www.adstech.com VCD Authoring For VCD movies, CaptyDVD can make a VCD volume. Which means you can Author a VCD Disk but NOT actually burn it. You can simply make and save the VCD volume to your drive. You can then drag that volume into Roxio's latest TOAST software for burning VCD's on the Mac. This was intentionally done since Roxio offers better compatibility than any other CDRW burning software in the market today. USB Instant DVD for Mac 7 System Requirements & Contents System Requirements: To Capture MPEG-1 at 30 frames per second: Any Macintosh with built-in USB To Capture MPEG-2 at 30 frames per second: Power Mac G4 4000/AGP or greater Power Mac G4 Cube Power Book G4 400 or greater - Mac OS X - 256 MB of RAM - CD-ROM - 100 MB hard disk space for capture/editting applications - 3 GB minimum hard disk space recommended for capturing and editing video - Available USB Port Additional Requirements for Publihsing VCD ir DVD Disk: - CD-RW drive required to write/burn VCD or SVCD disk - DVD-R/RW drive required to write/burn DVD disks - VCD burning requires Toast Platinum USB Instant DVD For Mac Includes: - USB Instant DVD For Mac device - 6' USB cable - SVIDEO cable - Audio/Video connection cables - CD with Bundled Software: PixeDV Video Capture, CaptyDVD Authoring - User's Manual USB Instant DVD for Mac 8 Hardware installation Guide Getting Started The basic steps are: 1. Check USB Instant DVD package contents 2. Wire it up! - Audio and Video connectors 3. Install Application software 4. Plug it in! - Power and USB connection 5. Verify Hardware Installation 6. Start Making DVD Movies Check USB Instant DVD Contents Hardware: (a) USB Instant DVD device (b) 5 VDC Power supply (c) 6 ft. USB Cable (d) 6 ft. A/V In Cable (RCA video and audio to RCA video and 3.5 mm stereo) (e) 9 ft. Audio out to TV/VCR cable (3.5 mm stereo w/female 3.5mm Y to R+L RCA audio) (f) 9 ft. RCA Video cable (g) 6 ft. SVHS Cable USB Instant DVD for Mac 9 Wire it up! In this section we will connect all audio and video cables that you will use to capture audio and video and then send audio and video back to a tTV or VCR for viewing or recording. 1. Connect your video source (VHS, DVD, Laser Disc Player, TV. etc.) to your USB Instant DVD. 2. Connect your 6 ft. A/V in cable to the 3 RCA jacks to your analog audio/video source RCA line out. The other end connects to the "RCA Video In" jack and "Audio In" jack on the back of your USB Instant DVD. This step is optional, if you dont plan to send video back to tv or vcr, skip to software installation. Connect your USB Instant DVD to your TV or VCR. This will send captured or edited video back to your TV or VCR for viewing or recording. Connect RCA cable to "Video Out" on Instant DVD Connect other end to Video IN on your TV or VCR. Connect the Audio Out of your PC to the Audio ...