Pinnacle Mobile Media Organizer Pinnacle Mobile Media Organizer User's Guide GB/US May 2006 © Pinnacle Systems GmbH 2006 All rights reserved. No part of this manual may be reproduced or transferred to other media without explicit written permission from Pinnacle Systems GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany. All brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Content providers are using the digital rights management technology for Windows Media contained in this device ("WM-DRM") to protect the integrity of their content ("Secure Content") so that their intellectual property, including copyright, in such content is not misappropriated. This device uses WM-DRM software to play Secure Content ("WM-DRM Software"). 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Table Of Contents Overview ............................................................................................................... 1 Welcome to the Pinnacle Mobile Media Organizer .......................................... 1 Getting Technical Support ................................................................................. 2 Installing the Pinnacle Mobile Media Organizer............................................... 3 Main Pinnacle Mobile Media Organizer Window ............................................ 4 The First Steps....................................................................................................... 9 Importing Media ................................................................................................ 9 Transferring Media onto the Sony® Playstation® Portable............................ 10 Transferring Media onto the Apple® iPod®................................................... 12 Converting Media ............................................................................................ 14 Import Files ......................................................................................................... 15 Import Overview.............................................................................................. 15 Import Audio CD ............................................................................................. 16 Import DVD Image .......................................................................................... 18 Import Files and Playlists ................................................................................ 20 Import Folder ................................................................................................... 20 Media Catalog ..................................................................................................... 23 Media Catalog Overview ................................................................................. 23 Media Catalog Structure .................................................................................. 24 Using the Media Catalog ................................................................................. 27 Using Drag & Drop in the Media Catalog....................................................... 29 Media Library...................................................................................................... 31 Media Library Overview ................................................................................. 31 Media Library Views ....................................................................................... 32 Using the Media Library.................................................................................. 36 Media Library Context Menu .......................................................................... 37 Searching the Media Library ........................................................................... 40 Browser View in the Media Library ................................................................... 41 Browser View Overview ................................................................................. 41 Calendar View (only for photos) ..................................................................... 42 Media Player........................................................................................................ 45 Media Player Overview ................................................................................... 45 Media Player Control Bars .............................................................................. 46 iii Pinnacle Mobile Media Organizer Keyboard Shortcuts for Operating the Media Player ...................................... 48 Organize Files...................................................................................................... 49 How the Pinnacle Mobile Media Organizer Organizes Files .......................... 49 Changing Meta Data ........................................................................................ 50 Rotating Photos................................................................................................ 52 Assigning Ratings ............................................................................................ 54 Assigning Album Art....................................................................................... 56 Convert Files ....................................................................................................... 59 Conversion Overview ...................................................................................... 59 Conversion Status ............................................................................................ 60 Conversion Profiles.......................................................................................... 60 Using Playlists..................................................................................................... 63 About Standard Playlists.................................................................................. 63 About Smart Playlists ...................................................................................... 67 Export Files ......................................................................................................... 73 Export Overview.............................................................................................. 73 Export Folder ................................................................................................... 74 Export Playlist.................................................................................................. 75 Burn CDs and DVDs........................................................................................... 77 Burn Media ...................................................................................................... 77 Using Tags........................................................................................................... 81 Tag Editor and Tag Filter Overview................................................................ 81 Creating Tag Words......................................................................................... 82 Assigning Tag Words ...................................................................................... 84 Filtering Media Files by Tag Words................................................................ 85 File Formats......................................................................................................... 87 Supported File Formats.................................................................................... 87 Special Functions ................................................................................................ 89 Detecting Missing or Modified Media ............................................................ 89 Music Information from Folder and File Names............................................. 89 Database Backup and Restoration ................................................................... 90 License Information ............................................................................................ 91 Pinnacle End User License Agreement ........................................................... 91 Glossary............................................................................................................. 111 Index .................................................................................................................. 121 iv Overview Welcome to the Pinnacle Mobile Media Organizer Dear customer, We would like to thank you for choosing a Pinnacle product. You have made an excellent decision. New options are now available to you for transferring the media files on your computer to your mobile devices, for example, onto your Sony® Playstation® Portable or Apple® iPod®. Now you can listen to or look at your files any time when you are out and about. The Mobile Media Organizer also provides extensive administration and database functions to give you an instant overview of all your different media files. After the Pinnacle Mobile Media Organizer is installed on your PC, you can import the following media types: Music files Movies and other video files Digital photos These files are stored and continually managed and organized in the Mobile Media Organizer Database. You can create personal playlists in which you can make compilations of your favorite music, movies or photos according to your own criteria. The Pinnacle Mobile Media Organizer offers many output options: Export your music, movies and photos onto mobile devices such as PSPTM or iPod®. Burn audio CDs and MP3 CDs. Burn movies onto DVDs. We hope you have lots of fun with our product! Your Pinnacle Team 1 Pinnacle Mobile Media Organizer Getting Technical Support Do not forget to register your product online. To take advantage of online customer support, each Pinnacle product needs to be registered. In addition, when you register your product, you help Pinnacle offer the best customer service possible. For this product, customer support includes the following services: Online Support Visit us at http://www.pinnaclesys.com/selfhelp and select your product. 24 hours/7days a week of unlimited access to the Pinnacle Support Knowledge Base Unlimited interactive E-mail Support Unlimited Live Help Support/Direct Support Pinnacle Community Forums Check our Web site http://www.pinnaclesys.com/support for other online services. Telephone Support Pinnacle does not provide telephone support for this product. Visit our Online Support area at http://www.pinnaclesys.com/selfhelp in order to ask our technical support team questions. Note: Technical support is only provided for the current version and the previous version of a Pinnacle product. 2 Overview Installing the Pinnacle Mobile Media Organizer This section describes how to install Pinnacle software on your PC. During installation, a program group including its corresponding subgroups will be created. All the necessary software components will be copied into this program group. As a part of the installation procedure, you will be asked to enter the serial number. This is located on the CD or the CD case or in the printed documentation accompanying the product. 1. Insert the installation CD in the corresponding drive of your computer. 2. The setup program now either starts automatically or you can start setup.exe in the setup folder on the CD-ROM. 3. Now follow the installation instructions displayed on the screen. 4. After installation, you will be prompted to restart your computer. This restart needs to be done in order for the software to function properly. 3 Pinnacle Mobile Media Organizer Main Pinnacle Mobile Media Organizer Window Start the Pinnacle Mobile Media Organizer from the Start menu in its Pinnacle program group. The appearance of t ...