User manual ROXIO EASY MEDIA CREATOR 8

Roxio Easy Media Creator 8 User Guide ii Legal Information Legal information Copyright ©1994 - 2005 Sonic Solutions. All Rights reserved. Roxio Easy Media Creator, Easy CD & DVD Creator, Easy CD & DVD Burning, WinOnCD, Retrieve, DLA, Creator Backup, Music Disc Creator, Easy Audio Capture, MyDVD, BackUp MyPC, Disc Copier, Label Creator, Sound Editor, Creator Classic, JUST!BURN, WOCBlock, CinePlayer, Roxio Updater, Media Manager, VideoWave, PhotoSuite, Roxio Easy DVD Copy, DVDInfo Pro, Disc Image Loader, Capture, and Drag-to-Disc are protected by copyright law and international treaties. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution of these programs, or any portion of them, may result in severe civil and criminal penalties, and will be prosecuted to the maximum extent possible under law. Use of these products is subject to the acceptance of the license agreement included in this product. 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Roxio Easy Media Creator User Guide www.roxio.com viii Legal Information Roxio Easy Media Creator User Guide www.roxio.com 9 Contents 1 Getting started with Easy Media Creator 23 Welcome to Roxio Easy Media Creator 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 About this guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 About Easy Media Creator project assistants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Software and hardware requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Minimum requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Optional requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Installing Easy Media Creator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Getting to know Easy Media Creator Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Adjusting the size of the Project pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Using the control panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Working in Mini Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Launching applications from Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Starting media projects from Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Where to find more information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Online Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Roxio online support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Easy Media Creator support options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Unlimited self help options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Alternate support options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Before you contact Roxio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Contacting Roxio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 10 Contents Part I: Copying and burning discs 2 3 4 Getting started with Disc Copier 43 44 45 46 47 47 48 49 About Disc Copier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . What kinds of discs can I copy? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Other sources you can copy from . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Getting to know the Disc Copier window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CD & DVD Copy window--Simple view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CD & DVD Copy window--Advanced view. . . . . . . . . . . . Video Compilation window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Copying CD and DVD discs 51 52 52 52 53 About copying CD and DVD discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Can I copy discs using one disc drive? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . What is CD-Text? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Copying using the Simple view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating video compilations 55 About creating video compilations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Creating a video compilation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 Saving compilations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Roxio Easy Media Creator User Guide www.roxio.com Contents 11 5 6 Getting started with Creator Classic 63 About Creator Classic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Getting to know the Creator Classic window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Creator Classic project basics 67 About Creator Classic project basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Deciding which type of project to create . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Starting a new project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Opening and saving projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Adding files and folders to your project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Previewing audio, video, and image files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Working with files and folders in your project . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Creating new folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Removing files and folders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Renaming files and folders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Searching for files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Burning a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 7 Getting started with Drag-to-Disc 77 Welcome to Drag-to-Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Making your first disc with Drag-to-Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 Starting Drag-to-Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Drag-to-Disc and Windows Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Getting to know Drag-to-Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Drag-to-Disc application window (default size) . . . . . . . . . 80 Drag-to-Disc Icon view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Roxio Easy Media Creator User Guide www.roxio.com 12 Contents 8 Drag-to-Disc basics 81 Before you begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 About nonrewritable (R) and rewritable (RW) media . . . . . . 82 Compatibility with DirectCD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82 About the UDF file system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 About EasyWriteTM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Deciding which type of disc to use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Adding files to a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 About adding files to blank CD-RW and DVD+RW discs . . 86 Preparing a disc to be ejected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Ejecting a disc to be used with any drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Ejecting a disc to be read only in your computer. . . . . . . . . 89 Ejecting a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Viewing the contents of a disc on your own computer. . . . . . . 90 Viewing the contents of a disc on other computers . . . . . . . . . 91 9 10 Roxio Retrieve 93 About Roxio Retrieve. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Starting Roxio Retrieve. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 Retrieving files and folders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Backing up and restoring files About backing up and restoring files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Starting or exiting Backup MyPC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Getting to know the Backup MyPC window . . . . . . . . . . . . . Backing up your data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Restoring files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 100 100 101 103 111 Roxio Easy Media Creator User Guide www.roxio.com Contents 13 Part II: Importing and organizing media files 11 12 Getting started with Media Import 119 Welcome to Media Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Starting Media Import. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121 Getting to know the Media Import window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 Devices appearing when no external device is connected . 123 Overview of importing media files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 Importing photos or video files from a digital camera (WIA) . . 124 Getting started with Media Manager 127 About Media Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Getting to know the Media Manager window . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 Supported file formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Watching for new media files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Selecting the folders to watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Stopping watching. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Starting watching. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Capturing media files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 13 Organizing your media files 133 Overview of organizing media files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Working with Smart Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Browsing Smart Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Roxio Easy Media Creator User Guide www.roxio.com 14 Contents Working with My Albums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 Browsing My Albums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Creating new albums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Adding media files to My Albums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 Moving or copying media files from one album to another 141 Setting the thumbnail for an album . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 Working with folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Creating new folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 14 15 Managing media files 145 146 146 147 147 148 149 149 149 Overview of managing media files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Selecting media files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Previewing media files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Viewing media files in a preview window. . . . . . . . . . . . . Viewing media files in QuickShows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Finding missing media files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Why are media files missing? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Locating missing media files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Searching for media files 151 152 152 152 153 154 About searching. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Performing simple searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Using advanced search criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating Smart Views from search results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating albums from search results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Roxio Easy Media Creator User Guide www.roxio.com Contents 15 16 Sharing files 155 About sharing media files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 E-mailing media files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Using LiveShare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 Enabling or disabling home networking sharing . . . . . . . . 159 Sharing albums or Smart Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Managing LiveShares. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Using My MediaSpace to share media on your home network163 Enabling or disabling home network sharing . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Granting access to devices on your home network . . . . . . 164 Withdrawing access from devices on your home network . 164 Accessing shared files on your home network . . . . . . . . . . 164 Sharing photos using an online photo service. . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Part III: Working with photos 17 Getting started with PhotoSuite 169 Welcome to PhotoSuite 8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 Getting to know the PhotoSuite window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 Choosing the best display settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 PhotoSuite's project file format (.DMSP). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Supported file formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Roxio Easy Media Creator User Guide www.roxio.com 16 Contents 18 19 20 Working with photo projects 175 176 176 176 177 178 179 179 What is a photo project? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating new projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Using the Photo Projects Assistant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating a blank canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Opening an existing project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Importing files from your camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Changing the canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fixing and editing photos 181 182 182 182 183 184 184 184 185 About fixing and editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Improving the quality of photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Using the AutoFix feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adjusting exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adjusting brightness and contrast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Repairing damaged photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Removing red eye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Removing blemishes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saving and printing photos 187 188 188 189 190 192 About saving and printing photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Flattening objects or projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saving photo projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Printing photos and projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tips for improving print quality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Roxio Easy Media Creator User Guide www.roxio.com Contents 17 Part IV: Working with video and DVD projects 21 Getting started with VideoWave 197 Welcome to VideoWave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 Getting to know the VideoWave window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Task Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Preview area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 Production Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 Media Selector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 Effect Selector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 Creating a slideshow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Creating a CineMagic production. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 Importing video, photos, and audio clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202 Creating your first VideoWave movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 Step one: Add photos and video clips to your movie . . . . . 203 Step two: Add background audio to your movie . . . . . . . . 204 Step three: Add transitions to your movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 Step four: Preview your movie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206 Step five: Output your movie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 22 Getting started with MyDVD 209 Welcome to MyDVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 Getting to know the MyDVD window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 Menu Edit view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 Movie Edit view. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Features available in both views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 Roxio Easy Media Creator User Guide www.roxio.com 18 Contents Overview of creating a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 Steps to create a DVD project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 Capturing media files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 Part V: Working with audio 23 24 Getting started with Sound Editor 219 220 221 222 222 223 Welcome to Sound Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Getting to know the Sound Editor window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sound Editor project file format (.dmse) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . What is a Sound Editor project? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Getting started with Sound Editor projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adding and arranging audio clips 225 226 226 228 229 231 234 About adding audio clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adding audio files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adding tracks from audio CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adding tracks from DVDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Recording from an audio input device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arranging audio clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Roxio Easy Media Creator User Guide www.roxio.com Contents 19 25 26 27 Editing and applying effects 235 About editing and applying effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 Selecting the waveform region to edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 Basic editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 Adjusting volume or balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 Adding or deleting track separators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241 Cleaning audio clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242 Completing projects 245 About completing projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246 Saving Sound Editor projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246 Exporting audio clips or mixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247 Exporting sets of tracks or audio clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248 Burning tracks or clips to audio CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 Sending tracks to a Music Disc Creator project . . . . . . . . . . . 252 Getting started with Music Disc Creator 253 Welcome to Music Disc Creator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254 Getting to know Music Disc Creator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 Audio CD window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 MP3/WMA Disc window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256 DVD Music Disc window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 Using the Media Selector. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258 Supported file formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 Music Disc Creator's native format (.DMSA) . . . . . . . . . . 260 Supported audio formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 Roxio Easy Media Creator User Guide www.roxio.com 20 Contents Supported playlist formats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 28 Music Disc Creator project basics 261 262 263 264 264 265 266 267 269 269 Overview of project basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Selecting the type of audio project to create . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adding tracks to your project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adding tracks and playlists from your hard disk . . . . . . . . Importing tracks from CDs or DVDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating track lists using Search by Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adding and editing track information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shuffling track lists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Previewing tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Part VI: Creating labels and disc inserts 29 Getting started with Label Creator 273 274 274 275 275 275 276 276 276 276 About Label Creator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Overview of creating labels and disc inserts . . . . . . . . . . . . . Getting to know the Label Creator window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Add Object area. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Edit Layout area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Layout area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Toolbars. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Layout Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Using Express Labeler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Roxio Easy Media Creator User Guide www.roxio.com