User Guide Ulead Systems, Inc. December 2003 Second English edition for Ulead DVD Workshop version 2.0, December 2003. Copyright © 2000-2004 Ulead Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or storing in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form without prior written permission of Ulead Systems, Inc. Software license The software described in this document is furnished under a License Agreement which is included with the product. This Agreement specifies the permitted and prohibited uses of the product. Licenses and trademarks ©2002-2004 Ulead Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Ulead, the Ulead logo, and Ulead DVD Workshop are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of Ulead Systems, Inc. Intel, Pentium MMX are registered trademark of Intel Corporation. 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10 System requirements ............................................................... 11 Supported file formats .............................................................. 11 Supported input/output devices ................................................. 11 Installation and removal ........................................................... 12 Registration ............................................................................. 12 Getting started ..................................................................... 15 The Step Panel ........................................................................ 15 The User Interface ................................................................... 16 The Global Commands Bar ........................................................ 17 Global Settings .................................................................... 17 The Options Panel .................................................................... 18 The Navigation Panel ................................................................ 19 Navigation Panel - Capture Step ............................................. 20 Navigation Panel - Edit Step .................................................. 20 The Preview Window ................................................................. 21 The Preview Window context menu......................................... 22 The Content Window ................................................................ 23 The Title List........................................................................ 23 The Menu List ...................................................................... 25 The Chapter List ...................................................................... 26 The Chapter List context menu............................................... 26 The Library .............................................................................. 27 The Library Manager............................................................. 28 The Library context menu...................................................... 29 Setting Preferences .................................................................. 29 General............................................................................... 30 Default Settings ................................................................... 30 Capture .............................................................................. 31 Saving your projects ................................................................. 31 Start ...................................................................................... 35 Creating a new project .............................................................. 35 Opening an existing project ....................................................... 36 4 ULEAD DVD WORKSHOP USER GUIDE Capture ................................................................................. 39 The Capture Step Options Panel ..................................................39 Capturing Digital Video (DV) .......................................................40 Capturing analog video ..............................................................41 Capturing still images ................................................................43 Capturing from a TV Tuner .........................................................44 Capturing using Split by Scene ...................................................45 Direct video capturing to MPEG format .........................................45 Capturing MICROMV format ........................................................46 Direct video capturing to Windows Media format ...........................47 Selecting a profile .....................................................................47 Editing and customizing a profile ............................................. 48 Video and Audio Capture Property Settings ...................................50 Edit ....................................................................................... 53 The Edit Step Options Panel .......................................................53 Video tab ............................................................................. 53 Image tab............................................................................ 54 Audio Panel .......................................................................... 55 Audio tab (DVD) ................................................................... 56 Subtitle tab (DVD) ................................................................ 56 Titles and Chapters ...................................................................57 Working with titles ....................................................................57 Adding titles to your project ................................................... 57 Creating a slideshow ............................................................. 58 Setting a First Play Video ....................................................... 61 Playing back titles and audio clips ........................................... 61 Using Split by Scene.............................................................. 62 Rearranging titles in the Title List ............................................ 63 Trimming titles or audio clips .................................................. 64 Cutting titles ........................................................................ 65 Deleting titles ....................................................................... 66 Renaming titles..................................................................... 66 Replacing the audio track of a title .......................................... 66 Title properties ..................................................................... 67 Output Display Options .......................................................... 68 Working with chapters ...............................................................70 Inserting chapters to the Chapter List ...................................... 70 Automatically inserting scenes to the Chapter List ..................... 71 Deleting chapters from the Chapter List ................................... 71 Setting chapter thumbnails..................................................... 72 ULEAD DVD WORKSHOP USER GUIDE 5 Setting chapters for slideshows .............................................. 72 Audio and Subtitles .................................................................. 72 Working with audio tracks ......................................................... 73 Specifying Language Settings and Characteristics ..................... 73 Working with subtitles .............................................................. 74 Adding subtitles ................................................................... 74 Adding additional subtitle tracks ............................................. 76 Specifying Language Settings and Characteristics ..................... 76 Saving to a text file .............................................................. 77 Changing text attributes........................................................ 77 Adding subtitles from metadata.............................................. 78 Menu ..................................................................................... 81 What are menus? ..................................................................... 81 Creating menus ....................................................................... 82 Create Menu - Blank ............................................................. 82 Create Menu - Template........................................................ 82 Create Menu - Wizard ........................................................... 83 Objects and buttons in the menu ................................................ 83 Objects ............................................................................... 83 Buttons............................................................................... 84 The Preview Window ................................................................. 84 The Menu Step Options Panel .................................................... 85 Menu tab ............................................................................ 85 Button tab........................................................................... 86 Text tab .............................................................................. 90 Editing your menus .................................................................. 90 Editing the Playlist .................................................................... 93 Real-time preview for Motion Menus ........................................... 94 Finish .................................................................................... 97 The Preview Window ................................................................. 97 The Remote Control .................................................................. 98 Remote Control buttons ........................................................ 98 Previewing a project ................................................................. 99 Disc templates ......................................................................... 99 Disc Template Manager ......................................................... 99 Burn Project to Disc .................................................................100 The Burn tab ...................................................................... 100 The Advanced Settings tab ................................................... 102 6 ULEAD DVD WORKSHOP USER GUIDE Burn Disc Image or DVD Folder ................................................. 104 Writing to a Digital Linear Tape ................................................. 105 The Ulead DLT Writer options ............................................... 105 Appendix A: DVD Region Codes ......................................... 111 Appendix B: Capture checkup ............................................ 112 Before you capture .................................................................. 112 System Tweaks ...................................................................... 112 Appendix C: Glossary .............................. ...