User Guide

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CapWiz Direct to Disc
Direct to Disc Wizard Overview
Capture Direct to Optical Disc:
CapWiz now includes the ability to capture directly to VCD, SVCD or DVD disc.
Burn an MPEG le to Optical Disc:
You can also load a previously captured MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 video le and burn to disc. You can select and burn a
single video le only to disc, so if you want to edit several clips and join them together on a disc, you can use the other
software applications included with your product (Video Studio or DVD Movie Factory). While writing a le to a disc, you
will see the video progress bar advance to let you know the DVD writing progress.
No Hard disc space used…no worries about deleting les after your
project or lling your hard disc.
The most exciting and revolutionary capability is the real-time direct to disc capability. You can create a VCD, SVCD or
DVD without ever storing the video on your computer hard drive. Many users have expressed the desire for a fast
and simple way to archive video tape to optical disc and the Direct to Disc Wizard in CapWiz 3.5 will allow customers
to accomplish that goal. Just capture and burn to disc without having to store on your hard drive rst. No worries about
hard disc space, le maintenance; just capture and burn.
Support for All Media Types:
You can capture to any type of optical media (CD-R, CD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW).
Simple DVD Authoring:
Direct to Disc capture in CapWiz has been designed to be very simple so don’t expect too many fancy DVD Author-
ing tools. We always include either DVD Movie Factory or Ulead Video Studio for users who want to be more creative.
CapWiz and the DTD feature are meant to be the fast and easy ways to capture video to the PC or to get video on disc.
Single Session only:
In speaking with Customers we found that most people just want a fast and simple way to archive video tape to DVD.
We have excluded features such as leaving a disc open for mulit-session recording (adding more video les at a later
time), editing the DVD, and other features found on full featured DVD Authoring packages. You do have those capabili-
ties with other software bundled with your Instant DVD or DVD Xpress product. Again, the goal was to keep the Direct
to Disc capability in CapWiz very fast, simple easy and un-confusing.
What is Single Session?
Single Session means that once you have recorded to the disc, the disc cannot be appended or added to. You can
record only one time to a disc, one home movie one video capture session. You can only record video to a blank disc.
If there is existing video content or some other type of le on the disc, you cannot capture video to that disc. The disc
must be blank. Therefore if you are using a re-writable disc with video content on the disc, you will have the ability to
playback the le (so you can see what is on the disc) but if you want to capture to that RW disc, you will be forced to
erase the video le before capturing, or you can choose a different disc to record.
DVD Authoring Features:
Record to any type of Optical Media
Select Optical drive
Conrmation of Optical drive capabilities
Conrmation of media type in drive and media condition (disc must be blank to allow recording)
Select video compression format
Display of available video record time based on video compression settings and disc type
Create Movie Title (Volume name)
Create Video Clip name
Set record duration time (display of available time)
Set Chapter point interval
Select menu Background template
Quick Guide – CapWiz Direct to Disc Wizard
We have tried to make the Direct to Disc Wizard simple to use. You can begin recording video directly to a disc in as
few as 4 Clicks. Here are the quick step by step instructions to start recording to disc in real time.
1.) Insert a Blank CD or DVD disc into your disc drive.
2.) Click the Direct to Disc Wizard button.
3.) Select Capture Direct to Disc or load a le to write to disc.
4.) Select the Video format you want to record (VCD, SVCD, DVD)
5.) Choose the disc drive you want to use for recording.
6.) Check disc status information on the Step 1 Screen.
7.) Click NEXT
8.) Type in the name your movie title and video clip
9.) Set Duration time or choose “None” for manual control
10.) Set Capture point time intervals or “None”
11.) Click Record to Disc
12.) Click Yes to begin recording after disc has been initialized.
Direct to Disc Wizard Instructions
Direct to Disc Wizard:
You will notice that we have added a link button on the lower left hand corner of the CapWiz screen called “Direct to
Disc” –