X2

Video recording 81
• Click the "Record" button in the recor
A small dialog with a red record butto
ding dialog.
n, a black
s a frame with dashed stop button as well a
bordering appears. Activate the option "Record
mouse pointer" to record the movements of the
mouse pointer.
• Now select the screen area you wish to record,
i.e. the screen of the video player in which the
video is playing. Drag the frame over the area you
wish to record and adjust its size as required by
dragging the edges and corners.
• The actual recording process can be started by pressing the red "Record" button. The
recording starts; the record symbol appears in the task bar (tray).
f the
reated video file and its import into the existing project.
A CHD uded with the camera) to be installed
before t 't necessary
for AVCHD cameras with built-in hard drives. The camera is preset as a drive as soon as
the USB the Media
Pool, and sponding M2TS files can be simply dragged from the list.
e into the
MPEG-2 format. You should definately answer this question with "Yes", since only then will
it your movies in real time. We also recommend you activate the check
query every
singl i
ware acceleration, too (press "P -> Display options -> Playback in Arranger -
mode -> Direct3D hardware acceleration"). This lets you playback multiple tracks
tion of using "smart encoding". The sound will
be re-encoded to guarantee synchronicity of image and audio. It is currently not possible to
s is automatically converted to MPEG stereo.
• Once the video you wanted to record has come to an end, click on the "Record/Stop"
button to stop the recording. Recording ends and the recording dialog is visible once
again.
Recording AVCHD
This recording is actually not really a recording as such, but rather "only" the transfer o
already c
V requires a special UDF driver (normally incl
he DVDs or removable storage can be imported into Windows. This isn
cable is connected to the PC. This additional drive is then visible in
the corre
Files with the M2TS extension can easily be dragged down from the Media Pool (above
right). You will be asked during the first import if you want to convert the movi
you be able to ed
box "Don't ask me again". The advantage is that you won't have to answer this
me you import individual files. e t
Switch on hard
> Video
simultaneously with a modern graphics card (better than ATI Radeon 1300). Another
advantage of converting to MPEG-2 is the op
maintain 5.1 sound; thi