Roxio Creator Getting Started Guide
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Getting started with Roxio Creator In this guide Welcome to Roxio Creator 10 About this guide 10 Installing Creator 11 Getting to know Creator 12 Creator: What you can do 13 Completing a typical task 17 Where to find more information 21 Creator support options 22
Roxio Creator Getting Started Guide www.roxio.com Welcome to Roxio Creator Welcome to Roxio Creator, the all-in-one digital media solution. Designed for beginners and experts alike, Creator makes it all easy—from simple and practical tasks, such as creating a backup copy of a disc, to fun and creative projects such as creating a home movie complete with introductions, transitions, music, and effects.
Getting started with Roxio Creator Installing Creator Installing Creator Follow this procedure to install Creator. To install Creator using the installation disc: 1 Insert the Creator installation DVD into your DVD drive. If Autorun is enabled on your computer, the Creator installation window appears automatically and you can skip step 2 and step 3. 2 Choose Start > Run. 3 Type d:\setup (substitute the appropriate letter of your DVD drive for d).
Roxio Creator Getting Started Guide www.roxio.com Getting to know Creator Start your digital media projects from Creator’s main window. Double-click the Creator desktop icon to begin. Creator’s main window, featuring the project categories and frequent tasks. Starting a task Click one of the project category tabs on the left side of the window, and a task list appears on the right. Choose a task by clicking on its name.
Getting started with Roxio Creator Creator: What you can do Creator: What you can do There are so many great things you can do with Creator. Here’s a partial list and how to get started: Working with audio You will find links to these tasks by selecting the Music-Audio project tab: ■ Make an audio CD that you can play anywhere. Select the Burn Audio CDs task. ■ Create an MP3 disc that holds hundreds of songs in MP3, WMA, or WAV format. Select the Burn MP3 CDs task.
Roxio Creator Getting Started Guide www.roxio.com Working with photos You will find links to these tasks by selecting the Photo project tab: ■ Enhance, edit, and share your digital photos. Automatically adjust the exposure, saturation, and sharpness of photos. Fix common problems such as red eye. Select the Edit Photos task. ■ Create personalized calendars, greeting cards, and collages using your own photos. You can also create photo slideshows to share with others. Select the Create Projects task.
Getting started with Roxio Creator Creator: What you can do ■ Make great looking video productions in a few easy steps. Select the Create DVDs task. ■ Create multimedia stories on DVD to share with family and friends. Capture and mix photos and video, include narration or a favorite sound track, create your own professional-looking menus, add transitions and animated backgrounds, and burn to DVD, Video CD, or Super VCD. Some versions even let you author Blu-ray movie discs.
Roxio Creator Getting Started Guide www.roxio.com Importing and organizing media files You will find links to these tasks on more than one project tab: ■ Import photos and video files to your computer from your digital camera, mobile phone, or camcorder. Select the Import Photos or Capture Video tasks. ■ View and manage your media files in folders, and to organize them into personalized albums. Find files quickly by browsing or searching, and burn your files to a disc.
Getting started with Roxio Creator Completing a typical task Completing a typical task Each task in Creator is a little different. Some are incredibly simple. Others take a little time to master. To help you get started, let’s walk though one of the most useful projects—creating a disc that contains files copied from your computer. 1 Open Creator by double-clicking the icon that was placed on your computer desktop during installation.
Roxio Creator Getting Started Guide www.roxio.com 2 When you are ready, click Burn Data Disc. A longer description appears when you hold the cursor over a task link. The application window changes again. It now displays everything you need to set up your project and burn a disc. Burn Data Disc project window As you can see, the Burn Data Disc project is built into the main Creator application window. Some projects are built into the main window; others open in a separate window.
Getting started with Roxio Creator Completing a typical task 3 To begin a data disc project, insert a blank CD, DVD, or Blu-ray Disc into your computer’s disc drive. (The project also allows you to add files to an existing data disc, but to keep things simple for this project, use a blank disc.) 4 Use the Destination drop-down menu to select the drive holding your blank disc. If your computer only has one disc drive, it will be selected automatically.
Roxio Creator Getting Started Guide www.roxio.com Before burning your disc, look along the bottom of the project window. Here you will find several project status indicators. The information presented varies from project to project and is updated when you change discs or destination drives. Project information is displayed along the bottom of the window. In this case, the indicator shows the project size, the type of disc in the drive, and the available disc space. 7 Now you are ready to burn a disc.
Getting started with Roxio Creator Where to find more information Where to find more information This guide provides an overview of Creator to help you get started. For detailed information about how to use all of the features of Creator, see the online Help described below. Online Help Most Creator components have an extensive, searchable Help Center. Each Help Center includes step-by-step procedures and answers to frequently asked questions.
Roxio Creator Getting Started Guide www.roxio.com Creator support options Unlimited self-help options Roxio provides a variety of self help tools, including our virtual agent, a searchable knowledge base of support articles with troubleshooting tips, and tutorials that can help you get the most out of your Roxio products. Be sure to visit the Roxio Support Web site before you contact us by phone or e-mail—you’ll find answers to most of your questions at http://support.roxio.com.
