Movie Maker Manual

Manual

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Foreword

What to do with all your favorite movies? What to do withthat VHS cassette collection, or all of that camcorder andDV camera footage?Well, what about putting them through your computer andcoming up with crystal clear CDs and DVDs! At the veryleast, it’s the perfect way to guarantee safe, top quality stor-age of your video material, because digital data carrierspossess high picture and tone quality while enabling com-puter editing.With MAGIX Movie Maker® deLuxe 3, you can restoreyour movies and burn all of them in excellent quality ontoVCD, SVCD, DVD or Mini DVD.This manual explains how it’s done. First of all, you will beintroduced to the program and its capabilities. Then, therefollows a tutorial which will run you through the most im-portant functions step-by-step. Finally, the basic modes ofoperating the program are contained in an overview.The printed manual has been conceived as a quick startguide. A more comprehensive document is copied ontoyour hard-drive during installation. This electronic manualdescribes in detail all of the options dialogs, menus andprogram interfaces. It even offers a short overview of top-ics related to blank CDs, Video CDs, Super Video CDs andDVDs.If you would like to have a program reference on hand,you’ll find an index at the end of the electronic manuallisting all aspects of the program alphabetically. Simply clickon an entry in the index, and you’ll be led to the appropri-ate description within the manual.Your MAGIX team wish you tons of fun with your MAGIXMovie Maker® deLuxe 3.

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Table of Contents

Foreword 3

Support 7

MAGIX on the Internet 8

System Requirements 9

Introduction 10What is “MAGIX Movie Maker® deLuxe 3”? 10

How does MAGIX Movie Maker® deLuxe 3 work? 10

Features 11

Tutorial 14How do I get a VHS feature film (or other analog material)onto CD or DVD? 14

How do I get a DV movie onto CD or DVD? 15

How do I combine and edit several movies before burningthem professionally? 16

Editing Overview 22Three steps – three screens 22

Disk projects, movies and scenes 22

Import & Capture screen 25Edit Movie screen 27

Make Disk screen 31

Memory 32

Import & Capture screen 34Functionality 34Video screen and transport control 34

Filmboxes 35

Import Video 35

Record Video 36Digital capturing (DV capturing) 37

Video capturings from analog sources 39

Audio recording 42

Edit Movie screen 45Functionality 45

Storyboard mode and Timeline mode 45

Video screen & Transport control 46

S and E Marker 47

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Table of ContentsMedia Pool 47Film overview 49

Selecting background music 49

Media Library 50

“Text”: Subtitles and credits 50“Edit Movie” flip menu 51

Scissors 52

Menu Tools (Buttons in Timeline Mode) 52

Make Disc screen 54Funcionality 54Selection Menu 54

Animated Selection Menus (only for DVD and Mini-DVD) 57

Remote control 58

Burn Disc 58Memory 60

Split up disc project onto several data carriers. 61

Storyboard Mode 63What is the Storyboard Mode? 63Scenes 63

Scene Recognition 64

Transitions 65

Timeline Mode 66What is the Timeline Mode? 66

Timeline 66

Tracks 66

Zooming 66Grid 67

Objects 67

Object handles 67

Trimming or Fine-tuning videos 68

Effects 71Selecting effects 71

Video cleaning 71

Master Effects (File Menu) 74Scene Recognition 77

More Video Effects 77

Audio Cleaning 77

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Table of ContentsMenu File 83New Project 83

Project > Load 83

Project > Save 83Project > Save as 83

Project > Erase 83

Movie > New 83

Movie > Load 84Movie > Load backup movie 84

Movie > Save 84

Movie > Save as 84

Movie > Create backup copy 84Movie > Write backup copy to disc 84

Movie > Remove 85

Movie > Erase 85

Film > Restore backup project 85Export DivX 85

Export Movie > Video as AVI 85

Export Movie > Video as DV-AVI 85

Export Movie > Video as MPEG Video 85Export Movie > Video as MAGIX Video 86

Export Movie > Windows Media Export 86

Export Movie > Real Media Export 86

Export Movie > Single frame as BMP 87Full screen playback 87

Settings 88

Master Effects 89

End 89

Menu Help 90Contents 90

Show tutorial video 90

About MAGIX Movie Maker® deLuxe 3 90Online registration 90

Keyboard Shortcuts 91

Appendix: Video and Data media 93

Index 98

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Support

If you experience any problems with your software, pleaseget in touch with our support team:Support website: http://support.magix.net

This website will lead you to the MAGIX user service page,which, among other things, contains the following freeoffers:– FAQs (frequently asked questions) and general tricks and

tips. In most cases you’ll find the solution to your prob-lem here. If not, use the Email support form.

– E-mail support form: Via the special form you informour support staff about your system. This informationis used to solve your problems quickly and competently.Simply fill out and send with a mouse-click!

– Support forum: You are not alone. Perhaps other usershad a similar problem and can help you solve yours. Oursupport staff is also a regular contributor.

– Download section: Updates, improvements and patchesare likewise offered free of charge via download. Manyproblems you may experience are well-known to us, andcan be solved by downloading the latest patch. Besidespatches, there are also wizards for checking and opti-mizing your system.

– Links: In the links list you will find the contact addressesof all the most important hardware manufacturers.

You can also reach our support team either by telephoneor by fax. Please have the following information at hand:– Program version– Configuration details (operating system, processor,

memory, hard drive...)– Soundcard configuration (type, driver)– Information regarding other audio software installed

UKPhone: +44 (0)20 89608244Email: [email protected]

SWEDENPhone: +46 8-445 50 55

(Monday to Friday: 17.00-20.00)Info: [email protected]

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NORWAYPhone: +45 89 44 22 79

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FINLANDPhone: +31 75 750 1126

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Info: [email protected]

DENMARKPhone +45 89-44 22 79

(Monday to Friday: 16.00-19.00)Info: [email protected]

MAGIX on the Internet

Visit our website at:www.magix.com

Here you’ll find details and offers regarding all MAGIXproducts. Plus:– ”MAGIX.TV”, ”MAGIX web radio” and ”MAGIX web

publishing area”: New entertainment and direct onlinepublishing

– Competitions– Online shop with regular special offers– Events and news– plus much more that you should take a look at...

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System Requirements

General– Hard-drive storage for program data files 300 MB (mini-

mum), for video data a minimum of 1 GB free (5 GBrecommended)

– SVGA graphic card with a minimum of 4 MB RAM,minimal resolution of 800x600 with 16-bit high color

– 16-bit soundcard, CD-ROM drive– Microsoft®-compatible mouse– Microsoft® Windows® 98, 98 SE / ME / 2000 / XP

For analog recording capturing and output (e.g.via VCR)– Pentium II 400 MHz and higher,– memory 128 MB,– video for Windows-compatible video card, or DirectShow-

compatible video card, TV card or graphic card with videoinput

For digital recording capturing and output (e.g.via DV camcorder)– Pentium II 400 MHz and higher,– memory 64 MB (128 MB recommended)– Hard-drive with a minimum data transfer rate of 4 MB/s– OHCI-compatible IEEE-1394 DV capture card (FireWire)

with Microsoft® DirectX8a-compatible drive

Burning movies– Creation of Video CDs (VCD) and Super Video CDs

(SVCD) with SCSI or IDE CD-R(W) recorder. DVDs withDVD burner (DVD-R(W), DVD+R(W)).

Playing Video Disc– Playing Video CDs (VCD) and Super Video CDs (SVCD)

on TV with a compatible DVD player. On PC via CD-ROM/RW drive as well as DVD-R(W) and DVD+R(W)drives. DVDs on TV with compatible DVD player (DVD-R(W), DVD+R(W)). On PC via Windows-compatibleDVD-R(W) and DVD+R(W) drives.

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Introduction

What is “MAGIX Movie Maker® deLuxe 3”?MAGIX Movie Maker® deLuxe 3 transfers your moviesonto CD or DVD. It doesn’t matter whether they are froma video recorder or from a digicam – they can all be re-corded in the computer, have their picture and sound qual-ity refreshed and then get burned onto either CD or DVD,or both.Movies can be automatically divided into ”chapters” orscenes. Alternatively, you can combine separate chaptersinto a film.A variety of editing tools can take care of weak colors,unfocussed pictures, unwanted background noise ormuffled dialog. Titles, credits, subtitles, commentaries andbackground music can all be added in perfect sync withthe picture. All editing is calculated in real-time during play-back without altering the original recorded material, whichremains untouched on the hard-drive. You can proceed tocut, edit and experiment with the material without worryfor the safety of your digital material!Once you are happy with the look and sound of your movie,you can burn it directly onto Video CD, Super Video CD,DVD or Mini DVD. You can even combine several movies,or by using the selection menu, ensure the appropriate CDor DVD interactivity.

How does MAGIX Movie Maker® deLuxe 3work?It works by following 3 easy steps:1: Record & import. Digital videos from a digicam or ana-

log film from a VHS recorder are loaded via the Capturefunction. Video data files are imported directly. Each timeyou capture or import video files, you must decidewhether the material is to be used as part of an existingmovie or as a movie in its own right. You could choose,for example, to store several videos from your last vaca-tion as one vacation movie.

2: Restore & edit. All of the “scenes” in a movie can easilybe arranged with the mouse into the correct sequenceon the Storyboard. For more extensive re-arrangement,you have the Timeline Mode at your disposal. Here, thepicture and sound tracks are separated and displayed inthe “timeline”. This mode is particularly suitable forworking separately on either the picture or the sound,

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as it contains plenty of picture and sound editing toolsthat will help you bring out the best in your material.

3: Menu Design & Burning. Once you’re happy with theway your movie looks and sounds, you can burn it ontoVideo CD, Super Video CD, DVD or Mini DVD with akeystroke. The Selection menu is automatically trans-ferred onto the blank disk. You can also complete it withthe help of a variety of layout and title templates. Whenyou finally insert the CD or DVD in your player, the se-lection menu is displayed for you to choose from all themovies and scenes on the disk you have burned.

FeaturesRecordingMAGIX Movie Maker® deLuxe 3 supports a wide range ofanalog and digital source types: DV video recorders, VHSrecorders, digicams, TV cards, graphic cards, USB cam-eras…All capturing cards that are compatible with Video for Win-dows or DirectShow can be used for analog recording. DVrecordings require OHCI-compatible IEEE 1394 host adapt-ers (Firewire or iLink).

Importing FilesMAGIX Movie Maker® deLuxe 3 can import the follow-ing file formats:

Video: AVI, DV-AVI (Types 1 and 2), DivX, Windows Me-dia, MPEG 1, MPEG 2, Quicktime Movie, MAGIX Video(MXV) as well as DVD VOB Streams (if they are decodedand saved on your hard disk). You can also import bitmapgraphics (BMP, JPEG).

Audio: The following formats are supported forsoundtracks: Wave, MP3, WMA and audio CDs.

Text files in RTF format: You can enter lengthier editedtexts such as credits and then save them in the universal.rtf text format. Such texts create a text object when loadedinto MAGIX Movie Maker® deLuxe 3.

Storyboard-Mode / Timeline modeAll of your movie’s scenes are listed one after the other inthe Storyboard mode, and are represented in a preview pic-ture. You can choose from 10 different types of blend forstringing your scenes together.

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The Timeline mode displays your film chronologically. Themovie is as long as the representative “object” in the track.You have 4 tracks with which to arrange film sequences,scenes or stills for your movie. The Timeline mode offerseverything you need for extensive editing of your film ma-terial.

Video/Audio CleaningEvery film and every video can be optimized for image qual-ity, color improvement (RGB, saturation), sharpness (sharpand soft drawing), brightness control (brightness, contrast)and pushed through an anti-flicker filter (De-Interlace).The sound quality of every movie and every video can alsobe optimized. Reverb and delay bring spatial sound to yoursoundtrack. The equalizer allows you to manipulate the fre-quency spectrum – perfect for cleaning-up muffled dialog.The compressor is a dynamic volume control that can lendthe overall sound a deeper, richer quality. The StereoFXprocessor justifies the position of the sound in the stereopanorama, while the denoiser and dehisser are professionalnoise reduction tools that do what they say.

Title GeneratorThe title generator allows you to create your own titles andtitle templates. They can then be positioned within the pic-ture, or even act as moving text – ideal for credit rolling.

Disk Selection MenusA menu is automatically applied to all movies and chapters(scenes). Numerous layout templates are included. You canchoose either the complete layout, or a combination – suchas background pictures, fonts, frames and composition.

Burning CDs & DVDsAt the end of your project you can burn a Video CD, SuperVideo CD, DVD or Mini DVD that can be played on anysuitable device. Beforehand, the movies are automaticallycompressed (as MPEG 1 or 2). Using the virtual remotecontrol, you can check the state of the DVD you are aboutto burn prior to the encoding.

Animated DVD menus with background musicDVD menus can be fitted with videos, which are playedback in infinite loops while the menu is displayed on thescreen. Background sounds or images in various formatscan also be integrated into the menu.

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Full TV picture sizeThis option ensures that the image size is adapted to fit thereal television picture (anti cropping). Without adjustment,the television would otherwise crop the image borders.

Re-edit modeThe films, including the corresponding project data, canbe archived in an additional folder and also stored on the(S)VCD or DVD. In this way you can edit or change yourwork at any time.

Automatic disc splittingLonger film sequences that do not fit onto one CD can au-tomatically be split up onto several CD’s.

Automatic BurnNow you can record and burn your movies directly to CDwithout having to take intermediate steps.

TimerHelps your computer become a video recorder. So long asyou have a TV card and WDM driver, you can automati-cally record any TV channel at any time.

Project BackupsEven large projects can be burned directly to CD-ROM.

Infinite loop modeA real party gag: You can record a video in infinite loopmode and play it back in an endless cycle. For all thosemoments you don’t want to end: aquarium visit, train ride,fun in the water, mishaps...

Additional new functionsNew 3D transitions and video effects for perfect record-ings. The film overview mode enables rapid sorting of allthe individual frames. The latest Microsoft® Windows®

Media 9 and Real HelixTM file formats are supported.

Enhanced Functions Title generator, Video Cleaning, Anti-Flicker filter, BatchCapturing.

MAGIX Media Manager silverMAGIX Media Manager silver is a universal playback pro-gram supporting most photo, audio and video formats andcan also be used as an Internet radio receiver. It can beopened separately from the MAGIX program group.

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Tutorial

If you want to start burning immediately, you’re in the rightplace! Here you’ll find a quick, on-the-fly guide to gettingyour first movie onto CD or DVD.

Tip: Be sure to check out the video tutorial for a visualexplanation of all the important functions. You can call it upafter the initial program start-up. Thereafter it can always beaccessed via the Help menu.

How do I get a VHS feature film (or otheranalog material) onto CD or DVD?1. ConnectionConnect the video output of the source (e.g. your VHS re-corder or camcorder) to the video input of your PC and theaudio output of the source to your soundcard’s line input.Because the available device configurations can vary somuch, you’ll have to determine exactly which cable(s) youneed for your own equipment. If in doubt, refer to yourrecorder, videocard or graphic card user manuals.

Tip: Many VHS recorders have RCA outputs: two for the ste-reo sound track, and one for the picture. In such a case, you’llrequire a cable with 3 RCA jacks at each end.Most soundcard inputs are latched 1/8” mini-stereo phono jacks.You will then require a stereo RCA/mini stereo jack adapter toconnect the VHS recorder audio output to the soundcard’s ste-reo input.

2. Program Start-up and Recording– Start MAGIX Movie Maker® deLuxe 3. You will now

find yourself at “Import & Capture-Screen”.– Click on “Capture Video” and select “Video Capture”.– In the Video Capture-Dialog, select the correct video and

audio capture devices in case you have several installedon your PC. A video preview window is displayed im-mediately.

– Name the recording appropriately so as to be able to findit later.

– You can now select the desired video quality. The de-fault setting is the highest quality that your PC system iscapable of.

– Now start the recording by pressing the “Record” but-ton – end it by pressing “Stop”. Be aware of the “DropFrames” notice. If, for example, more than 10 droppedframes per minute occur, the quality of your video will

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Tutorialbe compromised, and your computer may be overbur-dened.

– End the video recording dialog with “OK” You can nowview your recording using the film bar in the lower thirdof your screen.

– To check the recording, start the playback by pressingthe space key.

3. Burning CDs or DVDs– Go to the Make Disk-screen. In the upper right hand

corner, click on “3. Make Disk”.– In the middle you will see a preview of the selection menu

that will appear when you later insert the burnt CD orDVD in a player. The name of the movie you have re-corded appears.

– Insert a blank disk in your burner and click on the large“Burn Disk” button. Select the appropriate device andfile format (DVD, Mini-DVD, Video CD or Super Video-CD).

– Press the red button to start the burning process.

The procedure described is the fastest way to get analog materialonto CD or DVD.With the “Direct Burn” function in the recording dialog, youcan burn lengthy disc projects directly to disc in one: You canstart recording in the evening and have the finished CD or DVD.the following morningBefore burning, however, you can edit your movie, divide itinto scenes, combine it with other movies, and design your ownSelection menu. For more details, please read the chapter “Howdo I combine and edit several movies before burning themprofessionally?”

How do I get a DV movie onto CD or DVD?1. Connection and RecordingYour PC requires hardware for a DV camcorder or DV in-terface (also known as Firewire or iLink). You will also re-quire Microsoft “DirectX8a” or higher installed on yourPC.– Connect the (turned-off) camcorder to the PCs Firewire

card.– Switch the camcorder to the “Video recorder” or “Play-

back” operating mode.– Click on “Capture Video” in the Import & Capture screen

and select „DV Capturing“.– Check to see if a DV camera drive has been selected.– Name the recording appropriately so as to be able to find

it later.

Capture Video-dialog

Make Disc-screen

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Tutorial– Using the remote control buttons, you can head for the

appropriate place on the camcorder tape: For optimalcontrol, you can shuttle forward, backwards and startplayback.

– Start recording by pressing the “Record” button. Keepan eye on the available hard-drive space. IMPORTANTNOTE: DV recordings require approx. 220 MB of drivespace per minute of video!

– Cease recording when done with the “Stop” button andexit the recording dialog.

– You can now see your recording in the film bar below.For a playback, simply press the space key.

2. Burning CDs or DVDs– Go to the Make Disk-screen. In the upper right hand

corner, click on “3. Make Disk”.– In the middle you will see a preview of the selection menu

that will appear when you later insert the burnt CD orDVD in a player. The name of the movie you have re-corded appears.

– Insert a blank disk in your burner and click on the large“Burn Disk” button. Select the appropriate device andfile format (DVD, Mini DVD, Video CD or Super Video-CD).

– Press the red button to start the burning process.

The procedure described is the fastest way to get analog materialonto CD or DVD. Before burning, however, you can edit yourmovie, divide it into scenes, combine it with other movies, anddesign your own Selection menu. For more details, please readthe chapter “How do I combine and edit several movies beforeburning them professionally?”

How do I combine and edit several moviesbefore burning them professionally?1. Recording or importing moviesLoad all the movies you want to include on the disk oneafter the other. If in doubt, follow the advice regarding videoand DV recording. You can also import video files fromyour computer drive. Simply select “Import Video” on theImport & Capture screen.The first film loaded can be viewed in the Filmbox previewwindow. It is situated in the film bar at the bottom of thescreen.You must decide with each new piece of footage whetherthe material is to be used as part of an existing movie or asa movie in its own right. You could choose, for example, toload several videos to form a completely new movie.

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TutorialIf you want to add a scene to an existing movie, select theappropriate Filmbox in the film bar below.If on the other hand you load a complete movie, a separateFilmbox appears.It’s important to make a distinction between a “Movie” anda “Scene” on the disk because of the selection menu thatyou will want to use later. All “Movies” appear immedi-ately in the menu, while each movie’s “Scenes” appear in asecondary “sub menu”.

2. Editing moviesMAGIX Movie Maker® deLuxe 3 offers a wide range ofediting options for both picture and sound. For example:

Volume control: The overall soundtrack volume can bemodified on the Import & Capture screen from the loud-speaker symbol on the Filmbox

Adding a title and other text: Every film can be fur-nished with titles, subtitles and credits. It’s simple. Clickon the “Text” symbol, enter your text in the editor, andselect an “effect”, a “design”, or a “movement” (such as“downwards”) from the “Template” menu.

Erasing blocks of ads or other unwanted footage:Select the movie from which you wish to remove a block ofads and switch to the Edit Movie screen.

Now you need to cut the block of ads. Immediately abovethe scene bar you will see two markers (“S” and “E” – rep-resenting Start and End) which denote the play range. Torelocate the markers, simply drag & drop. Use the spacekey to set Play in motion.

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Tutorial

There are several methods for cutting:– Click the FX button and select the “scene recognition”

option in the effects menu. This activates an automaticsearch within a movie for distinctive optical features.Each scene found can then be cut or passed over.

– Or you can cut out blocks of ads “by hand”. Set the S-marker at the start of a block of ads, click the scissorbutton, and select the “cut out scene” option in the Cut-ting menu. Finally, set the E-marker at the end of theblock and repeat.

Once the ad block has been cut out, it appears as a separatescene in the Storyboard. Now it can be erased from thefootage via the delete key.

Transitions: The buttons for blending scenes are on theStoryboard. The area in between is then played in a con-tinuous loop. Now you can apply one of the blends avail-able to merge the two scenes and view the result on thevideo screen.

Adding a soundtrack: You can also add audio record-ings (from your stereo system or from a microphone forexample) to footage via the “Capture Video” dialog. Youmust first connect the sound source to your soundcard in-put. You can either start the recording in the Import & Cap-ture screen (via “Capture Video) or directly in the Edit Moviescreen (via the Record button on the transport controller).From the Import & Capture screen, you can select and playthe movie to which you want to add sound. The range be-tween the S and E markers will be played during the re-

Szene recognition

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Tutorialcording – perfect for adding commentaries to individualscenes.

The following chapter (“Overview of operating methods”)contains more details regarding audio connection.

Improving picture or sound quality: Click the “FX”symbol on the Filmbox and select “Video Cleaning” for theappropriate film track. In the editor, you can alter “Color”,“Brightness” and “Contrast”. Unwanted background noiseon the soundtrack can be minimized by selecting “AudioCleaning” and then “Denoiser”.

Editing in timeline mode: The Timeline mode displaysyour movies and scenes chronologically. The movie is aslong as the representative “object” in the track. The easiestway to call up this mode is by using the Tab key (alterna-tively, you can select the option in the Tools menu).

You have 4 tracks with which to arrange film sequences,scenes or stills for your movie.– the first track is for pictures– the second track just below the first is for sound– the third track is for the title or for other text ( obtained

using the “Text” button in Storyboard mode).– the fourth track is for additional audio or visual material

– in fact, anything you want to add to the scenes. Imagefiles can also be loaded. Simply use the file managerabove and to the right. All files can be placed in the trackby drag & drop.

”Objects” in Timeline mode can be relocated on the tracks.They can be shortened in length by using the object handlesin their lower corners. By moving the mouse to one of thebottom corners of the object, the mouse pointer becomes astretching symbol with which you can modify the object’s Handles

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Tutoriallength. By additionally pressing the ”Expert” button, simi-lar handles at the top of the object allow you to create blends,both in and out.Storyboard mode effects can be called up from the contextmenu (right mouse-click the object).For extremely precise cutting in the Timeline mode, thezoom function is indispensable. Simply zoom in with theCtrl + scroll-down arrow key, or zoom out using Ctrl + scrollup arrow key.

3. Designing the Selection menu and burningOnce you’re happy with the way your movie looks andsounds, switch to the Make Disk screen in order to burnyour movie onto disk.The Selection menu is particularly useful when you areworking with several movies divided into separate scenes(chapters), as the need for a clear navigational overviewbecomes paramount.In the middle of the Make Disk screen you can preview theSelection menu. All movies appear as the uppermost en-tries, with scenes appearing as subordinate entries.

The structure of the Selection menu is displayed by acti-vating the ”Navigation” button. You can switch off unnec-essary scenes by deactivating the appropriate checkbox”tick”. Of course, only the menu entry is deleted – the sceneitself remains untouched as part of the movie.In order to divide a movie into meaningful chapters, youmust divide it’s scenes sensibly in the Edit Movie-screen.If you want to change the existing scene organization, it’sbest to switch back to the Import & Capture screen andthen select the movie that you want to reorganize. Then goto the Edit Movie-screen from where you can re-cut scenesfor the new chapter organization.

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TutorialOnce you are happy with the way the movie and chaptersare organized, you can move on to designing the layout ofthe Selection menu.At the bottom of the screen is a whole row of menu tem-plates from which to choose. Use the scroll bar to view themall.

– If you want to select a complete template, choose “FullTemplates” and then double-click the template of yourchoice.

– You can also choose to combine elements of differenttemplates. For example, you may wish to use the fontfrom one template, and the background from another.Easy. Simply select ”Font” and double-click the templatecontaining the font you wish to use. Then select ”Back-ground” and double-click the applicable template. Thepreview in the middle of the screen displays the resultimmediately.

– By double-clicking the preview picture or an entry in themenu, you will open an editor in which you can changethe name of a movie or a chapter – or even select a newpreview.

Now that you’ve sorted out the organization of all yourmovies and chapters, and your selection menu looks great,there’s only the matter of burning to deal with. With thevirtual remote control, you can test the state of the disk onwhich the movie is to be burned in order to make sure thateverything will look as planned.

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Editing Overview

This chapter provides a general overview of how best towork with MAGIX Movie Maker® deLuxe 3.

Three steps – three screensMAGIX Movie Maker® deLuxe 3 offers three separatescreens for the three most important operations:– Select the “Import & Capture“ screen in order to cap-

ture a new movie or to load a movie from the hard-drive. In the bottom third of the screen, all current moviesinvolved in the disk project are displayed.

– Select the “Edit Movie“ screen in order to edit the movie.Here you can switch between the Storyboard mode andthe Timeline mode.

– Select the “Make Disk” screen in order to burn yourproject onto CD or DVD. Here you can determine thelayout of the Selection menu and test the state of thedisk with the virtual remote control.

Disk projects, movies and scenesIn MAGIX Movie Maker® deLuxe 3, one works with “diskprojects”, “movies” and “scenes”. For quick, intuitive han-dling, it’s important to clarify the difference between allthree terms and to become familiar with the hierarchy inwhich they must be organized.

Disk projectA disk project includes everything that you want to accom-modate on your CD or DVD. Usually, that will be one ormore movies (including the appropriate menu structures).Disk projects can be saved on the hard-drive as a ”DIP”file and can later be re-loaded in order to edit movies fur-ther.

MovieEvery “movie” can be divided up into as many “scenes” asyou wish. Imagine if you will that the “movie” is a box inwhich there are several rolls of film. A film box. You canput the whole film box onto CD or DVD. But before con-verting it, you can also open the film box and take some ofthe rolls out and edit them. That’s why the “movie” symbolin MAGIX Movie Maker® deLuxe 3 looks like film rollswithin a “film box”. The “disk project” would therefore bean even larger box in which there may be several film boxes– all of which would be burned onto disk together.

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Editing OverviewEvery “movie” can be saved on the hard-drive as an MVDfile. Such files contain scenes, effects settings, cutting mark-ers, sound material – basically, the whole movie. The titleof the disk project is automatically positioned in the upper-most part of the Selection menu hierarchy, which is alsoburned onto disk.

SceneA “scene” is a freely-definable range (a sequence, an epi-sode, a passage, a take) within a movie. As mentioned above,you can picture it as a roll of film within a larger film box.If a movie is not divided into scenes, in theory it is madeup of just one scene. In such a case, the Filmbox containsjust “one film roll”. The breakdown of a movie into scenesis performed either automatically through scene recogni-tion, or manually through cutting “by hand”. A movie’sscenes land automatically in the Selection menu as a sec-ondary “sub menu” entry.

In a nutshell: “disk projects” contain “movies”, “movies” contain“scenes”. Movies and scenes within a disk project appear lateras menu entries on the CD or DVD.

Practical examples– Load a movie into the “Import & Capture” screen, switch

to the “Make Disk” Screen, and burn the movie directlyonto CD or DVD – without having to make any distinc-tions between disk projects, movies or scenes.

– Capture a movie and activate scene recognition. Everyscene eventually lands in the Selection menu. In thisexample, you can still ignore the distinction between diskprojects, movies or scenes.

– You edit advertising blocks out of your movie in the EditMovie screen, edit the sound and pictures, and then burnthe “cleaned-up” movie onto CD or DVD.

– You load several movies into a disk project. Each movielands automatically as an entry in the upper section ofthe Selection menu, and each scene appears as a sec-ondary “sub menu” entry under the appropriate film.You thus get a two-tiered Selection menu that can laterbe accessed by a video CD player or DVD player, as wellas acting as a tool for organizing individual scenes (orchapters).

– Rather than a movie divided into scenes, you load a se-ries of scenes that will eventually constitute your ownmovie.

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A new movie? Or a new scene?Every one of your recordings and every imported video filecan be used as either a “movie” or as a “scene”. If for ex-ample you want to edit out blocks of ads from a TV movierecording, first load the movie and then divide it into scenes(either automatically or “by hand”). In this manner, youcan isolate the block of ads and delete them with a mouse-click + the Del key. You can also do it all the other wayaround. For example, load all those short “takes” from yourrecent vacation and combine them into a complete vaca-tion movie.With MAGIX Movie Maker® deLuxe 3 you can proceed inboth directions:– load the complete film (and if necessary, divide it into

separate scenes)– load individual scenes to be combined as a complete

movie in and of itself.

You will therefore be asked whether you want an importedvideo file (such as an AVI file) to be added as a scene to anexisting (or soon-to-exist) movie, or as a movie in its ownright.

Episodes, and other complex cases.Sometimes you may wish to burn parts of your favorite TVseries onto disk. Each episode can be classified as either amovie or as a scene. It makes sense here to consider howthe hierarchy of the eventual CD or DVD should be orga-nized.If you want to change the organization at a later stage, youcan divide a movie into several shorter movies in the EditMovie screen. Or the other way around – several shortmovies can be loaded into a new movie as “scenes” by us-ing the Import & Capture screen.

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Import & Capture screenThe Import & Capture screen opens upon starting the pro-gram. You can get started immediately with an analog ordigital recording (“Capture Video”) or open a video file fromthe hard-drive .

FilmboxesImported movies are, so to speak, loaded into Filmboxesequipped with a preview window. All of a current diskproject’s Filmboxes are displayed in the bottom third ofthe Import & Capture screen.When you open a new disk project, a new, empty Filmboxawaits the loading in of the first movie.When you load several movies one after the other into adisk project, you must decide each time whether a newFilmbox needs be created, or whether the new movie is toconstitute a “scene” in an existing Filmbox.When you load a new movie as a “scene”, it does not ap-pear at the bottom of the Import & Capture screen. It issimply stored in the Filmbox with the other scenes. Youwill be able to see it only when you switch to the Edit Moviescreen.When you load a new movie as a “movie” in its own right,a new Filmbox containing the movie will appear next tothe existing Filmbox.In this fashion, you can load a whole series of movies andscenes, deciding as you proceed which existing Filmboxthey should be organized into or whether a new Filmboxneeds to be created.Every Filmbox offers three buttons:

Text: The text button opens the Title Editor from whichyou can enter text (e.g. for subtitles or credits) in any num-ber of fonts or colors. The text can be made to scroll (per-fect for rolling credits) or be furnished with effects, designsor other forms of movement.

Loudspeaker symbol: The movie soundtrack can be modi-fied ( or even muted) from the loudspeaker symbol.

FX: You can select any number of effects for sound andpicture editing in the FX menu.

“Import video”This button opens the Import dialog in order to load vid-eos from the hard-drive or other data media.

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Editing OverviewYou can import videos into every MAGIX Movie Maker®deLuxe 3 disk project in the following file formats: AVI,DV-AVI (Types 1 and 2), Windows Media, MPEG 1, MPEG2, Quicktime Movie, MAGIX Video (MXV) as well as DVDVOB Streams (if they are decoded and saved on your harddisk). You can also import bitmap graphics (BMP, JPEG).The following file formats for the soundtrack are supported:Wave, MP3, WMA and Audio CDs.

“Record Video”This button opens the recording dialog from which youcan select to make either “DV capture” (e.g. with Mini DVcamcorders or DV video recorders), “video capture” ( e.g.with VHS recorders, USB cameras, TV, video or graphiccards with video inputs), or pure “audio capture” (for add-ing a soundtrack).A file is written to your hard-drive with every recording.Make sure that there’s enough space available on your hard-drive !

DV Capture: The recording dialog for DV recording isopened (logically enough) by pressing the “DV recording”button in the “Capture Video” dialog.To record digitally, the digital output of the Mini DVcamcorder or DV video recorder must be connected to theDV interface of the PC (remember to leave it switched off).You must also have Microsoft’s ”DirectX8a” (or higher)installed.Now switch your camcorder to “video recorder” or “play-back” (according to your particular device) and open theDV recording dialog. Check the DV recording dialog to seethat a DV camera drive is available. By using the “remotecontrol” buttons, you can control the positioning on thecamcorder tape.Start recording via the “Record” button, making sure thatyou have enough space available on your hard-drive(approx. 220 MB per minute of video is usually required).To cease recording, press the “Stop” button.

Video Capture: To call up the recording dialog for all othertypes of video recordings. Press the “video recording” but-ton.For an analog video recording, the video output of thesource device (such as a VHS recorder or a camcorder) mustbe connected to the video input of your PC, and the sourceaudio output to your soundcard’s line input. If your PC’svideocard has audio ports, you should use these for audiorecordings.

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Editing OverviewIf your hardware has been installed correctly, you can useall the additional settings in the ”video recording” dialog(e.g. configure the drive for the videocard and soundcard,or determine the quality of the video to be recorded). Com-mence recording with the ”Start” button, press ”Stop” tocease recording.

audio Capture: An audio recording is neither a scene nora movie. It is used for adding a soundtrack to a movie andis stored in the Filmbox along with scenes. Before an au-dio recording, you should select the Filmbox to which thesoundtrack is to be added.Then the source of the audio material must be connectedto the soundcard input. Again, there are several possibili-ties that depend primarily upon the type of equipment youpossess.– If you want to record material from a stereo system, you

can use the line-out or AUX out jacks on the back ofyour amplifier or tape deck. This entails connecting themto the soundcard input (usually red in color).

– If your amplifier has no separate output (other than forthe speakers), you can use the connection intended forheadphones for your recordings. In most cases, you willneed a cable with two mini-stereo jacks.

– When recording from vinyl records, you should not con-nect the record player’s output directly with thesoundcard, because the phono signal must be pre-am-plified. A more suitable method would be to use the head-phone connection or an external pre-amp.

– Microphones can be plugged straight into yoursoundcard’s line-in if there is no dedicated microphoneinput.

– Audio CD tracks can be imported directly using the filemanager in the ”Edit Movie” screen.

While recording, the selected movie plays so that you cansee what you are commentating about.You may also record directly in the Edit Movie screen. The”Record Video” dialog has a list of recording types that canbe called up using the right hand button in the transportcontrol. Only the range between the S and E markers areplayed in the Edit Movie screen – perfect for adding com-mentaries to individual scenes!

Edit Movie screenNo surprises here. This screen is for editing movies.You can select movies directly in the Edit Movie screen,but for a clearer overview when several movies are loaded

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Editing Overviewinto your disk project, select the movie you wish to editfrom the “Import & Capture” screen, and then switch backto the Edit Movie screen to edit your selection.

Storyboard ModeThe Storyboard mode helps in visualizing movies. Allscenes are presented in a series of previews. If a movie hasnot been divided into scenes, it simply constitutes a lengthy“scene”. In this case, you must first divide the movie intoshorter scenes if you want to regroup, edit or delete them.Scenes in the Edit Movie screen are presented in a similarfashion to those in the Import & Capture screen, wherebythree buttons (“FX”, “Text” and the loudspeaker symbol –all of which carry out the same functions as those on theFilmboxes) refer to the individual scenes.

Dividing movies into scenes: Activate the FX button andselect the “Scene recognition” option. In the dialog you canchoose to carry out automatic scene recognition or to scana movie for particular scenes. You can also choose the Scis-sor menu (see below).

Play: The range between the S and E markers above thestoryboard is always played. Both markers can be relocatedwith the mouse (or with a left or right mouse-click). Tostart or stop playing, use the space key. You can of coursealso use the transport control beneath the video screen.

Play cursor: The play cursor shows which scene is cur-rently being played. It is a red vertical line that runs fromleft to right over the scene. It runs rapidly, independent ofscene length.

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Editing OverviewTransitions: You can also select the type of blend youwould like to connect scenes. Simply activate the large but-ton between scenes and select a blend of your choice.

menus: Besides the two main menus (“File” and “Help”),the FX menu, and the menu for blends, there are threefurther special menus:– Beneath the video screen you can use the “Edit Movie”

flip menu to switch back and forth between movieswithin a disk project (so long as you do not want to switchback to the Import & Capture screen in order to edit adifferent movie).

– The “Scissor” button (situated next to the Play functions)offers a variety of cutting options. Unnecessary footage(such as blocks of ads or the first few seconds of a “take”)can be cut out by using this menu. It is important at thispoint to make a distinction between “Cut Scene” and“Divide Movie”: “Cut Scene” dissects a scene, therebyincreasing the number of scenes by one. “Divide Movie”splits a movie into two self-standing movies that thenappear as two separate Filmboxes in the Import & Cap-ture screen.

– The “Tools” button conceals a further series of com-mands. By clicking the Timeline button, a number ofTool menu commands appear as buttons on the mainscreen.

Media Pool / Media library: By using the Media Pool,you gain quick access to additional music for yoursoundtrack. The Media Library that comes with it has alarge selection of songs, noises, effects and much morematerial that can be used to furnish your movies. Simplyinsert the program CD in the drive and click on the “CD-ROM” button. Then open the “Audio” and “Video” direc-tories and click on the files listed. For each file selectedthere is a preview. When you have found something thatyou can use, pull it onto the scene by drag & drop.

Timeline-ModeThe easiest way to call up this mode is by using the Tab key(alternatively, you can select the option in the Tools menu).The Timeline mode displays your movies and scenes chro-nologically. The movie is as long as the representative “ob-ject” in the track. In contrast to Storyboard mode, the speedof the play cursor does not alter while Play is activated. Youalso have direct access to a huge collection of media filesthat can be employed in your movie.

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Tracks: You have 4 tracks with which to arrange film se-quences, scenes or stills for your movie.– the first track is for movies. Bitmap files can also be

loaded.– the track below is for the soundtrack– the third track is for the title or for other text ( obtained

using the “Text” button in Storyboard mode).– the fourth track is for additional audio material – in fact,

anything you want to add to the scenes. Simply use theMediaPool. All files can be placed in the track by drag &drop.

Objects: Sound and picture tracks are represented as sepa-rate objects on the tracks.Sound material is represented as a wave display — if there’ssomething to see, there’s something to hear. The picturetracks appear as frames. All objects can be individually cut,have effects added and be arranged in any way along thetrack. When playing, objects are automatically mixed to-gether.

Zoom: Simply zoom in with the Ctrl + scroll-down arrowkey, or zoom out using Ctrl + scroll-up arrow key. A rightmouse-click on the S marker opens a context menu fromwhich you can choose the appropriate zoom factor. Youcan also use the scroll bar (beneath the 4th track) to zoom.

Context menus: Offering the same effects as in Storyboardmode, the context menu opens with a right mouse-click onan object.

Cutting and fading objects: All objects can be short-ened by using the object handles below. By moving themouse to one of the bottom corners of the object, the mousepointer becomes a stretching symbol with which you canmodify the object’s length.By additionally pressing the “Expert” button, similarhandles at the top of the object allow you to create fades,both in and out. The handle in the middle of the upper partof the object allows you to modify the volume of audio ob-jects, and the brightness of video objects.

MediaPool: The MediaPool works like Windows Explorer.You can search through the directories on your computerand drag new video and audio files onto the 4th track. Thistrack has been conceived as an “Arranger” upon which youcan lay several video and audio objects one after the other.

Picture trackSoundtrackTitlesAudio

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Make Disk screenSelect this screen to burn your movies onto CD or DVD.

All movies that are displayed as Filmboxes in the Import &Capture screen are burned onto disk. If they don’t all fitonto the disk, you must switch back to the Import & Cap-ture screen and delete a movie or two. Simply click on theFilmbox and click the Del key.

Selection menupreview: In the middle of the screen you will see a previewof the Selection menu. This menu also appears when youinsert the disk to be burned into the player.

Navigation: When you click on “Navigation” you will seethe structure of the menu.– All movies from the Import & Capture screen are listed

as primary entries– All scenes from the Edit Movie screen are listed as sec-

ondary entries to the right of the movie entries. If youdeactivate the red “tick”, the scene entry in the menu isalso deactivated.

Menu entries and previews: A double-click on the pre-view window or on a menu entry opens the editor, whereyou can alter the name of a movie or chapter, or select apreview. You can also scroll through a movie or a moviechapter (scene) in order to find a suitable preview.

Layout: At the bottom of the screen is a whole row of menulayout templates from which to choose. Use the scroll barto view them all.

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– If you want to select a complete template, choose Layoutand then double-click the layout of your choice.

– You can also choose to combine elements of differenttemplates. For example, you may wish to use the textformat from one template, and the background fromanother. Easy. Simply select “Text” and double-click thetemplate containing the text you wish to use. Then se-lect “Background” and double-click the applicable tem-plate. The preview in the middle of the screen displaysthe result immediately.

Remote ControlThe virtual remote control is an important tool for check-ing the state of the disk to be burned. If you insert the CDor DVD with your disk project into the player, it controlsthe preview picture just as a “real” remote control manipu-lates the picture on a TV monitor.

Burn DiskThis button opens the burning dialog from which you canselect your burner, the file format, and the encoding con-figuration. Video CDs use MPEG-1, Super Video CDs andDVDs use MPEG-2.

Note: This process requires time! The coding process for longmovies can take up to 8 hours depending on how fast yourcomputer processes.

MemoryVCD (approx. 700 MB) approx. 70 minutesSVCD (approx. 700 MB) approx. 30-40 minutesDVD (approx. 4,7 GB) approx. 2 hoursMini DVD (approx. 700 MB) approx. 20 minutes

It is particularly difficult to attribute reliable specificationswhen employing the MPEG 2 encoder (for SVCDs, DVDsand Mini DVDs – and in DVD file formatted CD-ROMs).When the ”variable bit rate” of the MPEG 2 encoder is ac-tivated, variable encoding takes place dependent upon im-age movement. Then the required memory is dependent

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Editing Overviewupon the footage. An action movie requires more memorythan a single location theatre piece.If you can’t fit your disk project onto a blank disc, you mustdivide the project into several parts.A full length feature film for example can be burned onto 3SVCDs, made up of 3 disk projects (start, middle, and end).

More information regarding MPEG compression andformatting can be found in the ”Appendix: Video and datamedia” chapter of the PDF manual.

Dividing a movie into parts– Switch to the Edit Movie screen, place the S marker where

you want to divide the movie, and select the “SeparateMovie” option in the scissors menu.

– All scenes behind the S marker are removed from theexcessive movie and created as a new movie. Both mov-ies can be accessed via the ”movies” flip menu. Storeboth separately on the hard disk (option: ”Save movie”).

– Remove one of the two movies from the disk project(menu option: ”Remove movie”).

– Switch to the Make Disc screen and burn the first movieonto CD or DVD.

– Create a new disk project (button: ”New”), switch to theImport & Record screen and load the second movie.

– Switch to the Make Disc screen and burn the secondmovie onto CD or DVD.

Testing variable encoder configurationsIf you want to know how much memory you require fordifferent encoder configurations, you should carry out afew test runs before burning.So as not to waste any blank discs with test runs, choosethe ”with prior simulation” option.Then submit a short (say 5 minute) disk project for burn-ing simulation configured in a variety of ways.Check the MPEG 1 and MPEG 2 files you’ve created on thehard-drive after each simulation to see how large they are.You should now be able to calculate the memory your diskproject requires, not forgetting to provide a small bufferzone for the selection menu!

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Import & Capture screen

FunctionalityThe Import & Capture screen opens upon starting the pro-gram. You can get started immediately with an analog ordigital recording (“Capture video”) or open a video file fromthe hard-drive.Movies are loaded into the lower third of the screen. Whenyou open a new disk project, a new, empty “Filmbox” iscreated. Your first movie lands in this filmbox, and youcan see it in the preview window.If you want to load several movies in the disk project oneafter the other, you can decide whether each one should beloaded into a new filmbox, or whether it should become ascene in an existing filmbox. All footage can be designatedas one or the other.This decision plays an important role when you design yourselection menu at a later stage. Movies are entered (andappear) in the primary level of the menu, while scenes areentered in a secondary level and appear only when you callup the movie to which it belongs.Every movie loaded appears in its own filmbox in the lowerthird of the screen. If you load a movie as a “scene”, it isautomatically placed in the appropriate filmbox. In this case,you see the newly loaded scenes first when you switch tothe “Edit Movie” screen.

Video screen and transport controlFor more details regarding video screen configuration, pleaseread the “Edit Movie screen” chapter. Both of these screens havethe same functionality.

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FilmboxesImported and captured movies are, so to speak, loaded intoFilmboxes which are equipped with a preview window. Allof a current disk project’s Filmboxes are displayed in thebottom third of the Import & Capture screen.When you open a new disk project, a new, empty Filmboxawaits the loading in of the first movie.When you load several movies one after the other into adisk project, you must decide each time whether a newFilmbox needs be created, or whether the new movie is toconstitute a “scene” in an existing Filmbox.When you load a new movie as a “scene”, it does not ap-pear at the bottom of the Import & Capture screen. It issimply stored in the Filmbox with the other scenes. Youwill be able to see it only when you switch to the Edit Moviescreen.When you load a new movie as a “movie” in its own right,a new Filmbox containing the movie will appear next tothe existing Filmbox.In this fashion, you can load a whole series of movies andscenes, deciding as you proceed into which existing Film-box they should be organized or whether a new Filmboxneed be created.Every Filmbox offers three buttons:

Text: The text button opens the Title Editor from whichyou can enter text (e.g. for subtitles or credits) in any num-ber of fonts or colors. The text can be made to scroll (per-fect for rolling credits) or be furnished with effects, designsor other forms of movement.

For more details regarding dialog options, please read theapplicable section of the “Edit Movie screen” chapter.

Loudspeaker symbol: The movie soundtrack can be modi-fied (or even muted) via the loudspeaker symbol.

FX: You can select any number of effects for sound andimage editing in the FX menu.

For more details, please read the “Effects” chapter.

Import VideoYou can import videos into every MAGIX Movie Maker®deLuxe 3 disk project in the following file formats: AVI,DV-AVI (Types 1 and 2), DivX, Windows Media, MPEG 1,MPEG 2, Quicktime Movie, MAGIX Video (MXV) as well

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Import & Capture screenas DVD VOB Streams (if they are decoded and saved onyour hard disk). You can also import bitmap graphics (BMP,JPEG).

Record VideoWhen you activate this button, a recording dialog opensfrom where you can select one of three recording types:– DV capturing– all other types of video capturing– audio recordings from analog sources

VHS movies and other analog material is loaded via theVideo Capturing option.You need to connect your video recorder (or other analogdevice) to your PCs capture card or the USB interface.DV devices are coupled to a IEEE 1394 connector.Afetrwards you should switch to VTR mode and activatethe DV capturing option.Additional material for the sound track can be also be re-corded from various sources (e.g. microphone or stereosystem) through “audio capturing”. Simply connect yoursoundcard’s input to the outputs of the sound source. Au-dio CDs however are loaded, not through audio recording,but rather by drag & drop in the Media Pool within the EditMovie screen. Audio CD ripping is carried out automati-cally.

The following sections describe in detail the aspects of eachrecording method you need to take into consideration.

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Digital capturing (DV capturing)To capture digitally, the digital output of the Mini DVcamcorder or DV video recorder must be connected to theDV interface of the PC, yet switched off. You must alsohave Microsoft’s “DirectX8a” (or higher) installedNow switch your camcorder to “video recorder” or “play-back” (according to your particular device) and open theDV capturing dialog.

“DV capturing” dialogDriver: This is where the driver for your DV device is dis-played. When Audio Recording is deactivated, only videowithout sound is recorded.

title: Here you can name the audio file about to be re-corded, as well as designating a directory to which it shouldbe saved.

Automatic scene recognition: You can use this optionto divide your DV recordings into scenes. The material isscanned for changes in brightness and makes a cut at theappropriate position. DV recordings also provide data as tothe positions where the recording device was turned on oroff (“time stamps”).

Start device automatically: Starts the DV recorder orDV camera automatically when the Recording button ispressed. This function does not, however, apply to all digi-tal cards or video devices

Preview: On the preview monitor you can see a preview ofyour video. You can also determine whether you want apreview with Only Video, Only Audio, or a complete pre-view with both sound and picture.

Original size: This option allows you to preview the videoin the original size. To return to the dialog, use the Escapekey.

Remote control: Digital camcorders can be controlledremotely. This function does not, however, apply to all di-gital cards or video devices. The buttons cannot be acti-vated if your hardware does not support remote control.

Automatic recording: Here the start and end points canbe set for the recording. In this way you can search all ofthe possible recordings on a video tape and list them for

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Import & Capture screenplanned recordings. This is then processed in sequencewhen the recording starts (via the red button). It thereforedoes not have to record each scene individually. Simplyspecify the recording times, the computer works out theremainder.

Photo!: The photo button can be used to create a freezeimage straight from the preview monitor. The images arestored at the requested resolution as BMP files in the re-cording directory.

Record: Starts the recording process. If the recording listcontains planned recordings, it will be processed step bystep (“batch capturing).

Stop: stops the recording process.

Recording statistics: Displays various data regardingyour recordings.

Note: Keep an eye on the available hard-drive space. DV re-cordings require approx. 220 MB per minute of video!

DV LoggingDV logging is also possible. This occurs without compro-mising the safety of the (possibly very large) DV-AVI andaudio files, because MAGIX Movie Maker® deLuxe 3 storesthis material on the DV tape and automatically re-readsthe missing files once the project is renewed.

Capturing from DV recorders or cameras– Connect the (turned off) camcorder to the PCs Firewire

card.– Switch the camcorder to the “Video recorder” or “Play-

back” operating mode.– Click on “Capture Video” in the Import & Capture screen

and select „DV Capturing“.– Check to see if a DV camera drive has been selected.– Name the recording appropriately.– Via the remote control buttons, you can head for the

appropriate place on the camcorder tape: For optimalcontrol, you can reel forward, backwards and start play-back.

– Start recording by pressing the “Capture” button. Keepan eye on the available hard-drive space. DV capturingsrequire approx. 220 MB per minute of video!

– Cease recording via the “Stop” button and exit the re-cording dialog.

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Import & Capture screen– You can now see your recording in the film bar below.

For a playback, simply press the space key.

Video capturings from analog sourcesAnalog devicesMAGIX Movie Maker® deLuxe 3 can be used with all USBcams, graphic cards, videocards, or videocards that are com-patible with Video for Windows or DirectShow

Capturing from video recorders or camcordersCamcorders with USB ports are connected to the computerby a USB interface. Video recorders or other devices areconnected to the video input of the videocard, TV card orgraphic card. If your card also possesses audio ports, theseshould be used for recording and playing back sound sothat the image and sound do not diverge during a lengthyvideo.To capture from analog sources:– Start MAGIX Movie Maker® deLuxe 3. You will now

find yourself at “Import & Capture-Screen”.– Click on “Capture Video” and select “Capture video”.– In the Video Capture-Dialog, select the correct videocard

and audiocard drive in case you have several installedon your PC. A video preview window is displayed im-mediately.

– Name the recording appropriately so as to be able to findit later.

– You can now select the desired video quality with thefader. The default setting is the highest quality that yourPC system is capable of.

– Now start the recording by pressing the “Capture” but-ton – end it by pressing “Stop”. Be aware of the “DropFrames” notice. If, for example, more than 10 dropframes per minute occur, the quality of your video willbe compromised, and your computer may be overbur-dened.

– End the video recording dialog with “OK” You can nowview your recording via the film bar in the lower third ofyour screen.

– To check the recording, start the playback by pressingthe space key.

“Capture Video” dialogVideo/Audio drives: Here you can set the videocard orsoundcard for the recording. In almost all cases, the driversoftware that comes with the hardware must be installed.Make sure that the drive is compatible with the operatingsystem. It is often the case that the drive is compatible with

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Import & Capture screenWin9x but doesn’t run on Win 2000. Appropriate drivescan usually be found on the manufacturer’s website.

Name: Name the recording appropriately so as to be ableto find it later.

Recording Quality: Here you can determine the qualityof your recording. The higher the quality, the more hard-drive space is required. Be aware of the “Drop Frames”notice. If, for example, more than 10 drop frames perminute occur, the quality of your video will be compro-mised, and your computer may be overburdened.You can select from a variety of predefined quality levelsfrom the list box. Your choice depends upon the eventualuse of the material and the capacity of your computer.You can define more precise bit rates for the presets with afader. Simply press “Reset” to return to the preset record-ing quality.

Recording control: Here you’ll find the red Record but-ton and the Stop button for commencing and ceasing therecording.

Recording data: Statistical information such as the re-cording time, available space on the hard-drive, the recordedframes, and the “dropped” frames. Dropped frames areframes that have been left out due to the computer beingtoo slow for the selected image format and being unable toaccept all of the frames received.

Timer: Here you can set a recording time, so that yourcomputer becomes a fully-functional video recorder.

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Photo!: The photo button can be used to create a freezeimage straight from the preview monitor. The images arestored at the requested resolution as BMP files in the re-cording directory.

Direct burning: With this option you can record and burnin one. Simply select the format you want to burn in (V-CD, SV-CD, DVD or Mini-DVD), put a suitable blank CDinto the recorder and activate the recording.After recording, you are switched automatically to the MakeDisk screen where the burn dialog is opened and burningcommences.

Tip: This function is particularly suitable for burning lengthydisc projects directly to disc in one: You can start recording inthe evening and have the finished CD or DVD. the followingmorning

advanced: opens the configuration dialog of the video drive(see below). You don’t usually need to open this dialog. Ifyour videocard supports several sources, for example whenthe card possesses a remote control (ATI All-in-Wonder,Terratec TV Value...), or several inputs (S-VHS, Compos-ite...), this is the place to select the correct recording source.

Advanced configurations (Video Capturing dialog)Several different configurations for the video recordingdrive can be defined here.So-called “property sheets” are made available by thevideocard drives. The features specific to each drive variesconsiderably. The MAGIX team have only a limited influ-ence upon the behaviour of your drive! If you have a prob-lem, contact the manufacturer of your videocard for a driveupdate.

Input: Engages the videocard’s so-called “crossbar“, whichdetermines from which video and audio input will be re-corded. The crossbar has precedence in the video captur-ing module. It passes the input signal on to the capturingmodule.In the “Output” field you can adjust the”Video” or “Audiodecoder in”, because the crossbar should pass their outputsignals on to the decoder.In the “Input” field, select the signal source which will beused by the videocard to capture for this input. If you havea problem, try out the different configurations until theright sound matches the right image.

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Import & Capture screenComposite In = the normal video inputSVHS In= SVHS input (special cable)Tuner In =TV Signal of the integrated tuner

Video decoder configuration: Should your picture onlyappear in black & white, or flickers, it may be because thevideo standard is incorrectly configured. In mainland Eu-rope, PAL_B is used. .In the USA, NTSC is used.

Video ProcAmp: Color, brightness and contrast are fine-tined here. It is not recommended that you alter themanufacturer’s settings.

image format: Do not alter! The capturing format is set inthe “Recording quality” option in the video recording dia-log.

TV channel selection: This option is only available whena TV tuner is integrated into your videocard. Should yourTV software not support recording, you may select the TVtuner as an input, and use MAGIX Movie Maker® deLuxe3 as a video recorder for the television programs on yourPC. Then you can select the tuner’s TV channel withoutsaving or designating it. It is therefore much easier to usethe TV software card belonging for recording TV for thecomputer and then to import it into MAGIX Movie Maker®deLuxe 3.

Audio recordingSongs, noises or instrumentals can be easily recorded inMAGIX Movie Maker® deLuxe 3 via the recording func-tion.

Connecting the source for recordingThen the source of the audio material must be connectedto the soundcard input. Again, there are several possibili-ties that depend primarily upon the type of equipment youpossess.If you want to record material from a stereo system, youcan use the line-out or AUX out jacks on the back of youramplifier or tape deck. This entails connecting them to thesoundcard input (usually red in color).If your amplifier has no separate output (other than for thespeakers), you can use the connection intended for head-phones for your recordings. In most cases, you will need acable with two mini-stereo jacks. This type of connectionhas the advantage of being able to set the headphone inputsignal level with a separate volume. As headphone connec-

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Import & Capture screentions generally are not the best, it is advised that you use,when possible, the line outputs.When recording cassettes from a tape deck, you can con-nect the tape deck’s line outs directly to the soundcard in-put.When recording from vinyl records, you should not con-nect the record player’s output directly with the soundcard,because the phono signal must be pre-amplified. A moresuitable method would be to use the headphone connec-tion or an external pre-amp.

Adjusting the signal levelFor the best sound quality when recording digitally, ad-justment of the signal level via the soundcard is also.When the recording source is connected to the soundcard,the Record button opens the recording dialog and startsthe recording source.If the adjustment is so high that distortion occurs, the in-coming signal must be reduced. If you have connected thesource via an amplifier or tape deck output to the soundcard,you can only reduce the signal level in your soundcard’smixer interface. You can call it up in the recording dialogby activating “Level adjustment”.If you reduce input sensitivity by using the fader, you alsoreduce simultaneously the resolution with which the ana-log signal is digitized. These automatic controllers shouldtherefore be adjusted to as loud a level as possible!The yardstick for the optimal level is naturally the loudestpart of the material. This should be adjusted to the maxi-mum.

“Audio” recording dialogAudio drive: Here you must select the soundcard for therecording.

Name: Here you can name the audio file about to be re-corded, as well as designating a directory to which it shouldbe saved.

Playback during the recording: This option is particu-larly useful for commentaries. When activated, the selectedmovie (or scene, if you are recording in the Edit Moviescreen) will be played during recording, allowing for greaterorientation.

advanced: opens a window in which you can select one ofthree special functions:

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– By selecting the “Normalize after recording” option, thematerial is set to the maximum volume after recording.For the best results, you should try to set the sourcematerial as loud as possible without distorting it. To as-sist you in this, use the peak meter display in the record-ing dialog.

– “Mono” activates a mono recording, which will reducethe required hard-drive space by half.

– “Real-time sample rate adjustment” automaticallymatches the sample rate of a new file to be recordedwith the sample rate of the sound track of the moviecurrently selected.

Recording quality: Here you can set the sound qualityof the recording. In the preset menu, you can choose frommedium wave, FM or CD quality.

Record: This button starts the actual recording

Stop: This button terminates the recording process.

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Edit Movie screen

FunctionalitySelect the Edit Movie screen in order to edit individualmovies.If you have several movies loaded into your disk project,for a better overview it’s best to select the movie from the“Import & Edit” screen and then switch back to the “EditMovie” screen.But you can also switch to another disk project movie inthe “Edit Movie” screen. Simply use the “Edit Movie” flipmenu.

Storyboard mode and Timeline modeThe Edit Movie screen operates in either one of two modi:Storyboard mode or timeline mode. You can switch betweenthe two by using the Tab key.

Storyboard modeIn Storyboard mode, all scenes are listed as a series. Eachscene is represented by a preview image on the storyboard.You can choose from 10 blends with which to merge yourscenes.

Timeline modeThe Timeline mode displays your movies and scenes chro-nologically. The movie is as long as the representative “ob-ject” in the track. You have 4 tracks with which to arrangefilm sequences, scenes or stills for your movie. Timelinemode offers everything you need to undertake comprehen-sive editing.

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For more details regarding both modi, please read the applicablechapter.

Video screen & Transport control

The transport control plays your movies and is to be foundin the lower part of the video screen.

Quick start: This button quickly sets the start marker tothe start of your movie.

Rewind: This button rewinds the movie.

Stop: Stops the playback.

Play/Pause: The Play button in the middle starts an end-less loop of the movie: The range between the start andend markers is looped, so to speak. A second click on “Play”activates the pause function.

Fast Forward: This button advances the movie.

record: The Edit Movie screen can also calls up the videorecording dialog from the Import & Capture screen. Hereyou can decide if a new scene or a new sound should beplaced where the S marker is positioned.

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Edit Movie screenFor more details regarding recording alternatives, please treadthe “Import & Capture screen” chapter.

Position: The position fader to the right of the transportbuttons can be used to rewind or fast forward.

S and E MarkerThe range between the S (Start) and E (End) markers abovethe first track are played.Both markers can be moved with the mouse. They can bepulled into position via drag & drop, or with a mouse click:A left mouse click in the timeline sets the S marker, a rightmouse click, the E marker.The cursor is a vertical line which moves from left to theright over the tracks during playback to indicate the cur-rent playing position.

Media Pool

FunctionalityThe MAGIX Movie Maker® deLuxe 3 Media Pool oper-ates in a similar fashion to Windows Explorer. It serves tocontrol and load a variety of multimedia file types, be theyvideo files, bitmaps or audio files.

Tip: The most effective way to use the Media Poll is in Timelinemode. Please read the “Timeline mode” chapter for more details.

DisplaysYou can choose between three types of display (lists, de-tails or large symbols) by accessing the Media Pool contextmenu with a right mouse click.By choosing large symbols, every video and image file isrepresented in a preview frame in the file list. This offers abetter overview, although loading the file list will requiremore time.

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Preview FunctionThere is a preview function for all files. A simple click onthe audio files starts a pre-listening function via thesoundcard. Videos and graphics are displayed on the videoscreen.

Erasing, copying and relocating filesAll files in the file list can be selected, erased, or relocatedto another directory via drag & drop in the same manneras in Windows Explorer.The choices relating to these functions are accessed via aright mouse click to call up the context menu.

Media Pool buttonsCD-ROM: This button activates the CD-ROM drive. Allusable files are displayed. Audio CD tracks can also beloaded directly from the CD-ROM drive.

My recordings: This button opens the “My Audio Video”directory that is created automatically upon installing theprogram. All recordings are saved here (so long as no otherpath is designated in the recording dialog).

My Projects: This button opens the directory for the diskprojects

Effects: This directory contains all of the effects configu-rations. By clicking on an effect, a short preview with ex-planatory scenes illustrates the effect. If you want to usethe effect, drag & drop it into the photo. In order to switchoff all effects for a photo, select “No effect” (you can alsoselect “Turn off video effects” from the FX menu).

Further directories: Further directories can be addedas buttons. Simply click on the selected directory in thecontext menu and choose the “Link directory” command.A new button will appear beneath the last button.

Tip: The buttons can be called up with the “1, 2, 3…” keys so thatyou can switch between directories via keystroke.

Loading audio, video and bitmapsWhen you want to use audio, video or bitmap files for yourmovie, drag them (while holding down the mouse key) ontothe storyboard or onto the track in Timeline mode. Youcan also load them with a double click, whereby video and

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Edit Movie screengraphic files will be placed at the end of the scene, titlesand sound files at the S marker position.The files land on the designated tracks: Videos and stillson track one, text objects (titles) on track three, additionalsound files on track four.The following formats can be imported into your movie:Video: AVI, DV-AVI (Types 1 and 2), DivX, Windows Me-dia, MPEG 1, MPEG 2, Quicktime Movie, MAGIX Video(MXV) as well as DVD VOB Streams (if they are decodedand saved on your hard disk). You can also import bitmapgraphics (BMP, JPEG).

Audio: The following formats are supported forsoundtracks: Wave, MP3, WMA and audio CDs.

Text files in RTF format: You can enter lengthier editedtexts such as credits and then save them in the universal.rtf text format. Such texts create a text object when loadedinto MAGIX Movie Maker® deLuxe 3.

Film overviewThis option can be used to show an overview of all scenesused in your film. If the scenes do not all fit onto yourmonitor, you can use the zoom function (50%) to reducethe display size.

Use the CTRL key to select several scenes simultaneously.Selected scenes can be moved or deleted from the project.The “Video cleaning” option can be opened and set bydouble-clicking a scene.

Selecting background musicBy activating the button with a loudspeaker and notes, youare presented with a variety of suitable background musicfor the soundtrack. The button calls up all of the songsincluded in the audio directory of the program CD.

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Edit Movie screenInsert the program CD into the drive, press the button andselect a song. The selected song is then added to the soundtrack of the applicable scene.

Media LibraryHow do I use the media library?The media library offers your disk project a large selectionof license-free music and video files that are listed in aneasy-to-follow structure on your program CD.To search the media library for the right sounds and im-ages, simply insert the program CD in the drive and clickon the “CD-ROM” button.Then open the “Audio” and “Video” directories and clickon the files listed. For each file selected there is a preview.When you have found something that you can use, pull itonto the scene bar via drag & drop (or into the 4th track intimeline mode).

VideosThe videos included are on the program CD in the “Video”directory in which you will find:– Gimmicks, articles, surprises for (almost) every eventu-

ality.– Videos with credits, subtitles and other text items.– and much more that you should take a look at.

AudioThe audio content is to be found on the program CD in the“Audio” directory. It includes:– MP3-Songs in different styles– Natural sounds: Oceanic sounds, forest, rain, cityscape,

bells, pets, children’s voices...– Effects sounds: Popping corks, squeaky wheels…– Mini jingles + fanfares: Acoustic signals for optical fire-

works!– and much more that you should listen to.

“Text”: Subtitles and creditsBy activating the Text button in either the Filmbox or scene,you open a title editor. Here you can enter text for subtitlesor credits. The text can be in any color or font. So that cred-its can scroll, for example, you can choose from a variety ofmovements, effects and designs in the template menu.

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– Write the text for your video subtitles in the title editor.– Enter the type of font, color, size etc. of your text. If you

want to format individual words or letters, mark themwith the mouse and select a different format.

– You can select effects and dynamic animation from the“Templates” flip menu (such as downwards scrollingtext).

– To organize your text in the video screen, use the scrollbarto the left and above the text window. You can positionthe text vertically or horizontally. If you have selectedmoving text, this position determines the starting posi-tion. A double click on the scrollbar re-centers the title.

– Please note while setting movement to text that the start-ing position of the title is generally outside of the videowindow. You can, however, always change the startingposition.

– Under “Title length” you can determine the amount oftime a title is displayed.

– The “Video Test” button allows you to preview the titlein the video monitor, together with the movie or scene.

– Close the title editor by clicking the “OK” button.

“Edit Movie” flip menuIf you don’t want to keep switching to the Import & Cap-ture screen to edit a different movie within a disk project,use the “Edit Movie” flip menu beneath the video screen.

By pressing the “New” button, you create a new, emptyfilmbox in which you can load scenes via drag & drop fromthe Media Pool or from video recordings.

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ScissorsCutting up a sceneThis command cuts a scene where the S marker is posi-tioned.

Key: t

Delete Scene startThis command cuts a scene where the S marker is posi-tioned, and deletes all material that preceeds the start posi-tion simultaneously.

Key: Ctrl + t

Delete Scene endThis command cuts a scene where the S marker is posi-tioned, and deletes all material that follows the start posi-tion simultaneously.

Key: Shift + z

Divide FilmThis command splits a movie where the S marker is posi-tioned into two self-standing movies that then appear astwo separate Filmboxes in the Import & Capture screen.

Key: Alt + t

Menu Tools (Buttons in Timeline Mode)The “Tools” button conceals a further series of commands.By clicking the Timeline button, a number of Tool menucommands appear as buttons on the main screen.

UndoWhen editing footage, you can take back the previous edit-ing step. This makes it easier to experiment. Simply press“Undo” to arrive at the previous status.

Key: Ctrl + z

RestoreThis command redoes an undo!

Key: Ctrl + y

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Edit Movie screenCut OutThis command deletes the selected scene and copies it ontothe clipboard. From there, it can be inserted into any othermovie with the “Add” tool.

Key: Shift + Del

CopyThis command copies the selected scene (or the selectedobject in Timeline mode) onto the clipboard. From there,it can be inserted into any other movie with the “Add” tool.

Key: Shift + add

InsertThis command inserts the material copied onto the clip-board where the S marker is positioned.

Key: Ctrl + Add

EraseThis command erases the selected scene (or the selectedobject in Timeline mode).

Key: Del

Storyboard mode / Timeline modeThis command switches between both editing modes inthe Edit Movie screen.

Key: Tab

Optimize time-slot displayThe S and E markers are set at the start and end of a movieso that all scenes can be viewed. In Timeline mode, thezoom factor is set to 100% so that all objects can be viewed.

Key: shift + b

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Make Disc screen

FuncionalitySelect this screen in order to burn your movie together withthe selection menu onto CD or DVD.All movies that are represented as filmboxes in the Import& Capture screen are burned to disc. If they don’t all fitonto the disk, you must switch back to the Import & Cap-ture screen and delete a movie or two. Simply click on theFilmbox and click the Del key.

Selection Menu

MAGIX Movie Maker® deLuxe 3 can supply your moviewith a graphic selection menu. It is also burned onto thedisc and appears when you insert the disc into your player.You can then preview your movies or scenes as you wouldwith a purchased DVD.

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PreviewIn the middle of the screen you will see a preview of theSelection menu. This menu also appears when you insertthe disk to be burned into the player. The numbers refer tothe number keys of your remote control (be it real or vir-tual).

Menu modiMode 1: No menus. Movies are burned one after the otheronto disc. The first movie is played automatically when thedisc is inserted into the player. Use the skip buttons on theremote control to jump to the previous or next movie. Asthere’s no menu burned onto the disc, there’s also no menupreview.

Mode 2: Movie menu only (preset): After inserting the disc,a menu appears from which you can choose a movie onthe disc by using the remote control. The selected moviestarts immediately. If you fail to select a movie, the firstmovie on the disc starts automatically.

Mode 3: Movie menus and Scene menus. In addition tothe movie menus, there is a scene menu for each movie.Select a movie and switch to the applicable scene menu.Now you can select individual scenes via the remote con-trol.

NavigationWhen you click on “Navigation” you will see the structureof the menu. The disc menu has a maximum of two levels.

Movie menu: All movies from the Import & Capture screenare listed as primary entries. This menu level is the moviemenu

Scene menu: All scenes from the Edit Movie screen arelisted as secondary entries to the right of the movies towhich they belong. This menu level is the scene menu,and is only available in menu mode 3. If you deactivate thered “tick”, the scene entry in the menu is also deactivated.

Menu entries and previewsA double click on the preview window or on a menu entryopens the editor from where you can alter the name of amovie or chapter, or select a preview. You can also scrollthrough a movie or a movie chapter (scene) in order to find

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Make Disc screena suitable preview. By activating “Use other graphics”, youcan load your own bitmaps for your menu images.

Operations at the end of the film: Here you can specifyhow the disc reacts at the end of the film. You can let thefilm playback come to an end, be forwarded to the disc orscene menu or play back the film in infinite loop mode.

Playback in infinite loop mode (“aquarium on TV”):Every film can also be stored on CD as a loop. This meansthat the film is played back in an infinite loop until a differ-ent film is selected via remote control. In this way you canturn your TV into an aquarium, a train ride or anythingelse you wish to see in an endless cycle.

LayoutAt the bottom of the screen is a whole row of menu layouttemplates from which to choose. Use the scroll bar to viewthem all.

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– If you want to select a complete template, choose Layoutand then double click the layout of your choice.

– You can also choose to combine elements of differenttemplates. For example, you may wish to use the textformat from one template, and the background fromanother. Easy. Simply select “Text” and double click thetemplate containing the text you wish to use. Then se-lect “Background” and double click the applicable tem-plate. The preview in the middle of the screen displaysthe result immediately.

Animated Selection Menus (only for DVD andMini-DVD)DVD menus can be enriched with audio-visual animation.The background videos are played back in an infinite loopduring on-screen menu display. Background sounds orimages in various formats can also be integrated into themenu. Please note that the animation can only be used forDVDs and Mini-DVDs, not for CD formats.

Extended DVD menu: Use this button to enable/disablethe animated menus in the video monitor of the Make Discscreen and the extended DVD menu templates in the tem-plate list.

Image/Video/Sound: These buttons in the preview moni-tor enable the loading and utilisation of image, video andaudio files as menu background animation. In the DiscSimulator, click “play” to start animation playback.

Intro: This button in the preview monitor enables load-ing videos for use as DVD or Mini-DVD intro. The follow-ing formats are supported: AVI, MPG, MXV, VOB. Theintro is played back as soon as the DVD is placed into theplayer. The DVD menu then appears.

Extended DVD layouts: Animated DVD menus are alsofound in the menu templates, i.e. menus with added soundsand/or films.

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Remote controlThe virtual remote control is an important tool for check-ing the state of the disk to be burned. If you insert the CDor DVD with your disk project into the player, it controlsthe preview image just as a “real” remote control controlsthe picture on a TV monitor.Now you can also navigate the DVD menus using the cur-sor and OK keys. Enabled buttons are highlighted.

Number keys: The number keys select the applicable en-try in the menu. Within a movie menu, the playback isstarted, while the disc menu switches to the applicablemovie menu.

Play: In the disc menu, the menu of the first film isswitched. In the movie menu, the playback starts with thefirst scene.

Disc menu: Switches to the first page of the disc menu –in effect, back to where you started.

Sub menu: Switches to the scene menu (if available) of thefilm currently being played back.

Burn DiscThis button opens the burning process. In the burning dia-log you can select your burner and the file format. Thenthe whole project is rendered as a file so that the actualburning process can begin.

Burning dialogThe burning dialog is opened by the large “Burn Disk”button.Burning follows 3 simple steps:1. burner and burning speed configuration: If you

have several burners installed, select a device from theappropriate selection menu.

2. select file format: You can burn DVDs, Mini DVDs,Video CDs and Super Video CDs. If necessary, you canmodify the bit rate or encoding quality via the “Encoder”button. Preset values conform to current file formats.

Note: MAGIX Movie Maker® deLuxe 3 supports DVD -R,DVD+R, DVD +RW, DVD -RW, but not DVD-RAM! Formore details regarding DVD formats, please read the chapter “Appendix: Video and data media”.

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3. Start the burning process/video encoding: You cansimulate a burning test if you are unclear as to the burn-ing speed or the required hard-drive space. Simply clickon “with prior simulation”. The “Start” button will thenstart the simulation and/or the burning process.

The disk project is encoded every time you burn or carryout a simulation (for VCDs with MPEG 1, for S-VCD,DVD and Mini-DVD with MPEG 2). You can choose adirectory in the hard-drive in which to save the MPEGfile. Please note that the MPEG file will not be erasedafter burning takes place.

This process requires time! The coding process for long moviescan take up to 8 hours.

Add project backupThis option can be used for writing mixed-mode CDs, forwhich you can, apart from the chosen video format, alsoadd your own project data, i.e. all individual images plusproject settings (e.g. effects), in a separate CD-ROM sec-tion on the data carrier. “Mixed mode” describes a CD whichstores different standards simultaneously, e.g. a video CDsection and a CD-ROM section.

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Make Disc screenYou can then load the disc project from the completed discin order to perform re-editing and create a modified ver-sion.In this case, the film files and the disc project are adaptedin such a way that, when the completed CD is opened, theencoded MPEG video is accessed instead of the raw mate-rial. This saves storage space on the CD, as the video filesdo not need to be stored twice on the disc. Image files usedfor films and menus, the text for the titles, as well as uti-lized audio files are saved as raw material, reducing thestorage capacity of the disc by the corresponding amountof storage space.

Encoder settingsUse the “Encoder” button to open a selection dialog forsetting the MPEG encoder properties (memory require-ments, quality and duration of MPEG conversion).Click the “Advanced” button to open the “Advanced Set-tings” dialog. Here you can fine-tune the LIGOS encodersettings.

Also read the comprehensive instructions in the help menu (F1key)!

MemoryVCD (approx. 700 MB) approx. 70 minutesSVCD (approx. 700 MB) approx. 30-40 minutesDVD (approx. 4,7 GB) approx. 2 hoursMini DVD (approx. 700 MB) approx. 20 minutes

It is particularly difficult to attribute reliable specificationswhen employing the MPEG 2 encoder (for SVCDs, DVDsand Mini DVDs – and in DVD file formatted CD-ROMs).When the “variable bit rate” of the MPEG 2 encoder is ac-tivated, variable encoding takes place dependent upon im-age movement. Then the required memory is dependentupon the footage. An action movie requires more memorythan a single location theatre piece.If you can’t fit your disk project onto a blank disc, you mustdivide the project into several parts.A full length feature film for example can be burned onto 3SVCDs, made up of 3 disk projects (start, middle, and end).

More information regarding MPEG compression andformatting can be found in the “Appendix: Video and datamedia” chapter.

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Make Disc screenTesting variable encoder configurationsIf you want to know how much memory you require fordifferent encoder configurations, you should carry out afew test runs before burning.So as not to waste any blank discs with test runs, choosethe “with prior simulation” option.Then submit a short (say 5 minute) disk project for burn-ing simulation configured in a variety of ways.Check the MPEG 1 and MPEG 2 files you’ve created on thehard-drive after each simulation to see how large they are.You should now be able to calculate the memory your diskproject requires, not forgetting to provide a small bufferzone for the selection menu!

Split up disc project onto several data carriers.AutomaticIf the disc project requires more storage space than is avail-able on a single CD or DVD, you will be asked, before thewriting process begins, whether the disc project is to besplit up onto several data carriers. Simply confirm this dia-log by clicking “yes”. The disc project is then automaticallysubdivided into separate disc projects, which are then storedto the data carriers in consecutive order. This procedure ismost convenient for you, as everything is carried out auto-matically and all you still need to do is insert your datacarriers.

Manual operationCase scenario 1: If several films do not fit onto a single datacarrier.In this case, return to the import & record screen and de-lete as many films from the disc project as necessary untilthe remaining films all fit. The other films can then bestored in the next step as part of a new disc project.

Case scenario 2: If a film is too long and does not completely fitonto a data carrier.In this case you need to split up the film into two or moreparts, which are then each stored separately on a data car-rier.– Switch to the “Edit movie” screen, place the S marker on

the position where you would like to split up the filmand select the “Split object” option in the scissors menu.

– All sections behind the S marker are removed from theexcessively long movie and are treated as a separate film.Both films can be accessed via the films flip menu. Storeboth separately onto your hard disc (“Save movie” menuoption, e.g. using the names “Part 1” and “Part 2”).

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project (“Remove film” menu option).– Switch to the “Make disc“ screen and write the first film

(“Part 1”) onto CD or DVD.– Create a new disc project (“New” button), switch to the

“Import & record” screen and load the second film(“Part 2”).

– Switch to the “Make disc” screen and write the secondfilm (“Part 2”) onto CD or DVD.

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Storyboard Mode

What is the Storyboard Mode?The Storyboard mode is the preset view of the Edit Moviescreen. This view offers the most clarity and the simplesthandling. The Timeline mode alternative is for more ex-tensive editing and scene arrangements. You can switchbetween the two modes by using the tab key.In the Storyboard mode, all the scenes of your movie arelisted one after the other. Each scene is represented by apreview display on the Storyboard.You can play scenes, relocate them via drag & drop, anddesign blends with pre-prepared effects. Unnecessary se-quences (e.g. the block of ads during a TV feature film orthe first few seconds of your own footage.) can be cut outand removed with a click on the scissor button.

ScenesIf a film has not yet been divided into scenes, it is essen-tially one long scene. If this is the case, you must divide itinto smaller scenes if you want to edit, regroup or com-pletely remove scenes.Each scene can be relocated on the scene bar by drag &drop.The scenes in the Edit Movie Storyboard mode are displayedin a similar fashion to movies in the Import & Capturescreen, and also offers the three buttons (FX., Text. andthe loudspeaker symbol). These buttons have the samefunctions as those on the Filmboxes, but in this case onlyrelate to the individual scenes.

Text: The text button opens the Title Editor from whichyou can enter text (e.g. for subtitles or credits) in any num-ber of fonts or colors. The text can be made to scroll (per-

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Storyboard Modefect for rolling credits) or be furnished with effects, designsor other forms of movement.

For more details regarding dialog options, please read theapplicable section of the “Edit Movie screen” chapter.

Loudspeaker symbol: The movie soundtrack can be modi-fied (or even muted) via the loudspeaker symbol.

FX: You can select any number of effects for sound andimage editing in the FX menu.

For more details, please read the “Effects” chapter.

Rotate images (only for image files): If an image is onits side or upside down, click on the rotate button. Thisrotates the image by 90 degrees. You can check the resultdirectly on your video screen.

Scene RecognitionClick on the FX button on the Filmbox (in the Import &Capture screen) or on the scene in the Edit Movie screenand select “Scene Recognition” from the menu.

The scene recognition analyzes the film for scene transi-tions, scanning drastic changes in the brightness and colordistribution within the picture.Automatically created digital video device “time stamps”(points in time at which the device was switched on andoff) are likewise recognized as scenes..The analysis of the image material must only be made oncefor each recording; the results are stored together with thevideo file. During renewed execution of scene recognitionwith the same video material, the scene transitions foundare displayed immediately. If you are still not happy with

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Storyboard Modeyour scene partitioning, you can easily repeat and correctwhere necessary.

AutomaticAt each scene transition found, cuts are made without priorconfirmation.

ManualAt each point you are asked whether you really want to cut.The preview always displays the end of the previous sceneand the beginning of the new scene. This option is useful,for example, if photo flashlight has been filmed. This causesprecipitous brightness modification to occur, although itconcerns a related scene.

Separate at this point: Select this option when the twopictures in the display vary considerably.

Next scene: With this option you skip a point without cut-ting. If the pictures do not differ, the scene was probablyidentified incorrectly. You can of course also skip scenetransitions deliberately in order to treat several scenes as aunit. This facilitates the organization of the menu, since amenu entry is generally produced for each scene.

Automatically cut all further scenes: This ends themanual scene recognition. All further points recognizedautomatically create a new scene.

Tip: You can use also the cut menu for cutting scenes. Place thes-marker where a cut, and select the “Cut scene” command.

TransitionsAdditionally you can blend scenes. Simply click on the largebutton between the scenes and select a blend.The menu contains various transition types. The uppersection contains the crossfade and blackburst options; thesebasically correspond to object fade-in/fade-out orchangeover functions in timeline mode.The other options are optical effect fades. Each of these(3Dblend, 3Dswing…Zoom) is available in different variants.Once you have made your selection, click the fade buttonagain to reach the “Settings” option at the bottom of themenu, which opens the fading effect settings dialog.The fade features in the lower part of the menu, which isdivided into sub menus, are so-called alpha fades, wherethe fade is controlled by a black/white video. The durationis preset.

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Timeline Mode

What is the Timeline Mode?The Timeline mode is a mode in the Edit Movie” screen.You can switch between Timeline mode and Storyboardmode by using the Tab key. The Timeline mode displaysyour film chronologically. The movie is as long as the rep-resentative “object” in the track.The Timeline mode offers everything you need for extensi-ve editing of your film material: Adding a soundtrack, pro-fessional editing, precise blends, etc.

TimelineThe time lapse of a movie is represented by the horizontaltracks. To organize this progression, there is a timelineabove the first track whose unit of measurement is themillisecond. The range between the S and E markers inthe timeline is played in a loop.

TracksYou have 4 tracks with which to arrange film sequences,scenes or stills for your movie.– the first track is for movies or bitmaps.– the track below is for the soundtrack– the third track is for the title or for other text ( obtained

via the “Text” button in Storyboard mode).– the fourth track is for additional audio material – in fact,

anything you want to add to the scenes. Simply use theMediaPool. All files can be placed in the track via drag &drop.

ZoomingKeyboard shortcutsSimply zoom in with the Ctrl + scroll down arrow key, orzoom out using Ctrl + scroll up arrow key. You can alsouse the scroll bar (beneath the 4th track) to zoom.

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Timeline ModeZoom menuA right mouse click on the S marker opens a context menufrom which you can choose the appropriate zoom factor

Zoom shot-capable sliderWith the slider, the visible window can be adjusted on thehorizontal time axis.You can tell by the size of the slider which part of the entirescene arrangement is being represented. In the overall view,the zoom slider fills out the whole of the bar. With a doubleclick, the overall view can be obtained on the slider.If you lead the mouse to the edge of the slider, the cursortransforms into a stretch symbol, with which the slider canbe grabbed and compressed or even pulled apart. Thismakes zooming in and out quick and flexible.Certain zoom shot levels can be selected (via a right clickon the slider) in the context menu. Here you can also jumpto certain positions in the arrangement.

GridThe grid makes sure that the object “engages” in the rightposition. Two objects that follow one another are automati-cally aligned even if they are in different tracks.This prevents both overlapping or unwanted gaps.

ObjectsSound and image tracks are represented as separate ob-jects on the tracks. Sound material is represented as a wavedisplay — if there’s something to see, there’s something tohear. The image tracks appear as frames.Offering the same effects as in Storyboard mode, the con-text menu opens with a right mouse click on an object.Small objects such as audio loops can be duplicated easily.Once you have selected the object, activate the copy com-mand and then the insert command.Even quicker is to simultaneously hold down the Ctrl keyand click on the object you wish to copy. This produces acopy that you can now pull straight into position.

Object handlesAll objects can be shortened by using the object handlesbelow. By moving the mouse to one of the bottom cornersof the object, the mouse pointer becomes a stretching sym-bol with which you can modify the object’s length.Similar handles at the top of the object allow you to createfades, both in and out. The handle in the middle of theupper part of the object allows you to modify the volume ofaudio objects, and the brightness of video objects.

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Timeline ModeThe brightness/volume handle in the middle of the upperpart of the object allows you to modify the volume of audioand MIDI objects, and the brightness of video and bitmapobjects. Simply pull the handle up or down.If there are several objects playing parallel to each other,the volume or brightness of each object can be set indi-vidually.

Trimming or Fine-tuning videosYou can call up two trimming editors, a cut trimmer andan object trimmer, from the Window menu or from thecontext menus of video or image objects.Both trimmers fine-tune objects on the tracks. The objecttrimmer positions the individual object and its handle pre-cisely within a frame. The cut trimmer configures cross-fades or hard cuts in the same manner. Both trimmers aretools for precise cutting.

Working methodThe trimmers perform the tasks as object handles and shift-ing of objects on the tracks, only more precisely. . Thevideo material is movable within the object, without havingto move the object itself. Consider that an Object repre-sents an instruction to play: The object specifies whichmaterial is to be played and when. If you shift the playbackstarting point, the object moves too. If you move the mate-rial within the object, the object remains in its place withinthe arrangement, but the playback order of the content withthe object has been moved or rearranged.

General advice for operating both trim editorsPlay functions: The trim window contains its own playfunctions that allow the object to be played individually orin relation to the arrangement.– The right play button plays the arrangement normally.

Note: Replays can sometimes appear shaky because theprocessor may be over-worked and some frames may beleft out.

– The middle play button plays the arrangement “frameby frame”, which means no frames are left out, but thatthe replay may be slower.

– The left play button renders material before playing. Thismethod ensures a smoother playback.

The start marker in the timeline is reset when the rewindand fast-forward functions are activated, allowing for com-plete control of transitions between two videos.

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Timeline ModeIncrements: A click on the +/- buttons in both trim edi-tors sets the handle or the material within an object exactlyinto a frame. With the Ctrl key you can increase the framerate ( 5 frames/sec per mouse-click).

Trimmer for individual objectsA schematic display of the selected object and its handlescan be found in the center of the trimming window.

Fade In/Out: This button adjusts the upper handles of anobject.

Object contents: This moves the video material about tobe played without changing the length of the object.

Position: Moves the object on the track.

First Frame / End Fade-In: Switches the left monitor be-tween the first frame of the object and the end of the tran-sition.

Start Fade-Out / last Frame: switches the right monitorbetween the start of the transition and the last frame of theobject.

Left/Right -/+ buttons: Adjusts the lower object handles.

Next (previous) Object/cut: The buttons below and tothe right skip to the next/previous object and/or cut in thearranger. These buttons make it easy to move and trimobjects in the arrangement without having to leave the trim-mer.

Cut TrimmerLefft -/+ button (1): This button moves the last frame ofthe first object while adjusting the second. The length ofthe transition remains unchanged. The display (in illus-tration 4) indicates the relative change in comparison withthe starting situation when the trimmer was opened.

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Position (2): Moves the second object, altering the lengthof the transition. This corresponds to shifting an object inthe arranger

Object contents (3): This moves the movie “underneath”the second object without changing the length of the ob-ject and the transition.

Cross-fade (4): changes the transition’s length betweenboth objects. The objects remain of equal length. The lengthcan be numerically entered.

Middle -/+-button (5): Shifts the existing transition. Bothobjects remain in their positions, only the transition’s cen-ter point moves.

Transition (6): displays the type of transition. A mouse-click opens a pop-up window from which you can select atransition.

Right -/+ button (7): Move the first frame of the secondobject. The first object and the transition remain un-changed, only the length of the second object changes.

Start Fade-Out / last Frame (9): switches the left moni-tor between the start of the transition and the last frame ofthe object.

First Frame / End Fade-In (10): switches the right moni-tor between the first frame of the following object and theend of the transition.

Next (previous) cut (11): These buttons skip to the next/previous cut in the arranger. These buttons make it easy tomove and trim cuts in the arrangement without having toleave the trimmer.

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Selecting effectsEffects for the whole of a movieEffects for the whole of a movie are selected in the Import& Capture screen by pressing the FX button on the film-box. Video cleaning, scene recognition and audio cleaningare available.

For more details regarding “scene recognition”, please read the“Storyboard Mode”chapter.

Effects for individual scenesEffects for individual scenes are selected in the Edit Moviescreen.If you want to add an effect to either a scene in Storyboardmode or an image object in Timeline mode, you have au-dio cleaning, horizontal/vertical reflection, horizontal/ver-tical symmetry, kaleidoscope and color shifting (on threelevels) at your disposal.While in Timeline mode, effects are selected via the con-text menu (right mouse click on an object).

Video cleaningThis option opens an editor for correcting video materialdiscrepancies.

If this option is called up from the Import & Capture screen,the settings affect the whole movie. If it is called up fromthe Edit Movie screen, the settings only affect the selectedscene.Select the cleaning function you desire from the upper partof the dialog: Brightness & Contrast. Sharpness, Color orDe-interlace.

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EffectsThe position fader allows you to see how the selected set-ting works for a particular part of a movie or scene.

Presets: You can try out the suitability of a number of pre-sets in the preset menu.

Automatic setting: This button usually offers you a goodeffect setting. Simply select an image with the fader andclick on “Automatic setting”. The optimum cleaning set-ting will then be applied to the whole scene (or to the wholemovie if the function has been called up from the Import& Capture screen).

All effects off: Switches all the effects off, allowing youto compare the original and edited material.

Apply to all scenes: Applies the selected cleaning settingsto every scene of the selected movie.

Practical exampleWe’ll assume that you want to remove an overexposed pas-sage from your video that spoils an otherwise perfect re-cording.1. In Timeline mode, turn the passage that you want to

correct into an object in and of itself. To do this, placethe S marker at the beginning and then at the end of thepassage, each time clicking the scissor button („Cutscene“, shortcut: t).

2. Select the object you want to correct and click on “VideoCleaning” in the effects menu.

3. Modify the brightness until the image is exposed cor-rectly (and if necessary, the contrast too) before exitingthe editor by clicking on “OK”.

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EffectsThe faders increase or decrease image brightness and con-trast. By selecting “Brightness” in the preset list, you canchoose from a number of standard curves or edit only thedarkest, mid-range, or brightest parts of the image.

SharpnessThe fader allows you to regulate the level of image sharp-ness.The “Fine Tuning” option allows you to determine the levelof focus for particular surfaces or borders.

Color

You can increase or reduce the color portions of imageswith the “hue” fader. A newly developed algorithm makesthe change in color as natural a as possible. With someexperimenting, you can achieve some amazing results – such as turning summer images into autumnal pictures,or creating funky Pop Art...

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EffectsColor: A selection of colors to add to images.

Hue: Increases or reduces the color portions of an image.

Red/Green/Blue: Changes the color portion mix.

De-InterlaceThis option serves to open an editor for performing vari-ous adjustments for the TV picture. Apart from the inter-lace and anti-flicker filter, you can also adapt the photo showto the actual scale of the television frame. A special algo-rithm ensures an optimal ratio between image size andimage borders (anti cropping).

Interpolation for interlace source material: Selectthis option to remove ridge structures from the (video)image. If you, for instance, extract freeze frames from avideo, these ridge structures appear in image sections show-ing movement.

Anti-flicker filter: Select this option for freeze frameswith very fine structures and high contrast. You can use itto remove the flickering on your TV screen during play-back.

Border cropping - offset: Select this option if the edgesare cropped during playback on your television. In this casethe values of the master effect setting are used (see below).

Master Effects (File Menu)In this dialog you can specify the global effect settings for afilm, meaning the parameters that affect all scenes con-tained in the film.

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Brightness/color area

Selective brightness (gamma): “Gamma” determines themean grey scale which can be calculated from the variouscolor ranges. In the pre-sets menu you can select whichcolor ranges are to be used. Use the slide control to adjustthe brightness.

Color space adjustment: This option is used to handlecolors that are too intensive, contravene the TV standardsand cannot be properly displayed on a TV screen.

Full TV picture sizeThis option ensures that the image size is adapted to fit thereal television picture (anti cropping). Without adjustment,the television might otherwise crop the image borders.The four image margins can be proportionally adjusted bymeans of the four input fields. Here it is important to findthe optimal balance between distortion, reduction, bar for-mation and image cropping:– If the same value is entered for every margin, the image

size is reduced proportionally. In this case no distortionswill occur, but there will be bars along the edges.

– If different values are entered for the 4 fields, the imagesize is reduced unproportionally. This causes image dis-tortion.

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On (for photos!): This option enables the input valuesfor the four image borders to be applied to the respectivephotos in reduced form. The result can immediately beviewed on the preview monitor.

Fade in TV display area in the preview monitor: Thisoption displays the image borders of the television as linesin the preview monitor. The four image borders of the TVdisplay area can be set by means of the 4 input fields. Here,it is of course necessary to know the actual size of the TVpicture. To determine it, proceed as follows:

Determining the visible TV frame sizeTo determine the picture properties of your television aswell as optimal image size editor settings, you should per-form a test run.– Load the “Visible TV picture.mvm” film from the “my

projects > visible TV picture” folder.– Play back the film and read the instructions on the video

screen.– Copy the film to CD or DVD.– Place the data carrier into your player and play back the

film. Compare the TV picture to the picture displayedon your video screen by MAGIX Movie Maker® deLuxe3.

– You can determine the proportional value of the borderscropped by the television by means of the 4 measure-ment scales along the edges of the test picture.

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Effects– Enter the values in the “Full TV size” editor.– Now the image size is optimized to your TV picture.

Please note that, depending on device settings and datacarrier type, the cropping values may deviate.

Scene RecognitionPlease read the “Storyboard Mode” chapter for details.

More Video EffectsHorizontal reflectionThe video is mirrored sideways – everything that was onthe left is now on the right (and vice versa).

Vertical reflectionThe video is now upside down.

Horizontal symmetryThis effect folds the left side of the video onto the right.The video now looks as though it were folded together.

Vertical SymmetryThis effect folds the upper half of the video onto the lowerhalf.

KaleidoscopeMakes the video look as though it were being viewedthrough a kaleidoscope.

Color distortion 1/2/3These three effects distort the true colors so that yellowbecomes red, red becomes blue, and so on.

Reset video EffectsNot actually an effect, this option restores everything to itsoriginal state before the effects were employed.

Audio CleaningThis option opens an editor for correcting audio materialdiscrepancies.If this option is called up from the Import & Capture screen,the settings affect the whole movie. If it is called up fromthe Edit Movie screen, the settings only affect the selectedscene.Select the cleaning function you desire from the upper partof the dialog:– The equalizer allows you to manipulate the frequency

spectrum – perfect for cleaning up muffled dialog.

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Effects– The compressor is a dynamic volume control that can

lend the overall sound a deeper, richer quality.– The StereoFX processor justifies the position of the

sound in the stereo panorama.– The denoiser and dehisser are professional noise reduc-

tion tools that do exactly what their titles say they do.

Presets: You can try out the suitability of a number of pre-sets in the preset menu.

Automatic setting: This button usually offers you a goodeffect setting for the material selected.

temporarily deactivate All effects: Switches all the ef-fects off.

Apply to all scenes: Applies the selected cleaning settingsof all effects to every scene of the selected movie.

Noise Reduction: DenoiserThe denoiser is especially useful to clear long-lasting dis-turbing noise, for example: humming of the main connec-tion, hissing, noises from sound charts, disturbance noisefrom ground circuits, interferences from audio-equipmentwith high-mic outputs (record-player), impact noise or therumbling of records.

The denoiser requires a noise sample. Some of the typicalsounds are at your disposal.Set the degree to which the noise should be reduced withthe fader. It is often better to reduce interference signalsby 3-6 dB rather than as much as is possible so as to keepthe sound “natural”.Another possibility is to create a noise sample yourself. Youneed a short sample from the sound track in which only

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Effectsthe background noise can be heard. Then switch to thedenoiser dialog with the “Advanced” button.

Step 1: Select noise sampleYou have two possibilities:

Pick out typical background noise: You can select anduse a number of typical background noises from the flipmenu. Select one and listen to it via the “Play” button. If itis similar to the background noise in your sound track, goahead and use it (see “Step 2: Removing backgroundnoise”).

Extracting a new noise sample from a sound track:You can also pick out a short passage (from the existingsound track) in which you can hear the background noise

Automatic search: Searches especially quiet passages inwhich background noise most probably resides.

Previous / play / next: This button allows you to play allof the passages found for easy comparison.

Save as: Once found, you can save noise samples on thehard-drive. It then appears as an entry in the “Typical back-ground noises” flip menu to be used in other projects.There’s no need to save it if you only want to use it once, inwhich case switch to “Remove background noise”.

Step 2: Remove background noiseNoise level: The level of the noise reduction functionshould be set as precisely as possible. Low settings resultin incomplete deletion of the hissing. An incomplete dele-

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Effectstion of the hissing produces artefacts and should be avoided.High settings produce dull results – useful signals (e.g.the blow of a wind instrument) which are similar to hiss-ing are also filtered away. It’s worth your time to seek outthe best setting.

Reducer: Here you can set the balance between the origi-nal signal and the signal with depressed interference. It isoften better to reduce interference signals by 3-6 dB ratherthan as much as is possible so as to keep the sound “natu-ral”. With buzzing, it’s best to apply complete removal.

Noise Reduction: Dehisser

The Dehisser eliminates regular “white” noise, typicallyproduced by analogue tape recordings, microphones pre-amplifiers or transformers.Noise reduction can be regulated in decibels with the fa-der. It is often better to reduce interference signals by 3-6dB rather than as much as is possible so as to keep thesound “natural”.

EqualizerThe 10-track equalizer divides the frequency spectrum into10 areas (tracks) and supplies them with separated volumecontrols, which allows you to achieve many impressive ef-fects, from the simple rising of the bass, to total soundtransformation. If you raise the low frequencies too muchthroughout the whole level, it can cause distortions.

Fader: The volume of each of the 10 frequency bands canbe set separately with the 10 volume controls.

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Link frequency bands: The frequency fields can bebundled together flexibly in order to avoid artificial-sound-ing overemphasis in individual frequency fields.

Compressor

The compressor is essentially an automated dynamic vol-ume control. Tune dynamics are limited, loud passages stayloud, low passages become louder. Compression is oftenused to make the material more powerful, particularly forbass recordings and vocals, but also as master effects inthe mixer for adding to the overall sound.

Ratio: Regulates compressor ratios.

Function: Defines the compressor’s mode of operationdepending upon the sound material.

Stereo FXWith the Stereo-FX processor you can treat the alignmentof the audio material in the stereo balance. If the stereorecordings sound spongy and undifferentiated, an exten-

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Effectssion of the stereo base-width can often provide a better trans-parency.

Bandwidth Control: Here you can adjust the band-widthbetween mono (on the extreme left), unchanged base-width(centre) and maximum band-width (“wide”, on the extre-me right).Reducing the band-width can produce the raising of thelevel. In extreme cases – when the left and the right chan-nels include identical material and the band-width controlis pushed to the extreme left on “mono” – the result can bea level rising to 3 decibels.Raising the band-width (values of 100) diminishes themono compatibility.

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Menu File

New ProjectCreates a new disk project. You can also call up this func-tion with the “New” button in the Edit Movie screen.

Key: Alt + Ctrl + n

Project > LoadLoads a previously saved disk project. Make sure that youhave the movies that belong to the project available! Allsounds and videos to be used are retrieved via the path givenwhen the last “save” was made to the disk project.You can also call up this function with the “Load” buttonin the Edit Movie screen.

Key: Alt + Ctrl + o

Project > SaveThe current disk project is saved under its own name. If aname is not given, a dialog opens for you to enter a nameand a file path.You can also call up this function with the “Save” button inthe Edit Movie screen.

Key: Alt + Ctrl + s

Project > Save asOpens a dialog for you to enter a name for the disk projectand a file path to where it should be saved.

Key: Alt + Shift + s

Project > EraseErases the disk project (including all movies, videos andaudio files used) from your hard-drive.

Note of warning: If you have used the same files for other movies,you should remember to make a backup copy.

Key: Alt + Shift + o

Movie > NewCreates a new movie (as well as a new filmbox) for yourrecording and imported files. You can also call up this func-tion with the “New” button in the Edit Movie screen.

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Menu FileKey: Ctrl + n

Movie > LoadLoads a movie into your disk project.Make sure that you have the scenes that belong to the projectavailable! All sounds and videos to be used are retrieved viathe path given when the last “save” was made to the movie.

Key: Alt + Ctrl + o

Movie > Load backup movieUse this option to load an automatically created film backup.These automatic backups have the MV_ (underscore) fileextension. This option can be quite useful in emergen-cies, e.g. if you have inadvertently saved the file duringediting, but wish to return to the previous version of thefilm.

Key: Ctrl + Shift + o

Movie > SaveThe current movie is saved under its own name. If a nameis not given, a dialog opens for you to enter a name and afile path.

Key: Alt + Ctrl + s

Movie > Save asOpens a dialog for you to enter a name for the movie and afile path to where it should be saved.

Key: Alt + Shift + s

Movie > Create backup copyThis menu item can be used to store a film arrangement,including all multimedia data used, in a directory. The “Saveas“ command, however, only saves references to media filesused, not the files themselves.A dialog displays, where you can define the path and namefor storing the arrangement.

Key: Alt + Shift + e

Movie > Write backup copy to discThis option allows you to burn the arrangement togetherwith all the associated files onto a CD-R or DVD. A writermust be connected to the system and a blank CD or DVDinserted in the drive.

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Key: Alt + Shift + r

Movie > RemoveRemoves the current movie from the disk project. It re-mains however on the hard-drive and can always be calledup again.

Key: Shift + o

Movie > EraseErases a movie (including all video and audio files used)from your hard-drive.

Note of warning: If you have used the same files for other movies,you should remember to make a backup copy.

Key: Shift + i

Film > Restore backup projectThis option can be used to load a film that was stored in re-edit mode to (S) Video CD or DVD as project backup. Formore info about the re-edit mode, please read the chapter“Make disc screen”!

Key: Alt + Ctrl + r

Export DivXDivX is a free version of the mpeg 4 codec with a very goodperformance. You can store a whole movie on a single Cdin good quality.There are 5 quality levels available (home theatre, high qual-ity, average quality, portable quality and web quality).

Export Movie > Video as AVIWhen you export as an AVI video file, you can set andconfigure the compression codec as well as the size andframe rate of the AVI- video to be created.

Export Movie > Video as DV-AVIExports the arrangement in the DV coded AVI format (PALor NTSC).

Export Movie > Video as MPEG VideoMAGIX Movie Maker® deLuxe 3 is equipped with the highperformance Ligos GoMotio-encoder. In the MPEG exportdialog you can fine-tune the options for the MPEG encoder.

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Menu FileTip: Also when burning (s)video CDs or DVDs, standardizedMPEG 1/2 files are produced. Many DVD players however alsoprocess (S)VCDs with non-standardized i.e. higher bit rates.Here’s an area for experiments! Simply export your movie overthe file menu as an MPEG and burn your disc afterwards. Whenburning, MAGIX Movie Maker® deLuxe 3 notices the factthat the MPEG file is already present and uses it instead ofusing a new standardized MPEG file. For producingstandardized MPEGs for CDs/DVDs, you should use the MakeDisc screen!For more details, read the “MPEG compression“ appendix onthe help pages (F1 key)

Export Movie > Video as MAGIX VideoMAGIX Videos are stored in MXV format, which requiresless memory than normal AVIs but gives a similar quality.

Export Movie > Windows Media ExportThis is the Internet format from Microsoft. It makes thecontinuous playback of audio or video files through theInternet possible. However, for this format you will needto use a suitable codec that prevents file rates from gettingto high for an on-line playback.

Export Movie > Real Media ExportThis is a format specifically optimized for Internet pur-poses. It reaches a very high compression rate, and thesound quality is noticeably lower. However, this format isvery useful if audio on-line has to be played through theInternet (Streaming Audio). After selecting the file nameyou can choose the bit range of the transferring speed (Mo-dem, ISDN etc.). This should still play audio files withoutinterruption.

Audio settings/video settings: Here you can select pre-setting for the quality of the audio or video material. Withthe ‘enhance’ button you can open an additional dialog forthe compression. In the enhanced video options you canselect the number of frames per second (‘fps’) – the lowerthis value, the less data is transferred and the worse thequality of the image.

Clip information: Here you can enter information re-garding the author, name of the video, etc., which is dis-played during playing on the real player.

Clip meta information: Here you can enter keywordsfor search engines. If the real video clip is loaded to a home

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Menu Filepage, search engines with the aid of these keywords canfind it.

Video preprocessing: Here, the field ‘2-pass encoding’ isof particular interest. With its help it is possible to achievea better quality by compressing audio and video separatefrom each other. Apart from that, it is possible to selectdifferent filters.

Video size: Here you can set different video sizes between160x120 and 720x576 pixel.

Target groups: Here you select at which bandwidth thevideo is to be created, i.e. on which data line it can be played(‘streamed’) in real-time. The setting you select here maypossibly restrict the other selection possibilities, as a filefor a 28k-modem cannot be generated in high quality.

Multirate file (real server): The streaming of videosrequires a server application that must have been installedon the server from which the video is to be played(‘streamed’) in real-time. If this application does not exist,only a download is possible. ‘Real server’ is a server appli-cation which makes it possible to stream videos in real videoformat.If you activate this option, you can create a multirate filethat basically contains several videos of different bandwidths. It is thus possible to select several ‘target groups’.

Export Movie > Single frame as BMPExports the image, which is at the current Start-marker andwhich is displayed on the video screen, as BMP file.

Full screen playbackWith this option in the file menu you can play the diskproject in full screen mode (e.g. in order to rerecord from adigital camera or video recorder simultaneously).Problems can arise however if the computer is overbur-dened by real-time editing of video effects or fading. Aquicker computer in this case would be an advantage!When first called up, the program asks after the interfacemode (resolution and depth of color). These settings re-main unless changed in the “Full screen playback settings”option (key: p).The larger the resolution, the greater theburden upon the computer. Seek a good compromise be-tween image quality and problem-free playbacks.

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SettingsAudio device: Determines which soundcard the wave au-dio object returns. Important if you have several soundcardsinstalled.

Wave / direct sound: Here you should select “DirectSound”, which is a component of DirectX (which is installedautomatically when you install MAGIX Movie Maker®deLuxe 3. If at some stage DirectX is not installed in yoursystem, you can reinstall it from the “Add On” directory onthe MAGIX Movie Maker® deLuxe 3 program disc.

Multi-track audio Buffer/Pre-listen audio Buffer:Here you can determine the size of the buffer for playingaudio material or for listening to Media Pool files.

Path for temporary files: Here you can set the path forthe directory in which MAGIX Movie Maker® deLuxe 3saves temporary files as well as recorded files.

File export: Here you can enter the path for export files.

Auto scroll: Scrolls the interface display automatically,as long as the cursor is to the extreme right of the interfaceduring playback in the Edit Movie screen – a useful toolparticularly for editing lengthy disk projects.

Note: Scrolling demands greater calculation of your computer,which can lead to overburdening your computer. If this is thecase, deactivate the auto scroll.

Project Options: For specifying the preset display timefor photos or entering a name for the project.

Maximum image/line ratio of 1: n (“n” represents the

numerical value of the ratio): Portrait images will ap-pear with black edges when they are rotated by 90°. Tolimit this effect, it is possible to enter the maximum bor-der ratio of the displayed image here.If a rotated image exceeds the maximum value, the imagewill zoom in until the maximum ratio has been reached,causing the upper and lower borders of the respective im-age to be cropped.

Recording file path: Here you can determine in whichdirectory your recorded material is to be saved to.

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Menu FileFull screen: Offers a range of resolutions from which tochoose for playing videos. They are dependent upon themonitor and graphic card installed. The bit resolution dealswith the depth of color: the higher the bit rate, the moreprecise the colors displayed.

Key: p

Master EffectsPlease read the corresponding section in the chapter “Effects”!

EndCloses MAGIX Movie Maker® deLuxe 3.

Key: Alt + F4

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Menu Help

ContentsIssue this command, to display the main help screen. Fromhere you can jump to help on certain commands or readthrough instructions step-by-step.

Key: F1

Show tutorial videoPlay the attached tutorial video.

About MAGIX Movie Maker® deLuxe 3Here you will find information regarding the copyright andthe version number of MAGIX Movie Maker® deLuxe 3.

Online registrationHere you can register online. Here are just some of youradvantages as a MAGIX networker:– great prices for network card collectors– new sounds for downloads– special promotions for networkers– demo software before the official release date– exchange experiences and chat– service offers such as automatic system checks and the

customer support hotline

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Keyboard Shortcuts

File organisationNew Project Alt + Ctrl + nLoad Project Alt + Ctrl + oSave Project Alt + Ctrl + sSave Project as… Alt + Shift + sDelete Project Alt + Shift + oRestore backup project Alt + Ctrl + rNew Movie Ctrl + nLoad Movie Ctrl + oLoad backup film Ctrl + Shift + oSave Movie Ctrl + sSave Movie as… Shift + sDelete Movie Shift + oRemove Movie Shift + iCreate backup copy Alt + Shift + eWrite backup copy to disc Alt + Ctrl + rExport film as AVI Alt + aExport film as DV-AVI Alt + bExport film as MPEG Alt + cExport film as Quicktime movie Alt + eExport film as Windows Media Alt + fExport film as Real Media Alt + gSingle frame as BMP file Alt + m

CapturingAudio capturing rAnalog Video capturing Ctrl + rDV capturing Shift + r

ToolsCut out Shift + delCopy Shift + InsertAdd Ctrl + InsertBack Ctrl + ZUndo Ctrl + YErase Del

CutCut scene TRemove Scene start Ctrl + TRemove Scene end Shift + TDivide Movie Alt + T

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EffectsVideo cleaning Shift + XScene Recognition Shift + ZAudio cleaning Shift + WTitle Editor Alt + Shift + TUndo Video effects Shift + CMaster effects m

DesignStoryboard/Timeline modeswitch TabZoom In Ctrl + Page UpZoom Out Ctrl + Page DownOptimize Timeline Shift + BZoom 1 Frame Ctrl + 1Zoom 5 Frames Ctrl + 2Zoom 1 sec Ctrl + 3Zoom 10 sec Ctrl + 4Zoom 1 min Ctrl + 5Zoom 10 min Ctrl + 6Zoom range from Start-to End marker Ctrl + 7Zoom complete film Ctrl + 8

Playback and Play cursor positioningStart / Stop playback Space bar, Page UpPause (stop playback), Escape, Page Down, 0Start marker to start Pos1End marker to end End+1 frame left arrow left1 frame right arrow right5 frames left Ctrl + arrow left5 frames right Ctrl + arrow rightFull screen playback Ctrl + H

Media PoolDirectory 0..9Erase File DelCopy File Ctrl + CAdd File Ctrl + VRe-name File Alt + RNew directory Ctrl + PLink Directory Ctrl + Q

GeneralOptions PHelp F 1

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Appendix: Video and Data media

Editing video on the PCDigital video processing with the PC is comparable to au-dio processing. The analog medium that is video must firstbe digitized before it can be processed in the computer.It functions quite similar to recording via a soundcard: Thesignal flow is measured in very short, regular intervals. Thevalues resulting from it can then be processed by the com-puter. The accuracy of each individual measurement re-sults in the resolution, the frequency of the measurementsresults in the frame rate. The more precise and frequentthe signal is measured, the more higher the quality of thedigitized video – but also the demands upon the captureperformance and the required storage space. The Windowsstandard format for video files is AVI (audio and video In-terleaved).The digitization of the video adopts either the camera orthe graphic card, a TV card (e.g. Miro PCTV) or a videocard (e.g. Fast AV Master). However, video handling makesmuch higher demands upon the hardware if good imagequality is required. In order to be able to reasonably pro-cess video files on today’s PCs, they must be compressed— contrary to digital audio, with which compression is usedonly for saving storage space.

MPEG CompressionMPEG means “Moving Picture Experts Group”, and de-fines a working group which cooperates with the Interna-tional Standards Organization (ISO) as well as the interna-tional Electro Technical Commission (ETC) in order todevelop standards for video and audio coding.Generally, the graphic data rate of the digital video stan-dard is 167 megabit per second, which, when not com-pressed, requires a far higher storage capacity than a DVDcan offer. A one-sided DVD 5 with 4.7 GB storage capacityis enough for 4 Minutes. For this reason, the available pic-torial material must be effectively compressed — a func-tion which is achieved with the MPEG procedure.This procedure is based on the simple fact that up to 96 %of digital video data consists of repetition and can be com-pressed without visible degradation of the pictorial quality.Each MPEG compression is, however, a data reduction andas such connected with information loss. If the video con-sists of very extensive details, or if the content changes veryfast, the picture may blur (dependent on the strength ofthe compression and the quality of the encoder).

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Appendix: Video and Data mediaErrors can also result from so-called compression artifacts,such as small color defects or images that are too dark.With average compression rates under 3 megabit per se-cond, it is probable that you will notice the reduced quality.With rates around 6 megabit per second, the degradationin quality becomes almost invisible.

Specification (RedBook, WhiteBook...)In order to coordinate and match CD file structure withCD drives, the different types of CD were standardized bythe industry. The names for it resulted simply from thecolor of the books in which the standards were written.Besides the Red Book for audio CDs, there’s the YellowBook for CD-ROMs and the White Book for video CDs.

Video CD (VCD)Video CDs are specific CD-ROMs on which videos in cer-tain forms are stored. The compression takes place overthe MPEG-1 codec. VCDs can be played on either a videoCd player attached to a television, or directly on the CD-ROM drive on the computer. Most DVD players can playVCDs.

Resolution: On a VCD, movies with a maximum resolu-tion of 352 x 288 pixels (PAL) or 352 x 240 (NTSC) with 25pictures per second can be played. The resolution of a VHScassette offers for instance 300 x 360 pixels. More impor-tant than the resolution is the use of a good MPEG 1 en-coder. Since a video images constantly change, errors can-not always be perceived by the viewer.

Hard-drive capacity: A VCD can save about 70 minutesof video. A typical motion picture must therefore be storedon two VCDs. In order to get as much video data on a nor-mal CD as possible, one must forego correction informa-tion on VCD/SVCD formats within the individual sectors(sub-ranges) of a CD. You can therefore fit 720 MB of videodata on a 650 MB blank CD. Due to improved burning andscanning technology, it is now possible to burn up to 985MB video data on a 99min blank CD.

Encoder setting: Normally the video CD data is played ata data rate of 1150 Kbits video and 224 Kbits audio. By anincrease of the video bit rate of up to 3000Kbits, you canget the same resolution and audio bit rate with increasedquality. Those with 1150Kbits of movement artifact disap-pear almost completely with approx. 2000Kbits — withthe picture appearing a little less sharp.

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Appendix: Video and Data mediaThis presupposes however that the player can also play sucha bit rate. That many DVD players can handle an increaseddata rate is due to well written player software.Experiment with higher data rates: if you do not need thefull run-time of the VCD, you can improve the quality ofthe video!

Super Video CD (SVCD)The Super Video CD (SVCD) is a technological advance-ment of the video CD. SVCDs are also like VCD-specifiedCD-ROMs, which are played either with an S Video CDplayer (which is connected to the television), or directly withthe CD-ROM drive of the computer. Many DVD Player canalso play SVCDs. Owing to MPEG 2 and the increase ofthe data transfer rate, you can hardly tell apart videos fromvideos in DVD quality.

Resolution: With SVCDs, the better MPEG 2 encoder isused in a standardized resolution of 480 x 576 (PAL). TheMPEG 2 format offers a maximum resolution of up to 720x 576 points, and improved compression methods whichthrough high data rates are characterized by excellent im-age definition and homogeneity.

Hard-drive capacity: An average 90 minute movie mustbe spread across 3 CDs. On one SVCD you can get about30 minutes of good quality film.

Encoder setting: Compared to the VCD with 1,3, the datatransfer rate is doubled to 2.6 Mbit/s.With the MPEG 2 format, the so-called variable bit rate(VBR) is introduced. In contrast to the constant bit rate(CBR) of the MPEG 1 encoders, this encoder has the possi-bility of using more bits for movement-intensive sections,as well as to save bits if picture content remains the same.

Digital Versatile Disc (DVD)QualityThe exceptional color quality, image definition and con-trast of the DVD are all well-known.With a resolution of 720 x 576 (PAL) and coded with MPEG2, 25 pictures per second obtains very good results. Thequantity of data is approx. 5 times as much as with VCD.

DVD sizeDVDs look similar to CDs.. The only visible difference ison double-sided DVDs which have no label. Otherwise bothformats share the same dimensions.

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Appendix: Video and Data media– Diameter: 12 cm, like a normal CD (additionally there

are still DVDs with only 8 cm diameters.)– Thickness: 1.2 mm, likewise like a normal CD.

DVD media (overview)The DVD does not differ outwardly from a conventionalCD-ROM. Higher memory density (up to 17 gigabytes asopposed to 650-780 megabytes) results from the fact thatinformation is stored more densely (double capacity) andthat up to four layers can be specified. In order to be able toread the information, a special laser with modified wave-length is necessary. Therefore DVDs cannot be read withconventional CD-ROM drives.

Writable data carrier formatsThe recordable DVD market is split for the time being intothree types: DVD-RAM, DVD +RW. and DVD-RW.

DVD-R: Once-only writable medium. The DVD-R can bespecified with the file structures of DVD Video, DVD Au-dio or DVD-ROM.

DVD+RW: With +RW drives, re-recordable DVDs shouldbe created which can be read by almost any commercialDVD-ROM or DVD player. The companies involved aremainly Philips, Sony, Hewlett Packard (as well as Ricoh,Yamaha and Mitsubishi).

DVD-RW: Writable and erasable DVD technology which ispromoted by Pioneer and Sharp. This format was devel-oped by the Pioneer company and should be compatiblewith existing DVD players.

DVD-RAM: Due to the small storage capacity and incom-patibility with DVD players, setting on this standard is notrecommended.

Note: MAGIX Movie Maker® deLuxe 3 supports DVD -R,DVD+R, DVD +RW, DVD -RW, but not DVD-RAM!

Blank discs: Single-side recordable blanks with a capacityof 4.7 Gbyte and a run-time of approx. 2 hours serve asstorage media for all DVD burning formats at present.

Copy ProtectionMacrovision (APS): The film industry could claim thateven DVD-ROM drives and decoder or diagram cards with

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Appendix: Video and Data mediacomposite outputs or s-video outputs must support the ana-log copy protection (APS) of macrovision. Only some olderDVD Player do not possess APS.With APS, additional signals are added to a DVD’s storedgraphic data by a DVD player or the decoder card. The dataare almost unchanged. These supplementary signals dis-turb the synchronization and the automatic recording regu-lation of most video recorders, therefore preventing therecording of the video. They are not noticeable on the tele-vision or the monitor however.

Content Scrambling System (CSS): CSS prevents sav-ing and duplication of DVD video tracks onto the hard-drive.The VOB streams of DVDs without CSS can otherwise (likeother video files) be loaded via the Import Video button

Mini-DVDThe Mini DVD is nothing but the DVD data format burnedonto a CD ROM. Thus MPEG 2 encoder and all other speci-fications of the DVD data format are used: only the datacarriers are different. Because the CD-ROM can only saveabout a sixth of the quantity of data a DVD can hold, thecapacity of a Mini DVD is accordingly limited to approx.20 minutes of film.Mini DVDs are particularly suitable for playing on the com-puter. With stand-alone devices, it must be tested on anindividual basis as to whether the device can handle theDVD format on a CD-ROM.

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Index

A

About MAGIX Movie Maker 90Adding a soundtrack 18Adding a title and other text 17Adjusting the signal level 43Advanced 41, 43Advanced configurations in the Video Capturing dia 41All effects off 72Analog devices 39Animated Selection Menus (only for DVD and Mini-DV 57Appendix: Video and Data media 93Apply to all scenes 72, 78Audio 50Audio Capture 27Audio Cleaning 77Audio device 88Audio drive 43Audio recording 42“Audio” recording dialog 43Audio settings/video settings 86Auto scroll 88Automatic 65Automatic search 79Automatic settin 72Automatic setting 78Automatically cut all further scenes 65

B

Bandwidth Control 82Blank discs 96Borders 48Brenn-Automation 13Brightness & Contrast 72Burn Disk 32, 58Burner and burning speed configuration 58Burning CDs & DVDs 12Burning CDs or DVDs 15, 16Burning dialog 58Button 69, 70Buttons 69

C

“Capture Video” 26“Capture Video” dialog 39Capturing from DV recorders or cameras 38Capturing from video recorders or camcorders 39Clip information 86Clip meta information 86

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IndexColor distortion 1/2/3 77Colors 73Compressor 81Connecting the source for recording 42Connection 14, 15Content Scrambling System (CSS 97Contents 90Context menus 30Copy 53Copy Protection 96Cross-fade 70Cut Out 53Cut Trimmer 69Cutting and fading objects 30Cutting up a scene 52

D

Delete Scene end 52Delete Scene start 52Digital capturing (DV capturing) 37Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) 95Direkt brennen 41Disc menu 58Disk project 22Disk Selection Menus 12Displays 47Divide Film 52Dividing a movie into parts 33Dividing movies into scenes 28DivX 85DV Capture 26“DV capturing” dialog 37DV devices 37DV Logging 38DVD 96DVD media (overview) 96DVD size 95DVD-R 96DVD-RAM 96DVD-RW 96

E

“Edit Movie” flip menu 51Edit Movie screen 27, 45Editing in timeline mode 19Editing movies 17Editing Overview 22Editing video on the PC 93Effects 71Effects for individual scenes 71Effects for the whole of a movie 71Encoder setting 94, 95

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IndexEnd 89Episodes, and other complex cases. 24Equalizer 80Erase 53Erasing blocks of ads or other unwanted footage 17Erasing, copying and relocating files 48Erweiterte Funktionen 13Export DivX 85Export Movie > Real Media Export 86Export Movie > Single frame as BMP (JPEG) 87Export Movie > Video as AVI 85Export Movie > Video as DV-AVI 85Export Movie > Video as MAGIX Video 86Export Movie > Video as MPEG Video 85Export Movie > Windows Media Export 86Extracting a new noise sample from a sound track 79

F

Fade In/Out 69Fader 80Fast Forward 46Features 11File export 88Film > Restore backup project 85Film overview 49Filmboxes 25, 35First Frame / End Fade-In 69Foreword 3Full screen 89Full screen playback 87Funcionality 54Function 81Functionality 34, 45Further directories 48FX 25, 35, 64

G

General advice for operating both trim editors 68Grid 67

H

Hard-drive capacity 94, 95Horizontal reflection 77Horizontal symmetry 77How do I use the media library? 50

I

Image format 42Import & Capture screen 25, 34Import Video 35“Import video” 25Importing Files 11Improving picture or sound quality 19

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IndexIncrements 69Input 41Insert 53Introduction 10

K

Kaleidoscope 77Keyboard Shortcuts 66, 91

L

Layout 31, 56Left/Right -/ 69Link frequency bands 80Loading audio, video and bitmaps 48Loudspeaker symbol 25, 35, 64

M

Macrovision (APS) 96MAGIX on the Internet 8Make Disc screen 31, 54Manual 65Master Effects 89Master Effects (File Menu) 74Media Library 29, 50Media Pool 47Media Pool buttons 48MediaPool 30Memory 32, 60Menu Design & Burning 11Menu entries and previews 31, 55Menu File 83Menu Help 90Menu modi 55Menu Tools (Buttons in Timeline Mode) 52Menus 29Middle -/ 70Mini-DVD 97Mode 1 55Mode 2 55Mode 3 55More Video Effects 77Movie 22Movie > Create backup copy 84Movie > Erase 85Movie > Load 84Movie > New 83Movie > Remove 85Movie > Save 84Movie > Save as 84Movie > Write backup copy to disc 84Movie menu 55MPEG Compression 93Multi-track audio Buffer/Pre-listen audio Buffer 88

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IndexMultirate file (real server) 87My Projects 48My recordings 48

N

Name 40, 43Navigation 31, 55Next (previous) cut (11) 70Next (previous) Object/cut 69Next scene 65Noise level 79Noise Reduction: Dehisser 80Noise Reduction: Denoiser 78Number keys 58

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Object contents 69, 70Objects 30, 67Online registration 90Optimize time-slot display 53

P

Path for temporary files 88Pick out typical background noise 79Play 28, 58Play cursor 28Play functions 68Play/Pause 46Playback during the recording 43Position 47, 69, 70Practical examples 23Presets 72, 78Preview 31, 55Preview Function 48Previous / play / next 79Program Start-up 14Project > Erase 83Project > Load 83Project > New 83Project > Save 83Project > Save as 83Projekt-Backups 13

Q

Quality 95Quick start 46

R

Ratio 81Record 44, 46Record & import. 10Record Video 36Recording control 40

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IndexRecording data 40Recording file path 88Recording Quality 40Recording quality 44Reducer 80Remote Control 32Remote control 58Reset video Effects 77Resolution 94, 95Restore 52Restore & edit. 10Rewind 46Right -/ 70RW 96

S

S and E Marker 47Save as 79Scene 23Scene menu 55Scene Recognition 64, 77Scenes 63Scissors 52Select file format 58Selecting background music 49Selecting effects 71Selection Menu 54Selection menu 31Separate at this point 65Settings 88Sharpness 73Show tutorial video 90Specification (RedBook, WhiteBook...) 94Split up disc project onto several data carriers. 61Start Fade-Out / last Frame 69, 70Start the burning process/video encoding 59Stereo FX 81Stop 44, 46Storyboard Mode 11, 45, 63Storyboard Mode/Timeline Mode 45, 53Super Video CD (SVCD) 95Support 7System Requirements 9

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Target groups 87Temporarily deactivate All effects 78Testing variable encoder configurations 33, 61Text 25, 35, 63“Text”: Subtitles and credits 50Three steps – three screens 22Timeline 66Timeline-Mode 29, 45, 66

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IndexTimer 13, 40Title Generator 12Tracks 30, 66Transition 70Transitions 18, 29, 65Transport control 46Trimmer for individual objects 69Tutorial 14TV channel selection 42

U

Undo 52

V

Vertical reflection 77Vertical Symmetry 77Video Capture 26Video capturings from analog sources 39Video CD (VCD) 94Video Cleaning 71Video decoder configuration 42Video preprocessing 87Video ProcAmp 42Video screen 46Video size 87Video/Audio drives 39Videos 50Volume control 17

W

Wave / direct sound 88What is MAGIX Movie Maker? 10What is the Storyboard Mode? 63What is the Timeline Mode? 66Working method 68Writable data carrier formats 96

Z

Zoom 30Zoom menu 67Zoom shot-capable slider 67Zooming 66

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