Muvee 6 AUTOPRODUCER USER GUIDE

USER GUIDE

CONTENT

CHAPTER 1

Getting Started
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Introduction 3
System Requirements 3
Supported input formats 4
Supported saving formats 4
Installation 5
The interface 6/7

CHAPTER 2

Using autoProducer

Adding videos and pictures 8
Using expandable media panel 8
Selecting videos with magicMoments™ 9
Selecting pictures with magicSpot™ 10
Adding captions 11
IPTC for pictures 12
Adding music 12
Selecting style 12/13
Working with superStyles™ 13
Adding Title/Credit 13
Video and picture sequence/bias options 14
Audio options 15
Setting muvee duration 15
Making muvee 15
tweak muvee interface 16
Sequential edits to muvee clips with tweak muvee 17
Voiceovers with tweak muvee 18
Saving with muveeShare 19

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Introduction

Home movies made easy!
muvee autoProducer is easy-to-use software that works in a few quick steps to

let you automatically create professional-looking videos and slideshows that are
ready to be shared.

Simply add in your video, pictures and favorite music, select a ready-to-use style
and click 'make muvee'. muvee intelligently picks out footage highlights and
adds visual effects and transitions that are synchronized to the beat of your
music. Different muvee styles give your video and pictures a new look, then save
your muvees in a variety of formats for email, online sharing or burning to
CD/DVD.

muvee autoProducer 6 introduces powerful new personalization features that let
you control style and muvee-making settings, add captions and voiceovers, and
much more.

Get started now!

System Requirements

Processor: Intel Pentium III 1 GHz, AMD Athlon, or equivalent with MMX

support

Memory: 512MB RAM
Video Memory: 16MB RAM & above
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 2000, XP and Vista
Other Requirements: Microsoft DirectX 9.0 or higher, Apple QuickTime (for

MOV files)

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Supported input formats

Video formats

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ASF
AVI
DV-AVI
MPEG-1
MPEG-2
3GP
MP4
WMV

*MOV (QuickTime)

Picture formats

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JPEG
BMP
GIF
TIF
PNG

Music formats

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MP3
WAV
WMA
M4A (Unprotected AAC)

Note: * Apple QuickTime is required to support MOV files.

Supported saving formats

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AVI (DV and MJPEG)
DV-AVI

*MOV (QuickTime)

MPEG-1
MPEG-2
WMV
WMV-HD

Note: * Apple QuickTime is required to support MOV file.

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Installation

To install:

1. Click on muvee autoProducer’s installer, aP6_xxx.exe file.

2. Follow the steps stated in the installer.

3. Finish the installation.

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Restart your computer.

5. Launch muvee autoProducer.

6. Enter product key (with dashes included) as prompted.

Your product key should look like this (12345-ABCDE-54321-...).

Note:

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b) Installing a refresh version of muvee autoProducer (e.g. version 6.0 to version 6.1) does

c) For installation errors and technical support, please go to www.muvee.com/support.

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Launching muvee autoProducer for the first time before a restart will cause the

application to not function properly.

not require a re-entering of product key. To check your version, launch muvee
autoProducer  Help  About muvee autoProducer.

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The interface

Basic Features

• [1] Media import area: ‘Add video’, ‘Add pictures’ and ‘Import from
video/pictures from a device’ buttons

• [2] ‘Add music’ button

• [3] ‘Select style’ panel

• [4] 'make muvee' button

• [5] ‘muveeShare’ button

More Features

• [6] ‘Rotate pictures’ button

• [7] ‘magicSpot™’ button

• [8] ‘Personalize’ button

• [9] Expandable media panel

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