Nero Vision User Manual

Manual

Nero Vision

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Nero Vision

Table of contents

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1.1

About the Manual

1.2

About This Application

1.3

Versions of Nero Vision

1.4

Starting the Program

Project Creation and Management

2.1

Working with Nero Vision

2.2

Extended Area

2.2.1

Buttons

2.2.2

Creating Covers and Labels

2.3

Content Screen

2.4

Creating and Editing a Disc Project

2.4.1

Creating Chapters Manually

2.4.2

Creating Chapters Automatically

2.4.3

Editing Chapters

2.5

Saving a Project

2.6

Opening a Project

2.7

Opening a Disc Image

Capturing Videos from Cameras and Other External Capture Devices

3.1

Capturing

3.2

DV/HDV Cameras, Digital and Analog Videos

3.3

Capture Video Screen

3.3.1

Preview Scan W indow

3.3.2

Video Device Properties Window

3.3.3

Audio Device Properties Window

3.4

Setting a TV Card

3.5

Capturing Video to Hard Drive

3.5.1

Pre-Scanning Video Captures

3.6

Capturing to Disc On-the-Fly

3.7

Importing from the Web

Editing Videos

4.1

Video Editing Screen

4.1.1

Preview Area

4.1.2

Media Area

4.1.3

Effect Palette

4.1.4

Properties Palette

4.1.5

General Handling on Timeline Tab

4.1.6

Track Handling in Timeline

4.1.7

Clip Handling in Timeline

4.1.8

Storyboard Tab

Nero Vision

4.1.9

Nero Picture in Picture (PiP) Effects

4.1.10

Movie Wizard

4.1.11

Ad Spotter Window

4.1.12

Music Grabber Window

4.1.13

Movie Options W indow

4.1.14

Preview and Trim Window

4.2

Making Movie

4.2.1

Detecting Commercials

4.2.2

Searching for Music Clips

4.2.3

Detecting Video Scenes

4.2.4

Moving and Positioning Files

4.2.5

Cutting and Trimming Audio and Video Clips

4.2.6

Fitting the Display Duration of Pictures

4.2.7

Inserting Nero Picture in Picture Templates

4.2.8

Choosing a Movie Template

4.2.9

Inserting Transitions

4.2.10

Editing Transitions

4.2.11

Adding an Effect

4.2.12

Editing Effects

4.2.13

Adding a Text Effect

4.2.14

Recording a Narration File

4.2.15

Creating Chapters in Timeline

Exporting Videos

5.1

Export Video Screen

5.2

Exporting Video to File

5.3

Exporting Video to Camera

5.4

Exporting Video and Send as E-Mail

5.5

Exporting Audio to File

5.6

Exporting to Web

6.1

Levels

6.2

Edit Menu Screen

6.2.1

Templates Tab

6.2.2

Customize Tab

6.2.3

Save Template as Window

107

6.3

Creating Menu

107

Preview

109

7.1

Preview Screen

109

7.2

Showing a Preview

110

Burn Options

111

8.1

Burn Options Screen

111

8.2

Burning a Disc

114

8.3

Burning an Image File

115

8.4

Writing to Hard Drive Folders

116

Nero Vision

Configuration And Recording Formats

118

9.1

Application Settings Window

118

9.1.1

General Tab

118

9.1.2

Folders Tab

119

9.1.3

Editing Tab

119

9.2

Recording Format Options Window

120

9.2.1

General Tab

120

9.2.2

[Disc Format] Tab

121

Disc Tools

124

10.1

Erasing a Rewritable Disc

124

10.2

Displaying Disc Info

125

10.3

Finalizing a Disc

125

Technical Information

126

11.1

System Requirements

126

11.2

Disc Formats Supported

126

11.2.1

Overview of Compatibility Between Disc Formats and Discs

127

11.2.2

Compatibility Overview - DVD Disc - Editable Disc Format

128

11.3

Key Combinations

128

Glossary

132

Index

133

Contact

139

Nero Vision

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1.1 About the Manual

This manual is intended for all users who want to learn how to use Nero Vision. It is processbased and explains how to achieve a specific objective on a step-by-step basis.

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1.2 About This Application

Nero Vision is a program for capturing, editing, and burning films or slide shows with an extremely user-friendly interface. Nero Vision can be used to play your videos from DV video cameras or other external video devices on your PC and to burn them as DVD-Video, DVDVFR (video mode)/+VR, Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD), miniDVD, AVCHD or BD-AV or to save them to a hard drive folder. With the many features offered in this powerful multimedia software, you will have numerous options for creating and collecting your memories.

Nero Vision opens a complete new creative dimension for compositing and for individual correction methods. It allows you to shorten videos quickly and easily, add effects to videos, produce chapters with the help of automatic scene detection, manually define chapter marks, produce your own menus from pre-defined menu templates with animated buttons, add background pictures and text, use the preview screen over the handy virtual remote control to view your project, and much more.

Using your DV video camera, a FireWire card, and the appropriate hardware, you can import your own videos from your camera. If you have a DirectShow compatible video capture card you can use Nero Vision to capture videos directly from the video capture card. If you do not have the required video hardware, you can edit video files from your PC or download them from the Internet.

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