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Getting started with

Easy Media Creator 23

Welcome to Roxio Easy Media Creator 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

About this guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24

About Easy Media Creator project assistants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Software and hardware requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Minimum requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Optional requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Installing Easy Media Creator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Getting to know Easy Media Creator Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Adjusting the size of the Project pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Using the control panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Working in Mini Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Launching applications from Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Starting media projects from Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Where to find more information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Online Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Tutorials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Roxio online support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Easy Media Creator support options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Unlimited self help options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Alternate support options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Before you contact Roxio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Contacting Roxio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Contents

Part I: Copying and burning discs

Getting started with Disc Copier 43

About Disc Copier. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

What kinds of discs can I copy?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Other sources you can copy from . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Getting to know the Disc Copier window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

CD & DVD Copy window—Simple view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

CD & DVD Copy window—Advanced view. . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Video Compilation window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Copying CD and DVD discs 51

About copying CD and DVD discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Can I copy discs using one disc drive? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

What is CD-Text? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Copying using the Simple view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Creating video compilations 55

About creating video compilations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Creating a video compilation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

Saving compilations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

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Getting started with Creator Classic 63

About Creator Classic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Getting to know the Creator Classic window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Creator Classic project basics 67

About Creator Classic project basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68

Deciding which type of project to create . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Starting a new project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Opening and saving projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Adding files and folders to your project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Previewing audio, video, and image files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Working with files and folders in your project . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Creating new folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Removing files and folders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Renaming files and folders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Searching for files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Burning a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Getting started with Drag-to-Disc 77

Welcome to Drag-to-Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Making your first disc with Drag-to-Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Starting Drag-to-Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Drag-to-Disc and Windows Explorer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Getting to know Drag-to-Disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Drag-to-Disc application window (default size). . . . . . . . . 80

Drag-to-Disc Icon view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

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Drag-to-Disc basics 81

Before you begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

About nonrewritable (R) and rewritable (RW) media . . . . . . 82

Compatibility with DirectCD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

About the UDF file system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

About EasyWrite™. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Deciding which type of disc to use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Adding files to a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

About adding files to blank CD-RW and DVD+RW discs . . 86

Preparing a disc to be ejected . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Ejecting a disc to be used with any drive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Ejecting a disc to be read only in your computer. . . . . . . . . 89

Ejecting a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Viewing the contents of a disc on your own computer. . . . . . . 90

Viewing the contents of a disc on other computers . . . . . . . . . 91

Roxio Retrieve 93

About Roxio Retrieve. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Starting Roxio Retrieve. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Retrieving files and folders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Backing up and restoring files 99

About backing up and restoring files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Starting or exiting Backup MyPC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Getting to know the Backup MyPC window . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Backing up your data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Restoring files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

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Part II: Importing and organizing media files

Getting started with Media Import 119

Welcome to Media Import . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Starting Media Import. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Getting to know the Media Import window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Devices appearing when no external device is connected . 123

Overview of importing media files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Importing photos or video files from a digital camera (WIA) . .

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Getting started with

Media Manager 127

About Media Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Getting to know the Media Manager window . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Supported file formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Watching for new media files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Selecting the folders to watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Stopping watching. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Starting watching. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Capturing media files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Organizing your media files 133

Overview of organizing media files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Working with Smart Views. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135

Browsing Smart Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136

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Working with My Albums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Browsing My Albums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Creating new albums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Adding media files to My Albums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Moving or copying media files from one album to another 141

Setting the thumbnail for an album . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142

Working with folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Creating new folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Managing media files 145

Overview of managing media files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Selecting media files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146

Previewing media files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Viewing media files in a preview window. . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Viewing media files in QuickShows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148

Finding missing media files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Why are media files missing? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Locating missing media files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Searching for media files 151

About searching. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Performing simple searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Using advanced search criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Creating Smart Views from search results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Creating albums from search results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

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Sharing files 155

About sharing media files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

E-mailing media files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156

Using LiveShare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159

Enabling or disabling home networking sharing . . . . . . . . 159

Sharing albums or Smart Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .160

Managing LiveShares. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161

Using My MediaSpace to share media on your home network163

Enabling or disabling home network sharing . . . . . . . . . . .163

Granting access to devices on your home network . . . . . . 164

Withdrawing access from devices on your home network . 164

Accessing shared files on your home network . . . . . . . . . . 164

Sharing photos using an online photo service. . . . . . . . . . . . . 165

Part III: Working with photos

Getting started with PhotoSuite 169

Welcome to PhotoSuite 8. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Getting to know the PhotoSuite window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Choosing the best display settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

PhotoSuite’s project file format (.DMSP). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Supported file formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

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Working with photo projects 175

What is a photo project? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Creating new projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Using the Photo Projects Assistant. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176

Creating a blank canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177

Opening an existing project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178

Importing files from your camera. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Changing the canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179

Fixing and editing photos 181

About fixing and editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Improving the quality of photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Using the AutoFix feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182

Adjusting exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Adjusting brightness and contrast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Repairing damaged photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Removing red eye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Removing blemishes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185

Saving and printing photos 187

About saving and printing photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Flattening objects or projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

Saving photo projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Printing photos and projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Tips for improving print quality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192

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Part IV: Working with video and DVD projects

Getting started with VideoWave 197

Welcome to VideoWave . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

Getting to know the VideoWave window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Task Pane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

Preview area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Production Editor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Media Selector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Effect Selector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200

Creating a slideshow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201

Creating a CineMagic production. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Importing video, photos, and audio clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202

Creating your first VideoWave movie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203

Step one: Add photos and video clips to your movie . . . . . 203

Step two: Add background audio to your movie . . . . . . . . 204

Step three: Add transitions to your movie . . . . . . . . . . . . .205

Step four: Preview your movie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206

Step five: Output your movie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207

Getting started with MyDVD 209

Welcome to MyDVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Getting to know the MyDVD window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Menu Edit view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

Movie Edit view. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213

Features available in both views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214

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Overview of creating a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Steps to create a DVD project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Capturing media files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Part V: Working with audio

Getting started with Sound Editor 219

Welcome to Sound Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Getting to know the Sound Editor window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Sound Editor project file format (.dmse) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

What is a Sound Editor project? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222

Getting started with Sound Editor projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223

Adding and arranging audio clips 225

About adding audio clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Adding audio files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226

Adding tracks from audio CDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228

Adding tracks from DVDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Recording from an audio input device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Arranging audio clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234

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Editing and applying effects 235

About editing and applying effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Selecting the waveform region to edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Basic editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237

Adjusting volume or balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239

Adding or deleting track separators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241

Cleaning audio clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242

Completing projects 245

About completing projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Saving Sound Editor projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246

Exporting audio clips or mixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Exporting sets of tracks or audio clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248

Burning tracks or clips to audio CDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250

Sending tracks to a Music Disc Creator project . . . . . . . . . . . 252

Getting started with

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Welcome to Music Disc Creator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254

Getting to know Music Disc Creator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

Audio CD window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

MP3/WMA Disc window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256

DVD Music Disc window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Using the Media Selector. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258

Supported file formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Music Disc Creator’s native format (.DMSA) . . . . . . . . . . 260

Supported audio formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

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Supported playlist formats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260

Music Disc Creator project basics 261

Overview of project basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262

Selecting the type of audio project to create . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

Adding tracks to your project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264

Adding tracks and playlists from your hard disk . . . . . . . . 264

Importing tracks from CDs or DVDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

Creating track lists using Search by Tags . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266

Adding and editing track information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267

Shuffling track lists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Previewing tracks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

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About Label Creator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Overview of creating labels and disc inserts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274

Getting to know the Label Creator window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

The Add Object area. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

The Edit Layout area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

The Layout area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

The Toolbars. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

The Layout Navigator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Using Express Labeler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276

Contents

Starting Label Creator projects 279

Starting a new Label Creator project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

Selecting layouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

About disc sleeves. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

About binder pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Applying styles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Creating custom styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Selecting Smart Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283

Auto-filling Smart Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284

Printing Label Creator projects 285

Overview of printing Label Creator projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Printing on label or cover stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Printing directly onto discs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286

Burning labels onto discs using LightScribe®. . . . . . . . . . 286

Before you print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Previewing the print job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Printing your Label Creator project. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Burning labels onto discs using LightScribe® . . . . . . . . . . . . .290

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In this chapter

Welcome to Roxio Easy Media Creator 8 24

About this guide 24

About Easy Media Creator project assistants 28

Software and hardware requirements 29

Installing Easy Media Creator 30

Getting to know Easy Media Creator Home 32

Launching applications from Home 36

Starting media projects from Home 38

Where to find more information 39

Easy Media Creator support options 40

Welcome to Roxio Easy Media Creator 8

Welcome to Roxio Easy Media Creator 8, the all-in-one digital media solution.

Designed for beginners and experts alike, Easy Media Creator 8 makes it all easy—from simple and practical tasks, such as creating a backup copy of a CD or DVD disc, to fun and creative projects such as creating a home movie complete with introductions, transitions, music, and effects.

Get creative and have fun with this powerful, intuitive, and easy-to-use suite of digital media components. Do more with your digital music, favorite photos, DVD video, and your important data files. Find all the tools you need in one place, with one easy-to-use interface.

About this guide

This guide provides an overview of Easy Media Creator and explains how to use its most popular features. For detailed information about how to use all of the features of Easy Media Creator, see the online Help described in Where to find more information on page 39.

Some of the components available in Easy Media Creator may not be described in this guide. Each component includes detailed online Help, which you can find under the component Help menu or by pressing F1.

Depending on the version of Easy Media Creator you are using, some of the components described in this guide may not be available.

Easy Media Creator Home

Easy Media Creator Home is the starting point that lets you access the components and tools you need for all of your digital media projects. Using Home, you can:

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Open all of your Easy Media Creator applications and utilities.

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Quickly create a CD or DVD disc.

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Use the Mini Mode to play audio, create audio and data discs, and copy discs.

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Depending on the software version you are running, you can also find some or all of the following tabs:

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Audio

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Backup

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Copy

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Data

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DVD & Video

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Photo

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To o l s

Each tab includes a handy guide, and gives you quick access to the digital media tools you need for each type of project.

For more information, see Getting to know Easy Media Creator Home on page 32.

Part I: Copying and burning discs

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Disc Copier Use Disc Copier to make backup copies of personal CD and DVD discs so you

can store the originals for safekeeping. You can also convert DivX or WMV files to DVD-Video format, and create compilations of DVD movies from a variety of sources.

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Drag-to-Disc®

disc just as you would use a floppy disk. Disc formatting and burning happens automatically.

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Creator Classic®

projects to multiple discs. Create advanced format and bootable discs, and more. In addition, you can choose to encrypt the files on the disc so that the files can only be accessed

by someone entering a password that you select. For more information, see the Creator

Backup Help Center.

Use Drag-to-Disc to easily drag and drop files for burning to CD or DVD

Use Creator Classic to create data CDs and DVDs, and to archive large

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Backup MyPC 6: Protect yourself with reliable backups of all your important data. Easily

create a customized data protection plan with “set-and-forget” automated backups, all password-secured. Use the easy wizards and automated backups to protect your system, even if you’ve never worked with backup software before. Follow step-by-step instructions to back up your entire system, or just a few files. Even large backup jobs are quick and painless with streamlined media spanning.

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Part II: Importing and organizing media files

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Media Import Use Media Import to import all types of media files to your computer—from

digital photos to video files, audio files, and DVD movie titles—all in one place.

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Media Manager Use Media Manager to view and manage your media files in folders, and to

organize them into personalized albums. Find files quickly by browsing or searching, and burn your files to CD or DVD discs.

Media Manager makes sharing your media files with friends and family easier than ever. Use LiveShare to share photos with selected users outside your home network, or use My MediaSpace (UPnP) to share files with devices on your home network.

Part III: Working with photos

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PhotoSuite®

Use PhotoFix™ to automatically adjust the exposure, saturation, and sharpness of photos. Use other editing features in PhotoSuite to fix common problems such as red eye.

The Photo Project assistants guide you as you create personalized calendars, greeting cards, and collages using your own photos. You can also create photo slideshows to share with others.

Use PhotoSuite to enhance, edit, and share your digital photos.

Part IV: Working with video and DVD projects

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VideoWave® Use VideoWave to transform your home videos and photos. Combine them

with audio and VideoWave’s special effects and transitions to create professional-looking video productions that you can share with friends and family.

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MyDVD™ Use MyDVD to create multimedia stories on DVD to share with family and

friends. Capture and mix photos and video, include narration or a favorite sound track, create your own professional-looking menus, add transitions and animated backgrounds, and burn to DVD, Video CD, or Super VCD.

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CinePlayer Play DVDs using the ultimate digital theater. CinePlayer delivers the absolute

highest quality video playback available for your PC. Additionally, CinePlayer packs all of its powerful features into an extremely easy-to-use and intuitive user-interface. Use CinePlayer to view VCD, SVCD, and DVD projects created with Roxio software products, including MyDVD. For more information, see the CinePlayer Online Help.

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Part V: Working with audio

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Sound Editor™

create your own audio mixes. Use Easy Media Creator’s new LP & Tape Assistant to capture audio from an analog source (such as an LP or audio cassette) to create a digital audio file.

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Easy Audio Capture Easy Audio Capture lets you quickly capture (record) audio from

analog sources (such as LP records, tapes, or Internet radio), using a connection from your audio equipment to your computer’s sound input. For more information, see the Easy Audio Capture Online Help.

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Music Disc Creator Use Music Disc Creator to create music compilations to play on your

home or car stereo, portable music player, DVD player, or on your computer. Using audio files from your music CDs, hard drive, or DVD-Video sources, you can create audio CDs, MP3/WMA discs, and DVD music discs.

Use Sound Editor to record and edit sound clips and audio files, and to

Part VI: Creating labels and disc inserts

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Label Creator™Use Label Creator to make personalized disc labels and jewel case covers.

Choose from dozens of professional designs, or create your own.

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About Easy Media Creator project assistants

Easy Media Creator 8 includes several project assistants which provide a step-by-step guide to help you create professional-looking digital media projects.

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Auto Edit with CineMagic: Create a professional-looking video production using your home

movies and photos, including transitions, background audio, and much more.

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DVD Music Assistant: Create a DVD music video disc using tracks from your computer or

an audio disc. Choose from professionally designed styles or use your own background image, then burn your project to DVD to play on your computer or set-top DVD player.

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Express Labeler: Create disc labels and disc inserts such as front or back covers or booklets.

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LP & Tape Assistant: Create digital audio files from your old LPs and tapes in just a few

simple steps. You can then edit and enhance your audio files to save to disc or to use in your Easy Media Creator projects.

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Multi Photo Fix: Enhance several photos at once using AutoFix and other photo tools.

Rename or convert groups of photos to a different format.

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Panorama Assistant: Create a dramatic panorama by combining several photos into one.

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Photo E-mail Assistant: E-mail your photos and photo projects to friends and family.

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Photo Projects Assistants: There are several photo project assistants to help you create the

following projects using your personal photos combined with PhotoSuite’s professionally designed templates:

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Calendars

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Greeting cards

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Gift tags

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Plug & Burn: Import video from your DV camera and burn it directly to disc.

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Slideshow Assistant: Create a high-resolution photo slideshow in just a few clicks, including

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Photo albums

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Photo collages

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Posters

background audio and Pan and Zoom effects.

Once you’ve completed your projects using a project assistant, you’re ready to print, burn, or e-mail the project to friends. You can also continue working with your project using the advanced features of the full Easy Media Creator components such as PhotoSuite, Label Creator, or Music Disc Creator.

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Software and hardware requirements

This section lists the minimum and optional system requirements for Easy Media Creator.

Minimum requirements

To take full advantage of all of the features of Easy Media Creator 8, your computer must meet the following minimum system requirements:

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Operating system:

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Windows XP Home, Professional, or MCE (service pack 2 or later)

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Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

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Microsoft® Windows 2000 (service pack 4 or later)

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Processor and memory:

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For burning music and data discs: 500 MHz Intel® Pentium III or equivalent; 128 MB

RAM

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For DVD, slideshow, or video authoring: 1.2 GHz Intel® Pentium III or equivalent; 256

MB RAM

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For real-time MPEG-2 capture and burning: 1.6 GHz Intel® Pentium 4 or equivalent;

256 MB RAM

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Hard disk space:

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1 GB available hard disk space for typical installation of all components

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1 GB available hard disk space for every 5 minutes of video for video capture

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4.5 GB available hard disk space for copying DVD-Video discs

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Display settings: 1024 X 768, 16-bit color graphics card; 24-bit or 32-bit true color recommended

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DirectX 9 or higher compatible graphics card

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CD-ROM compatible drive

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Windows Media Player 7.1 or higher

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Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 or higher.

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Optional requirements

The following list outlines the optional requirements for Easy Media Creator 8:

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For burning: Multi-media compliant CD- or DVD-recordable or rewritable drive

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For audio: 16-bit Windows compatible sound card and speakers

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For digital video capture: OHCI compliant IEEE 1394 FireWire® card (for use with a DV

Camera) or video capture device

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Internet connection for registration, product updates, sharing or downloading content, e-mailing, and CDDB support (to retrieve CD artist, album, and track information). Any charges incurred are the responsibility of the user.

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Floppy disc drive required for disaster recovery.

Installing Easy Media Creator

Follow this procedure to install Easy Media Creator 8.

To install Easy Media Creator 8:

1 Insert the Easy Media Creator 8 Program CD into your CD or DVD drive.

If Autorun is enabled on your computer, the Easy Media Creator 8 installation window appears automatically and you can skip step 2 and step 3.

2 Choose

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Start > Run.

d:\setup (substitute the appropriate letter of your CD or DVD drive for d).

4 Follow the installation instructions that appear on the screen.

Depending on the type of install you select (Typical, Custom, or Complete) you may need to insert the Content CD. The Content CD contains project templates and sample media files. You can choose to install these files on your computer, or you can access these files from the CD as you need them.

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