User manual FARSTONE VIRTUALDRIVE PRO 10

[. . . ] VirtualDrive Pro Version 10 For Windows 2000/XP-SP2/Server 2003 ® User's Guide Copyright Notice No part of this publication may be copied, transmitted, stored in a retrieval system or translated into any language in any form or by any means without the expressed written permission of FarStone Technology, Inc. FarStone grants you the right to use one copy of the enclosed software program ("SOFTWARE") on a single computer. If the SOFTWARE is installed on a network, or more than one user can run the SOFTWARE at the same time, you must purchase an additional license for each additional user or computer. Trademarks FarStone®, VirtualDrive®, VirtualDrive® Network and VirtualDrive® Professional are trademarks of FarStone Technology, Inc. [. . . ] to edit the disc properties including volume name, version, disc create to start the burning process. After these settings have been chosen, click the Burn button Please wait while the program writes data to the disc. After the data has been burned, click OK to finish and eject the disc from the drive. If you have chose to save your movie/video as an Image file, you'll be prompted to choose a location and configure other settings in a new dialog window. Please refer to Chapter 6. 1 How to Make an Image After the disc is burned, you can play it on home stereo equipment or with a video player on a computer. 5. 4 Creating a Slideshow VirtualDrive® Pro allows you to use your photos to create a Slideshow and record them to a Video CD (VCD), Super Video CD (SVCD) and DVD-Video. To create a new Slideshow, select Create a Slideshow from the Multimedia page on the VirtualDrive® Pro main interface. The Video Express window will launch as shown below. 42 Video Express Window Follow the steps below to create a new Slideshow: Step 1: Adding Images to the Material Pane. You can add to the selected Click the Add button group or choose another group from the dropdown menu at the top of the Material Pane. Changing the Picture Display Sequence You can change the play sequence of your pictures by dragging-and-dropping each file to the correct location. Adding Background Music You can one or more audio clips as background music, while displaying your Slideshow. Right-click on any blank part in the Content Editor and select Background music. Here you can add audio file(s) and set their play sequence. Editing Transition Effects between Pictures box in the Content Editor, which appears between two pictures, indicates that no transition The effect has been applied. Click on the Transition tab on Material Pane and the available transition effects appear in the window. Double click a transition effect to add it to the next free box, or just drag one to the appropriate box in the Content Editor. Deleting Pictures To delete a video file from the Content Editor, right click on the video and select Delete. You can also select Delete All to delete all pictures from the Content Editor or Delete all transitions to delete all cross fade transition effects (these options do not delete the video files from your hard drive). 43 Specifying the Display Time You can specify the Slideshow duration. Select All time in the dropdown menu and enter the desired time in the box. The Slideshow will play for the specified time duration, with each picture displaying an average time of the total. If you have added background music for the slideshow, you can select Music Time in the Mode box to set the music duration as the total display time. Select "One time" in the Mode drop-down menu and then enter the desired time in the Time box below. Step 3: Previewing your Slideshow The Slideshow can be viewed in the preview window accompanied by your background music, to preview your progress. [. . . ] If a data track is followed by a music track, the gap is two or three seconds. Session At Once (SAO): This method writes data to the disc in a single operation, and finalizes the session at the end of the process. A "Session-at-Once" recording is similar to a "Disc-at-Once" recording. The only difference is that the disc is not closed after a "Session-at-once" recording, and you can write a further session on the disc at a later date. [. . . ]