ADS Technologies MACAV1750 User manual
USB Instant DVD for MAC
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Instant DVD for Mac Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
System Requirements and Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Hardware Installation Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
PixeDV: Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
• Launching PixeDV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
• Capturing Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
• Exporting Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
• Importing Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
• Using the Album . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
• Trimming Videos with MPEG Cutter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
• Exporting Files for use in DVD Studio Pro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29
Frequently Used Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Capty DVD/VCD: Launch Capty DVD/VCD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
• Creating a Title Menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
• Setting Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
• Creating Chapter Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
• Authoring Formation & Disc Playback: DVD Video / Video CD . . . . . . . . . .43
• Editing a Slideshow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49
• Preview to Conrm Writing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
• Creating a DVD Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53
Button Builder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54
• Creating Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
• Thumbnail Display frame setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
• Special Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Service & Warranty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60
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Instant DVD for MAC is a fun and easy way to
get DVD and VCD video into your Macintosh
so you can archive your home movies. Instant
DVD then lets you publish the video to CD or
DVD disk or publish to the Internet or send
the video back to a VCR or camcorder for
distribution on Tape.
All the video compression takes place in the
Instant DVD device so when the video comes
through the USB port it is already compressed
in the format you desire such as MPEG-1 for VCD (Video on CD) or MPEG-2 for DVD
(Digital Versatile Disc).
USB Instant DVD includes several exible and dynamic software tools for your video
projects:
Instant DVD for Mac Overview
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PixeDV: Capture, Import, Export, Organize Video
PixeDV for Mac is the main application you will be using to Capture video, Organize the video
you captured and even Import video from other sources
PixeDV for Mac, despite its name, DOES NOT CAPTURE DV. It only captures MPEG1 and
MPEG2 les. MPEG les are necessary for the creation of DVD or VCD movies.
Once you install the software and connect the hardware, you will be able to Preview the video
live from any analog source and capture the video into the right bit rates for making a DVD or
VCD Movie.
USB Instant DVD can capture video up to 6 Mbits (6 Megabits per second). Most DVD movies
that you rent or buy today are only encoded at 4 Mbits (4 Megabits per second). The higher the
capture bit rate, the better the quality but you will also take up more hard drive space.
Commercial Blank recordable DVD disks have a capacity of 4.7 GB.
When capturing MPEG-2 video at 4 Megbits of data per second (Mb/sec.) you will use up
approximately 2 GB of hard disk space per hour. This means you can record and burn about 2
hours of MPEG-2 video onto a single DVD disk.
This is very important to know since 3 hours (180 minutes) of video that you capture at 4 Mb/sec.
would result in a le size on your hard drive of:
5400 MB (MegaBytes) or about 5.4 GB (GigaBytes) !!!
This is more than you can record on a 4.7 GB disk!
Audio is one more thing to consider when capturing Mpeg video. The two most common audio
formats for DVD video are MPEG 1 Layer 2 and PCM.
PCM is essentially uncompressed audio recorded at 1.5 Mb/sec. This data rate is added to the
video bit rate to arrive at the total video le size. The PixeDV for Mac software only captures
audio in MPEG-1 Layer 2 format. MPEG 1 Layer 2 is a compressed format and is the cousin of
the more famous MP3 audio format. MPEG-1 Layer 2 is generally captured at
224 Kbit/sec. – 384 Kbit/sec. This data rate is added to the total video le size, but you can see
that it is much smaller than PCM.
Most late model home DVD players in the North America can playback MPEG-1 Layer 2 audio.
The general rule is that if the DVD player supports VCD playback, it will support DVD’s with
MPEG-1 Layer 2 audio format. All European (PAL) DVD players support MPEG-1 Layer 2 audio.
So if your goal is to capture 2 hours of video to burn on a single sided 4.7 GB DVD disk, we
recommend you set your capture rate at 4 Mb/sec.
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MPEG2 offers the best quality in relation to le size for capturing video.
DV or otherwise know as DIGITAL VIDEO will need 4 GB for every 20 minutes of video. DV is
good for some applications, when you want to capture in DV, Edit in DV and OUTPUT back to
DV. (Back to camcorder). This is why you need rewire for DV. The data being sent back and
forth from a DV camcorder is huge. 25 Megabits per second, thats 3.6 Megabytes per second.
With the USB Instant DVD for Mac, video can be captured at relatively low bit rates but VERY
GOOD quality. For connecting to your Mac, USB 1.1 as an interface is sufcient since USB
offers up to 12 Megabits of throughput per second. Plenty of bandwidth to capture video with
DVD quality.
If you plan to make DVD or VCD movies, USB Instant DVD for Mac is the perfect solution. It
captures in MPEG2, which means you are one step closer to making a DVD disk. Just run
CaptyDVD and author/publish the captured video to DVD.
Other DVD authoring/publishing solutions like Apple’s IDVD software actually capture the video
in DV. It then transcodes, in laymens terms, saves the le as an MPEG2 le. This is a two step
process. Although the transcoding process via software is done very well, it is no comparison
to capturing your video source REAL TIME into an MPEG2 File.
PixeDV: Capture, Import, Export, Organize Video
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CaptyDVD: Author and Publish to DVD
CaptyDVD Starts where you left off with PixeDV. It takes the MPEG2 movies that you
have captured and publishes the MPEG2 les into a DVD Movie.
This process of “making” a DVD movie is known as “AUTHORING”.
Authoring with CaptyDVD provides the easiest, professional level package available in
the market today.
With fully customizable chapter menu’s, backgounds and even a built-in button maker,
CaptyDVD provides the best value compared to IDVD and DVD Studio Pro from Apple.
CaptyDVD has a built-in DVD Burning Engine that allows you to burn your DVD Project
into blank DVD disks by using Apple’s Superdrive or any external rewire DVD Burner.
Currently, every external Firewire DVD Burner that you can buy uses either a Panasonic
or Pioneer drive. You can also take an internal IDE DVD Burner from either Panasonic or
Pioneer and mount them inside an external 1394 enclosure.
You can purchase the PYRO Drive Kit which ADS Technologies also manufactures. This
is an external rewire enclosure that accepts any IDE device (hard drive, cd rom, dvd
rom, dvdr) and convert the devices to rewire.
For more information about the PYRO Drive Kit, please check our website:
www.adstech.com
VCD Authoring
For VCD movies, CaptyDVD can make a VCD volume. Which means you can Author a
VCD Disk but NOT actually burn it. You can simply make and save the VCD volume to
your drive. You can then drag that volume into Roxio’s latest TOAST software for burning
VCD’s on the Mac.
This was intentionally done since Roxio offers better compatibility than any other CDRW
burning software in the market today.
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System Requirements & Contents
To Capture MPEG-1 at 30 frames per second:
Any Macintosh with built-in USB
To Capture MPEG-2 at 30 frames per second:
Power Mac G4 4000/AGP or greater
Power Mac G4 Cube
Power Book G4 400 or greater
- Mac OS X
- 256 MB of RAM
- CD-ROM
- 100 MB hard disk space for capture/editting applications
- 3 GB minimum hard disk space recommended for capturing and editing video
- Available USB Port
Additional Requirements for Publihsing VCD ir DVD Disk:
- CD-RW drive required to write/burn VCD or SVCD disk
- DVD-R/RW drive required to write/burn DVD disks
- VCD burning requires Toast Platinum
System Requirements:
USB Instant DVD For Mac Includes:
- USB Instant DVD For Mac device
- 6' USB cable
- SVIDEO cable
- Audio/Video connection cables
- CD with Bundled Software: PixeDV Video Capture, CaptyDVD Authoring
- User's Manual
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Hardware installation Guide
Getting Started
The basic steps are:
1. Check USB Instant DVD package contents
2. Wire it up! - Audio and Video connectors
3. Install Application software
4. Plug it in! - Power and USB connection
5. Verify Hardware Installation
6. Start Making DVD Movies
Check USB Instant DVD Contents
Hardware:
(a) USB Instant DVD device
(b) 5 VDC Power supply
(c) 6 ft. USB Cable
(d) 6 ft. A/V In Cable (RCA video and audio to RCA video and 3.5 mm stereo)
(e) 9 ft. Audio out to TV/VCR cable (3.5 mm stereo w/female 3.5mm Y to R+L RCA audio)
(f) 9 ft. RCA Video cable
(g) 6 ft. SVHS Cable
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Wire it up!
In this section we will connect all audio and video cables
that you will use to capture audio and video and then
send audio and video back to a tTV or VCR for viewing
or recording.
1. Connect your video source (VHS, DVD, Laser Disc
Player, TV. etc.) to your USB Instant DVD.
2. Connect your 6 ft. A/V in cable to the 3 RCA jacks to
your analog audio/video source RCA line out.
The other end connects to the “RCA Video In” jack and
“Audio In” jack on the back of your USB Instant DVD.
This step is optional, if you dont plan to send video
back to tv or vcr, skip to software installation.
Connect your USB Instant DVD to your TV or VCR. This
will send captured or edited video back to your TV or
VCR for viewing or recording.
Connect RCA cable to “Video Out” on Instant DVD
Connect other end to Video IN on your TV or VCR.
Connect the Audio Out of your PC to the Audio In
on your TV or VCR. This will send recorded audio
from your PC out for recording or listening on
your TV or VCR.
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