Digital Movie Producer Help

Digital Movie Producer is a useful program to convert and manipulate video files. It has easy user interface and powerful functions.  You may upload the video data from PC Camera and convert them into standard AVI or MPEG video files. You may also add the bitmap files or AVI files into the video stream. Recording sound from the sound card or adding sound file allow you to put audio and video together and make a digital movie file. Anyone can produce a digital movie file by doing a few functions provided by Digital Movie Producer!

Introduction 	Functions 	Examples


Introduction

There are four steps to make a digital movie file by using Digital Movie Producer:

Step 1, Acquiring pictures: You may upload the pictures from your digital PC camera or open the existing AVI or bitmap files. These pictures will be put into the working area of Digital Movie Producer.

Step 2, arranging the sequence of the pictures: You may select a group of pictures and move them around in the working area. By this way, the pictures will show up by the sequence number specified by you.

Step 3, Adding audio for the movie: You may add the sound files or record the music from the sound card.

Step 4, Saving the result: When the video and audio data are ready, you may convert these files into an AVI file or MPEG file and send it for others to watch by using Media Player program.


Functions


Examples to make digital movie

Example 1 : How to insert the 15th picture before the 8th picture?

Example 2 : How to delete the pictures?


Open file

You may open the AVI file or the bitmap files from the hard disk. These pictures will be added

into the working area.


Save file

You may save the result into a video file. It can be saved as an AVI file or a MPEG file.


Play video

Playing back the video made by the ‘Convert’ function.


Play sound

Playing back the background music file or the recorded sound file.


Select source

Select the video source from the list of digital PC cameras. Any camera with the standard

TWAIN interface can be the source of video input.


Load pictures

Upload the pictures from the selected video source.


Convert

Convert the pictures into a video file by the specified sequence. Conversion program uses the

format of the first bitmap in the working area as the conversion standard and the result of video

file will have the sane format. Any pictures with different format can not be added into the video

file.


Record sound

Record your voice or the sound input from the sound card.

Note: If you want to have input sound file and recorded sound at the same time, it is recommended to open a sound file at first and record the sound afterward.  Then, mixing two sound files together makes the sound effect. If you record the sound before opening a sound file, it may not mix the two sound files due to different audio formats.


Add sound

Open a sound file (. WAV) on the hard disk.

Note: If you want to have input sound file and recorded sound at the same time, it is recommended to open a sound file at first and record the sound afterward.  Then, mixing two sound files together makes the sound effect. If you record the sound before opening a sound file, it may not mix the two sound files due to different audio formats.


Select all pictures

Select all the pictures in the working area.


Cancel the selection

Cancel the selection of the pictures.


Reverse the selection

Select all the pictures not in the selection and cancel the selection of the selected pictures.


Move to beginning

Move the selected pictures to the beginning position in the working area.


Move to end

Move the selected pictures to the end position in the working area.


Insert to middle

Insert the selected pictures before the specified position.


Previous page

Display the pictures of previous page in the working area.


Next page

Display the pictures of next page in the working area.


Delete the selected pictures

Delete the selected pictures from the working area.


Help

Enter the help section of Digital Movie Producer.


Bitmap information

To get the information of the picture, double click the left button of the mouse on the specified picture. It shows the file name, directory, width, height and size of the picture.


Sound information

Show the name, directory and audio format of the sound files.


Option of convertion

Select the output format of video file as AVI or MPEG. Decide the frame rate of the video data.


Select by condition

Select the pictures by the attributes of the picture, such as width, height and color.


Example 1

How to insert the 15th picture before the 8th picture?

1.	Click on the 15th picture, this picture is mark by a red outline.

2.	Select the ‘Insert’ function from the menu. It shows a message box to tell you to click on the picture to insert the selected pictures.

3.	Click on the 8th picture, and the 8th picture will be move in front of the 15th picture.


Example 2

How to delete the pictures?

1.	Select the ‘Cancel selection’ function from the menu to make sure all the pictures are not selected.

2.	Click on the picture you want to delete it. The red outline will be shown on the selected pictures.

3.	Select the ‘Delete’ function from the menu to remove all the selected pictures.