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User manual
DVD-Arabesk 2
for Casablanca
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Legal notices To avoid making mistakes during operation, we recommend that you carefully follow the instruc- tions provided in this manual. We have taken a great deal of care whilst programming and checking this software. Nevertheless, since it is not possible to guarantee totally error-free software applications in all en- vironments and at any time, we unfortunately cannot rule out the possibility that some errors may have crept in. If, contrary to all expectations, this is indeed the case, w
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Contents Page 1. General............................................................................................................... 5 2. Installation and Starting the Program ............................................................. 5 3. The DVD-Arabesk 2 Menu ................................................................................ 6
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5 1. General If you want to install “DVD-Arabesk 2” as a Thank you for buying “DVD-Arabesk 2”! demo version only (also possible for Casablanca systems without a DVD burner), select the We thank you for your trust and hope that this program in the list and click “activate”. product will meet your expectations. If you are working with SMART EDIT version 2.5 This guide will show you how to easily create or higher, click on the “Cancel” button in the your own DVD. displayed number code windo
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6 7 can select the desired film or project. 3. The DVD-Arabesk 2 Menu You can see that the active project is the same one you were last working on. Now you see the “DVD-Arabesk 2” menu, which is divided into three different blocks. It is not necessary to enter “Project settings” in order to change the project. This can be done from the DVD menu. Note: Only those projects marked with a white point contain video material. • You also see the information “Project length”, which indicates the
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6 7 • The button “Audio mode” is used to specify the audio quality: “uncompressed” or “compressed”. Compressed audio requires only a fraction of the capacity, but at the cost of slightly reduced quality. When creating a music video, it is recommended that you use uncompressed audio. Note for the technically interested: Uncompressed audio uses PCM audio with 16 bits and 48 kHz. Compressed audio uses MPEG A chapter must always begin at the start of a audio. scene, so scroll through the s
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8 9 DVD is inserted. After the first film ends, the 3.1 Creation: Edit Menu menu appears, but you now do not see the first (2) Click on the “Edit Menu” button and you film listed in the DVD menu screen. It is now will see the title“Casablanca DVD” in the not possible to start the first film again from the background (or the title of the previously edited menu. DVD) and the first image of each of the added film projects with the project name appearing “Trailer + Menu” below it. The for
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8 9 image, go to the main “Edit” menu and trim If you are working with SMART EDIT version 2.5, the scene or split it into two scenes and select then to start a new line enter a backslash “\” and the second half of the scene as your icon stamp then the letter “n”. Both these characters appear selection. then appear after the previously entered letters. Now you can enter the words meant for the next The “Mode” button gives you the choice of line. The first such letter appears directly after
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1 0 1 1 • “Film Texts”: If you have set this function, activate the desired stamp icon. As soon as you select the menu “Stamps”, a dashed-line frame appears around one of the scene icons. Now activate the desired film simply by clicking on the image currently Then you can call up the keyboard with the representing it. The frame now surrounds this button “Text” and use it (or a connected image. external keyboard) to rename the currently active title. If you click on the button “Type”, you
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1 0 1 1 text color, italic setting, frame size, shadowing, stamp icon the DVD menu screen when played etc. in a DVD player. • “Borders”: With this function you can specify The button “Selection Color” specifies color of the border style options of the inactive film the border of the film stamp when it is active. stamps in the DVD menu. “Activation Color” defines the color the frame shows momentarily when the frame is selected. • ”Shadow”: This function lets you specify the shadow that is th
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1 2 1 3 You can remove the DVD when Casablanca has 3.1 Creation: Write DVD finished writing and when the diode is off. Now you can try out the DVD in your Casablanca DVD (3) You can write the DVD after you have made Player or in another DVD player. Most newer all the settings in the previous menus. To do DVD players accept DVD-R media. this, click on the button “Write DVD”, open the cover on the front of your machine and press the Note: DVD-RW media that have already been button of the
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1 2 1 3 keyboard so that you can change the name of virtual DVD exists on the hard disk but has not the film that is activated in the upper list. Please yet been written to an actual DVD. note that changing the name also causes the film name in the DVD menu to be changed! The information fields “Image quality” and “Audio mode” let you review the settings you made in the window “Add Film”. They cannot be changed. By clicking on the button “Remove Film” you delete (after a warning message) t
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1 4 1 5 instantly returned to the main menu of the 3.3 Miscellaneous: Read DVD DVD and the operating panel remains in the (7) With “DVD-Arabesk 2” you can make copies foreground. of DVDs that you have written with “DVD- Arabesk 2” or “DVD-Arabesk”. With the “Chapter” button you enter a selection list in which you can directly access each To make a DVD copy, you Read the source DVD chapter so long as it has already been created to the hard disk and then write a DVD-R or RW. (see section 3
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1 4 1 5 Instead, a background image appears in which two different speeds with the help of the the films existing on the DVD are represented by selection button, “Normal” and “High”. text. Only the films themselves can be restored. With the help of “DVD-Arabesk 2” you can For DVDs with small data volume the write create a completely new menu. duration can be significantly less than the actual film length, even for “Normal” speed. Of course the original films remain unchanged. The setting “Hig
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1 6 1 7 4. Practice Example for Layout of a DVD Menu The following section offers two practice examples to introduce you to the creation of DVD menus. It is not necessary to write a DVD for these practice examples. You can view the result with the built-in player, because the virtual DVD is on the hard disk. Clicking on “Select project” opens the project 4.1 Menu layout with DVD-Arabesk 2 selection in which you can now select the project of your choice. It does not matter which In this
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1 6 1 7 “Free capacity” shows you how much free In the lower portion of the window the selection space is still available on the DVD. This lets you button “1. Film” is displayed, that you now set know if additional projects can be added. to the function “Trailer only”. After you have inserted four projects including a leader (this should be enough for this practice example), click in the DVD-Arabesk menu on the button “Film” so that a window opens in which your inserted films are displayed
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1 8 1 9 and set the position of the icon. After you have made these settings for the first image, you can do the same for the other images. You might wish to vary some of the settings, e.g. set another size. Now enter the menu “Film Texts” in which you also activate a stamp icon. After clicking on the button “Text” the screen keyboard appears with which you can rename the marked film. This is useful when your projects e.g. were named “P1” previously, or were titled with an inappropriat
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1 8 1 9 Use the button “Activation Color” to select a If you are satisfied with the result, then you can nice blue. This defines the momentary frame go to the menu item “Settings” in which you color when the frame is selected. These settings specify the write speed for burning the DVD also apply to all of the stamp icons. (please read Chapter 3.3, item (9)). Finally, click on the button “Write DVD”, open the front panel of your Casablanca system and press the button on the drive to slide o
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2 0 2 1 foreground: Under “PIP” select “Single” and under “Effect” set “Hard Cut” for “IN” and “OUT”. Now select as “Shape” a “Rectangle” and set the “Size” 120 x 96 (for NTSC 120 x 80) in order to obtain an average-sized picture. Note: In order to obtain a small reference picture, select 80 x 64 (NTSC = 80 x 50), for a large picture use 160 x 128 (NTSC = 160 x 100). Now go to the menu “Border” and set both “Size” and “Blur” to 0. Also, the value of Note: You can also use a moving backgr
