MemoriesOnTV User Guide
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1. 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd Advanced Authoring 21 menu d Reset Pard Zocep A 0 00 x 0 00 speed Constant VM Assign Random Dan Zoom Detect Faces and Pan bo Each One Pause Add Pan Zoom d Background A Music A Subtitle D Doniy Distribute Frames Even Copy From Next Frame Insert New Frame The Pan Zoom panel allows you to add motion effects to your slide Every slide has at least 2 key frames the Start Frame shows you the position of your picture on the slide at the beginning while the End Frame shows you the position of your picture on the slide at the end Once the values of these frames are defined MemoriesOnTV automatically generates all the intermediate frames For each key frame you can adjust the following parameters Zoom Rotate Pan Speed and Opacity To show the different key frames in the preview window click on the lt and gt arrow buttons to navigate the key frames Alternatively you can click on the triangular markers on the timeline slider to select the desired key frame as well GC Each key frame corresponds to a specific time on the timeline To change the time of a key frame you can either drag amp scroll the triangular marker on the timeline or you can key in the time value you want in the edit box that shows the time value Should you want to reset any of the pan zoom rotate opacity values to its default value you can simply2. 28 MemoriesOnTV be the top most picture when layered onto the slide You can do simple editing for each imported picture video by clicking on the Edit button For pictures you will be able to adjust its brightness contrast or crop a section of it for use in the multi pictures slide For video clips you will be able to select a section of it by setting its start end markers Multi Pictures slide effect The easiest way to create interesting multi pictures slides is to use the pre built effects Once you ve selected the pictures videos you want try out the different effects listed in the Effects combo box After selecting the effect click on the play button on the timeline to preview it Some effects can only be applied to a fixed range of number of pictures For instance the Circle Rotate effect requires that you have at least 2 pictures in the multi pictures slide If you have less than the minimum required number of pictures placeholder images will be added You will need to replace the placeholder images with your own later Effect settings Advanced The settings tab panel allows you to configure the multi pictures slide effect that you have selected There are 2 types of effects that are used in multi picture slides a Multi Pic Ken Burns Effect These are effects that are created based on applying Ken Burns Effect Pan Zoom Rotate Opacity differently on the different pictures For these effects you will see
3. The Picture tab is where the thumbnail visual can be configured By default the first item of the album will be used as the thumbnail To customize it with your own image or video clip select the Use the following image video option and locate your file in the explorer window that pops up When a video clip is used the video slider and the motion controls will be enabled Drag the arrows on the video slider to specify the start end of the desired portion for the video clip The Length indicates the duration of the selected portion Do note that this duration indicates the length of the clip for this menu item and doesn t change the actual duration of the entire menu To change the menu duration use the Menu Length setting in the lower Disc Menu panel You can also use a specific frame in a video clip as a still thumbnail image To do this set the video clip as the thumbnail and uncheck the Enable Motion for this Thumbnail checkbox You can then use the slider to locate the frame that you want Finally you can specify the orientation and aspect ratio with respect to the menu item for the thumbnail with the Rotate and Aspect settings 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd Basic Authoring 11 c Adding Thumbnail Effects EA Shadow Overlay L Text caption only Ok The Effect tab allows you to add shadow and overlays to the thumbnail items To add shadow effect to your menu page check the Shadow checkbox Overlay
4. position Adding photo video recursively When you drag a folder into the main panel it will create a new album Any sub folders that you drag in will be created as an album as well In this way your folder of photos and videos are added recursively into the project with each folder forming an album Arranging your photo video To arrange your photos and videos in the album simply drag and drop them to the desired position When in thumbnail mode the order of the photo video in the slideshow is from left to right followed by top to bottom When in detailed list mode the order is from top to bottom 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd MemoriesOnTV Hiding the Control Panel To increase the workspace for your album s photos videos you can hide away the bottom control panel showing the file explorer when in import mode temporarily To do so simply click on the KE hide just above the control panel Click on the same button to un hide the control panel Photo Video Input Format MemoriesOnTV supports all the common photo amp video formats Photo jpg gif bmp png tif pcx pgm pct pict tga wmf eps Video mpg avi mov mp4 mp4 on WinXP only Note that video format support is dependent on the video codec s installed on your PC In order to support mov amp mp4 you will need to have Apple s QuickTime 7 and above installed For all other formats you should have a relatively recent version of DirectX installed
5. At the minimum you should have DirectX 8 1 to support the most common video clip formats used in most digital cameras You can download the latest DirectX and QuickTime from the Microsoft s and Apple s website respectively DirectX htto www microsoft com windows directx downloads default as QuickTime htto www apple com quicktime download Main Panel Toolbar Ty MEME TIR LE LE The main panel toolbar provides some actions you can perform on your album or photo video The toolbar functions are described as follow following the order shown above New Text Slide Adds a new empty slide for the purpose of adding text captions Slide Settings Configure the slide properties You can also activate this by double clicking on the slide Delete Slide Remove the selected slides from the album Download Download ClipShow templates ClipShows Load ClipShow Create slides from ClipShow templates Save as Save selected slides as a ClipShow template Pro edition only ClipShow Merge Slides Merge selected slides into a single video file The purpose is to have a single video sequence that you can layer in a multi pictures slide resulting in a slideshow in slideshow effect Pro edition only Multi Pictures Layers the selected slides into a single or create a brand new multi pictures slide Slide Pro edition only Randomize Randomize the order of the selected slides Thumbnail View View slides in thumbnail mode Timeline
6. Encoder Available in MemoriesOnTV Pro only You can use the default Mpeg Encoder or hook up with the external TMpgEnc Plus encoder if you have it installed Cache Control You can set MemoriesOnTV to not cache any of the generated output during video generation process by checking the Clear cache after each build checkbox Burn Burn Driver You can choose to use either the default Native driver or Nero driver For Nero driver you will need to have a licensed copy of Nero installed on your PC Since the default native driver supports many CD DVD writers you shouldn t have a need to use Nero drivers in most cases 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd Advanced Authoring 39 Disc Label This sets the default label that is assigned to the burnt disc Output Folder This sets the default folder that MemoriesOnTV will use to output your video files to when it generates your video 4 Troubleshoot 4 1 CD DVD Burning Problems MemoriesOnTV supports a wide range of CD and DVD burners If you get a burn error or if your burner is not listed it is possible that your burner is currently unsupported If you have a licensed copy of Nero installed on your PC you can set MemoriesOnTV to use Nero drivers in the application preference As MemoriesOnTV outputs non proprietary CD image files BIN CUE format and DVD folder files VIDEO_TS you can also use any other 3rd party burning software if they support these formats For DVD
7. View View slides in timeline mode Detail View View slides in details mode 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd Basic Authoring 7 2 3 Adding Background Music Import Music Effects Disc Menu Burn For each album or sub album track you can add background music files to play along with the slideshow To do so click on the music button to set the control panel in music mode After that click on to add your music files Alternatively you can also drag amp drop your music files into the music panel You can re arrange the order in which your music files play at any time by dragging and dropping them to the desired position Music Format Support You can use MP3 uncompressed WAV or unprotected WMA music format files in MemoriesOnTV To use music files from your audio CD you will need to convert them to one of these formats There are many free tools available for this such as CDEX http www download com CDex 3000 2140 10226370 html If your music file is in another format you will need to use a audio converter One freeware audio converter Is http www any audio converter com Music Tools The music panel comes with some nifty tools to help you manipulate your music files When you click on Toole T you will see a menu of all the tools you can use Auto Sync all music amp slides Select this option when you want to adjust the delay of each slide proportionately such that the slideshow will end together
8. almost all DVD burning software supports importing of the VIDEO_TS folder contents For S VCD you can try any 3rd party burning software that supports BIN CUE 4 2 DVD Playback Problems S VCD Playback Problems using CD Recordables Most playback problems are due to hardware compatibility If you are creating S VCD CD Recordable you should ensure that 1 Your DVD player can read either CD RW or CD R media Note that some DVD players can read CD RW and not CD R and vice versa 2 Your DVD player supports VCD 2 0 or SVCD if you re playing SVCD Unfortunately some players claim support but doesn t implement it well Your best option is to research on your player first by using the following resource from VCDHELP http www vcdhelp com dvdplayers php Also you may want to try playing your disc with a software DVD player on your PC amp Mac to verify that the disc has been created correctly This requires that you have installed a software DVD player Another quick check you can do is to see if you can find the following folders on your S VCD and you insert it into your PC MPEGAV or MPEG2 EXT SEGMENT etc Lastly note that some DVD players are sensitive to the CD recordable media used You should avoid unbranded OEM CD R or CD RW that has been written too many times 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd 40 MemoriesOnTV DVD Playback Problems using DVD Recordables Many DVD players suppor
9. effects You use ClipShows by simply replacing the default bundled pictures with your own This allows you to create slideshows with interesting visual effect with very little work the hard work has already been done for you You can load a ClipShow by clicking on the Load ClipShow button as shown 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd Advanced Authoring 25 GE 6 Open Look ir amp clipshows 4 t ol De GC Ce Documents Mu Documents al My Computer FFT ie a My Network Places le E E AE H 0 End pplause ctw 0 Takeoff cty ES L Birthday ctw 1 Box Ch Lei L Camera chu Lei L Froamehot cty Lei 1 FrameRot Wide chy Lei L Hand uv ctw Lei 1 MagniFy cky 1 Magnify Wide chy Li 1 _Picoverlap cty Lei 1 PicOverlay cky Lei L Puzzle cty Lei 2 WeddingBand Ch LU item s o E 9 iPod Cu 79 iPod_Wide ctv 7 e Wedding ctv 16_Weddiing_ Wide cty 2 Shock ctw Li d Double Zoom ctw Li d Hands chy ES 4 _Lovellote ct ES d OldPhoto cty 4_OldPhoto_Wwide cty ei d _PaperClip cty s 4_PhotoPrint cty 74 PhotoPrint_wide ctv r d Stamps ckv Li d Stamps Wide cy Lei o Camera ctw 5 FimStrip ctv 5 FimStrip_Wide cty Li 2 WeddingBand Wide chy EN D Invitation ctv File name Files of type ClipShow Template TT chy Click to access installed ClipShow packages To access the ClipShow templates package you ve installed simply click on Library You will be shown the
10. organizes your photos and videos into albums or sub albums also known as tracks on a single CD or DVD Each album is a continuous slideshow selectable from the disc menu Sub albums allow you to group your photos and videos within an album and can be selectable from the disc menu as well Project Panel Control Panel The main application window is divided into 3 main panels The Project Panel shows the structure of your video disc and all its albums amp sub albums The Main Panel shows either all your photos amp videos in the currently selected album or shows an extension of the Control Panel The Control Panel gives you the authoring tools needed to customize your project depending on the current task chosen 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd MemoriesOnTV 2 1 Music Effects Disc Menu Burn Video authoring is simply a matter of going through 5 simple tasks Import Bring your photo amp video files into your albums through drag amp drop Music Sets the background music plays for each album or sub album Effects Customize the panning zooming Kens Burns Effect and the transition effect for each album Disc Menu Select the menu to use for your video disc Burn Generate the video amp burn onto CD or DVD Organizing your disc PL Untitled MemoriesOnT File Edit View Project Help E VideoDisc 2 albumis SED Scenery H Track 1 BR Track 2 H A People If you have man
11. the video clip duration In this case the last frame of the video clip will show after it has ended The Edit button shown disabled in the above figure only applies if this is a multi pictures slide video pro version only It will allow you to go back to the multi picture slide creation screen to re configure the multi picture slide Transform Aotate Hone ze Scale Fit to Frarne C Flip Horizontally LI Flip Vertically Genen A Transtorm Ovartsy Text A Effect h Pavom A Background h Music A Subtitle DVD only In the Transform tab panel you can apply rotation scale or crop on your picture video For scaling you have the option of fitting or stretching to the whole TV screen When you click Crop the screen will change to cropping mode 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd Advanced Authoring 19 You can crop out any region you want and MemoriesOnTV will use only that region for the slideshow display If you want your cropped photo video to fill up the screen fully then you should select Constrain to TV Aspect Ratio This will ensure that your cropped rectangle is always confined to the TV screen width height ratio Once you re done cropping click on End Crop to end the cropping mode Overlay om GE General Transform A Oweslay A Text A Effect Pan Zoom Background Huse Subtile DD only In the Overlay tab panel you can apply a border mask onto your picture An overlay is simply a image that you layer o
12. the following instruction in the settings tab panel the first time This effect is crested from specific Pan Zoon Rotate values Click CUSTOMIZE to sat this slide to CUSTOM affect with all the Pan fZoom Rotate values copied Actes Settings Back grad When you click on Customize you will get the pan zoom rotate opacity control for each picture on the slide Currently selected picture Effect values for the Current keyframe current picture s keyframe If you re familiar with setting Ken Burns Effect for single picture slides you should find the above controls familiar Basically it s the same as setting the pan zoom rotate opacity for single pictures except that now you can apply it to multiple pictures within the same slide Like before you have the ability of having multiple key frames per picture and each key frame can have a time that is set independently from other key frames in other pictures on the same slide 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd Advanced Authoring 29 It can sometimes be difficult to see on the preview which picture you are configuring as there are many pictures on the same slide You can select Preview selected picture only from the menu button so that only the current picture is displayed To reset the preview to show all pictures again select Preview all pictures from the same menu button b Non Ken Burns Effect These are effects that are coded by hand and cannot be simulated by applying pan
13. the pause is constrained by the position of the previous and next key frames Once you are done MemoriesOnTV will add a new key frame with the same exact value as the current one resulting in a pause in the pan zoom motion The menu in the pan zoom panel allows you to perform the following additional tasks Reset Pan Zoom This removes all motion from your current slide All pan zoom values are reset to their default in both the start end key frames All other key frames are removed Assign Random Pan Zoom When this is selected MemoriesOnTV will assign 2 key frames start end with random positions of your picture The end result is that your picture will have random motion on the slide Detect Faces and Pan to Each One MemoriesOnTV will detect frontal amp upright faces on your picture and then create a pan zoom setting for each detected face This has the effect of panning zooming to each detected face and is useful in showing each individual in a group picture Distribute Frames Evenly This spreads out all your key frames evenly on the timeline and is useful after you have inserted or deleted a key frame In particular if the face detection misses out some faces or incorrect detected faces you can easily fix it by adding removing new key frames and then re distributing all the keyframes evenly on the timeline Copy from Previous Frame The previous key frame values for pan zoom rotate opacity will be copied over to the current key f
14. the same folder as your HTML file and you will need to upload them to your web host as well Assuming you named your output HTML file as video htm the supporting files created are video flv This is the FLASH video file that holds the content of your video player swf This is the FLASH video player that will appear on your HTML page Export to MPG AVI AVI export only available in MemoriesOnTV Pro only 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd 36 MemoriesOnTV 3 7 You can also export your slideshow to either a MPEG or AVI video file To do so simply select Project gt Export to MPG AVI File from the main menu You will be presented with a export window similar to that for the export to web slideshow Instead of specifying the output HTML file you will specify the output MPG or AVI file If you are exporting to AVI you will need to change the Save as type to AVI when you get the save file dialog File name Save as type MPEG Video Files P mpg ll Cancel MPEG Video Files mpg AV Video Files avi Set this to AVI Video Files avi if you want te output to an AVT file Advanced If you opt to save it as an AVI file you will be able to choose the output video codec MemoriesOnTV will let you choose whatever AVI video codecs you have installed on your PC You can for example choose to use a lossless video codec like HUFFYUV In our experience XVID works very well as an intermediary codec in
15. the video on different edges and to different amount You should ensure that your photo objects or text are within the TV Safe Region Otherwise they may not be visible when viewed on your TV This setting allows you to configure the amount of TV Safe Region For most TV s this should be about 80 90 If you select Scale Slideshow on Disc to TV Safe Region MemoriesOnTV will add a border to your whole slideshow so that your slideshow only occupies the TV Safe region Slide Background This sets the default slide background color Default Duration 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd 38 MemoriesOnTV 1 Slide This sets the default slide display duration which is applied when you add new slides 2 Effect This sets the default transition duration which is applied when you add new slides 3 Audio Fade This sets the default duration for the audio fade It is used whenever you apply fading to your audio Effects Transition Effect When you select Use random settings for random transition effect each assigned random transition will have a random setting resulting in more variations in your transition The Customize Random Effects button allows you to select the list of transition effects you want to use when Random Effects are applied onto the slides Face Detection Face detection is performed when you apply a Detect Faces and Pan to Each One action on your slides It is also performed in the EFFECTS panel when
16. zoom rotate opacity values to the different pictures For these effects the settings available are dependent on the effect and are usually simple tweaks of the effect parameters Circle Rotate and Zoom Tile are examples of such effects If you want you can create your own multi picture effects from scratch as well If you select Custom from the list of available effects you will be able to set each picture s pan zoom rotate opacity independently The difference between this and customizing an existing Multi Pic Ken Burns Effect is that you will be starting entirely from pan zoom rotate opacity values that have been reset to the default Slide Duration You can control the speed of your slide by setting the Duration field By default this is set to 70 seconds To change the value just type in the new duration and hit Enter Background In the Background tab panel you can set the multi pictures slide s background to either a fixed color or a image file Like in normal slides you can choose to stretch the background image or have it maintain its original aspect ratio Rendering the Multi Pictures Slide Once you are done authoring your multi pictures slide click on Next at the bottom and you will be shown the rendering screen MemoriesOnTV will now prompt you to provide a video filename to save the multi pictures slide in 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd 30 MemoriesOnTV Qulti Pichure Slide Men
17. 8 MB RAM 256MB Recommended 36 MB of available hard drive space for program installation CD or DVD Burner to burn discs Windows compatible display with at least 800 x 600 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd MemoriesOnTV 1 2 e Windows compatible mouse or pointing device e Windows compatible sound card recommended File Format Support Input Formats Image BMP GIF JPG PNG TIF PCX PGM PICT TGA WMF EPS Video mpc MOV AVI MP4 MP4 on WinXP only 3GP Audio WAV MP3 WMA unprotected only Output Formats Video CD 2 0 NTSC 352x240 PAL 352x288 Super Video CD NTSC 480x480 PAL 480x576 DVD NTSC 720x480 PAL 720x576 AVI Resolution dependent on codec Web FLV Multiple resolution Video codec support is dependent on DirectX and QuickTime Minimally you will need DirectX 8 1 and Quicktime 7 to support most digital camera video clip formats MemoriesOnTV Pro only Installing amp Registering Installation Follow these steps to install MemoriesOnTV 1 Download and save MemoriesOnTV from http www codejam com download htm 2 Double click the downloaded executable to start the installation 3 Follow the on screen instructions If you are installing from an older version we highly recommend that you uninstall any existing copies before installing the new one Registration After installing MemoriesOnTV you need to enter your registration key into the software to turn it into
18. 89 jpg New Multi Pictures Slide Added this slide is layered with 5 pictures Should you need to re edit the multi pictures slide double click on the slide and click Edit in the General tab panel You will return to the original multi pictures slide configuration window HE Pure Video Stings iii Le E Filen arri mri ri Start ond g Rasoluden 720 age Click EDIT to return back to Length Grid s ee ee the muiti pictures slide editor angraueltoo Fae we KM V rit Tien A T For some multi pictures slide it may be desirable to add a end pause to the created video clip This is so that it will transition nicely to the next slide You can do so in the above window 3 5 Slideshow in Slideshow The ability to layer multiple slides into a single slide coupled with the merge slide feature allows you to create some very interesting slideshow in slideshow effects This effect is similar to the picture in picture feature that is in many modern TV sets in which you can watch 2 or more TV channels simultaneously on the same screen The best way to illustrate slideshow in slideshow is through an example In this example we will create a show with 2 slideshows playing simultaneously For simplicity we will just use a set of 4 pictures for each slideshow 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd 32 MemoriesOnTV The first thing to do is to import in all your pictures into MemoriesOnTV Pictu
19. ClipShow template By doing so you can easily create the same visual sequence with other pictures saving a tremendous amount of time To save your slides as a ClipShow simply select them and click on the Save ClipShow E button The next time you want to re create the same visual sequence simply load up this saved ClipShow and replace the photos with your new ones 3 4 Multi Pictures Slide One of the most exciting features in this release of MemoriesOnTV is multi picture slides With this you can layer multiple pictures on the same slide and create some very interesting visual effects There are 2 ways to create a multi picture slide If you have already imported the pictures you want to layer on 1 slide select these pictures in MemoriesOnTV and click on the multi picture slide tool on the main toolbar Alternatively you can just go ahead and click on the above without selecting any pictures MemoriesOnTV will create a multi pictures slide with placeholder images that you can replace later Multi Picture Slide ks xj Effect Card Spread Delete Adding Removing pictures In the multi pictures slide window you can easily add remove pictures or videos by clicking Add or Delete in the Pictures tab panel To replace a picture click on Replace You can also change the order of your slides by dragging amp dropping them into their desired positions The last picture in the list will 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd
20. MemoriesOnTV User Guide Version 4 0 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd MemoriesOnTV Table of Contents Part Introduction 1 System REQUIFEMENIS 5 mrmssnsmarsrnentensenennnntasannannnnenneenentannes 2 Installing amp Registering is srssnrrrenrrrenrrnnrnnnnss Part Il Basic Authoring NO On FP WN Part Ill Advanced Authoring CON OO OO P DN Part IV Troubleshoot 1 CD DVD Burning Problems cccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeneeseeseneaseeneseeneeneesoees 2 DVD Playback Problems veda xasiecce name setexsnewernnamcawsssabensinsavencinsaseemesrameancesa ence Part V Appendix A List of countries using NTSC video system Part VI Appendix B List of countries using PAL video system Index Organizing your EE Importing Photos amp Videos a sasssssnnnsnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn nnmnnn Adding Background MUSIC een EEN VALEUREN DISO MENU a A Previewing Video DISC sssssssssssssnessimsssneennemannennsnnnnm snnneneresnes Burning Video WR TE Working With Views asssnssnnsnnnnsnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn nnne Customizing Slides manne anse ce de nnmnnn USING be ene E OU Ee del TE Slideshow in Slideshow ueekeRKEkRR KENNEN KEREN RRE ERKENNEN ENEE E ERKENNEN Exporting your Slideshow rs R ERKENNEN RRE PROIECUIMPOM AICIIVG in a ee eine Rec nn ni Application Preferences ccccccscceseeeseeeeeeeeeeceneseneseneseneseneseneseneseneeonee
21. VD related software supports reading of the VIDEO_TS folder for either DVD burning or video playback Once you are ready click on START to kick off the process As mentioned video generation is a time consuming process To speed things up you should avoid running too many background tasks when video generation is in progress Generate video option To the right of the Burn panel is an Option menu button This option menu allows access to additional action and configuration options 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd Basic Authoring 15 3 Option Ca m Clear Cache Now Edit Video Generation Preferences Edit Burn Preferences Clear Cache Now entry remove the cache for the current project and hence freeing up more space on your hard disk The Edit Video Generation Preferences and Edit Burn Preferences entries will launch the application preference dialog This is described further in the Application Preferences chapter 3 Advanced Authoring 3 1 Working With Views For maximum flexibility MemoriesOnTV supports 3 different type of VIEWS of your images videos in the main panel The different views are activated through the VIEW toolbar buttons Thumbnail Ss HI e Details View IS K View Timeline View 1 Thumbnail View Crea af singe DOSA T ATS By SANS 11290905 pg RESO OT LORIE pg The Thumbnail View shows you your photos amp videos as thumbnails in a rectangular area This view
22. a fully registered copy Otherwise you will see a EVALUATION COPY watermark on your created videos If you do not yet have a registration key you can purchase from the MemoriesOnTV website http www codejam com buy htm If you already have your registration key perform the following steps to register the software 1 Start MemoriesOnTV 2 Go to the Registration Box by clicking on the Register button on the startup screen that appear when you start the software or by choosing Help gt Enter serial number from the menu bar in MemoriesOnTV 3 Enter your e mail according to the e mail address you have used when you purchased the software 4 Enter your registration key It can be found on the invoice you received by e mail 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd Introduction 3 5 Click the OK button You should receive the following message Thank you for registering Note that the registration key is tied to your e mail address You need to enter the originally registered e mail at the time of purchase even if you have already changed your e mail address Un Installation Perform the following steps to remove MemoriesOnTV from your computer 1 Choose Start gt Settings gt Control Panel gt Add Remove Programs 2 Choose MemoriesOnTV from the list 3 Select the Add Remove button 4 Follow the on screen instructions 2 Basic Authoring Overview MemoriesOnTV is an easy but powerful video authoring software It
23. ach picture stays on display by setting the Picture Delay This can be anything more than 1 00 seconds IMPORTANT Once you have configured the Picture Effect or the Picture Delay you need to click for it to take effect You will be able to choose to apply to all slides in the current track or just the selected slides Transition Effect Transition Effects are effects that show when the picture is changing to the next one Many of the existing transition effects are customizable yielding almost an infinite number of possible transitions To do so click on Customize You can also customize the transition effects on a per slide basis so that each slide uses a different variant of a particular transition This is set similarly in the slide s customization window When you set the transition effect to Random you can select the list of effects that will be randomly selected To do so set Transition Effect to Random and click on Customize button You can set the delay for each transition The longer the delay the slower a picture will change to the next one To have no effects for the whole album set the transition delay to 0 00 IMPORTANT Once you have configured the Transition Effect or the Transition Delay you need to click for it to take effect You will be able to choose to apply to all slides in the current 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd Basic Authoring 9 track or just the selected slides Apply All To ap
24. click on the triangular marker at the center For the pan position you can click on the x icon at the center The following lists down the range of values for each of the parameters you can adjust e Zoom Ranges from 0 12 approximately 1 8th to 8 00 You can zoom in out up to 8 times e Rotate Ranges from 1 00 clockwise 180 degrees to 1 00 anti clockwise 180 degrees e Opacity Ranges from 0 00 fully transparent to 1 00 fully opaque e Pan This measures the offset of the center of the picture from the center of the screen A x value of 50 00 means that the center of the picture is on the extreme left edge and a x value of 50 00 means that the center of the picture is on the extreme right edge Similarly a y value of 50 00 corresponds to the bottom edge and 50 00 corresponds to the top edge e Speed This indicates the speed of pan zoom from the current frame to the next You can achieve a pause in your key frame easily by hitting the Add button in Pause The following window will be shown when you do this 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd 22 MemoriesOnTV MemoaresOnty will add a new key frame with the same pan zoom values as the existing one This Will result in pause Pause Drag the Pause slider to set how long you want the key frame to pause If you drag it before the trianglular marker then the pause will occur before the key frame Otherwise it will occur after the key frame The length of
25. e total timing This sets the duration of each text caption to the slide s total time Note that the slide s total time includes the transition effects of the current and next slide e Reset selected to slide display timing exclude transition This is the same as above except that the text caption will only appear when the slide gets displayed and not when it is in transition from to other slides e Show TV Safe When positioning your text captions on the slide it s important that you place them within the TV safe region Otherwise they may be truncated by your TV set during playback This setting when selected will show you the TV safe region on your slide Note that this setting is not applicable when you have already opted to scale all your slides within the TV safe region in the application preference Effect Effect Wit Fade Effect Delay 7 00 5 Customize slide Delay 2 00 se S V General A Tarsia x Lv rbau Tex A Effect A Pan Doce Background h Musi A Subtitle CD end In the Effects tab panel you can set the effects amp its duration for the current slide The selected transition effect can be customized so that it can have a different behavior eg different direction compared to other slides with the same effect For picture slides you can adjust the slide delay in this panel as well For video slides the slide delay is auto calculated to match the video duration and cannot be adjusted Pan Zoom
26. en Background hus A Subtitle DYD only If you are creating a DVD disc you can add subtitles to each individual slide in this panel subtitles is NOT available for VCD SVCD Unlike text captions subtitles can be turned on off during playback via the DVD remote control By default each slide has a subtitle that will display its filename This is shown in the subtitle editor as a FILENAME macro Macros are simply special labels that will be replaced by the software with some pre defined properties of the slide From the Insert button menu you can insert other macros such as the date of the slide the current slide number etc Note that if you change the color of a subtitle text it will be applied to all subtitles This is due toa limitation of the DVD specification Apply All Current Setting Apply to Selected Slides All Settings d Apply to All Slides in Track as Apply to All Slides in Project For each tab panel setting you can apply it to all selected slides all slides in the same track or all slides in the project This is done via the Apply All gt Current Setting menu If you select the action from the AU Settings menu instead all the settings from all tab panels will be applied Using ClipShows Creating Slides with ClipShows In many ways ClipShows are similar to Clip Art packages for a graphical application They are simply short sequences of slides that are pre choreographed to achieve certain visual
27. et the Zoom amp Pan values for each slideshow 50 that they are placed in the desired position Once done click on Next and you should get a screen that asks you to save the resulting clip Like before you can choose to save the resulting clip as a MPG or a AVI file When MemoriesOnTV is done it will replace your 2 video clips with the layered clip Shoes mpg Congratulations You now have a slide with 2 slideshows in it playing simultaneously Exporting your Slideshow Exporting to Web Available in MemoriesOnTV Pro only MemoriesOnTV has the ability to export your slideshow to the Flash format which is playable on 93 of all web browsers on both PC and Mac without the need for end users to install anything at all Once you have your slideshow ready select Project gt Export to Web from the main menu You will be prompted to provide the output HTML filename to save your slideshow in 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd Advanced Authoring 35 Expert to rh aa of But E Harpnap gCesTv will Svpaort gout corey relectad Alburn into ho calacted forrnat Zosczbu the video file namg ore clack EIWIEH bo ptsrt genareating thee videg Output Video File e by enied Bathing Video Size Ebtrate Framerate 220e Z n T Gare T i T Audio Channels Audio sampli Audio Hiirste mane T 2200 T 42 Finigh Carpe There are a couple of Advanced Settings that you can configure for the web
28. he PTV project file to import your albums from Once you 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd Advanced Authoring 37 have selected the project file MemoriesOnTV will show you the list of albums it has found in the imported project Import Albuns EI Leclugde All You can choose to import one of more of the albums found in the project The imported albums will be appended to your existing project file Archiving Project Available in MemoriesOnTV Pro only MemoriesOnTV allows you to archive your project into a single ZIP file This is performed when you select File gt Archive Project from the main menu The resulting ZIP file will contain your PTV project file as well as all referenced music picture and video files You will be able to copy this ZIP file to a different location or even a different computer To edit your project from the archive simply un ZIP your archive to any folder and load up the PTV project from there All the referenced files music pictures videos will be properly loaded This feature is particularly useful if you edit your project from more than 1 computer 3 8 Application Preferences You can access the application preferences from the Edit gt Preference menu General Video Aspect You can configure the final video output for a normal or a widescreen TV For normal TV s this should be set to 4 3 For widescreen TV s this should be set to 16 9 TV Safe Region All TV sets will crop
29. ic In the case of video slides clicking on X will reset the music to the one from the video file You can set the following parameters for the input music file e Offset This controls the start time of the music with respect to the slide You can use a negative value if you want the music to start earlier than the current slide By default the music for the slide will end when the slide ends If you want the music to continue playing select Continue beyond slide e Volume This controls the volume for the music You can fade in your music at the beginning and fade it out when the slide ends by selecting Fade in then fade out e Background When the slide music is playing the background music may be playing simultaneously as well You can set the volume of the background music to soften it when the slide music is playing For a smoother effect you should fade out the background music when the slide music is playing and fade it back in when the slide music ends In the Tools menu you can set the duration of the slide to the duration of your music file so that they end together You can also select a sub section of the music file to use or perform auto trim to remove start end silence from your input music file Subtitle DVD Only Available only in MemoriesOnTV Pro 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd 24 MemoriesOnTV 3 3 insert d Arial L ps T FILENAME General Transform Overt A Text A Effect Pan Zov
30. ile Generate video disc image and burn into Disc performs both video generation and CD DVD burning Burn existing video disc image performs CD DVD burning on a previously generated video By default MemoriesOnTV caches the output of every video generation The next time a video disc image generation is requested the program will only regenerate those slideshow albums that have been modified since the last video generation This speeds up the process considerably at the expense of more hard disk space usage Should you need to do a complete rebuild of the video disc image for the entire project check the Clear cache before generating disc image checkbox and MemoriesOnTV will remove the previously cached files before proceeding with the video generation process If you d like to turn off caching altogether you can do so via the Video Generation tab in the Application Preferences window All generated video files are written into the Working Folder that you have specified In the case of a S VCD this will be in the form of a BIN CUE format disc image named videocd cue amp videocd bin if your project is Untitled If your project is titled the BIN CUE image files will be named after your project filename eg MyProject cue amp MyProject bin In the case of DVD the disc image will be in the form of standard DVD video folders named VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS These folders are stored inside a newly created folder named after your project Many D
31. ill not matter if your DVD player is multi system compatible 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd Basic Authoring 13 You will also need to select the type of disc you want to create The following table shows the features of each of these formats Format Video Quality DVD Player Requires Compatibility VCD Average Good CD writer CD R CD RW SVCD Very Good Average CD writer CD R CD RW DVD Excellent Excellent DVD writer DVD R W DVD R W In evaluation mode any produced CD DVD will bear the EVALUATION COPY watermark on the created video Burn Options Burn settings Disc Writer VCD SVCD DWD JNEC DVD RW ND 3540A F Bus 1 ID C write Speed Max bi Refresh Simulate first The Burn Settings will show you a list of burners detected on your PC If your burner is not listed or it is unsupported you can hook up MemoriesOnTV with Nero to do the burning behind the scene This is detailed in the CD DVD Burning Troubleshooting Guide If you wish you can simulate the burning first before the actual burn by selecting Simulate first However this is usually unnecessary Video Size Indicator Before you proceed to burn your CD or DVD you should check that the size of your project does not exceed the disc capacity At the bottom of the MemoriesOnTV window is a blue color size indicator If you are burning a CD recordable the limit is usually 650Mb or 7OOMb If you are burning a DVD recordable the limit i
32. is most suited for arranging your photos videos into the order that you need 2 Timeline View 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd 16 MemoriesOnTV 3 2 DEP ONE EME 00 00 2020 The Timeline View shows your slideshow in a horizontal timeline with respect to your music files From the timeline you can preview your slideshow from any photo video as well as make changes to the effects amp delays of individual items To change the effects or delays of any item simply click on the desired box containing the value A popup window will appear to allow you to make the change You can also make use of the Timeline View to make quick changes to a selected group of pictures videos For example to change the transition effect of a group of pictures simply select the pictures and then click on the box containing the effect of ANY selected item The new value will be applied to all the items in your selection 3 Detail View Te t vo ve Ebert Hame Size T Date Transition D 20682 7736 09 SS2KB JPEG Image 9 19 2000 4 32 Fade 2 0 ZE zeg _607 1 i9 ISSKE JPEG Image 6 30 2009 1 35 Fade 2 0 25290 2769 jog 763KB JPEG image 9 21 2000 11 41 Fade 2 0 24498 1973 ro FISK6 JPEGImage 6 30 2003 1 17 Fade KA 10965_5055 io9 166 KE JPEG Image 9 19 2003 5 29 Fade 2 0 Terminator mov SMB QuickTime 53200311 Fade SS A S AU OMEI Ju 435KB JPEGImage 9 19 2003S 21 Fade 2 0 The Detail View allows you to
33. ith the background music You can control how 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd MemoriesOnTV 2 4 loud the background music plays by adjusting the volume slider Mis Wolume 100 Applying Music Settings to all Albums If you have many albums and you wish to use the same music settings for all you can click on sept a This will copy the settings to all your albums which you can then edit individually for each album Visual Effects Import Music Effects Disc Menu Den MemoriesOnTV includes some of the most visually stunning effects in slideshow software There are 2 types of effects you can apply to your slideshow Picture Effect Picture Effects also known as Ken Burns Effect are effects that show when the picture is on display This effect allows you to pan zoom in out or rotate your picture and is very popular in TV Documentaries When combined with simple transition effects described next it can look very pleasing If you ve selected the option to pan zoom randomly for your Picture Effects you can check the Avoid Cropping Face s option This will force the detection of faces upright amp frontal on your photos and the random pan zoom will be constrained such that it does not cut into the faces Note that face detection is a lengthy process and will take a while to complete for many pictures It s recommended that you only check this option for selected pictures You can adjust how long e
34. list of available templates within the installed library Alternatively browse to the folder in which your ClipShow is stored and load it up Once you have loaded a ClipShow you will be see the ClipShow editor window 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd 26 MemoriesOnTV Clip Show Editor Click PLAY to preview the ClipShow LI EE Cito PLAY te Geld he video To gubstitute d faut photog with your can gelect phote and cick REPLACE hen yours reide click FINISH io cute the sidai Replace Un Replace Ph lisr s emm Replace these default pictures with your own The preview above will be updated accordingly Fe D After you have replaced the default pictures with your own click Finish and MemoriesOnTV will generate all the necessary slides That s it Adding pictures to ClipShow For many ClipShows you can only replace the existing stock pictures within it However some of the ClipShows that come with the ClipShow Volume 1 package has the ability to allow you to add more pictures to it For such ClipShows you will see an additional Add Pictures tab Clicking on the Add Pictures tab you will have the ability to add delete move pictures in addition to those that are already present in the default stock Saving Slides as ClipShow Available in MemoriesOnTV Pro only 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd Advanced Authoring 27 You can save a consecutive sequence of slides as a
35. ly select the album you want and click on the loop button The film icon representing the album will show a small loop inside Naming your Album Track ll You can name your albums amp tracks in any way you like To re name simply select the album or track and click on the existing name Alternatively you can click on the pen button at the bottom of the Project Panel The names on your album will show on the disc menu if the selected disc menu shows album names Changing Album Track position and hierarchy AW Albums amp tracks are draggable You can drag them to change their position or to change their hierarchy A much easier alternative is to use to up down buttons at the bottom of the Project Panel These however only allows you to change the position of the albums or tracks and not their hierarchy 2 2 Importing Photos amp Videos Import Music Effects Disc Menu Burn You can import your photos amp videos into MemoriesOnTV when the import task is selected You can either use the built in file explorer to drag amp drop your photos videos into the main panel or use Windows Explorer Adding photo video to a specific position When you re in thumbnail view default any photos dropped will be added to the end of the album If you wish to add photos to the dropped position instead simply hold the SHIFT key on your keyboard when you perform the drag amp drop In the timeline view photos are always added to the dropped
36. montesGunTY will cove gow criuli picture slide to a video file hich will then be inserted into sou project You will be able to make further changer later Specty the video file name and than click FINISH te gtart generating the Aeulti peeture lide Output Video File TI Cl T Advanced Settings Video NTSC Resolution ovo T Sa eg z t La When specifying the Output Video File you can save your video either as a MPG file default or as a AVI file To save it as a AVI you will need to change the Save as type to AVI when you get the save file dialog File name Save as type MPEG Video Files D mpg ll Cancel MPEG Video Files mpg AVI Video Files i Set this to AVI Video Files avi if you want te output to an AWI file Advanced If you opt to save it as an AVI file you will be able to choose the output video codec MemoriesOnTV will let you choose whatever AVI video codecs you have installed on your PC You can for example choose to use a lossless video codec like HUFFYUV In our experience XVID works very well as an intermediary codec for multi pictures slides in terms of both quality and speed Once you are ready click on Finish and MemoriesOnTV will proceed to render the frames for the multi pictures slide When this is done you should see your new multi picture slide in the main view 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd Advanced Authoring 31 1904 4978 jpg En Mp 1952 _ 40
37. n top of your photo so as to either shape it or to decorate its sides You can either use the pre built overlays or use your own image files MemoriesOnTV supports 32 bits images so you can have semi or fully transparent borders To remove the overlay simply click on the X button Text Text l Start Time Duration Effect lt Effect Duration Dan s Birthday 0 00 6 00 D I 35 hy Little Boy 0 00 6 00 Den se Hoeven e 3 Transhonm Scro Down Sorc Left Le The Text tab panel allows you to add text captions to your slide Each text caption can have its own independent timing and effects To add a new text caption click on the button A new empty text caption will be added To edit this new text caption either double click on it or select it and click on Edit The text Tools menu allow you to do the following to your selected text captions 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd 20 MemoriesOnTV SE Tools e Apply selected text style Apply to Current Slide 4ssign random effects to selected pol to Selected Slides Reset selected to slide total timing Apply to All Slides in Track Reset selected to slide display timing exclude transition Apply to All Slides in Project Show TV Safe R gion e Apply selected text style This applies the selected text style to other slides e Assign random effects to selected This sets each selected text caption to a random text effect e Reset selected to slid
38. name Palace jpg C Auto Enhance Resolution 600 x 600 Curation Brightness De pl ACH Contra el E be General Transform A Overtay A Text A PaniZoom A Background Muse A Subtitle DVDenky For photo slides you can adjust the Brightness amp Contrast of the current photo You can also ask MemoriesOnTV to Auto Enhance your photo This is especially useful for photos that are over or under exposed If you wish you can also replace the photo with another All your existing settings eg pan zoom or text captions will remain after you have replaced the photo 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd 18 MemoriesOnTV Filename BikeTrip amp i Start 0 00 s Resolution 320 x 240 Length O 27 4 D fiom Ose i End Pause 0 00 General Transform Overy h Text A Effect Fand Zeen Background Hure Subtitle DD eriw For video slides you can specify that START and END of the video clip by dragging the start end markers on the blue slider bar This is useful if you want to select only a sub section of your video clip You can also specify a END PAUSE value The last frame of the video clip will show for this duration when the clip has ended This is particularly useful for multi pictures slide video clips Note that the length of the video clip can be shorter than the length of the slide in which the video clip is added to This happens when you have a slide with transition effects delays that are longer than
39. onal space The longer the motion menu duration the more space will be needed for the menus and hence leaving less available space for the slideshow proper Also the total size of all the disc menu cannot exceed 1GB Customizing Menu Page Items Each item on the menu page is resizable and moveable To resize simply select the menu page item and drag its corner anchors To move drag the item to its desired location on the menu page Should you decide to reset back the menu item positions to their original click on a next to the menu layout selection To configure other more advanced aspects for the menu page item double click on that item to bring up the configuration window a Editing Captions 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd 10 MemoriesOnTV Scene ru Cl Apply Text Style to similar objects Prepend Button Number Alignment Text below picture LI Apply alignment to all thumbnails Text A Picture Effect CL Text caption only QE From the Text tab you can change the caption for the menu item as well as changing the appearance and alignment Check the Text caption only checkbox if you do not want any picture thumbnail for this item b Setting the Thumbnail Picture 2 Use the first picture of the Album Use the following image video G Travelling BikeTrip Av z Enable Motion for this Thumbnail Length 0014 79 Rotate None x Aspect Letterbox CL Text caption only OK
40. ply your effects settings to all your albums you can click on _Appwai You will get a pop up menu that allows you to select which setting you want to apply to all your aloums The controls in the Effects control panel allows you to customize the effect for each album or sub album tracks To have finer control on each individual slide refer to customizing slides 2 5 Disc Menu Import Music Effects Disc Menu Burn MemoriesOnTV includes many disc menu templates that you can use for your disc When you use a menu for your disc the playback will start with the menu and end with the menu after every slideshow If you disable the use of the menu playback will start from the first to the last album You can disable the menu by selecting Do not create menu after clicking on By default MemoriesOnTV will create a 2 level menu if you have multiple tracks within an album For albums with multi tracks the track menu will be shown when you activate the button for the album If you only want a 1 level menu select Create menu to select Albums instead of Create menu to select Albums amp Tracks in Albums from the 3 menu For DVDs MemoriesOnTV supports the creation of motion menus motion menu is one in which the background and or any of the thumbnails are video clips By default the duration of a motion menu is set to 20 seconds after which the menu will be looped back to the beginning Do note that motion menus do take up additi
41. rame Copy from Next Frame The next key frame values for pan zoom rotate opacity will be copied over to the current key frame Insert New Frame This function will copy the currently selected key frame and add it after the currently selected one This allows you to pan zoom to different regions of your picture at different times during the slide playback For example if you have a group picture with many faces you may want to pan zoom to each individual faces on the picture Remove Frame This removes the currently selected key frame The Start End key frames cannot be removed Background 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd Advanced Authoring 23 Color Shadow C image Stretch For each slide you can set the background of the slide to either a color or a image The background image can stretch to fill the screen or it can maintain its original aspect ratio In addition you can also check the Shadow option This will add a shadow to the picture that s overlaid on top of the background Music pak Gis e d iT Di di KE E H GT GT E E E E E E TT E eer SS erer ge g AV Ti ili 3 Offser O80 Each slide can have its own music file This is useful when you re adding voice annotations to your slides For video slides the default music will be the music from the video if it has any To assign a new music file to the slide simple click on Similarly click on X to remove the mus
42. res for slideshow 1 Pictures for slideshow 2 yo select the 1st 4 pictures and click on the merge slide button on the main toolbar al MemoriesOnTV will merge your selected slides into a single video slide You will be prompted for the filename to save the new video slide in irre Sis Barone Oni will marga pour colected chides and reine tham with a single remdared video File Specify the cides fle name and them click FINISH to pker garcerstierg the video Output Video File advanced Regtings Retolutioen Cup You can save the video slide as a MPG default or a AVI file To save it as a AVI you will need to change the Save as type to AVI when you get the save file dialog 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd Advanced Authoring 33 File name Save as type MPEG Video Files D mpg ll Cancel MPEG Video Files mpg AV Video Files avi Set this to AVI Video Files avi if you want te output to an AWI file Advanced If you opt to save it as an AVI file you will be able to choose the output video codec MemoriesOnTV will let you choose whatever AVI video codecs you have installed on your PC You can for example choose to use a lossless video codec like HUFFYUV In our experience XVID works very well as an intermediary codec in terms of both quality and speed Click on Finish when you have specified your output file and MemoriesOnTV will start to render the video slide When i
43. s 4 7Gb for single layer DVD or 8 5 Gb for double layer DVD On the right of the size indicator is a combo box for choosing whether you want to store your original files on the same CD or DVD You have the option not to store anything store just the original photos or store all your original photos amp videos on the same CD or DVD Do note that storing the original files on the same CD DVD will increase the size of your project and you should check that it is still within the capacity of your empty disc If you store the original files you will have an archive that you can use later for hard copy printout of your photos Video Disc Creation 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd 14 MemoriesOnTV There are 2 main steps needed to create your video disc 1 Video Generation For each second of video about 25 30 pictures have to be generated from your files and then compressed using MPEG This process will take quite a while to complete especially on a slower PC 2 CD DVD Burning After the video files are generated they are burnt onto your empty discs using the built in burning software MemoriesOnTV allows you to perform the above steps separately or as one single step You have the following 3 choices Generate video disc image and burn into Disc M Generate video disc image and burn into Disc Burn existing video disc image Generate video disc image Generate video disc image performs only video generation wh
44. s are used to add borders and other interesting visual effects to the thumbnail items These are layered on top of the thumbnail and modify the way the thumbnail is being presented Select the desired overlay from the pre built list or use your own image files MemoriesOnTV supports 32 bits images so you can have semi or fully transparent borders To remove the overlay click the X button Other Menu Customization The bottom Disc Menu panel is where you set the background music layout and the duration of the menu pages Menu This sets the duration for the menu page When the end of the menu is reached it will Length loop from the beginning until a menu button is activated The duration can be sync to that of either the background if video or the music by clicking on __Lengh Do note that a longer motion menu takes up more space on the final DVD Layout The layout determines the number of albums or tracks that can be selected from the menu Currently you can have up to 12 albums tracks per menu page Backgrou You can either choose a background from the list of available templates or specify your nd own background image You can also specify a video clip to create a motion menu In this case the button will be enabled allowing you to manually trim the video clip to the desired portion Music When the menu music is specified it will play and loop until a menu button is activated You can select a sub section of the music file to pla
45. see your slides as a list of files This view is useful for sorting the list based on Filename Size Type or Date You sort your files by clicking on the column headers This view also allows you to do limited editing In particular you can set the transition effects amp picture delay in this view by clicking on the appropriate cell Customizing Slides For each individual slide there are many options you can customize To customize you can either double click on the desired slide or you can press the Settings button on the main panel toolbar 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd Advanced Authoring 17 d MemoriesOnTV allows you to preview your customization in real time Anytime you want to preview the slide you have customized simply press on the play button or drag the marker along the timeline The timeline shows you the total duration of the slide which includes the transition effect duration before and after the slide display The pink region on the timeline indicates the region in which the slide is displayed Transition from to the previous next slide occurs outside the highlighted pink region Picture hes iige Apgly All Diera F g Beit Epi Seem dx urate ightness O geet Contrast g VM Beats A Gutts A Tra Be A Fe tes Begue A Ham A Sege Ze C obt de ball Gs TreveiiegiFalica ma Back General The General tab panel is different for photo slides and video slides File
46. slideshow Video Size This specifies the output video resolution It is not advisable that you set this to a high resolution as the resulting video file will be huge and it can take too long for your audience to stream it Bitrate The bitrate of the video specifies the amount of information stored in the video The higher the bitrate the clearer the video This setting will usually depend on your chosen resolution and it s best to leave it as Auto Should you decide to make your video clearer you can try to increase this parameter Framerate The framerate determines how fast the video frames refreshes For video with lots of fast moving action you will need a higher framerate to combat jerkiness The default value will usually suffice for most cases Audio Channels You can choose to use mono or stereo For bandwidth reasons this is set to mono by default Audio Sampling The audio sampling rate determines the resolution of the audio The higher the sampling rate the clearer the audio However this comes at a expense of a bigger file size Audio Bitrate The audio bitrate determines the amount of information stored in the audio A higher bitrate will result in clearer audio but comes at the expense of file size Once you are done you can click on Finish to start the exporting process MemoriesOnTV will output your specified HTML file together with a few supporting files for the flash playback The supporting files will be stored in
47. ss 40 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd Introduction 1 1 Introduction User Guide version 4 0 Copyright 2003 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical including photocopying recording or storing in a retrieval system or translated into any language in any form without the express written permission of CodeJam Mpeg Encoder 1999 2000 2003 MainConcept AG CD recording software developed under license from Padus Inc MemoriesOnTV Pro uses FLV encoder from the FFMpeg project and ZIP library from 7 Zip project which are licensed under LGPL MemoriesOnTV Menu Template Backgrounds are created by Mike Swanson Software License The software described in this document is furnished under a License Agreement which is included with the product This Agreement specifies the permitted and prohibited uses of the product About MemoriesOnTV MemoriesOnTV is an easy but powerful video CD DVD authoring software that brings your digital photos amp videos into the living room television With MemoriesOnTV you can archive your favorite pictures amp videos into a professional CD DVD that is playable on standard DVD players and accessible on PC s and Mac s 1 1 System Requirements System Requirements e Microsoft Windows 98 ME 2000 2003 XP or Vista Intel Pentium2 Processor or equivalent and above 12
48. t is done it will replace your selected pictures with the video slide G8 5 2 veges Ee ly E 1932 Aen Ke The ist 4 pictures have been merged into a single video slide Now do the same thing for the next 4 slides You will end up with 2 video slides in your album CH vod vege a E al Having prepared the 2 video clips you are now ready to combine them into a single slide Select the 2 video clips above and click on the multi pictures slide button on the main toolbar The multi pictures slide window will appear In this example we just want the 2 slideshows to play simultaneously and do not want any fancy effects Choose Custom for the effects and go to the Settings tab panel By default the 2 video clips will be layered on top of each other with the top one blocking the bottom one from our view We will need to position and resize each of them so that they can both be seen By adjusting both the PAN and ZOOM values in the Settings tab we will be able to achieve this You will need to set the same PAN and ZOOM values for both the START and END frames so that the video clips do not move around 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd 34 MemoriesOnTV 3 6 Multi Picture See eee cis x Our 2 slideshows play simultaneously Select Custom for Effect Effect custom L showz npg mg Wegen dit merni jema i on Pan 6 60 x 2 00 ie i Rata te a RH Speed Coratart e 4 We s
49. t playing of DVD recordable This is the most compatible format However different DVD players support reading of different DVD recordable media and you must make sure you use the one that is compatible with your player There are 6 main types of DVD recordable DVD R DVD RW DVD R DL DVD R DVD RW DVD R DL MemoriesOnTV supports writing to all the above formats However your DVD writer may only support writing to either DVD R DVD RW or DVD R DVD RW Some DVD writers support both formats or it may not support dual layers DL DVD discs You must again ensure that you use only media that is Supported by your DVD writer Lastly DVD writers are more sensitive to the brand of the DVD recordable media than CD writers You may need some trial and error but try consulting the following resource before you purchase your media http www dvdrhelp com dvdmedia Appendix A List of countries using NTSC video system Appendix B List of countries using PAL video system 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd Appendix B List of countries using PAL video system 41 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd
50. terms of both quality and speed Once you are ready click on Finish If you have opted to save as a AVI file you will get a window listing all the possible video codecs you can use This will be dependent on the codecs you have installed on your PC AYI ideo Encoder Paranveters ae SH e SS x Input Resolution 720 x 480 24 bit 18 codecs n the ist St Codec Hee Ugen g Resolution Fowl Hex Code S Full Frames uncompressed P20 460 ZA DIE M4 Lena Codec ba F adus Fa x 460 2444 fal ni AEGT E 3 Dre 521 Codec P20 x 460 24 b Divx SES MA Huyu 21 1 720 x 480 24 ba HF 55594648 d Indec video 5 10 Z lie 460 Zb KG IA Inte indeo Video 4 5 Z i x AP ZA EN 413456449 S Laganth lossless codec 720 460 24 ba LAGS 53474140 v0 MPEG 4 Codec P20 x 460 24 ba ANIL 444955050 Microsoft Video 1 Z i 460 15 ba MSYC HD Eh inbe Inco video R32 a geceled mpu ER AIS un inerte l ile Ra gt gr eee mel eeng DZ CFE nl z Cinepak Codec by Aadius Video Qualy 100 Al Jr Configure System Deisft Keys Frame Every 0 frames Etes About AMI Comments F Date Rate kilobytes Project Import Archive Importing Albums If you have multiple MemoriesOnTV projects PTV files you may find the need to combine albums from different projects into a single disc You can do so easily by selecting File gt Import from the main menu When you do this you will be prompted for t
51. with the background music Auto Sync only selected Select this option when you want to set the selected slides to the music amp slides duration of your selected music file s This option is useful when you re synchronizing a group of slides to a particular song Start selected music amp slide Select this option to start a particular song on a particular slide The together delays of the slides before the selected one will be adjusted to achieve this Add silence Select this option to add a break between songs Auto trim silence from Select this option to trim away beginning amp ending silence from your selected music songs Manually trim selected music Select this option to invoke the mini Audio Editor to select a sub section of the song you want to use Set auto trim sensitivity Select this option to set the auto trim silence sensitivity Music Options You can apply a few options to your music files Normalize Fade In Fade Out and Loop Normalize will analyze your music files volume and normalize all to sound equally loud Fade In and Fade Out are applied to the beginning and ending of the slideshow respectively while Loop controls whether the set of music files repeat when their total length is shorter than your slideshow CI Normalize CI Fade In C Fade Out Lf Loop If you have video files in your album it is likely that some of your video files may have its own audio When this happens the audio will be played together w
52. y by clicking on Mene J By default all customizations on a menu page are copied over to all menu pages If you wish to customize individual menu pages differently click on Changes to All Menu Pages and un check Always Apply 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd 12 MemoriesOnTV 2 6 2 7 Previewing Video Disc You can preview your disc at any time during your authoring It is advisable that you preview at least once before your burn your CD DVD When you click on preview button you will get a preview window that will simulate the playback on your TV Prev CC Show Sakti To start the playback of an album simply use your mouse to select amp click on the album you want to play If you need to return back to the menu at any time during the playback click on the Menu button The show subtitle checkbox Available only in MemoriesOnTV Pro will cause the preview to show subtitle text captions if it is checked Burning Video Disc import Music effects Disc Menu Buri Once you have finished authoring your project you can start to generate your video disc Video Options Video Option PAL NTSC YCD SVCD DYD Before you start anything you need to ensure that you ve selected the right Video Options There are 2 main video standards used in the world PAL and NTSC NTSC is used in US and Japan while Europe and most parts of the world use PAL This setting w
53. y photos amp videos you will find the need to organize them MemoriesOnTV lets you group your photos amp videos into albums and sub albums also known as tracks Each album is represented by the film icon 1 on the Project Panel and represents a continuous slideshow selectable from the disc menu Each sub album or track is represented by the track icon HE About Tracks Every album will have at least 1 track If you have more than 1 track in an album they will play consecutively one after another Tracks can be selectable from the disc menu if you enable so The purpose of tracks is to allow finer organization within an album You can make use of it to have a 2 level menu navigational structure on your disc lf you want you can ignore tracks altogether By default the film icon representing the album is not expanded so that the default track every album has at least 1 track is hidden from view 2007 CodeJam Pte Ltd Basic Authoring 5 Adding amp Removing Album Track zc You can add a new album or track by clicking on the button Upon clicking you will receive a pop up menu to determine whether you re adding a new album or a new track to the existing album Should you decide to remove any existing album or track you can simply select it and click on the X button Looping Album Playback Cha k you want an album to repeatedly play on your DVD player you can set it to loop To do so simp
54. you apply Random Pan Zoom with Avoid Cropping Face s selected The face detection algorithm currently detects frontal upright faces and is gt 90 accurate The sensitivity slider here allows you to tweak the algorithm in the event that it detect too few many faces Increase the sensitivity if you need more faces to be detected Video Generation DVD Audio You can choose the audio format that MemoriesOnTV uses on your DVD Linear PCM LPCM is uncompressed audio while Mpeg Audio MP2 is compressed MP2 will allow you to put more photos videos on your DVD LPCM is supported on all DVD players while MP2 is supported by all PAL DVD players and most but not all NTSC players If you are creating a NTSC US amp Japan DVD it is safer to go with LPCM DVD Color 1 Menu Select Color This sets the highlight color that are used when your menu buttons are selected 2 Menu Activate Color This sets the highlight color that are used when your menu buttons are activated 3 Subtitle Text Color This sets the default subtitle text color 4 Subtitle Outline Color This sets the default subtitle text outline color Watermark Available in MemoriesOnTV Pro only You can set a watermark image file for the entire slideshow This is useful for adding your own copyright or company logo to the show The watermark image Is positioned using a screen resolution of 768x576 for 4 3 aspect ratio TV s and 1024x576 for 16 9 aspect ratio TV s Mpeg
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