Sony VAIO PCGFX210 PCGFX215 User Guide
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Overview 91 DVgate™ Sony Electronics Inc. Connect a digital video camera recorder to the i.LINK*® connector and capture your own video clips and still images. You can edit clips from your video, add others, and combine clips into new movie segments. You can also save your images in a variety of popular file formats. EarthLink Network TotalAccess® EarthLink, Inc. An Internet Service Provider that supplies access, information, and assistance to its customers, introducing them to the Internet. Member benefits include e-mail, newsgroups, a personal start page, a free 6 MB web site, a member newsletter, and 24-hour technical support. McAfee® VirusScan® Network Associates, Inc. Protect your computer from viruses. VirusScan can detect viruses from floppy disks, Internet downloads, e-mail attachments, intranets, shared files, CD-ROMs, and online services. Media Bar™ Sony Electronics Inc. Media Bar software is your all-in-one solution for audio/video playback. Media Bar software handles all common computer multimedia formats and controls selected Sony devices. In addition to audio/video library cataloging and playlist management, Media Bar software includes digital video quality control and effects features. Media Bar software seamlessly integrates a variety of new media formats with an easy-to-use software interface. Microsoft® Internet Explorer Microsoft Corporation Internet Explorer delivers the web the way you want it. It is safe, easy to use, and you can personalize how you access the web. Outlook Express and other tools in Internet Explorer also help you have a great experience when you are on the web. * i.LINK is a Sony trademark used to designate that a product contains an IEEE 1394 connec- tor. All products with an i.LINK connector may not communicate with each other.
Change to Current Document Title 92 Microsoft® Word 2000 Microsoft Corporation Microsoft Word 2000 makes it easy to create shared Web, e-mail, and print documents for use around the world. It embraces HTML as a first-class file format and extends Word’s ease-of-use to the Web and e-mail. Word 2000 also extends that ease-of-use to international users, making it simple to create multilingual documents. MovieShaker™ Sony Electronics Inc. Sony’s original MovieShaker software creates personal movies that have transitions, background music and text. Just import your video clips and “shake” with a click of the mouse. Your personal movies are easy to create and fun to share with family and friends. (See “MovieShaker™” below.) Netscape Communicator® Netscape Communications Netscape Communicator is an all-in-one Internet tool that makes it easy to browse the web, send Internet e-mail, chat, read newsgroups, and compose great web documents. OpenMG Jukebox™ Sony Electronics Inc. OpenMG Jukebox software enables you to import digital audio files by downloading audio files from Electronic Music Distribution (EMD) services over digital networks, such as the Internet. You can record audio CDs onto you hard drive in a variety of formats. PictureGear™ Sony Electronics Inc. This image management software displays images from your hard drive, a Sony digital still camera, or a Sony Mavica® camera. The images appear in a convenient light-table format, so that you can easily view the contents of an entire folder. (See “PictureGear™” below.) Prodigy Internet® Prodigy Communications Corporation An online service that helps you find what you need online faster and smarter. Prodigy delivers powerful online content such as sports scores, stock quotes, news, and easy access to Excite, plus quality customer service, all at a competitive price. Quicken® 2001 Intuit, Inc. Quicken is a fast, easy way to organize your finances. Quicken works just like your checkbook, so it is easy to learn and use. Quicken manages all your finances, bank accounts, credit cards, investments, and loans. You can even pay your bills online.
Overview 93 Smart Capture Sony Electronics Inc. Smart Capture is a fun new way to send multimedia messages via e-mail. Smart Capture manages the i.LINK *® connection between your computer and a Sony Digital Handycam® Camcorder that supports the i.LINK interface. It allows you to capture compressed video or still images that you can save or share via e-mail. A smart solution to computer, digital audio/video and network convergence. VisualFlow® Sony Electronics Inc. VisualFlow is a state-of-the-art Sony multimedia browser designed specifically for Memory Stick media. It displays any still pictures, movie, or sound files stored in a Memory Stick media in a visually pleasing, artistic manner. VisualFlow not only plays a selected movie or sound file, but also enables playback of files by other applications like PictureGear, Memory Stick Slideshow, and Windows Explorer. WinDVD® 2000 InterVideo, Inc. WinDVD is a simple-to-use DVD player combining all the features you would expect to find in a standard consumer DVD player, in addition to some very advanced functionality, such as full VCD 2.0 support, full precision video decode, a choice of user interfaces, and video display options. You can play DVD titles or Video CDs. WinDVD automatically determines the type of disc in the DVD drive and uses the correct playback method.
Change to Current Document Title 94 MovieShaker™ This application can be used to create fun and innovative movies without any knowledge of film editing. In a few simple steps, motion pictures can be combined with special effects, still images (pictures), and music files and then saved in a format most computers can play. Importing Images and Sound Clips 1Click (File Import) or (DV Import). 2Find the file you want to add. 3Select the file. 4Click Open. The file is added to the Clip tray. Main Window ✍ Importing files over 75 seconds in length may cause MovieShaker software to stop responding. Clip tray Wor kin g Panel Product tray Editing trays Help Tr a s h
MovieShaker™ 95 Create a Movie using Shaker After adding clip(s) to the Clip tray, you can create a short movie using the Shaker feature. Shaker randomly select clips from the Clip tray to create a 30- second scene. 1Click the Shake tab. 2Select a mood by clicking a face in the Shaker tray. 3Click . A thirty second scene is automatically generated and saved to the Product tray. 4To preview, switch the Work Panel to Product tray mode and press play. Shaker Tray ✍Scenes created with Shaker begin with black frame and after processing are placed in the first available slot on the Product tray. Limit the number of scenes placed on the Product tray to 10 or less. MovieShaker software may stop responding if too many scenes are placed on the Product tray.
Change to Current Document Title 96 Editing Clips and Scenes You can edit your movie by adding effects and text, adjusting the color and contrast, and modifying the length of clips. Adding effects to a scene or a clip: 1Double-click the clip or scene to move it to the Working Panel. 2Select the Effects tab from the Editing tray. 3Drag and drop the Effect you want to add from the Effects tray to the Effects palette on the Working Panel. 4See help for instructions on adjusting effect duration and replaying clips/ scenes. Working Panel ✍To preview an Effect, click on the clip in the Working panel monitor. Your clip displays with the new effect on the Effect tray monitor. Sound Color Speed Effect Palette Trim PaletteMonitor Effect Knobs
MovieShaker™ 97 Saving a Movie 1Verify that the clip(s) you want to save is on the Product tray. See Help for more details on saving movies. 2Click Export. 3Select the format in which you want the document to be saved. 4Click Next. 5Locate the folder to which you want the file saved. 6Name the file. 7Click Save. Exporting movies may take a long time to complete—Save movie as DV (Digital Video) takes the longest and Quick-Save is the fastest. MovieShaker can play video files up to 65 MB in length. ✍For DV playback and smooth video playback, we recommend the following resolution/ refresh rates: 1024 x 768/75 Hz or lower.
Change to Current Document Title 98 PictureGear™ PictureGear software is a digital image management application that allows you to see all the images stored in any directory on your computer. Thumbnail views provide quick reminders of your pictures. Brighten, contrast, enhance, resize, crop, and color-correct your pictures. Create panoramic views, animations, screen savers, wallpaper, still pictures from MPEG, and even html photo albums. Managing Your Pictures Use the collection feature to manage your pictures. 1Click the Folder tab and browse to locate your pictures. 2Select the pictures you want to have in a collection. 3From Collection menu, select Create New Collection. 4Enter a name for the collection and then click okay. Creating a Photo Album 1Select the pictures you want to use to make an album. 2From the Utilities menu, select Album Maker. 3Choose the type of Album you want and click Okay. 4Now add more pictures, frames, text, and effects. 5When you are finished, select Create Album in File menu or click the Create Album icon on the toolbar. 6Designate the folder you where want to save the Album. 7Enter the Target Album name, select Thumbnails and click Okay. 8The new album can be viewed using most internet browsers.
PictureGear™ 99 Using Panorama Maker Panorama Maker stitches a group of still images into a 360 degree panoramic picture. The source images should be the same size and overlap 20%. How to stitch a panoramic picture: 1Gather the source images into the same folder or collection. 2Select the images you want to use. 3From the Utilities menu select Panorama Maker. 4Select the correct lens and click Okay. (If 35mm lens is selected the prompt, does not appear; to select a different lens, click the lens icon.) 5Click the panoramic icon, near the bottom of the window. 6Click Full Stitch. Making Still Images and Panoramic from MPEG 1Select the MPEG file. 2From the Movie/Sound menu, select Scene break down. 3Then select Movie Stitch, to create a panoramic picture. ✍We recommend 12 landscaped or 16 portrait pictures.
Change to Current Document Title 100 OpenMG Jukebox 2.0 Software Instructions OpenMG Jukebox 2.0 is a software application that utilizes Sony Corporation’s copyright protection technology. OpenMG Jukebox 2.0 maintains the holder’s copyrights by preventing unauthorized distribution of digital audio files. OpenMG Jukebox 2.0 software enables you to play and record audio CDs and import digital audio files. When recording an audio CD with OpenMG Jukebox 2.0, it is encoded in ATRAC3 format onto your computer’s hard drive. By downloading digital audio files from EMD services, the downloaded and imported data can then be played on your computer or transferred to external devices/media while maintaining the copyright information of the contents. OpenMG Jukebox 2.0 converts your existing MP3 and WAV format audio files into OpenMG format (WAV format audio files are converted into ATRAC3 format or changed into OpenMG MP3 format). Electronic Music Distribution (EMD) Services EMD allows you to download music files via the Internet. To use OpenMG- enabled services on the Internet, you need: ❑Access to the Internet from your computer. Sign up with an Internet Service Provider and configure your computer for Internet access before using EMD services. ❑Free EMD programs such as EMD key installer. These programs can be downloaded from the Sony EMD Web page. ❑An EMD service provider. Consult the provider for details regarding service. ✍To protect your personal data, Sony uses SSL (an encryption protocol) for communication between your browser and the Sony WWW server. If you are accessing the Internet from inside of an enterprise LAN, you may not be able to use SSL due to the proxy server of the LAN. For help, contact your network administrator.