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Audio DVD Creator Guide
Welcome to Audio DVD Creator guide!
Audio
DVD Creator is a revolutionary tool that changes the way you listen
to your favorite music. You can create DVD disc compiled from normal
Audio CDs and MP3 files, and play it on any DVD player since it's
DVD-Video compliant. You can choose the audio format from high quality
(up to 6 hours PCM
48kHz/16bits) or high quantity (up to 45 hours AC3 192kbps).
Audio DVD Creator is very easy to use, the Wizard will
guide you step by step, and you just need to click “Next” and “Back”
button to go through the creation of your Audio DVD.
1. First Step - Welcome to Audio DVD Creator!
When you start up the application, you will see a
"Welcome" page. If you are a fresh user, just click "New Project" button
to create a new empty project. The project is a file which will save all
the information of your Audio DVD, so that you can edit it later.
After you click the "New Project" button, the Wizard
will go to the next step "Settings" page.
2. Second Step - Settings
In "Settings" page, you can set some essential options
for creating your Audio DVD.
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Audio Format:
Select the audio
encoding format: PCM (48kHz/16bits) has high quality, the total playing
time is up to 6 hours. AC3 (192kbps) has high quantity, the total
playing time is up to 45 hours, and the quality is still good.
TV Mode:
Select the TV Mode which is compatible with your DVD
player.
NTSC: NTSC (National Television Standards Committee) is a standard
used in North America and Japan. It has the ability to display up to 525
lines of resolution.
PAL: PAL (Phase Alternating Line), a standard used almost everywhere
else in the world, has the ability to display 625 lines of resolution.
Background Image:
Select a background image which will be displayed
through the whole audio playback. There is a default image available,
and you can choose your own one.
Note: if the TV Mode is NTSC, the background image
format must be 704(Width) * 480(Height), if it is PAL, the format must
be 704(Width) * 576(Height).
Project Name:
Set the project name that will be the default Volume Name of your
Audio DVD.
You can also click "Reset default settings" to reset all the options
to default status.
When you finish the settings , click "Next" to "Author" Page!
3. Third Steps - Author
Now you can add your favorite Audio CDs or MP3,WAV files to Audio DVD
project.
Let's add Audio CD tracks at first. You can click "Add Audio CD"
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| In "Add Audio CD" window, you can see all
your CD/DVD drives in the CD-ROM list. Please insert an Audio CD disc to
your CD-ROM, and select it in the CD-ROM list. Audio DVD Creator will
select all the tracks by default. You just need to click “Add to
Project”, and Audio DVD Creator will rip the selected audio tracks to
WAV files on hard disk at first , then import them to the project
automatically. You can also use the ThirdParty CD Rip
Tools to rip your CDs to WAV files at first, then add them by "Add Music
Files" function.
By clicking "Add Music Files", you can add audio files
on your hard disk to the project. |
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"Add Music Files" window has an explorer-like interface:
you can navigate to the directory which contains your audio files, you
can see all the supported audio files in the file list, and you can
click “Add Folder” to import all the audio flies in current directory to
the "Import File List", or you can select specific audio files and click
“Add Files” to impor them to "Import File List".
Finally, you can click “OK” to import all the audio
files in the "Import File List" to project.
Note: please check the size of project by the indication
of Data Size Pie Graph, to make sure that it's not exceed the 4.3 GB
(which is the max size of DVDR).
After importing audio files to project, you will return
to "Author" page, and you can see all the audio files in the project
file list. |
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| "DVD Chapters" is the marker point of DVD,
and you can have 99 chapters at most in one DVD title. You can use the
"Previous/ Next Chapter" button on your DVD remoter controller to jump
to the specific audio file. You can use “Add Chapter”, “Delete”, ”Up”,
”Down” buttons or the pop up menu by right clicking on the project file
list, to edit the layout of chapters and audio files.
For example:
a. Add a new chapter, and move the music file into
it.
b. Drag & drop the chapter or music file to any position.
c.
Move up & down the chapter and music file. |
4. Fourth Step - Preview your Audio DVD
You can preview your Audio DVD anytime when you are authoring it. If
it's not what you want, you can back to "Author" page or "Settings" page
to modify the project, and preview it again and again until you are
satisfied.
5. Fifth Step - Create Audio DVD |
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You can export the Audio DVD to hard disk
folder, so that you can check it with a software DVD player at first,
then you can burn it with you favorite DVD burning software.
You can also burn the Audio DVD directly with the internal burning
engine of Audio DVD Creator. If you have multiple DVD writers on your
PC, please select it form the DVD writer list. You can set the Volume
Name of your Audio DVD too.
Ready? Click “Go!” to create your Audio DVD!
6. Sixth Step
Now, you just need to wait a while for the finish. you can also click
“Cancel” to stop processing and back to "Create" page. |
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| After about 30 to 90 minutes (depends on the
power of your PC), your Audio DVD will be created successfully. Enjoy
it! |
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