Sony PCV-RX1 Personal Computer User Manual


 
About the software on your Sony VAIO Desktop
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1. Menu bar Shows MovieShaker menus.
2. Monitor panel Contains the Shake tray, Capture tray, and Edit tray. Select a tray by clicking the Shake tab, Capture
tab, or Edit tab.
The Shake tray is for creating a scene of approximately 30 seconds long including background music, using
clips on the Clip tray at random.
The Capture tray is provided for capturing images directly from the DV device or MICROMV device
connected to your computer, and importing them into the Clip tray. The monitor displays the images
recorded on the videotapes of the DV device or MICROMV device.
The Edit tray is for processing scenes. Click a scene on the Product tray, then it is displayed on the Edit
tray. You can add an effect to the scene by dragging the effect from the Effect tray and/or the Text tray
and dropping it on the Edit tray.
3. Tool panel In the Tool panel, you will find the Effect tray, Text tray, Transition tray, Narration tray and Index
tray. Select a tray by clicking the Effect button, Text button, Transition button, or Narration button. Only
when a MICROMV device has been connected to your computer and "MICROMV Device" has been selected
from the Device menu, the Index tray appears while the Capture tray is displayed on the monitor panel.
The Effect tray contains various effects to be applied to a scene.
The Text tray provides a tool for creating a text effect to be applied to a scene.
The Transition tray contains various transition effects to be inserted between scenes.
The Narration tray provides a tool for recording narration to be inserted into a movie.
The Index tray provides a tool for capturing images from a MICROMV device and imports them into the
Clip tray.
4. Clip tray The Clip tray is provided for placing clips to be processed with MovieShaker.
It can contain a movie file, still image and/or sound files.
5. Product tray The Product tray is where you arrange clips to make a movie. In the Product tray, you will find the
Storyboard Display and the Timeline Display.
On the Storyboard, you can easily arrange scenes and transitions.
On the Timeline, you can arrange scenes, transitions, BGM, and narration, and make fine adjustments to
the starting/ending points and duration of scenes, transitions, BGM, and narration.