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| − | <h1>DVD Flick Guide</h1>
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| − | <p>This short guide describes how to do a few common tasks in DVD Flick.
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| − | The last update to this guide was based on version 1.3.0.0 of DVD Flick.</p>
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| − | <h2>Creating a simple DVD</h2>
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| − | <h3>Step 1: Add your titles</h3>
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| − | <p>Click the ''Add title'' button and select one or more of the video
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| − | files that you want to add.</p>
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| − | <h3>Step 2: Edit your titles</h3>
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| − | <p>You can edit each title by double-clicking it or by clicking on it once
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| − | and pressing the ''Edit title'' button. Here you can set the number of
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| − | chapters the title will have, either by entering a number or a time interval.
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| − | You can also add subtitle files, different audio tracks and add another
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| − | video source to the title.</p>
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| − | <h3>Step 3: Configure your project</h3>
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| − | <p>Click the ''Project settings'' button on the top to open the project's
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| − | settings.</p>
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| − | <p>[[Image:projectsettings.png]]</p>
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| − | <p>The only thing you really need to set here is the ''Target size'' under
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| − | the ''General'' tab, and the ''Target format'', and ''Encoding profile''
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| − | under the ''Video'' tab.</p>
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| − | <p>For Target Size, choose the size of the disc you will be burning your
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| − | project onto. Usually the default setting of DVD-5 (4.3 Gb) will be fine,
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| − | but if you wanted to use a dual layer disc or any other common format,
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| − | you can select that as well.</p>
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| − | <p>For Target Format, you must choose which format is used on the standalone
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| − | DVD Player you will be watching the DVD on. For most Europe, Asian, African
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| − | and Oceanic countries this should be set to PAL, for most American countries
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| − | to NTSC. Some DVD Players support both formats, in which case you should
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| − | select the Mixed format. When using the Mixed format each separate title will
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| − | be determined to be either PAL or NTSC, and encoded as such.</p>
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| − | <p>For Encoding Profile, you must make a trade-off between the time it will
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| − | take to encode the DVD, or the quality thereof. Generally ''Fast'' offers
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| − | reasonable image quality, the difference between Normal and Best is almost
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| − | unnoticeable. Though if you are going to make a DVD that is near or over 3
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| − | hours in length, it is not recommended to choose Fast but Normal or Best instead
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| − | or the image quality will suffer.</p>
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| − | <h3>Step 4: Choose a destination folder</h3>
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| − | <p>At the bottom of the screen you can choose where DVD Flick will put
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| − | the encoded DVD files, as well as log files of the encoding process. It is
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| − | important to put this folder on a fast harddrive, which has enough free space
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| − | available. How much free space is needed is indicated on the lower right of
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| − | DVD Flick's main window. Do ''not'' set this to your DVD drive's path,
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| − | DVD Flick will first need to store the encoded data on a harddrive before it
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| − | can burn it to a disc.</p>
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| − | <h3>Step 5: Burning</h3>
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| − | <p>DVD Flick can burn your encoded project straight to disc if it is completed
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| − | successfully.</p>
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| − | <p>[[Image:burning.png]]</p>
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| − | <p>To enable this, check the ''Burn project to disc'' option under Project Settings,
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| − | and the Burning tab.''Disc label'' can be set to the label of the disc as displayed
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| − | by your computer, but is not used by DVD players. Be sure to select the right drive to
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| − | burn to, and to insert an empty disc in it before starting the encoding.</p>
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| − | <p>If you would rather have just an ISO image of the DVD to burn at your own leisure,
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| − | only check the ''Create ISO image'' option, and enter a disc label.</p>
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| − | <h3>Step 6: Encoding</h3>
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| − | <p>When you are all done creating your project, be sure to save it first. Then
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| − | press the Create DVD button and the encoding process will start,
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| − | providing you have enough free disc space. How long the encoding takes is
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| − | very much dependant on the speed of your CPU, and the harddrive that the project's
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| − | destination folder is on. It's best to let your PC do this during the night, or
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| − | during a very long coffee break.</p>
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| − | <h2>Add subtitles</h2>
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| − | <p>To add subtitles to a title, all you have to do is edit the title,
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| − | go to the ''Subtitles'' tab, and use the ''Add'' button to
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| − | add subtitle files to the title. You can reorder them using the arrow
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| − | buttons.</p>
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| − | <p>[[image:subtitle.png]]</p>
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| − | <p>To edit the language, font, font size and positioning of a subtitle
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| − | select it and press the ''Edit'' button. In the window that pops up
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| − | you can change various properties of the subtitle. When you click the
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| − | small preview you will see a larger approximation of how the subtitle
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| − | <p>The language setting is simply the language of the subtitle in
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| − | question. The ''character set'' option is used to indicate in what
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| − | way the subtitle file is encoded, so that the right characters can be
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| − | drawn. For example if you have added a Chinese subtitle, you might have
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| − | to set the character set to Chinese BIG5 or GB2312.</p>
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| − | <p>The Auto-fit button will adjust the subtitle's font size so that all
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| − | subtitle lines will fit on screen. The display by default button will
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| − | make sure that the current subtitle will be displayed automatically
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| − | when the title containing it is played. If other subtitles have this set,
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| − | only the first subtitle in the list will be displayed when the title starts.</p>
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| − | <p>A good example for when you want to add another audio track would
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| − | be to add a second commentary track or some music.</p>
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| − | <p>[[image:audiotrack.png]]</p>
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| − | <p>After you have added the title, edit it and go to the
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| − | ''Audio tracks'' tab. There you can press the ''Add'' button,
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| − | and then select the audio file or another video file that you will
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| − | choose an audio track from. If you chose a video file or the file you
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| − | chose has more than one audio track, you will be asked to choose which
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| − | track to add.</p>
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| − | <h2>Add a menu</h2>
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| − | <p>If you have many titles in your DVD Flick project, you might want to consider
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| − | adding a menu to your DVD so that you can select a title to play from a list
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| − | with names and thumbnails.</p>
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| − | <p>[[image:menusettings.png]]</p>
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| − | <p>To add a menu, go to the ''Menu settings'' button. Here you can choose
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| − | a template which will determine the appearance of the menu, as well as see
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| − | it in action by clicking the ''Preview'' button. To exit the menu preview,
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| − | either press ESC or right-click on the preview window. After you've chosen a
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| − | template, be sure to enable the ''Enable menu'' checkbox so that the menu
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| − | will be included on your disc.</p>
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| − | <p>You can also view menu pages that allow you to select a audio track or
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| − | subtitle from the currently playing title. To access this menu while a title
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| − | is playing, most DVD players have a Audio or Subtitle button on their remotes.</p>
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| − | The content and layout of this guide created by Dennis Meuwissen is licensed under
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| − | <h1>DVD Burning with DVD Styler</h1>
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