Simply connect your DV or MICROMV Handycam* via i.LINK
cable and click once. Your VAIO will automatically create a Hollywood-style DVD,
ideal for viewing on the larger screen of your TV. Adding chapter menus and various
templates, trimming, editing and importing still images for Album and Slideshow
with your favourite music is a breeze. And to make selecting your memories easier,
Sony's exclusive Click to DVD lets you navigate your masterpiece with convenient
motion thumbnails. In addition, with the assistance of Intel's Hyper-Threading
Technology CPU, the VAIO GR has a special feature that makes simultaneous importing
and encoding smoother than ever.
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| Remarkable Drag'n Drop CD+DVD software lets you write on DVD±R/RW and CD-R/RW media by simply dragging and dropping files with your mouse! The software includes Music BOX for creating music CDs, Data BOX for recording data to CDs and DVDs, and DISC Backup BOX for creating copies of data CDs.
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| Sony's original DVgate Plus software
allows high-precision digital importing, editing and exporting of movies in various
movie formats. You can import movies from DV or MICROMV Handycams* by simply connecting
and using the one click button. Scene division, scene list creation and frame
restoration are accomplished automatically. During import, you can easily select
only the video footage you need by using manual capture and batch capture functions.
Extraction of still images is easy as well. Imported scenes can then be cut and
connected, or edited further via Adobe® Premiere® 6 LE, which includes
Sony's VAIO Edit Components 3.0 plug-in to ensure images of the highest quality.
Finally, your edited movies can be exported to DV or MICROMV Handycam equipment
(MPEG1 and MPEG2 file export also possible), or recorded to DVD using Click to
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Only DV (AVI), MICROMV (mmv), MPEG1, MPEG2,
and JPEG/BMP (still image) file formats can be imported and exported. One-click
DVD creation only possible in models equipped with Click to DVD. |
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you easily create and edit your own Hollywood-quality videos. Just place visual
materials along a timeline window, then drag and drop to rearrange them. Original
and edited visuals are conveniently displayed in separate windows. You can add
sophisticated titles and subtitles with scrolling effects, as well as add transitions
to scene breaks. Then export the results to Click to DVD and create your own quality
DVD video! VAIO Edit Components Ver. 3.0, Sony's special plug-in for Premiere,
lets you edit MPEG files with ease, and add any of 34 editable VAIO transitions
in addition to the 15 provided by Premiere. It also enables seamless coordination
with DVgate Plus, Sony's DV editing software. With VAIO and Adobe® Premiere®
6 LE, you can finally realise your movie making potential.
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Personalise your music with Sony's versatile original SonicStage music software. Download music easily from the Internet, and transfer music to portable audio players. Record and store music freely on your hard disk for "play" like a jukebox. (SonicStage supports popular ATRAC3, WMA, MP3, and WAV formats.) Organise music on your hard drive any way you wish, so that you can quickly and easily call up a track. And when you want your music "to go", just "check out" the tracks onto a Memory Stick or create an original compilation CD with the CD-R on your VAIO. What's more, you can create MP3 CDs by collecting MP3 files registered as a "play list" to record approximately 15 hours* of music in a single CD-R disc. And also copy music into MiniDisk (MD) media faster and easier than ever, thanks to SonicStage support of the Net MD standard. Special SonicStage functions Active Skins, Vocal Canceller/Pitch Shifter, Graphic Equalizer, and Visualizer add to music enjoyment.
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This advanced music mastering software lets
you import analogue music including old LP records and cassette tapes edit
the music, and write your own high-quality optimised CDs. Never before has audio
software of this quality been made available by any maker as pre-installed software!
It also lets you save edited music as WAV files if desired, and add them to the
SonicStage "play list" for simplified file management and playback.
Leading features include Super Bit Mapping, a renowned digital sound processing
technology from Sony; support for recording in a 24bit/96KHz sampling mode that
far exceeds CD sound quality*; and four high-performance third-party effector
modules that are popular at professional recording studios SONY OXFORD
Equalizer, Waves Renaissance Bass, Waves S1 Stereo Imager, and Waves L1 Ultramaximizer.
Additional features include noise reduction, auto division of musical pieces,
normalisation and Fade-in / Fade-out effects.
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AUDIO capture UA-5 USB audio interface device from Roland is required. UA-5 enables
recording at 24bit / 96KHz, but PCGA-PRGT1 can only record at 16bit / 44.1KHz. |
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| Simply by connecting your VAIO with your digital camera via USB cable, or inserting Memory Stick media, you can automatically import photos to VAIO's hard drive. Since photos are displayed as thumbnails on the screen, browsing is a breeze. You can also create a photo album in only three steps, thanks to Photo Album, which provides a wide variety of design templates and lets you add cover titles and photo comments. Tool bars provide various pens, graphic symbols, and stamps you can use to write and draw on your photos. Through Flash output, you can display virtual, turnable pages of your photo album on VAIO's screen. You can also share your photo albums with friends by printing them out or saving them as PDF files and attaching them to email. Calendar View transforms your photo album into a visual diary by placing your photos in chronological order, and you can create screensavers and slideshows with background music as well.
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| Creating and editing your digital images for
print or posting on the Web has never been easier, thanks to Adobe® Photoshop®
Elements. These state-of-the-art image editing tools free you to explore your
creativity. Using a set of flexible image capture options, you can create a totally
original look with the photos you have taken with a digital or traditional camera.
And with versatile delivery features, you have more choices in what you can do
with them print them, email them or post them on the Web for the world
to see. It's definitely the fun way to master the elements of digital imaging.
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| Sony's original Network Smart Capture is a handy tool for
visual communication. It allows you to capture still* and moving** images from
a Digital Handycam*** connected via i.LINK cable or optional Visual Communication
Camera (PEGA-UVC11)***. From there, your images can be easily attached to email.
Network Smart Capture also features Fixed Point Observation mode, which enables
you to take images automatically at intervals with a Web camera. The images can
be uploaded in real time to your own Web site. |
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