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| Almost anything you can imagine, you can create and communicate on VAIO. Powerful software capabilities make professional level image editing and music production simple and fun for everyone. |
With Click to DVD software and a connected Handycam (DV
/ MICROMV), Cyber-shot*, or Memory Stick, you're only a click away from creating
your own Hollywood-style DVD masterpiece. Original photo DVDs, movie+photo DVDs
as well as video DVDs can be easily made in Automatic Mode. Or select Edit Mode
for further changes along the way to making your own DVD. You can add chapter
menus, colourful templates, trim, edit and import still images. By choosing "VAIO
Animated Menu", a moving menu background with 5.1 Surround Sound music templates
can be created from your original movie clips. With Click to DVD, everything is
simple!
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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 and DVDs.
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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® Standard, which includes Sony's VAIO Edit Components ver. 4.1 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 DVD. DVgate Plus makes every step easy. |
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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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| This professional video editing software lets
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, add any of 15 transitions
to scene breaks, or take advantage of Sony's amazing new plug-in for Premiere
VAIO Edit Components ver. 4.1. This remarkable Sony plug-in gives you the
power to edit MPEG files. It also lets you create visual effects such as sparkles
and flames that convincingly move within your video via new 3D Particle Maker
and Motion Tracker. Then export the results to Click to DVD and create your own
quality DVD video! Adobe® Premiere® Standard also enables seamless coordination
with DVgate Plus, Sony's DV editing software. With VAIO and Adobe® Premiere®
Standard, you can finally realise your movie making potential. |
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Personalise your music with Sony's original SonicStage music software featuring a new easy-to-follow interface. First, download or record music easily from the Internet or CDs on your hard disk. Then search, sort and play back music conveniently with My Library. (SonicStage supports popular ATRAC3, ATRAC3plus, WMA, MP3, and WAV formats.) And when you want your music "to go", create original compilation CDs in MP3 or ATRAC3 format as well as standard audio CDs on your VAIO. Just collect your favourite music files to record approximately 15 hours* of music in a single CD-R disc. You can also copy music into MiniDisk (MD)** media quickly and easily, thanks to SonicStage support of the Net MD standard.
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SonicStage supports the new-generation Hi-MD as well as standard MD. |
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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. (EDIROL AUDIO capture
UA-5* USB audio interface device from Roland is required for analogue stereo music
import.) 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 make high-quality CDs from MP3 files. 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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| 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 (PCGA-UVC11A)***. 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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