Ulead 1.0 - Manual (Page 19)

SpruceUp User’s Guide 1—5
Introduction
Congratulations on getting your hands on SpruceUp™, a powerful, intuitive, and exciting
DVD authoring application. SpruceUp makes creating DVD titles easy while still providing
powerful tools, including the ability to have thousands of custom menus and up to 99
movies within a title. You can create everything from a simple looping single movie title to a
complex title with nested menus and Internet interactivity.
SpruceUp is a software program designed to run on systems with the Microsoft's Windows
98 SE, Millennium (ME), NT 4.0, and 2000 operating systems. It imports MPEG video and
audio files from third party equipment such as video capture applications and non-linear
editors. SpruceUp provides the tools to design a DVD title by allowing you to add menus and
chapter points, and finally to compile the project into a finished title suitable for playback on
set-top DVD players and the DVD-ROM and CD-ROM players in personal computers.
Spruce Technologies pioneered putting DVD titles on standard CD-R media using our
DVDonCD™ technology. Spruce also has a royalty-free DVD player called Syzygy™ that,
when included with a title, allows it to be played back on systems otherwise not able to play
video titles. Taking it a step further, SpruceUp users can take advantage of Spruce
Technologies’ Convergence™ technology that allows you to place URLs within your title,
enabling them to open a web browser to a related site, perhaps to provide up-to-date
information or e-commerce opportunities.
All of this is included with SpruceUp – there is nothing else to buy! Spruce Technologies
pioneered intuitive yet powerful DVD authoring. We have a complete line of DVD authoring
solutions suitable for everything from Hollywood titles to industrial applications to creating
easily distributable home videos.
SpruceUp Trial Version
A freely distributable trial version of SpruceUp is available. You may choose to include a
copy of it when you export your titles. The trial version on SpruceUp is full featured with the
following exceptions:
• There is a two export limit (including Test Write).
• Cannot simulate AC-3 audio.
• All menus have a "SpruceUp Trial" watermark.
See the Registering SpruceUp topic for details on upgrading to a full version.
Learning to Use SpruceUp
SpruceUp provides a number of opportunities for you to learn how to use it, including:
• A Tutorial guiding you step-by-step through the process of creating a DVD title.
Assets, including a movie, can be downloaded for use with the tutorial.
• Extensive on-line help allowing you to quickly find the answers you need. See the
Using This Help topic for information.
• An on-line version of the SpruceUp manual in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
• The resources of the SpruceUp User Forum web site
(www.SpruceUserForums.com/SpruceUp) providing FAQs and up-to-date information.