Ulead 1.0 - Manual (Page 21)

SpruceUp User’s Guide 1—7
on styles and examples loaded.
The real issue is with the movies you will be using – these will be large files. The following
explains how they end up being used while creating a DVD title.
Let's say you want to create a DVDonCD title using a 600MB MPEG movie. (Note that the
movie most likely did not start out as MPEG, so you may have AVI or other format version
files of the movie also present.) When the title is finished and you export it to your CD-
R/RW drive, SpruceUp needs to first compile the MPEG file into the DVD format. This
compiled file (the video title set) will be roughly the same size as the original movie, with
additional files supporting the menus you have added. This must be written to your hard
drive prior to the title actually being written to the CD-R/RW disc. In this case you should
allow about 650MB of additional drive space.
Our project has now used 1.25GB of drive space. Larger projects using DVD-RAM or DVD-R
drives require much more drive space (a 4.7GB title requires at least 10GB free drive
space).
It is a good idea to have two large hard drives – one to hold the assets and a different one
to compile to. This allows simultaneous read/writes, speeding up the compile process.
Archiving these files should be a consideration as well - your hard drive will quickly fill up if
you intend to leave older projects on it.
Removable Media Drives
SpruceUp can directly export to most CD-R/RW and DVD-R/RAM/RW drives. You are also
able to manually copy the compiled DVD video title to the drive. See the DVD Basics topic
for more information.
Syzygy DVD Player
There are a lot of factors that determine whether a PC will be able to play a title using the
Syzygy player. Following is a list of general requirements:
• Windows' 98SE, Millennium (ME), NT 4.0, and 2000 operating systems
• Intel CPU with MMX, or AMD CPU with 3Dnow!
• 8X (read) CD-ROM or faster
– or –
• 2nd Generation or Newer DVD-ROM Drive
• AGP Graphics Card (PCI may perform up to 30% slower) with Hardware Overlay
Support
• 32 MB System Memory minimum
• 20 MB Available Hard Drive Space
• Audio Subsystem that supports up to 48Khz stereo playback (PCI desirable)