Sony DCR-TRV39 - Manual (Page 137)

4-10 Saving
Saving unfinished projects
While the media stream is being edited and before it is saved as an MPEG1 file, it exists as a project.
Saved projects (which have not yet been formatted as MPEG1 files) are called project files. Saving
projects allows you to work on them at a later time.
1. Click the Save Project button.
2. The 'Save As' dialog box will appear. Enter the file name and click [Save] once you have
defined a location on your computer where you would like the project to be stored.
To open a saved project, click the Open Project File button. Clicking this button displays the
'Open' dialog box, allowing you to browse the folders on your computer.
Generate movie
ImageMixer saves completed projects as MPEG1 movies.
1. Click the Generate Movie button.
2. The 'Save As' dialog box will appear. Enter the MPEG1 file name and click [Save] once you
have defined a location on your computer where you would like the movie to be stored.
The saved MPEG1 movie will be added to the currently selected album.
Additional information about generating movies
ImageMixer is a powerful application when it comes to generating movies in that it allows you to create
movies in MPEG1 format, a hallmark of which is that the only visual media which actually needs to be
rewritten to disk are those portions in which transition effects or titles appear. Since the remaining
portions do not need to be rewritten in this way, they experience no deterioration of image quality. As
for sound media, they are completely re-encoded.