Creating Your Own Great DVDs and CDs: The Official HP Guide (Paperback)

by Mark L. Chambers (Author), Mark Chambers (Author)

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Make the most of your DVD or CD recorder.

• Burn music, video, and images!
• The fast, easy, and fun way to create great audio CDs, VCDs, and DVD movies
• Covers MusicMatch Jukebox, Roxio Easy CD Creator, HP RecordNow, HP DLA, Sonic MyDVD, and more!

The Official HP Guide

Getting a DVD or CD recorder? Already have one? Now, make the most of it! Creating Your Own Great DVDs and CDs, the only guide authorized by Hewlett-Packard, shows you how, one step at a time. Through start-to-finish projects, you'll learn to create every type of DVD, CD, and VCD, and record whatever you want—video, photographs, music, or data.

• Comparing and choosing the right recorder for your needs
• Installing an internal or external CD-RW or DVD+RW drive
• Preparing your PC to record DVDs and CDs reliably
• Ripping songs from a CD, or downloading songs from the Internet and creating a compilation CD
• Using software bundled with HP's CD Writers and DVD Writers and other leading DVD and CD recording tools: HP RecordNow, HP DLA, CyberLink PowerDVD, PhotoRelay, Roxio Easy CD Creator, Roxio CD Spin Doctor, Roxio CD Label Creator, Sonic MyDVD, ArcSoft ShowBiz, Microsoft Defrag for XP, MusicMatch Jukebox, and Netscape Composer
• Recording CD slide shows with digital photographs
• Enhancing your discs with labels and on-disc menus
• Troubleshooting recording problems
• Using your recorder to combine video, digital images, music, and data onto one disc

No matter whose drive you own, or whether you've ever burned a DVD or CD before, Creating Your Own Great DVDs and CDs will help you get outstanding results. With this book, it's fast, easy, and fun.

About the Author

MARK L. CHAMBERS has been a PC and Macintosh hardware technician since 1989. He is author of CD and DVD Recording for Dummies, Building a PC for Dummies, The HP Official Recordable CD Handbook, The HP Official Digital Photography Handbook, Recordable CD Bible, and Scanners for Dummies, along with other digital media books for beginners.

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• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Pearson Education; 1st edition (August 29, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0131001051
• ISBN-13: 978-0131001053
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
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