Popcorn Getting Started Guide

PopcornGSG.book Page i Thursday, October 28, 2004 10:08 AM Getting Started Guide PopcornGSG.book Page 1 Thursday, October 28, 2004 10:08 AM 1 Getting Started with Popcorn In this guide 2 What Is Popcorn? System Requirements 3 Installing Popcorn 3 About the Popcorn Main Window 4 What Can Popcorn Copy? 5 Copying a DVD-Video Disc 6 Copying a DVD-Video Disc Image 8 Copying a DVD-Video VIDEO_TS Folder 10 Saving a Disc Image File 12 Changing Copy Options 13 Changing Recording Settings 15 Sharing Recorders 17 Where to Find More Information 18 PopcornGSG.book Page 2 Thursday, October 28, 2004 10:08 AM Popcorn Getting Started Guide What Is Popcorn? 2 What Is Popcorn? Popcorn™ helps you easily make high quality copies of your personal DVDs. You can share your home movies with friends and family, and protect your original DVDs from loss or damage. Popcorn is ideal for use with discs created with Toast®, iDVD® and DVD Studio Pro®, and does not duplicate copy-protected DVDs. Some DVDs can be as large as 9 GB, which exceeds the capacity of a standard 4.7 GB recordable DVD disc used in the DVD recorder in your Mac. Popcorn includes powerful compression technology that lets you fit an entire 9 GB DVD- Video onto a 4.7 GB recordable DVD disc. Compressing may result in a slight reduction in video quality, but will leave the audio quality unchanged. You can optionally choose to copy only the main movie with a specific language and audio format. This will reduce the amount of compression required and maximize quality and available disc space. Popcorn also features award-winning Toast® burning technology, for fast and reliable recording to all DVD formats, including dual-layer recorders. PopcornGSG.book Page 3 Thursday, October 28, 2004 10:08 AM Popcorn Getting Started Guide System Requirements 3 System Requirements Popcorn requires the following system: ■ PowerPC G3 or faster processor (G4 or G5 processor recommended) ■ Mac OS X v10.2.8 or later ■ 200 MB of free hard drive space to install ■ Up to 15 GB of temporary free disk space may be required while using the software ■ DVD recorder ■ Blan…