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To configure preferences, you can click Toolsà Preferences, or press Ctrl+P. There are five tabs, General, Acceleration, Convert, Tivo and Others.
Preference > General
Under the “General” tab you can set preference for lossless output mode and file nomenclature.
When an output file or backup file has already existed in the output folder (usually because you have converted or copied it once or more), there are three customized options.
Rename: Select to rename the present output file automatically to avoid overwriting existing file. The generated name is formed with the existing name and number.
Overwrite: Select to overwrite the existing file.
Skip: Select to skip the conversion of the file with identical name in the output folder.
Lossless Output Mode:
When you split/cut movies on Timeline, you may need to locate every frame and split/cut the scene precisely. Now if you want to make a frame accurate cutting, please make sure you select the first mode, in general, it is selected by default. If you don’t need locate your movie in every frame, only need the Key frame, please select the second mode. The second mode will export movies quicker than the first mode.
Split from the exact frame you choose: Locate every frame of a scene, and let you split/cut the scene with exact the frame you choose, no matter is key frame or non-key frame.
Split from the next GOP: Not focus on each frame, it means that the splitting time point will be located to the nearest key frame. So if current image you focused is not the key frame, you will loss some non-key frame. But it is faster for export than above mode.
Under “Acceleration” tab you can set the preferences of GPU Encode Acceleration and H264 Decoder.
GPU Encode Acceleration: Pavtube Media Magician takes full advantage of the NVIDIA CUDA technology and AMD ® Accelerated Parallel Processing (APP) to largely accelerate video encoding speed. The GPU acceleration saves users time when transcoding/converting/ripping video files from one format to another by using H.264 codec. With a PC running on a CUDA-enabled Graphics card, or an AMD graphics card with AMD APP technology, the conversion speed of Pavtube software is about 6X faster than before.
If you are using a CUDA-enabled Graphics card, the CUDA button will be lighted, and you can choose the Enable NVIDIA CUDA Acceleration option. If not, the button and option will be grey.
If you are using an AMD graphics card with AMD APP technology, the ATI button will be lighted and you can choose the Enable AMD APP Acceleration option. If not, the button and option will be grey.
H.264 Decoder Option Boxes
The current decoders supported by the program are listed as follow: You can choose which your favorite H264 Decoder for movie conversion.
(1). CUDA Decoder: Once the CUDA-enabled graphics card has been detected in your PC, the program will automatically enable this function. So the option box of CUDA Decoder will be checked by default. If your computer doesn’t have NVIDIA CUDA CUDA-enabled graphics, this function will be grey.
(2). System Decoder: Give the slower decoding/encoding speed, any computer can use it.
Preference > Convert
Under” Convert” tab, you can set the preferences of CPU core and simultaneous processes.
In CPU option, the default is using all cores on this computer, you can also set it to use least core or you can decide how many to use by choose a number.
In Process option, you can choose the max simultaneous processes, four is the highest, and default setting is four.
Preference > Tivo
Under “Tivo” tab, it let you input your Tivo media access key as if you want to import tivo files, you need to input your media access key first.
Preference > Others
Under “Others” Tab, you can set the size of the snapshot, launch options, and reset confirmation message displays.
Snapshot
In default, it takes snapshot at the original video size, if you want to customize a size, just uncheck the Original Video Size box, then to input a size you want.
Launch wizard when Camcorder is connected Option Box
You can check or uncheck the box to decide whether pops up the camcorder wizard message when you connect the camcorder to a PC and launch Media Magician.
Reset confirmation message displays.
In program, there are some pop up messages, you may have checked “Do not show this message again” box, it will not show any more, but if you want it to show again, you can just click the reset button to get it back to default.
Options
By clicking
, you can open options. It is used to mange the media library. From Options, you can import Media Library, Export Media Library, Sort video files in Media Library, select whole media library at one click, delete all selected videos and decide how to showcase the media library.
Export Media Library
After you importing videos from hard drive or Camcorder to media library, you can export the media library. It will save the media library as a *mdat file on your computer within a minute. You can save many media library files, next time you can just need to import the one you want to edit.
Import Media Library
Just import the *mdat file into Media Magician, it will import all the video files that included.
Sort By
Click Sort By option you can sort the videos files in media library by Name, Duration, File size, Date, Type.
Large Icons
Click Large Icons option, it will show videos in large icons like below.
Small Icons
Click Small Icons option, it will show video in small icons like below.
Details
Click Details option, it will show video files in detail with Name, Duration, Size, and Creating Date.
