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Sony PEGA-SA500 gMovie v1.4 manual

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    gMovie Version 1.4 Operating Instructions Copyright 2001, Generic Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved A-ATE-140- 11 (1)[...]

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    2 • CLIÉ, PictureGear, Memory Stick and the Memory Stick logo are trademarks of Sony Corporation. • generic media and gMovie are trademarks of generic media, inc. • Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. • Graffiti, HotSync and Palm OS are registered trademarks, and Palm Desktop and the HotSync logo are t[...]

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    3 Table of Contents Before Use Features ............................................................................................................... 4 Basic Operations Starting gMovie ................................................................................................. 5 Playing back a media file .....................................[...]

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    4 Before Use Features gMovie is the application which enables the display and playback of motion picture data with sound, made for the CLI É handheld by using a Windows ® application such as PictureGear Lite. When you send movie data made for the CLI É handheld by PictureGear Lite using HotSync operation, or copy the data to the CLI É handheld [...]

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    5 Basic Operations Starting gMovie Select gMovie from the Home screen of the CLIÉ handheld by rotating and pressing the Jog Dial navigator. The gMovie application starts and the media (movie file) list appears. Motion pictures that you can playback with gMovie are called "media." z If no media file is installed, no list is displayed. To [...]

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    6 Switchable information : Tapping the following icon, displays of contents change. : displays the type of media item. : displays the dimensions of the media item (pixels). : displays the duration of the media item (seconds). If the media file has many frames per second, the actual time duration may be longer than that displayed. : displays storage[...]

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    7 Playing back a media file Select the media file you want to playback from the media list by rotating and pressing the Jog Dial navigator. The media file is automatically played back. Note You can playback the media file by using the stylus to tap it. Control with the Jog Dial navigator Pause: Press the Jog Dial navigator during playback. Restart [...]

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    8 Notes • In normal playback mode, the playback of the same media file repeats. • When you use the Audio Adapter PEGA – SA500, if the Audio Adapter is accidentaly removed from the CLI É handheld during playback, the playback stops and the list screen appears. In this case, make sure the Audio Adapter is connected to the CLI É handheld and r[...]

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    9 To delete a media item 1 Display the media item to delete, then tap the Menu icon. 2 Tap [Delete]. 3 Tap [OK]. The media item will be deleted, and the display will return to the media list. You can also use the supplied remote controller to control the functions* : go to next file : return to previous file : playback : stop : volume adjustment * [...]

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    10 Miscellaneous Menu Commands Media menu This menu is displayed by tapping Menu icon when the media list is displayed. About gMovie Version information of the gMovie application is displayed. This menu is displayed by tapping the Menu icon when a media item is displayed. Details Detailed information of active media item is displayed. Beam Media Yo[...]

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    11 Delete You can delete the active media item. When the Delete Media dialog box is displayed, tap OK to perform deletion, or tap Cancel to cancel deletion. Preferences s Loop movie playback When the playback of the media item is finished, Playback of the same media item starts again. Note If you clear this check box, you cannot automatically play [...]

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    12 Creating a media file for gMovie using PictureGear 4.4 Lite You can create a media file for gMovie using PictureGear 4.4 Lite for personal computers. You can install PictureGear 4.4 Lite to your computer from the supplied install CD-ROM. Installing the PictureGear 4.4 Lite software to your computer 1 Insert the Installation CD-ROM into the CD-RO[...]

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    13 Movie (media) file formats you can use with PictureGear 4.4 Lite PictureGear 4.4 Lite supports the following movie file formats: • MPEG1 (file extension: .MPG, .MPEG) • AVI (file extension: .AVI) • QuickTime 3.0 and QuickTime 4.0 (file extension: .MOV, .QT) Note When using gMovie on your CLI É Handheld, you may not be able to display some[...]

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    14 Size Selects the dimention size of the movie file(s) you want to send. Click to select 160 x 120, 120 x 92, or 80 x 60. Dithering When Monochrome (High compression) is selected in Select Compression Method, drag the slider left or right to adjust the dither level. You cannot use this function on Monochrome (High image quality) and Color movies. [...]

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    15 Copying movie files to a Memory Stick media Perform the following procedure to copy slides (movie files) from PictureGear 4.4 Lite to a Memory Stick media, and to display them on a CLI É handheld using gMovie. 1 Click to select the slide (media file) you want to display on a CLI É handheld. You can select multiple movie files by holding down t[...]

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    16 z The larger the Size or Sound Quality is, the larger the movie file size will be. Note If you select still image movie files, the Settings for Still images dialog box appears. 4 Click [OK]. The movie files converted to the gMovie format are copied to the "PALMPROGRAMSGMEDIA" folder in the Memory Stick media. 5 Insert the Memory Sti[...]

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