VoltaicHD for PC User Guide
Table of Contents
Introduction
Installation
Activation
Setting Preferences
Getting Started
Introduction
Welcome to the VoltaicHD for PC User Guide. This should tell you everything you need to know about how best to use VoltaicHD.
Installation
You install Voltaic by double-clicking the setup.exe installer that you can download from this site.
If you do not have the .Net Framework version 2.0 or later already installed, the VoltaicHD installer will install it for you.
Also if you are running Windows XP you will need Windows Media Player v11 installed. You can download it from here,
Download WMP 11
Activation
You activate VoltaicHD by purchasing an activation key. Once you have completed payment via PayPal, the key is emailed to your supplied email address immediately.
If you do not receive your email key within a minute or two, it is probably in your SPAM folder.
Once you receive your key, start Voltaic. Paste the Activation Key into the space provided and VoltaicHD will communicate with our activation server to activate your product.
Setting Preferences
VoltaicHD allows you to set a number of preferences. You should set up your preferences before using Voltaic for the first time.
Preferences can be reviewed at any time from the Tools->Options menu option, or via the toolbar button.
Scratch file location
This allows you to specify where the temporary files are placed during each conversion. If you are converting large files from an external storage location, and want to preserve disk space on the machine running the conversions, you should set this location to be on the external storage device.
Output Directory
This allows you to specify where the converted files are placed.
Extract 5.1ch Audio
This allows you to have the audio track from your movie extracted during the conversion process.
Output Format
WMV format is the recommended format for your converted clips.
Getting Started
Once you have either a demo or activated version of Voltaic installed on your system, with Preferences set up you are ready to start converting clips.
We have a few suggestions for converting your AVCHD clips:
- Always copy your clips onto a hard drive before converting. It is technically possible to convert the clips from your camera, but this may lead to other problems.
- Keep a VoltaicHD shortcut on your Desktop. This makes it easier to use (we think)
- Make sure you close down most other programs whilst VoltaicHD is converting your HD clips. Due to it being quite CPU intensive, it needs more power for the conversion process.
Now all you need to do is add some AVCHD files to the file list and press Start. Converted files are placed back in the same directory as the source files by default, or wherever you like by setting your Preferences.
