To A DVDThis Year (NAPSA)—For many families, Christmas cards and letters are an annualtradition and a fun way to carry the newsof the year. With PCs, digital cameras and inexpensive color printers, many families send friends and relatives an annual collage of photos to recount trips, soccer games, birthdays and smiling kids. This year, it gets even better. New products are making it easy to create DVDs from homevideos and digital camera photos. No matter what kind of video camera or videocassette recorder you have, it is now possible to transform personalvideos into inexpensive DVDs that can be played in virtually any home DVDplayer. With VideOh!, a new product from Adaptec, you can easily transfer video from your vacation, kids’ soccer games, birthdays, graduations, weddings and other events onto your PC. From there, you can quickly add special effects and other edits, or simply burn your video straight onto a DVD. With Adaptec VideOh!, you simply plug your camcorder or VCR into a converter that turns the video into digital format and feeds it to your PC. From there, the included software lets you easily create menus, clip out the boring (or embarrassing) bits, add titles and even include some special effects. What’s more, VideOh! lets you create memorable slide shows on your DVD. Now you can import photos from the Internet, a Modern technology can help your family make even more of an old holiday tradition. digital camera or a photo CD from your nearby photo processing center, to produce memorable shows with music and specialeffects. At only a few dollars a piece for blank DVDs, you can create a really special holiday gift for roughly the same cost of a nice greeting card. Adaptec’s VideOh! is available at retail outlets or from www.adaptec.com for $179. If you haven’t purchased a DVDburneryet, but do have a CD burner in your PC, you canstill take advantage of this unique gift idea, because Adaptec VideOh! lets you create video CDs that will also play in many DVDplayers. The holidays are, for many, a time to extend a warm greeting to family and friends, share tales of experiences over the past year, exchange photos and offer kind wishes for the year ahead. Now you can start a new holiday tradition by sharing your memories on DVD!
