Instructions
for Studio Features:
What are
the Studio Features?
The studio features are a set of menus and powerful commands that
make it easy to record your own Hgo words timing to go along with
your own worship album, package that all up nice and pretty, and
put it onto a CD-Extra CD your customers can put in, surf your CD
based web pages and click to view your Hgo content.
Although many of the Studio menu features can be used by just about
anybody (to make their creation of personal-use Hgo materials easy),
the studio features really shine when you have your own StudioID.
If you have purchased a Studio Level License for HGO, you should
look into getting your own StudioID#. The StudioID represents a
special relationship with InspiredCode, so it's not for everyone.
But it just might be a good fit for you and for us. Some of the
instructions below may apply only to those who have a StudioID,
and other instructions below may apply to anyone who simply has
the Studio license level of HGO. Certain capabilities "turn-on"
when you have entered your StudioID#, and other capabilities are
made available once you have logged onto a certain project, within
a StudioID capability.
The general idea is to go one step at a time through the process of
creating your own CD-Extra CD containing your music, your Hgo
content, your own cstom web pages and an automatic way for your
customers to painlessly install and use HGO straight from your CD.
When you click to create your CD, you also end up creating your
ShareWareMusic package equivalent of that CD. Nothing says
you have to distrubute both or either, but they should both be made.
Each StudioID holder gets their own sandbox (directory) in the
standard HGO directory structure. Your creations go into that one
folder on anybody's machine who will install your own content.
That special location (as installed) is called the Real Folder(s).
(It actually consists of your own special folder within a few certain
folders in the Hgo directories).
While you are building your content, you also have a Virtual Folder.
That virtual folder is on any drive you choose, C:\ by
default.
This will make much more sense as you get to use it. To use the
HGO
Studio features, you simply click on the Studio Menu at the top of
HGO and you will be allowed to do certain things at certain times.
That way you are led one step at a time down the path to success!
How do I
use the Studio Features?
Before you do anything else, after you have obtained your HGO Studio
license and put it into HGO, you would need to obtain your unique
Studio ID Number. This is a 4 digit alphanumeric code that only
you
would have. It gets tacked onto the beginning of all valid HGO
content
and package names. This makes each file name created truly
unique,
so that it should only be overwritten by authorized updates.
Here are the steps to use the Studio Features:
Listed below are the menu items you should click in HGO to perform
the needed sequence of events. Please note that you must
successfully
complete each step before you are allowed to do the next.
You may well ask: why have I made the next parts below really light
purple? Answer: because I have now created a mentor (I
refuse to
call them wizards) that carries you through the steps needed to get
past all the "light purple" stuff. That's right. You can
now click on
the "Your Package From Scratch" menu item,
and it will launch a
process that leads you through making your song list, and preparing
all your lyrics files. That makes it a snap to get well launched
into
your album package project.
So please give that "Your Package From Scratch"
menu a try.
You'll be glad you did!
0. Click
on Studio/
Input your StudioID and checksum"
You will be asked to enter your unique
Studio ID# and
check sum.
If you have already done this then the other menu
items will appear.
1. Click on Studio/Create Your
Original HGO Content/
Start New Album
Project or
Log onto an existing project (if you already
started it)
This logs you into the project, creating
along the way any folders
it may need.
2. Click on Studio/Create Your
Original HGO Content/
Import Files/
Open the import folder
This opens the import folder so you can drag
all the files you want into
it. You will want to include any sound files
(not your CD Audio),
lyrics files (.txt), movies (VP3 AVI) and pictures
(BMP or JPG).
Perform Import Now
This puts all those files into the right
places in your current project.
Open the outbasket folder.
This opens the outbasket folder so you can remove
the processed files.
3. Click on Studio/Create Your
Original HGO Content/
Edit an existing lyrics file
This opens the outbasket folder so you can
remove the processed files.
Record an Hgo File
These menus allow you to record your own Hgo
words timing.
See the main instructions under "Advanced".
Edit an Existing Hgo File
This opens an editor to adjust and modify your
recorded Hgo file.
Create New SongList
This auto-creates a song list based uppn all
your song files it finds.
Edit Existing SongList
This opens an editor to adjust and modify your
SongList.
4. Click on Studio/Package Your
Original HGO Content/
Interview to
describe your package
This asks you questions. The answers are used
to creat your CD
web pages. It also will ask you to locate two
pictures for them.
5. Click on Studio/
Package Your
Original HGO Content/
Create Your Content
Package (.pkg)
This step will take quite a while to execute, so
please be patient.
This command copies your Real Folder(s) to the
backup(s) in the
Virtual folder, then packs them into an archive
package file.
6. Click on Studio/Create Your
CD-Extra CD/
Import Latest HGO
Program Sources
This step is where you make sure your program
sources are up to
date. Two files need to be up to date.
The simple program installer
(/updater) called HGO.exe, and the root package that
contains all
the stuff HGO needs to run, called ID#0000#000.pkg
7. Click on Studio/Create Your
CD-Extra CD/
Auto-Create your CD
web
site
This step will take quite a while to execute, so
please be patient.
This command auto-creates the CD-Extra CD based web
pages
seen by your customer, based upon your interview and
upon your
song list and songs.
8. Click on Studio/Create Your
CD-Extra CD/
Explore and Edit
Your CD web site
This launches you into the Virtual Folder that
contains the CD Web
files. You will need to visit and edit them
using Mozilla 1.7x. If you
don't have Mozilla 1.7 (the full suite, not just
FireFox) then you will need
to download it from Mozilla.org. You should
start with pcindex.htm but
also go out one folder and take a look at index.html
as well.
9. Click on Studio/Create Your
CD-Extra CD/
Clean Up Web Files
This will remove any localization from the
links. Sometimes
Mozilla
likes to add the full path to the file name on links
and image names.
This menu command will remove those paths, leaving
just the pure
file names, so that your web page links will work no
matter where they
are located.
10. Click on Studio/Create Your
CD-Extra CD/
Import Your Wave
Files
This command opens up a special folder and lets you
place your wave
files there. Also will open up the C:\ folder
so you can explore
over to
where you are keeping all the wave files for your CD
music. You should
RIGHT-CLICK-DRAG-COPY the wave files from wherever
you have
them into the Wave Files folder of your CD-Extra
project in Hgo.
10. Click on Studio/Create Your
CD-Extra CD/
Create NRG File of
CD
This command merely opens two folders: the Waves folder
and the files
folder for your Hgo CD-Extra project. People
have various different
burning software, such as Nero or Corell CD
Creator. You cannot use
just the CD ability of XP because as far as I know
it does not let you
make CD-Extra CDs. You need a real CD Burning
program like Nero.
This concludes the documentation at this time for
the Studio Features
of Home Group Overhead Studio License Level.
If you have any
comments please let us know. If you have not
gotten an invitation to
request a StudioID, please let us know. The
StudioID may not be for
everyone, but we think it will be a good fit for us and
many users.