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MagicSports 4
The Most Exciting Way to Relive Your Favorite Sports
Intelligent analysis of recorded TV sports programs
Identifies exciting sports highlights automatically
Instant replay and easy navigation of game highlights
Star ratings for baseball and football highlights
Compatibility with PowerCinema and Windows Media Center

MagicSports 4 Overview:
Enjoy Sports to the Max by Watching on Your PC
1. Catch the best moments of each game
MagicSports lets you relive exciting sports highlights of the most memorable games ever. Watch and replay TV sports in an unprecedented way!

Watch 4 international sports: football, soccer, baseball, and sumo wrestling
Skip all the boring plays and bask in the thrilling highlights
Watch the duration of the game from any given highlight

2. Create a highlights video of your favorite game
That's right, create your own Sports Network in minutes. Create your own video of game highlights to gush over later or share with friends. With the choice of automated or manual settings, you can output your own highlights reel.

Select a duration and let MagicSports create a customized file of the most prolific highlights
Manually add or remove highlights
Enhance audio and video quality with Noise Reduction Eagle Vision technology
Save files in MPEG-2 or unprotected DVR-MS formats

3. Use with other home entertainment products
MagicSports expands the TV functionality of PowerCinema and Windows Media Center by adding sports analysis to your playback features. With MagicSports you'll find it easier to locate, play, and replay those classic moments from your favorite recorded games.

Compatible with CyberLink PowerCinema 4 (and later) or Windows Media Center
Windows Vista compatible
Works with CyberLink's Media Deluxe Suite of Windows Vista plug-ins
Automatically analyzes recorded games stored in your Recorded TV folder
Respects the protection of DVR-MS content

MagicSports 4
1. 4 Great Sports
Support for Leading International Sports
MagicSports lets you relive the excitement of four of the world's most passionate sports: football (American), soccer, baseball, and sumo wrestling.

1.1 Football
From TV broadcasts of college games to the Super Bowl, MagicSports lets you experience the highlights of your favorite football games over and over. Here are the key game stats you need to know:

Your average 3-hour broadcast can be analyzed in about 20 minutes. It takes only 8-10% of the duration of the entire football program to identify the highlights. After that you get to enjoy the best moments of game play.

Your handy 4-star rating system makes it easy to identify truly outstanding game highlights. Here's what MagicSports looks out for on your behalf:

Next and Previous Play lets you skip between highlights. You can skip from beginning to end and back again. Or continue watching the rest of the game from any point.

1.2 Baseball
Whether you regularly follow the National League, American League, or any of the other leagues around the world, MagicSports ensures you are always watching the best. Here's how it's done.

MagicSports analyzes your recorded game in 8-10% of the length of the broadcast. This means, the average 2.5-hour program is ready to browse in under 15 minutes.

Next and Previous Pitch lets you focus on the action, beginning with each ball. Skip forward or back and continue play from any pitch you like.

Outstanding moments of each game are quickly identified using MagicSports' star rating system. The number of stars may differ for similar events across different games, but MagicSports only looks for the most exciting stuff.

1.3. Soccer
Whether it's an in-country soccer game or international competition, MagicSports turns recorded TV broadcasts into an even more thrilling spectacle. Here's the key scorecard:

MagicSports takes 15-20% of your broadcast's duration (approximately 20 minutes) to identify key highlights. Here's what MagicSports is looking for:

Key Game Highlights
- Goals and near goals - Rule violations, such as fights
- Issuing of red and yellow cards - Accidents and injuries

1.44. Sumo Wrestling
If you haven't been a fan of this sport just yet, now's your chance. MagicSports contemplates centuries of Sumo tradition in order to analyze your TV recording in minutes.

MagicSports takes just 6% of the duration of a typical 3-hour sumo broadcast to select the major highlights. MagicSports looks for:

Key Game Highlights
- Fight begins - Wrestler touches the ground
- Competitors' names on screen - Wrestler crosses the line


2. Watch Sports Highlights
Create a Highlights Video of Your Favorite Sports
MagicSports makes it easy to create a condensed video of a game¡¯s highlights, featuring transitions between shots, a file title, even a customized length.

2.1 Simply select a duration for the video
With options for 10, 30, 60 minutes, and more, creating a file of a favorite game is a breeze. You simply select the duration for how much of the game you want to keep and MagicSports looks for the the best highlights.

2.2 Add or remove parts of the game
Want more or less of a game? You can adjust the length of your highlights video by setting a specific duration, or by playing the video and adding/removing scenes live.

2.3 Enhance your video and audio quality
You can improve the image quality of your output videos simply by selecting the EagleVision option in the video settings. CyberLink Eagle Vision (CLEV) automatically enhances video colors, while balancing contrast and brightness. You can also clean out background noise by selecting CyberLink Noise Reduction in the settings.

2.4 Save files in MPEG-2 or MPEG-1 format
MagicSports offers a choice of output file formats including MPEG-2 and MPEG-1 format.

3. Create a Highlights Video
How MagicSports Technology Delivers Pure Sports Excitement
MagicSports incorporates sophisticated scene detection technology that works to create a timeline of the highlights of your recorded sports programs.

3.1 CyberLink MagicScene™ technology
CyberLink's advanced game detection technology identifies only the exciting highlights of recorded games. All other content is classified as being of little interest, including TV commercials and breaking news reports. This means you can watch all your highlights uninterrupted, without having to fast-forward through the content you don't want to see.

3.2 Fast and accurate video analysis
CyberLink's MagicScene technology processes video and audio signals to identify and separate game highlights from unexciting moments. MagicScene identifies the highlights of recorded sports programs with an accuracy of 95-98%.

The time it takes to analyze games, as a percentage of the original content, typically is:

15-20% of the duration of soccer games. A 2-hour soccer event can be analyzed in around 20 minutes.
8-10% of the duration of football games. A 3.5-hour football event can be analyzed within 20 minutes.
8-10% for baseball games. A baseball game can be analyzed in around 10 minutes.
6% for sumo wrestling events. A sumo game be analyzed in around 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, background analysis processes video files from your Recorded TV folder while you are doing other PC tasks. This ensures that you have even faster access to highlights when you want them.

3.3 Enhancing video quality
MagicSports includes technology for improving the image and audio quality of analyzed video. Two technologies handle this task: CyberLink Eagle Vision (CLEV) enhances video colors and balances contrast and brightness; CyberLink Noise Reduction (CLNR) removes unwanted noise. These effects can be applied when you create a video file of game highlights. You can access these features via settings.

4. MagicSports Technology
Relive the Highlights of Your Favorite Sports
4.1 Watch the highlights of recorded games
Skip between highlights. Start watching a game from your favorite highlight. With MagicScene technology - CyberLink's sports analysis algorithm - MagicSports locates the best highlights of each game, then lays them out in an easy-to-use menu. Click play and continue watching the game from your last highlight.

4.2 Navigate with easy onscreen controls
With MagicSports you're in complete control of the game either via (optional) remote control or a mouse and keyboard. With support for 3D graphics cards, the transparent thumbnail menu allows quick navigation between highlights while displaying the game visible behind. The control bar lets you play, pause, forward, and skip highlights

4.3 Browse your highlights menu
MagicSports creates a visual menu of each game's highlights. You can simply browse until you find the highlight you like. The star rating system for baseball and football highlights makes it even easier, with the number of stars offering a clue as to which highlights are true game classics.

4.4 Remote control operation
MagicSports provides quick access to all features via (optional) remote control, including changing settings and accessing your higlights menu. New illustrations help you master all features in a moment.

MagicSports 4 System Requirements
Operating System
Microsoft Windows Vista/XP
DirectX 9 or above
Windows Media Player 9 or above

Display
Windows-compatible display with at least 1024 x 768 pixel resolution.

Remote Control (Optional)
Because of system limitations, Windows XP Service Pack I is required in order to operate the remote control.

CPU
Intel Pentium 4 2.6 GHz or higher (higher CPU speed will yield better video quality)

Audio Card
DirectX-compatible PCI soundcard, USB audio box, or built-in audio device required for audio playback and recording.

Memory
256 MB of RAM (512 MB or more recommended)

Hard Disk
200 MB of available hard disk space required for installation (500 MB required for running the program, 1 GB of free disk space is required for running the TV always time-shifting function).

Video Display Card
DirectX-compatible display adapter for 16-bit colors display (32-bit colors recommended). When using 3D UI mode, a graphic card with 64 MB or more of video memory is recommended. A 3D display card is required for MagicSports' transparent index.

Mouse
Windows-compatible mouse or pointing device.

Optical Device
DVD-ROM, DVD-R/RW, DVD-RAM, DVD+R/RW, DVD-Dual, DVD-ROM/CD-RW, or DVD Multi-drive with 1394, USB 2.0, ATAPI, SCSI, or Card Bus interface.

TV Recording Requirements
MagicSports analyzes and outputs, but does not record, TV sports programs. If you don't already have your favorite sports programs stored on your PC, you will need to record them from your TV service. A simple way to do this is by using TV recording software such as PowerCinema. You will also need a TV tuner card to record your programs. Tuner card options are below:

TV Tuner Card
CyberLink's bundled hybrid TV tuner card has been tested and is recommended for use with PowerCinema 5
Windows-compatible analog tuner cards with a WDM driver or a digital/hybrid tuner card with a BDA driver may also be compatible

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