Pinnacle STUDIO 10 PLUS User Manual

Pinnacle Studio 10 Plus

Including Studio SE, Studio and Studio Plus

Easy, MORE Powerful,

MORE Creative Video Editing

Special thanks to Mike Iampietro, William Chien, Richard Edgley, Ivan Maltz, Keith Thomson, Jörg Weselmann, and Chris Zamara.

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Table of contents

BEFORE YOU START..................................................XI

Equipment requirements.........................................................................xi

Abbreviations and conventions............................................................. xiii

On-line help...........................................................................................xv

CHAPTER 1: USING STUDIO.......................................1

Undo, Redo, Help, Support and Premium...............................................3

Setting options.........................................................................................4

Edit mode....................................................................................................5

The Player................................................................................................6

Playback controls.....................................................................................8

Further editing topics.............................................................................11

Expanding Studio .................................................................................. 11

CHAPTER 2: CAPTURING VIDEO.............................. 17

The Capture mode interface....................................................................19

The Diskometer.....................................................................................21

The Camcorder Controller.....................................................................22

The capture process..................................................................................23

Capture hardware...................................................................................23

Capture step-by-step..............................................................................25

Scene detection......................................................................................27

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…Digital capture......................................................................................28

Audio and video levels – digital............................................................30

Analog capture..........................................................................................30

Capture quality options..........................................................................31

Audio and video levels – analog............................................................31

Importing video from DVD.....................................................................33

CHAPTER 3: THE ALBUM..........................................35

The Video Scenes section.........................................................................38

Opening a captured video file................................................................40

Viewing captured video.........................................................................43

Selecting scenes and files......................................................................45

Displaying scene and file information...................................................46

Comment view.......................................................................................46

Combining and subdividing scenes....................................................... 48

Redetecting scenes.................................................................................50

The Transitions section............................................................................51

The Titles section......................................................................................53

The Still Images section ........................................................................... 54

The Sound Effects section........................................................................57

The Music section.....................................................................................58

The Disc Menus section............................................................................55

CHAPTER 4: THE MOVIE WINDOW........................... 59

Movie Window views................................................................................62

Storyboard view.....................................................................................63

Timeline view........................................................................................63

Text view...............................................................................................67

The toolboxes............................................................................................68

The Video toolbox.................................................................................69

The Audio toolbox.................................................................................71

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CHAPTER 5: VIDEO CLIPS ........................................ 73

Video clip basics .......................................................................................74

Adding video clips to your movie .........................................................74

Working with multiple capture files......................................................76

The project video format .......................................................................77

Interface features ...................................................................................79

Trimming video clips................................................................................81

Trimming on the Timeline using handles.............................................. 81

Clip-trimming tips.................................................................................85

Trimming with the Clip properties tool.................................................86

Resetting trimmed clips.........................................................................88

Splitting and combining clips..................................................................89

Advanced Timeline editing......................................................................90

Insert editing..........................................................................................92

Split editing ...........................................................................................94

Using video effects....................................................................................98

Working with the effects list..................................................................99

Changing effect parameters.................................................................101

Keyframing..........................................................................................103

Using keyframing................................................................................106

Previewing and rendering.................................................................... 108

Video effects library............................................................................... 109

Standard effects......................................................................................111

Auto color correction...........................................................................111

Noise reduction....................................................................................112

Stabilize............................................................................................... 112

Plus effects...............................................................................................113

Lighting...............................................................................................114

Speed...................................................................................................114

Blur......................................................................................................114

Emboss ................................................................................................ 115

Motion blur..........................................................................................115

Old film ............................................................................................... 116

Soften...................................................................................................116

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Stained glass........................................................................................ 117

True camera blur..................................................................................117

Luma key.............................................................................................117

2D Editor.............................................................................................118

Color map............................................................................................ 118

Lens flare.............................................................................................118

Magnify...............................................................................................119

Water drop...........................................................................................119

Water wave..........................................................................................119

Black and white...................................................................................120

Color correction................................................................................... 120

Invert ...................................................................................................120

Posterize .............................................................................................. 121

RGB color balance...............................................................................121

Sepia....................................................................................................121

The SmartMovie music video tool.........................................................122

CHAPTER 6: EDITING WITH STUDIO PLUS ........... 125

Introducing the overlay track............................................................... 125

A/B editing ..........................................................................................127

The Picture-in-picture tool...................................................................128

The Chroma key tool...........................................................................133

Selecting colors ...................................................................................140

CHAPTER 7: TRANSITIONS..................................... 141

Transition types and their uses ............................................................142

Previewing transitions in your movie..................................................145

Audio transitions .................................................................................146

The Ripple Transition command.........................................................147

Trimming transitions.............................................................................148

Trimming with the Clip properties tool............................................... 148

CHAPTER 8: STILL IMAGES....................................151

Editing still images.................................................................................154

Editing image clip properties...............................................................154

The Frame Grabber...............................................................................161

The Frame grabber tool.......................................................................161

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CHAPTER 9: DISC MENUS.......................................165

Disc authoring in Studio......................................................................167

Using menus from the Album..............................................................169

The DVD Player Control.....................................................................171

Editing menus on the Timeline............................................................ 172

Editing with the Clip properties tool...................................................174

The Disc menu tool..............................................................................179

CHAPTER 10: THE TITLE EDITOR .......................... 181

Launching the Title Editor...................................................................182

The Title Editor controls ....................................................................... 183

Title-type buttons.................................................................................183

Object toolbox.....................................................................................184

Editing-mode selection buttons...........................................................187

Object layout buttons........................................................................... 189

Clipboard and delete buttons............................................................... 191

Text-styling controls............................................................................ 191

The Title Editor Album .........................................................................193

The Looks Browser ............................................................................. 193

The Backgrounds section.....................................................................195

The Pictures section............................................................................. 196

The Buttons section.............................................................................197

CHAPTER 11: SOUND EFFECTS AND MUSIC........ 201

The Timeline audio tracks................................................................... 203

The CD audio tool...............................................................................205

The SmartSound tool...........................................................................206

The Voice-over tool.............................................................................208

Trimming audio clips............................................................................. 211

Trimming with the Clip properties tool............................................... 211

Audio volume and mixing......................................................................213

Anatomy of an audio clip....................................................................213

Adjusting audio on the Timeline.........................................................216

The Volume and balance tool..............................................................218

Audio effects............................................................................................223

Noise reduction....................................................................................225

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Plus effects...............................................................................................226

ChannelTool........................................................................................226

Chorus .................................................................................................227

Equalizer.............................................................................................. 227

Grungelizer..........................................................................................228

Leveler ................................................................................................. 228

LiquidEQ............................................................................................. 229

Reverb .................................................................................................229

Stereo Echo..........................................................................................230

Stereo Spread....................................................................................... 230

CHAPTER 12: MAKING YOUR MOVIE..................... 231

Output to disc media..............................................................................233

Output to file...........................................................................................237

Output to tape.........................................................................................241

Configuring the camera or video recorder........................................... 242

Output your movie to videotape.......................................................... 243

APPENDIX A: SETUP OPTIONS ..............................245

Capture source settings........................................................................246

Capture format settings........................................................................250

Project preferences .............................................................................. 253

Video and audio preferences...............................................................256

Make Disc settings ..............................................................................259

Make File settings................................................................................262

Make Real Media file settings............................................................. 267

Make Windows Media file settings.....................................................270

Make tape settings...............................................................................271

APPENDIX B: TIPS AND TRICKS ............................ 275

Hardware.............................................................................................275

Software...............................................................................................277

Increasing the frame rate.....................................................................278

Studio and computer animation...........................................................279

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APPENDIX C: TROUBLESHOOTING....................... 281

Technical help on-line............................................................................282

Studio crashes in Edit mode................................................................285

Capture error occurs on starting capture..............................................290

Studio hangs when rendering...............................................................292

CD or DVD burner is not detected ......................................................295

Studio hangs on launch or does not launch..........................................296

“Cannot initialize the DV capture device” error in Capture mode......297

Installation problems .............................................................................300

Operation problems ............................................................................... 301

APPENDIX D: VIDEOGRAPHY TIPS........................ 307

Creating a shooting plan......................................................................307

Rules of thumb for video editing.........................................................312

Soundtrack production.........................................................................314

Title .....................................................................................................315

APPENDIX E: GLOSSARY........................................317

APPENDIX F: LICENSE AGREEMENT .................... 333

APPENDIX G: KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS................ 337

INDEX ........................................................................ 341

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Before you start

Thank you for purchasing Pinnacle Studio. We hope you enjoy using the software.

This manual covers all versions of Studio, including Studio Plus. Differences between versions will be noted as applicable. Most of the time, the word “Studio” will be used generically to refer to all versions.

If you have not used Studio before, we recommend that you keep the manual handy for reference even if you don’t actually read it all the way through.

In order to ensure that your Studio experience gets off on the right foot, please review the three topics below before continuing to Chapter 1: Using Studio.

Equipment requirements

In addition to your Studio software, here is what you need to make a Studio editing system.

Computer

• Intel Pentium or AMD Athlon 1.4 GHz or higher

(2.4 GHz or higher recommended)

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• 512 MB of RAM (1 GB recommended; 1 GB

required for HD)

• Windows XP

• DirectX 9 or higher compatible graphics card

compatible with 32 MB (ATI Radeon or NVIDIA GeForce2 or higher with 128 MB recommended for SD; 128 MB required for 720p HD; 256 MB required for 1080i HD)

• DirectX 9 or compatible sound card (Creative

Audigy or M-Audio recommended)

• 500 MB of disk space to install software plus 3 GB

to install bonus content.

• DVD-ROM drive

The following items are optional:

• CD-R(W) burner for creating VCDs or S-VCDs

• DVD-/+R(W) burner drive for creating DVDs

• A microphone, if you want to record voice-overs

Note: HD video is supported by Studio Plus only.

The hard drive

Your hard drive must be capable of sustained reading and writing at 4 MB/sec. Most drives are capable of this. The first time you capture, Studio will test your drive to make sure it is fast enough. Video in the DV format occupies 3.6 MB of hard drive space per second, so just four and a half minutes of DV video will consume a full gigabyte on the drive.

Tip: We recommend using a separate hard drive dedicated to video capture. This avoids competition between Studio and other software, including Windows, for use of the drive during capture.

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Video capture hardware

Studio can capture video from a variety of digital and analog sources. See “Capture hardware” on page 23.

Video output hardware

Studio can output video to:

• Any HDV, DV or Digital8 camcorder or VCR. This

requires an OHCI-compliant IEEE-1394 (FireWire) port (as provided by Pinnacle Studio DV). The camcorder must be set up to record from DV Input.

• Any analog (8mm, Hi8, VHS, SVHS, VHS-C or

SVHS-C) camcorder or VCR. This requires Pinnacle Studio USB-700, PCI-500, PCI-700, or another Pinnacle device with analog outputs. Output to analog camcorders or VCRs is also possible using a Pinnacle Studio DV or other OHCI-compliant 1394 port if your DV or Digital8 camcorder or VCR can pass a DV signal through to its analog outputs (see your camcorder manual and Chapter 12: Making your movie, for more information).

Note: HDV camcorders are supported by Studio Plus only.

Abbreviations and conventions

This guide uses the following conventions to help organize the material.

Terminology

Studio: “Studio” and “Studio Plus” refer to the editing software.

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DV: The term “DV” refers to DV and Digital8 camcorders, VCRs and tapes.

HDV: A “high-definition video” format that allows video in frame sizes of 1280x720 or 1440x1080 to be recorded in MPEG-2 format on DV media.

1394: The term “1394” refers to OHCI-compliant IEEE-1394, FireWire, DV or i.LINK interfaces, ports and cables.

Analog: The term “analog” refers to 8mm, Hi8, VHS, SVHS, VHS-C or SVHS-C camcorders, VCRs and tapes, and to Composite/RCA and S-Video cables and connectors.

Buttons, menus, dialog boxes and windows

Names of buttons, menus and related items are written in italics to distinguish them from the surrounding text, whereas window and dialog names are written with initial capital letters. For example:

Click the Edit menu button to open your menu in the Title Editor.

Choosing menu commands

The right arrowhead symbol (¾) denotes the path for hierarchical menu items. For example:

Select Toolbox ¾ Generate Background Music.

Keyboard conventions

Key names are spelled with an initial capital and are underlined. A plus sign denotes a key combination. For example:

Press Ctrl+A

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to select all the clips on the Timeline.

Mouse clicks

When a mouse click is required, the default is always a left-click unless otherwise specified:

Right-click and select Go to Title/Menu Editor.

On-line help

Two kinds of immediate help are always available while you are working in Studio:

• Help file: Click the help button in the Studio main

menu bar, or select the Help ¾ Help topics menu, or press F1

• Tool tips: To find out what a button or other Studio

control does, pause your mouse pointer over it. A “tool tip” appears explaining its function.

to open Studio’s help file.

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CHAPTER 1:

Using Studio

Creating movies with Studio is a three-step process:

1. Capture: Import source video material – your “raw footage” – to your PC hard drive. Possible sources include analog videotape (8mm, VHS etc.), digital videotape (HDV, DV, Digital8), and live video from a video camera, camcorder or webcam.

Capture mode is covered in Chapter 2: Capturing video.

Availability: HDV capture is supported in Studio Plus only.

2. Edit: Arrange your video material as desired by reordering scenes and discarding unwanted footage. Add visuals, such as transitions, titles and graphics, and supplementary audio, such as sound effects and background music. For DVD and VCD authoring, create interactive menus that give your audience a customized viewing experience.

Edit mode is the arena for most of your work in Studio. See “Edit mode” later in this chapter (page 5) for a fuller introduction.

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3. Make movie: When your project is complete, generate a finished movie in your choice of format and storage medium: tape, VCD, S-VCD, DVD, AVI, MPEG, RealVideo or Windows Media.

Make Movie mode is covered in Chapter 12: Making your movie.

Setting the mode

Select which step of the movie-making process you want to work on by clicking one of the three mode buttons at the top left of the Studio window:

When you switch modes, the Studio screen changes to display the controls needed for the new mode.

Undo, Redo, Help, Support and Premium

The Undo, Redo, Help, Support and Premium buttons are always to be found in the top right corner of the Studio window, no matter which of the three modes you are currently working in.

• Undo allows you to back out of any changes you

have made to your project during the current session, one step at a time.

• Redo reinstates the changes one by one if you undo

too far.

• The Help button launches Studio’s built-in help

system.

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• The Support button opens Studio’s technical support

site in your web browser.

• The Premium button lets you expand Studio by

purchasing and installing premium content. (See page 11 for details.)

All other controls on the Studio screen are dedicated to tasks within the current mode.

Setting options

Most options in Studio are set using two tabbed dialog boxes.

The first lets you control options related to Capture mode and Edit mode. It has four tabs:

The other dialog box is concerned with options relating to Make Movie mode. It has three tabs, one for each of the three movie output types:

Each panel of both dialog boxes can be opened individually with a corresponding command on the Setup menu (e.g. Setup ¾ Capture Source). Once either dialog box is open, however, all of its panels are available through the tabs.

For simplicity, we generally refer to the different options panels independently, as in “the Capture source options panel”.

Detailed explanations of the options in both dialog boxes are contained in Appendix A: Setup Options.

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EDIT MODE

Studio opens in Edit mode each time it is launched, because that is the mode you use most often. The Edit mode display includes three main areas.

The Album stores resources you will use in your movies, including your captured video scenes.

The Movie Window is where you create your edited movie by arranging video and sound clips, and by applying transitions and effects.

The Player provides playback and previewing for whichever item is currently selected in Studio. That may be an Album resource – such as a video scene, title or sound effect – or your edited movie, complete with transitions, titles, effects and several audio tracks. The Player is covered below.

See Chapter 3: The Album and Chapter 4: The Movie Window for detailed information on those topics.

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The Player

The Player displays a preview of your edited movie, or of the item currently selected in the Album.

It consists of two main areas: a preview window and playback controls. The preview window displays video

images. The playback controls allow you to play the video, or go to an exact position within it. These controls come in two formats: standard and DVD.

Standard mode

The standard playback controls are similar to those on a camcorder or VCR. They are used for viewing ordinary video.

DVD mode

The DVD playback controls emulate the navigation controls on a DVD player or remote control. Use them

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for previewing your DVD, VCD or S-VCD disc productions, including menu interaction.

The preview window

This is a point of focus in Studio because you use it so often, especially for previewing your movie. It can also be used to display:

• Any type of Album content.

• Still images or titles from your movie.

• Changes to video effects in real time while you

adjust the parameter controls for the effects.

• Still frames from your video.

While viewing a still frame, you can step by as little as a single frame in either direction with the “jog” controls.

The DVD toggle button

Switch between the two playback modes with the

DVD toggle button at the bottom right-hand corner of the Player. This button is only available when your edited movie contains at least one menu.

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Playback controls

The Player presents either of two sets of playback controls depending on the playback mode you choose.

When you play your movie back as ordinary video, you will be using the standard playback controls. If your movie uses disc menu navigation, you can play it back as an optical disc with interactive on-screen menus by using the DVD playback controls. Both groups of controls are covered below.

The full-screen preview button: This button, just below the bottom right-hand corner of the preview window, switches to a full-screen preview. It is available in both playback modes. The full-screen display ends when your movie ends, or you doubleclick the screen or press the Esc key.

The Video preview options on the Video and audio preferences options panel let you direct the full-screen preview to the secondary monitor on your system if there is one. In Studio Plus, you can simultaneously send your preview to an external device, if desired.

Standard playback controls

These buttons control playback in the Player. Play / Pause: The Play button previews the

movie from the current position. Once preview begins, Play becomes Pause. When playback is paused, the Album scene or Movie Window clip at which previewing stopped remains selected. The [Space

] key can also be used to start and stop playback.

Go to beginning: This button halts playback and skips back to the first frame of the material being previewed.

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Fast reverse, Fast forward: These buttons let you preview your movie at two, four or ten times the normal speed, in either direction. Use them to scan for a particular piece of video you want to work with. Click the buttons repeatedly to loop through the speed factors.

Loop: This button causes the currently-selected clips in the Movie Window to play back repeatedly. This feature is especially convenient whilst selecting and editing add-on effects and transitions. Click any playback button to halt looping. The loop button lights up while looping is active. Looping is maintained even if you switch playback speeds.

Jog buttons: This pair of controls normally steps your movie forward and backward by one frame at a time. To step by seconds, minutes or hours instead of frames, select the corresponding field in the counter (see below), then use the jog buttons to modify it.

The Player scrubber

Use the Player scrubber to quickly traverse your captured video or edited movie in either direction. The scrubber position corresponds to the position of the current frame in the captured video file (not just the current scene) or in the edited movie (not just the current clip). Thus the scrubber bar always represents the entire length of the content being viewed.

As you move the scrubber, the preview window shows the current frame. If you have activated the audio scrubbing button in the Movie Window, you will also hear snatches of your movie’s audio as you scrub. See page 60 for details.

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The ability of the preview to keep up with the scrubber depends on the speed of your computer. If you move the Player scrubber slowly, the preview display responds smoothly. As you increase the rate at which you move the scrubber, the preview will jump frames. The point at which it does so depends on your hardware. The smoothness of the preview also diminishes as the overall length of the material being scrubbed increases.

The counter

The counter displays the current playback position in hours, minutes, seconds and frames. You can directly modify the counter fields to select an exact frame to view or at which to start playback. Simply click on the number you wish to change and type a new value. To move to a different field, click again or use the Left and Right arrow keys.

You can also modify the value in a selected field by using the jog buttons beside the counter or the Up Down

arrow keys.

and

The master volume slider

This control sets the overall audio volume during preview playback. It is equivalent to turning up the master volume on your sound card using the system volume tool. It does not affect the volume of the final movie Studio creates in Make Movie mode.

The small loudspeaker icon at the right of the control serves as a master mute button during playback.

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DVD playback controls

These controls include the four standard transport buttons detailed above (Play/Pause, Fast reverse,

Fast forward, Go to beginning) plus the DVD Player Control, which is described under “The DVD Player Control” on page 171.

Further editing topics

Please see the following for details on specific editing topics:

• Chapter 5: Video clips

• Chapter 6: Two-track editing with Studio Plus

• Chapter 7: Transitions

• Chapter 8: Still images

• Chapter 9: Disc menus

• Chapter 10: The Title Editor

• Chapter 11: Sound effects and music

Expanding Studio

One way to add pizzazz to your productions is to use a variety of video and audio filters, animated transitions, titles, VCD and DVD menus, and sound effects.

Studio includes an extensive selection of hundreds of content items and special effects, but it’s also designed to grow along with your needs. When you want a

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particular filter, transition, menu or effect that isn’t part of the basic set, an easy-to-use upgrade mechanism lets you find, purchase and install the materials you need without even leaving the program.

Most of the premium content available for Studio does not even require downloading.

Studio’s Bonus Content DVD includes numerous items, like the Hollywood FX transition at left, that initially appear as “bonus” content in Studio, symbolized by a small treasure chest symbol in the topleft corner of the icon. Such items can be upgraded by purchasing a code called an activation key. Each key activates a small group or theme pack of related content.

Additional items of premium content will be provided for download as they become available. These items can sampled and purchased within Studio using the same activation method as for the premium content included with the program installation.

You can easily try out bonus content before purchase to make sure that it meets your needs. Until you actually purchased your activation code for the item, it will produce “watermarked” output when you preview or when you make your finished movie.

New tools, new media, new frontiers

You can purchase additional media and filters in any of three ways from within Studio:

• With the Help ¾ Purchase activation keys

menu command (or the premium shortcut button at the top right of the Studio screen).

This opens a special browser window in which you can access a catalog page for any type of premium content that interests you.

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• With the Album commands More transitions, More

sound effects and More menus.

These commands are found on the dropdown lists in the corresponding sections of the Album. They will enable you to download, try out and purchase additional premium content that was not included with the program installation.

• By clicking the activate buttons found in some parts

of Studio.

These buttons can be found whenever premium content is on display within Studio. The one above, when seen in the Audio effects tool and the Video effects tool, would let you activate a pack of audio or video filters.

Here, the “RTFX Volume 2” page is open in the Video Effects tool. The Activate Effect Pack button could now be used to unlock the effects in this set.

Similar buttons in the Album let you purchase all the media on a particular Album page as a theme pack.

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The Transitions section of the Album, open to one of the many theme packs of Hollywood FX transitions. Click anywhere in the activation panel on the righthand page to activate this set of transitions.

How activation works

“Activating” premium content for Studio means to obtain a license allowing you unrestricted use of the content on the single machine where Studio is installed. The licensing mechanism employs two distinct but mutually related codes:

• An activation key for each premium content item you

purchase;

• Your Passport, which is a number generated the first

time you install Studio on your computer. You can view your Passport by selecting the Help ¾ My Passport menu command.

Because the Passport is specific to one computer, you will need to obtain new activation keys if you install Studio on a different machine. These will be provided at no charge, but your user licenses for both Studio and any premium content you have obtained then apply to the new machine only.

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