Pinnacle Systems Studio - 9.0 Quick Start Guide
Pinnacle Studio 9
Including Studio SE, Studio QuickStart,
Studio Standard and Studio Plus
Easy, MORE Powerful,
MORE Creative Video Editing
Special thanks to Mike Iampietro, William Chien, Richard Edgley,
Ivan Maltz, Jon McGowan, Keith Thomson, Jörg Weselmann, and
Chris Zamara.
Documentation: Nick Sullivan
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Table of contents
BEFORE YOU START..................................................XI
Equipment requirements......................................................................... xi
Abbreviations and conventions.............................................................xiv
On-line help...........................................................................................xv
CHAPTER 1: USING STUDIO ....................................... 1
Undo, Redo, Help and Unlock.................................................................2
Setting options.........................................................................................3
Edit mode .................................................................................................... 5
The Player................................................................................................ 6
Playback controls..................................................................................... 8
Further editing topics............................................................................. 11
Expanding Studio ..................................................................................11
CHAPTER 2: CAPTURING VIDEO.............................. 15
The Capture mode interface.................................................................... 17
The Diskometer ..................................................................................... 19
The Camcorder Controller..................................................................... 20
The capture process..................................................................................21
Capture hardware...................................................................................21
Capture step-by-step..............................................................................23
Scene detection......................................................................................25
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Digital capture .......................................................................................... 26
SmartCapture: Preview-quality capture................................................. 27
Full-quality capture................................................................................29
Audio and video levels – digital ............................................................31
Analog capture..........................................................................................32
Capture quality options.......................................................................... 32
Audio and video levels – analog............................................................ 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 ...................................................................... 44
Displaying scene and file information...................................................45
Comment view.......................................................................................46
Combining and subdividing scenes .......................................................47
Redetecting scenes................................................................................. 49
The Transitions section............................................................................50
The Titles section......................................................................................52
The Still Images section ...........................................................................53
The Sound Effects section........................................................................54
The Disc Menus section............................................................................ 56
CHAPTER 4: THE MOVIE WINDOW........................... 59
Movie Window views................................................................................62
Storyboard view.....................................................................................62
Timeline view........................................................................................63
Text view...............................................................................................67
The toolboxes ............................................................................................ 67
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......................................................75
Interface features ...................................................................................76
Trimming video clips................................................................................78
Trimming on the Timeline using handles.............................................. 78
Clip-trimming tips ................................................................................. 82
Trimming with the Clip properties tool................................................. 83
Resetting trimmed clips.........................................................................85
Splitting and combining clips .................................................................. 86
Advanced Timeline editing ......................................................................87
Insert editing..........................................................................................89
Split editing ...........................................................................................91
Using video effects .................................................................................... 95
Working with the effects list..................................................................96
Changing effect parameters...................................................................98
Fading effects in and out .......................................................................99
Previewing and rendering.................................................................... 100
Video effects – the basic set....................................................................101
Cleaning effects....................................................................................... 103
Auto color correct................................................................................ 103
Noise reduction.................................................................................... 104
Stabilize ............................................................................................... 104
Time effects ............................................................................................. 105
Speed ................................................................................................... 105
Strobe................................................................................................... 106
Color effects ............................................................................................ 107
Black and white ................................................................................... 107
Color correction................................................................................... 108
Posterize ..............................................................................................108
Sepia .................................................................................................... 109
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Fun effects ...............................................................................................109
Lens flare.............................................................................................110
Noise.................................................................................................... 110
Water drop...........................................................................................111
Style effects..............................................................................................112
Blur......................................................................................................112
Emboss ................................................................................................113
Mosaic ................................................................................................. 113
Old film ...............................................................................................114
Stained glass ........................................................................................ 115
The SmartMovie music video tool.........................................................115
CHAPTER 6:
TWO-TRACK EDITING WITH STUDIO PLUS ... 119
Introducing the overlay track............................................................... 119
A/B editing ..........................................................................................121
The Picture-in-picture tool................................................................... 123
The Chroma key tool...........................................................................128
Selecting colors ...................................................................................135
CHAPTER 7: TRANSITIONS..................................... 137
Transition types and their uses ............................................................138
Previewing transitions in your movie..................................................141
Audio transitions .................................................................................142
The Ripple Transition command ......................................................... 143
Trimming transitions ............................................................................. 144
Trimming with the Clip properties tool............................................... 145
CHAPTER 8: STILL IMAGES .................................... 147
Editing still images .................................................................................150
Editing image clip properties............................................................... 150
The Frame Grabber ............................................................................... 158
The Frame grabber tool ....................................................................... 158
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CHAPTER 9: DISC MENUS....................................... 161
Disc authoring in Studio......................................................................163
Using menus from the Album..............................................................165
The DVD Player Control.....................................................................167
Editing menus on the Timeline............................................................ 168
Editing with the Clip properties tool ................................................... 170
The Disc menu tool.............................................................................. 175
CHAPTER 10: THE TITLE EDITOR .......................... 177
Launching the Title Editor................................................................... 178
The Title Editor controls .......................................................................179
Title-type buttons................................................................................. 179
Object toolbox ..................................................................................... 180
Editing-mode selection buttons ........................................................... 183
Object layout buttons........................................................................... 185
Clipboard and delete buttons ............................................................... 187
Text-styling controls............................................................................ 187
The Title Editor Album .........................................................................189
The Looks Browser .............................................................................189
The Backgrounds section..................................................................... 191
The Pictures section............................................................................. 192
The Buttons section ............................................................................. 193
CHAPTER 11: SOUND EFFECTS AND MUSIC........ 197
The Timeline audio tracks ...................................................................199
The CD audio tool...............................................................................201
The SmartSound tool ........................................................................... 203
The Voice-over tool ............................................................................. 205
Trimming audio clips ............................................................................. 208
Trimming with the Clip properties tool............................................... 208
Audio volume and mixing...................................................................... 210
Anatomy of an audio clip .................................................................... 211
Adjusting audio on the Timeline ......................................................... 213
The Volume and balance tool..............................................................215
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Audio effects............................................................................................220
Noise reduction.................................................................................... 221
Equalizer.............................................................................................. 223
Grungelizer..........................................................................................224
Karaoke ...............................................................................................225
Leveler.................................................................................................226
Reverb .................................................................................................226
CHAPTER 12: MAKING YOUR MOVIE..................... 229
Outputting to a camera or video recorder... .........................................231
Output your movie to videotape ..........................................................232
Save your movie as an AVI file........................................................... 234
Save your movie as an MPEG file....................................................... 237
Save as RealVideo or Windows Media ...............................................239
Share your movie via the Internet........................................................ 240
Output your movie to DVD, VCD or S-VCD...................................... 242
Copying an AVI file to tape.................................................................245
APPENDIX A: SETUP OPTIONS .............................. 247
Capture source settings........................................................................248
Capture format settings........................................................................ 252
Edit settings ......................................................................................... 256
CD and voice-over settings.................................................................. 260
Make tape settings ............................................................................... 262
Make AVI file settings ........................................................................264
Make MPEG file settings ....................................................................266
Make RealVideo file settings...............................................................268
Make Windows Media file settings ..................................................... 271
Make disc settings ...............................................................................272
APPENDIX B: TIPS AND TRICKS ............................ 277
Hardware ............................................................................................. 277
Software............................................................................................... 279
Increasing the frame rate ..................................................................... 281
Studio and computer animation...........................................................282
Smart Capture Tips (DV only) ............................................................282
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APPENDIX C: TROUBLESHOOTING ....................... 285
Technical help on-line ............................................................................ 286
Studio crashes in Edit mode ................................................................ 289
Capture error occurs on starting capture.............................................. 294
Studio hangs when rendering...............................................................297
CD or DVD burner is not detected ......................................................299
Studio hangs on launch or does not launch..........................................300
HollywoodFX transitions are still watermarked after upgrading......... 302
“Cannot initialize the DV capture device” error appears in Capture mode
............................................................................................................. 302
Installation problems .............................................................................306
Operation problems ...............................................................................308
APPENDIX D: VIDEOGRAPHY TIPS ........................ 315
Creating a shooting plan......................................................................316
Editing ................................................................................................. 317
Rules of thumb for video editing.........................................................320
Soundtrack production......................................................................... 322
Title .....................................................................................................323
APPENDIX E: GLOSSARY........................................ 325
APPENDIX F: LICENSE AGREEMENT .................... 341
APPENDIX G: KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS................ 345
INDEX ........................................................................ 349
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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 800 MHz or higher
(1.5 GHz or higher recommended)
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• Microsoft Windows 98 SE, Windows “Millennium”,
Windows 2000 or Windows XP (recommended).
The MicroMV digital video format is supported only
under Windows XP.
• Graphics card compatible with DirectX 9 (ATI
Radeon or NVIDIA GeForce2 or higher
recommended)
• Sound card compatible with DirectX 9
• Audio system with Dolby Pro Logic compatibility if
previewing surround-sound mixes is required
• 256 MB of RAM (512 MB recommended)
• CD-ROM drive
• DVD drive for installing the bonus DVD containing
tutorial, electronic manual and bonus content. The
same content is available free on CD-ROMs from
the Pinnacle e-store (shipping cost not included).
• Speakers
• Mouse
• A microphone, if you want to record voice-overs
• 500 MB of free hard drive space to install software
• Optional CD burner for creating VideoCDs (VCDs)
or Super-VideoCDs (S-VCDs)
• Optional DVD burner for creating DVDs
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 at full quality, 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.
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If disk space is a concern with your DV captures, use
SmartCapture to capture your video at preview quality
(see “SmartCapture: Preview-quality capture” on page
27). This feature uses much less disk space. An entire
tape can fit in as little as 360 MB.
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.
Video capture hardware
Studio can capture video from a variety of digital and
analog sources. Please see “Capture hardware” on page
21.
Video output hardware
Studio can output video to:
• Any 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 DC10plus, Studio AV, or another Pinnacle
card 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).
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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.
DV: The term “DV” refers to DV and Digital8
camcorders, VCRs and tapes.
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.
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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
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:
• On-line help: Click the help button in the Studio
main menu bar, or select the Help ¾ Help topics
menu, or press F1 to open Studio’s on-line help file.
• 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.
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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 (DV, Digital8), and live video from a video
camera, camcorder or webcam.
Capture mode is covered in Chapter 2: Capturing
video.
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.
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.
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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 and Unlock
The Undo, Redo, Help and
Unlock 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 on-line help
system.
• The Unlock 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.
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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 six tabs, one for each of
the six 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.
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See Chapter 3: The Album and Chapter 4: The Movie
Window for detailed information on those topics.
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.
Note: The illustrations in this documentation use 16:9
(widescreen) video. When 4:3 (standard) video is
previewed, the Player is proportioned somewhat
differently than shown here, but its general appearance
is the same.
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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.
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.
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
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] key can also be used to start and stop playback.
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.
Go to beginning: This button halts playback and
skips back to the first frame of the material being
previewed.
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.
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.
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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 and
Down arrow keys.
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.
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 167.
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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 8: 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,
VCD and DVD menus, and sound effects.
Studio comes with comprehensive collections in all
these areas, but it’s also designed to grow along with
your needs. When you want a 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.
Some of the premium content available for
Studio does not even require downloading.
Studio’s Bonus Content DVD includes
numerous items, like the disc menu at left, that
initially appear as “locked” content in Studio,
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symbolized by a small padlock symbol in the top-left
corner of the icon. Such items can be upgraded by
purchasing an unlocking code called an activation key.
Each key unlocks a small group or theme pack of
related content.
Additional items of locked 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.
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 unlock 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.
• 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 unlock theme pack buttons found in
some parts of Studio.
These buttons can be found whenever premium
content is on display within Studio. The one above,
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when seen in the Audio effects tool and the Video
effects tool, would let you unlock a pack of audio or
video filters.
Here, the “Bravo Studio Pack 2” page is open in the
Video Effects tool. The Unlock 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.
The Transitions section of the Album, open to the
“HFX Family Fun 1” theme pack of Hollywood FX
transitions. Click anywhere in the unlock panel on
the right-hand page to unlock this set of transitions.
How unlocking works
“Unlocking” premium content for Studio means to
obtain a license allowing you unrestricted use of the
content on the single machine where Studio is installed.
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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.
Note: Although your Passport is specific to an
individual computer, it is not affected by ordinary
hardware modifications such as adding or removing
expansion cards, drives or memory.
If you don’t have an Internet connection...
You can purchase and apply premium content
activation keys even if you don’t have an Internet
connection on the computer where Studio is installed.
When you click one of the unlock links within Studio, a
dialog will be displayed showing information needed
for ordering the specific content you want, including:
• An Internet URL where you can activate the content
• Numeric identifiers for the Studio program and the
item you want to activate
• Your Passport and your Serial Number
Navigate to the given URL from another computer,
enter the information, and complete the purchase as
directed.
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