Pinnacle Systems Studio Online User's Guide

Studio Online
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SER’S GUIDE
Studio Online User’s Guide
Version 1.0 / GB December 2000 41000357
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Contents

OVERVIEW 1
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ACKAGE CONTENTS
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YSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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STUDIO ONLINE INSTALLATION 5
PECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS OF WINDOWS
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NSTALLATION STEPS
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TUDIO ONLINE ASSISTANT
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ONNECTION OF DEVICES
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THE STUDIO INTERFACE 12
DIT MODE
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SING THE PLAYER
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HE MOVIE WINDOW
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APTURE MODE
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AKE MOVIE MODE
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A TOUR THROUGH STUDIO 25
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DDING VIDEO SCENES
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DDING SOUND AND MAKING MOVIES
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AKING A MOVIE
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HARING YOUR FILM VIA THE INTERNET
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RANSITIONS AND A TITLE
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25 36 38 39
CAPTURING VIDEO 40
BOUT CAPTURING
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HE CAPTURE WINDOW
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APTURING VIDEO TAPES
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APTURE OPTIONS
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40 40 44 46
ADDING/ADJUSTING VIDEO SCENES 47
ELECTING AND OPENING A CAPTURED SOURCE FILE
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EVIEWING VIDEO SCENES IN THE ALBUM
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RIMMING SCENES
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PLITTING CLIPS
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47 48 49 57
GRABBING AND USING STILL IMAGES 60
HE FRAME GRABBER
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RIMMING STILL IMAGES
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ADDING AND USING TRANSITIONS 66
HE TRANSITIONS ALBUM
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DDING TRANSITIONS TO YOUR MOVIE
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RIMMING TRANSITIONS
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ADDING SOUND EFFECTS / MUSIC 71
ELECTING AND PREVIEWING AUDIO CLIPS IN THE ALBUM
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LACING AUDIO CLIPS ON THE TIMELINE
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REATING BACKGROUND MUSIC
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REATING A VOICE-OVER
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DJUSTING AUDIO VOLUME
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DJUSTING AUDIO LEVELS
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RIMMING AUDIO CLIPS
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72 72 74 75 78 78 82
CREATING TITLES 84
HE TITLEDEKO USER INTERFACE
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ET’S MAKE A TITLE
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ELECTING TEXT AND OBJECTS
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ORMATTING TEXT AND OBJECTS
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AYERS
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RANSFORMING TEXT AND OBJECTS
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SING AND MODIFYING STYLES AND LOOKS
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HE BACKGROUND
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RIMMING TITLES AND GRAPHICS
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99 101 103
CREATING MOVIES 104
HE MAKE MOVIE MODE
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HARE YOUR VIDEO VIA THE INTERNET
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AKING MOVIE FILES
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APPENDIX A: CHANGING DEFAULT OPTIONS I
HE SETUP DIALOG BOX
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APTURE TAB SETTINGS
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DIT TAB SETTINGS
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AKE
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AKE
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AKE REALVIDEO TAB SETTINGS
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ILE TAB SETTINGS
AVI F MPEG F
ILE TAB SETTINGS
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APPENDIX B: TIPS AND TRICKS XI
NSTALLATION
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PERATION
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EFRAGMENTING THE HARD DISK
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IDEO EDITING AND CAPTURING
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APPENDIX C: TECHNICAL DATA XIX
APPENDIX D: GLOSSARY XX
APPENDIX E: LICENCE AGREEMENT XXV
INDEX
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About the Users's Guide

This User’s Guide explains how to install and use the Pinnacle Systerms hardware and software.
Subheadings
In the margins are subheadings to help you quickly find your way through this manual.
Important text passages are marked with the “notepad” and this format.
Numbers mark step by step instructions:
1. Start Studio.
Bullets mark instructions for optional steps the order of which is not important.
Connect the board to the camcorder.
All keyboard commands appear in this font:
setup
Menus, commands, options or buttons which the user can select are written in
italics.
For changes that have occurred after the manual has been printed, refer to the ReadMe file/s on the CD-ROM supplied with your system!
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Overview

What is Studio Online?

Studio is the award-winning software from Pinnacle Systems that lets you create your own digital movies right on your PC, then share your creation with family and friends through Pinnacle Systems’ free video-sharing Web site.
Capture video, edit, add styled titles, transitions, even your own sound track and narration to your digital video creation. Studio gives you options to output your video as an MPEG or AVI file, to store on CD, use in presentations on your Web site, or share a video email.
Studio makes creating exciting digital videos an easy three-step process.
First, capture your video to your PC hard drive.
Next, arrange the video scenes in order. Drag and drop transitions, titles
and still images. Complete your movie with sound effects, background music and voice-overs.
Create your final digital movie in a variety of formats.

Easy Video Capture on the PC

Video capture has never been easier. The Studio application has easy-to-use Good/Better/Best quality presents like a VCR, and calculates how much video your computer can store. Studio automatically detects and records scene changes, making editing a breeze.

Interactive Editing with Instant Preview

With Studio, creating a movie is a quick and interactive process. Using the Instant Preview window, you can view your movie any time during editing and get a “what-you-see-is-what-you-get” (WYSIWYG) view of your movie.
If you don’t like a title or effect, make a change and view that change instantly—video editing has never been as fast or as fun. Just drag and drop video scenes, transitions, titles and audio (effects, background music and voice-overs).
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Titles

Studio includes Pinnacle Systems’ Emmy award-winning TitleDeko title creator, making it easy to add simple or elaborate titles and credits to your movie. TitleDeko features over 300 looks and styles, including metallic titles, transparent titles, neon titles and flying titles.

Special Effects

Studio creates over 100 professional-quality scene transitions such as fades, dissolves and wipes. Drag and drop these to the timeline or storyboard to add transitions to your video, or animate graphics and titles!

Audio

Adding voice-overs is a breeze—just pick up the microphone, click a button and start speaking. Studio lets you narrate as you watch the movie, so your words are in sync with the screen action.
Audio effects, such as applause, or sound tracks from an audio CD can be added easily using the Studio point-and-click interface. The SmartSound feature creates custom background music quickly and easily—choose the type of music and its length, and it appears on the sound

Make Movie

You can save your movie in a variety of formats for playback on the PC. Chapter 11 explains how to:
Share your video via the Internet
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Save your movie as an AVI file
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Save your movie as an MPEG file
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Save your movie as a RealVideo file
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On-Line Help

On-line help is right where you need it, when you need it, while you’re working in Studio.
Standard On-Line Help. Click the Help button in the Studio main menu
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bar, or Press [F1] to display the table of contents page of the standard help topics.
Tool Tips. To find out what a button or other Studio control does, pause
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your mouse pointer over it and a Tool Tip appears explaining its function.
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ACKAGE CONTENTS
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Before beginning the installation of Studio USB TV, please verify that the package is complete:
Studio Online
Software
Studio Online
with USB cable
The Studio Online package contains the following software:
The
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Studio Software
CD-ROM with Software and
with its simple interface offers you various
drivers
Documentations
possibilities for capturing, editing, and making videoclips.
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The
Studio Online Assistant
helps you to check the functionality our your computer system together with Studio Online. All relevant parameters for the correct installation and function of your system are checked and saved.
Drivers
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for Windows 98 and Windows 98 SE, Windows ME, or
Windows 2000.
YSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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Before installing Studio Online, please make sure that your system meets the following requirements:

Computer

Pentium II computer (or better)
Minimum
system
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an unused USB port
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requirements
32 MB RAM
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CD-ROM drive
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Sound card, DirectX 8.0-capable
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Graphics, DirectX 8.0-capable.
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100 MB available hard disk space
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Recommended
system
requirements:
Pentium II computer (or better)
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An unused USB port
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64 MB RAM or more
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CD-ROM drive
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Separate capture hard disk (1 GB or more available hard disk space)
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Sound card, Direct-X 8.0-compatible
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Loudspeakers
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Microphone, if you want to record voice-over narration
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Graphics card, DirectX 8.0-capable with overlay capability
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200 MB (or more) available disk space
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DirectDraw support:
Before you start to work with the applications, a graphics board with a complete DirectX must be installed. The installation program checks to see if DirectDraw has been installed. If this is not the case, it will install DirectX automatically.

Operating System

Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows 98 ME, or Windows 2000.

Video Devices

Composite-Video inputs:
You can connect any video device that supplys a composite video signal in PAL or NTSC (depending on delivery variant) to the Studio Online's video input, regardless of the video system used (for example, VHS, S-VHS, Hi8, Video 8), for example, a VCR, camcorder or satellite receiver.

Audio Devices

Any device with a line out audio signal can be connected to the Studio Online's audio input (for example, a camcorder).
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Studio Online installation

This section explains you how to install the Studio Online hardware and software. During the installation, the Studio Online program group will be created and the Windows drivers, the applications, and the tools will be copied into this group.
The following illustration shows a sample configuration:
Instead of a camcorder, it is also possible to use a VCR or any other video source as a playback device.
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Administrator rights

For the installation you need administrator rights. In order to work with the applications you must be a member of the group Power Users.

Driver certification

During installation a Windows dialog is displayed with the information that the drivers are not certified. The Pinnacle drivers where not certified by Microsoft already when this manual was prepared but they are suitable for the use with Windows 2000. So, you can answer the question concerning the driver installation with Yes.
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1. Switch on your computer and start Windows.
Switch on your computer. Windows is started automatically.
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If your computer is configured in such a way, that Windows is not started automatically, start Windows now.
2. Insert the installation CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive of your computer.
Insert the Install CD. If you have the Autorun feature enabled for your CD-ROM, you are automatically given two choices:
I want to install the software and have some fun! (recommended) I want to take a guided tour of Studio. If you do not have Autorun enabled, navigate to your CD-ROM drive,
and double-click on Welcome.exe.
3. If necessary, change the language, click OK.
The software will be installed in the language that your Windows9x is using. If your language version cannot be detected, you will be requested now to select the language for the installation.
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4. Select a setup type.
In the Setup Type window, select which kind of installation you prefer:
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Typical: Installs all components and uses the default settings.
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Compact: Skips some components (e.g. online manual) and uses the default settings.
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Custom: Lets you select the components to install.
5. Change the hard disk / directory.
If you wish to copy the files to another hard disk / another directory, click on the Browse... button and define the hard disk / the directory. The software should be installed on the system hard disk and not on the video hard disk!
6. Click Next.
7. Select the components, click Next.
If you have chosen Custom as setup type, in the following dialog box you can specifically choose the components that you want to install. After having determined the components, click Next.
This installation step is not required, if you have chosen Typical or Compact as setup type.
8. Start copying, Click Next.
In the Start copying files window, all chosen components are listed. If you wish to change the chosen settings, click on Back. Click Next to start copying.
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9. Connect hardware.
In the now following window you will get exact instructions for the connection of the Studio Online box to your computer. Follow those instructions and then click on Next.
In some cases on Windows 98SE systems which have been updated from Windows 98 system, get during installation you will get a question for NTCODEC.AX, MSPCLOCK.SYS, or KS.CAT. This is caused by version problems between the two windows versions. So first we recommend to use clean Windows 98 or Windows 98SE systems. Nevertheless, you can find these files by browsing to the directory C:\ISTUDIO.DRV.
10.Click on Yes if you wish shortcuts on your desktop.
11.Complete installation.
In the Complete Setup window you may be asked to restart Windows - if MS DirectX components have been updated. Please carry out this prompt and click on Finish to complete the installation.
12.Installation of further components.
Dependingt on the selected installation option there will be started further software installations, now (for example Acrobat Reader and RealPlayer). Please, follow the instructions.
13.The Studio Online Assistant is started.
The Studio Online Assistant is started automatically. The program checks the functionality of your computer system together with Studio Online.
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TUDIO ONLINE ASSISTANT
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The Studio Online Assistant helps you to check the functionality of your computer system together with Studio Online.
All relevant parameters for the perfect installation and function of your system are checked and saved.
If you encounter problems later when using Studio Online, you can use this test application to localize the problems very quickly and find solutions for them.
The Studio Online Assistant is started automatically after the restart of the system that is to say after the installation. You can start the Studio Online Assistant at other times using the Studio Online program group located in the Tools folder of the Start menu.
When the Studio Online Assistant has been started you can begin with the test.
After having completed the individual tests, proceed with the next test by clicking Continue.
If you click the button Details further information on the course of the tests and on the corresponding failure messages will be displayed.
The display Test Progress is showing you, which part of the tests is already finished.
All functional tests can be aborted by clicking Exit.
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Checking the Software

The first test of the Studio Online Assistant is checking whether all required drivers have been installed correctly. If this is not the case, a corresponding failure message will be displayed. If the test has been finished successfully, you will also get a corresponding message and you can proceed with the next text.

DirectX-Installation

For a perfect function of your system, DirectX has to be installed in the version 6.0 (minimum) or higher. If the Studio Online Assistant determines that this is not the case, you can carry out this installation supplementary from the enclosed CD-ROM.

DirectDraw Suppor t

This test will check the DirectDraw compatibility of your graphics board. If your board is not compatible a failure message will be displayed and you can take corresponding measures.
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Overlay-Test

At this point a test will check whether your graphics board is supporting a TV full screen. If this is not the case, the possibilities of TV image display of Studio Online cannot be used completely. Actually, the functionality is not
restricted by this.

Studio Online Resource Test

The last test of the Studio Online Assistant will check the functionality of the Studio Online-Box

Exit Studio Online Assistant

Once you have tested all functions successfully, click on the button Exit.

If you have problems...

All Studio Online Assistant results are saved to the text file ASSISTANT.TXT that is created in the Studio Online installation directory. If you encounter unanticipated problems when installing Studio Online, please forward a print out of this text file to the Support at Pinnacle Systems.
After you have finished the installation / configuration of Studio Online, consider visiting the Pinnacle Web site at http://www.pinnaclesys.com to look for the latest software updates.
ONNECTION OF DEVICES
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Depending on your individual requirements, you can connect further devices to the Studio Online box, now.

Connect video source

connect your video source (e.g., camcorder, VCR) to the den Studio
Online's video- and audio inputs.
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The Studio interface

This chapter is an orientation to the Studio user interface, and describes the main areas of the screen and the controls you’ll be using most often. Detailed descriptions are found in later chapters.
As described earlier, you make a movie in three steps: Capture, Edit and Make Movie. These modes are represented by three buttons under the main menu bar, and are ordered in the sequence used to make a movie: Capture the video, edit the video, and then make the movie by transferring files or recording a videotape.
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When you first launch Studio , it opens in the Edit mode, because you use Edit most often. To return to the Edit mode from Capture mode or Make Movie mode, click the Edit button on the Movie window menu bar.
The Edit mode display includes three main areas: the Album, the Player, and the Movie window.
Album Undo/Redo/Help
Player
Movie window
In addition, multilevel Undo and Redo buttons are located in the upper right corner along with the Help button. Clicking Undo repeatedly steps you back through the previous changes you made. It is essentially unlimited. You can feel free to experiment with editing because you can always Undo your way back to where you started.
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The Album

The Album contains four tabs that access sections for Video Scenes , Graphics , Transitions ,and Sound Effects . Click on the tabs to see
their contents. Video Scenes

The Player

The Player displays a preview of the movie, or shows what is selected in the Album. During Edit, the Player displays a preview of the movie at your current position. The Player also offers controls to navigate the movie you are editing.
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What is the Player?

The Player consists of two main areas, the Preview window and the Playback controls. The Preview window displays the video at the current
position. The Playback controls allow you to play the video, or go to an exact position within it.
Player s crubber
Previe w window
Playbac k controls
Jog buttons
Current position counte rTransport controls

The Preview Window

The Preview window is a central point of focus in Studio because you use it so often. It displays moving video during play. It also displays still images and titles at your current position, or when you select a scene in the Album or clip in the Movie window, or if you advance via single frames. The Preview window is also used in functions such as capture and trimming.

The Playback Controls

The buttons and controls in the Preview window let you navigate.
Play/ Pause. The Play button previews the movie from the current position. Once preview begins, Play becomes a Pause button. When paused, the scene or clip on which Preview stopped becomes the selected scene.
Fast Reverse. Plays the movie in fast-reverse mode at 10x the normal
speed.
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Fast Forward. Plays the movie in fast-forward mode at 10x the normal speed.
Go To Beginning. Moves scrubber to the first frame of your movie.

Jog Buttons

Click the Jog buttons to step the movie forward and backward by
frames.

Player Scrubber

Use the Player scrubber to quickly traverse forward and backward through the movie. The Player scrubber shows at a glance your relative position within a movie. Regardless of actual movie length, the scrubber bar represents the entire length of the movie. The left edge is the beginning.
As you move the scrubber, the Preview window shows the current position of the movie.
The ability of the Preview to display continuous video depends on the speed of your computer. If you move the Player scrubber slowly, the Preview window display plays smoothly. As you increase the rate at which you move the scrubber, the Preview window will jump frames. The point at which it does so is dependent on your specific hardware.
Counter
Shortcuts

The Counter

Frames Seconds Minutes Hours
The Counter seeks to and displays the current position within the movie, and also lets you select the exact point at which to start play. To seek to or play from an exact point, click on the number you wish to change and type a new value.
• Step through the fields: Tab or Left/Right cursor keys
• Increment/decrement field values: Up/Down cursor keys. Hold the
Up/Down keys to continuously increment/decrement.

Current Position Feedback

Regardless which control you use to change the current position, Studio provides intuitive feedback on your current position. The feedback mechanisms provide a range from a big picture view all the way down to the specific frame. In increasing order of fineness they are as follows.
• With one or more scenes selected in the Album, the Player scrubber
shows current position relative to movie length. Its relative position within the slider bar gives only an approximate position; however, this is very useful if your album contains many scenes spanning multiple pages.
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• There is also a Timeline Scrubber, which we will discuss later. It shows
approximate position relative to movie length.
• The Progress indicator within the current scene in the Album or in the
Movie window when in Storyboard view shows the current position within the scene.
• The Counter displays the exact current position in numerical values.
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The Movie window menu bar contains several important controls and displays. The Toolbox button on the left opens the Toolbox, which is discussed in greater detail in the next section. To the right of the Toolbox button is the project file name, along with an area that displays messages about the action you are performing. At the right are three view buttons.
Toolbox button Message area View section buttons
File name
Progress indicator
Movie window menu bar
Movie window
Storyboard
View
The Movie window has three views: Timeline, Storyboard and Text. You switch between them by clicking the View Selection buttons in the upper right corner of the Movie window menu bar.
Storyboard View Timeline View Text View
The Storyboard view shows the order of video scenes and transitions. It is useful for quickly structuring a movie.
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Timeline View
Text View
The Timeline view shows the position and duration of clips relative to the Timescale. This view also displays the four tracks on which you can place various types of clips: video scenes, title overlays, sound effects/voiceovers and background music.
Timescale Video scenes and their audio
Titl e ove rlays Sound effects and voiceover
Background music
The list in the Text view shows the start and end times of clips, as well as their duration. In addition, custom names for clips are visible in this view.
The Status Line

Current Position, Edit Li ne and Scrubbers

The current position is the frame shown in the Player Preview window. It is also indicated by the Edit line in the Movie window. The current position can be changed by moving Timeline scrubber. When the Change Clip Properties tool is selected, a third Scrub button, the Trim scrubber, is available for adjusting current position within the clip during trimming.
Timeline scrubber
Current position

Clip Placement Feedback

Studio gives you feedback about your actions as you place clips in the Movie window when it is in Timeline view.
The Status line is an area on the left of the Movie window menu bar that displays messages as you place clips and perform other actions in the Movie window.
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Placement
Symbols
Status line explains why
you see the unavailable symbol
Unavailable symbol
Studio does not allow you to create combinations that cause problems. The mouse pointer symbols and the colors of the vertical Placement lines indicate what you can and cannot do. For example, if you attempt to drag a sound onto the Video track, the Placement lines turn red, the plus sign becomes an unavailable symbol, and the Status line tells you, ”Only scenes, graphics and transitions on the video track.”
Green Placement lines with a copy sign
mean OK; red Placement lines
with the unavailable sign mean you cannot perform the action.
Available placement symbol
Green
placement lines

The Toolbox

The Toolbox provides a convenient point-and-click interface to add clips to the movie and adjust existing clips. The controls in the Toolbox can also be accessed via the main menu bar and other ways.
The Toolbox is available only in Edit mode, and is opened and closed with the buttons at the left of the Movie window menu bar.
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Open Closed
Click the Open button. The Album is replaced by the Toolbox, which contains two main areas:
• Tool Selector buttons in a panel on the left. Clicking these displays the
corresponding tools.
• The currently selected tool on the right. Double-clicking on a clip in the
Movie window also displays the corresponding tool.
All the Tool Selector buttons, except the first, display tools with dedicated functions. The first button (Change Properties of Clip) displays the appropriate change tool for the type of clip selected.
Change properties of the selected vi deo cl ip
Grab/save a still image from a frame of video
Add a title or graphic
Record a voice-over
Create background music automatically
Add music from a CD
Adjust volumes of audio tracks
Change Clip
Properties
The Change Properties tool adjusts the start and end times of any type of clip and allows you to type in descriptive names. This is also called trimming.
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Grab Frames
This tool takes a snapshot of a single frame. You can use it in your movie, or save it for use in other applications.
Titles and
Graphics
Record a
Voiceover
Titles and graphics are created and trimmed with this Toolbox window.
Recording a voiceover is a snap—all you do is click the Record button and begin speaking into your microphone.
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Create
Music
The Create Background Music tool lets you add or trim background music. Studio offers a powerful background music generator. Just choose a style, song, and version.
Add Audio CD
Music
You can easily add audio tracks from an audio CD, and control their length, disk name, and track names.
Adjust Track
Volumes
Studio offers three tracks that can contain audio: one for the video/audio from your camcorder tape, and two dedicated audio tracks (one for sound effects/voiceovers, and another for background music). The Volume window displays the audio levels with volume meters, and lets you control the volume of each track with respect to the others.
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APTURE MODE
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The Capture mode provides the control you need to capture the source video from your camcorder to your hard drive. You control the camcorder with the Transport controls on the camcorder display. As the capture process proceeds, the Album is populated with video scenes and the Player shows the incoming source video. Concurrently, the Diskometer monitors the free space on your hard drive. See Chapter 9 for detailed information on capturing video.
Player

Diskometer

Button

The Player during Capture Mode

Because the only function on the Player during capture is to show you the incoming source video, the Transport controls available during Edit mode are disabled, with the exception of the Counter window.

Start/Stop Capture Button

The Start/Stop Capture button begins and ends the capture process.

The Settings Button

Clicking the Settings button opens the Settings for Capture dialog.
Diskometer
The Diskometer tells you how much hard drive space is available in both graphical and numerical form.You can determine the quality of the video to capture by using the two buttons above Capture and Settings which allow you to select between default quality levels.
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The Make Movie mode allows you to save digital files of your movies to disk. As the make movie process proceeds, the Timeline scrubber advances across the Movie window, and the Preview window shows the clip currently being recorded.
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Making Digital Movies (MPEG or AVI Files)

You can also make digital movies (MPEG or AVI files) to email to your friends, put on a Web page, or put on a CD if you have a CD-R or CD-R/W drive. The controls for making a file are displayed by clicking Make AVI file to the left of the Make Movie Status window.
The Settings button includes options for including audio, the type of compression and so forth. In addition, the Make Movie window contains the Diskometer, which is a convenient way to monitor the amount of space on your hard drive versus the amount of space used in saving the digital movie file.
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