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Pinnacle Pro-ONE

SER'S GUIDE

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Pinnacle Pinnacle User’s Guide

Pro-ONE RTDV Pro-ONE

Version 1.0 / GB July 2002

41001623 © Pinnacle Systems 2002

permission from Pinnacle Systems, Braunschweig, Germany.

All brand or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

This manual is printed on chlorine-free paper using environmentally safe ink. Pinnacle Systems. has written this manual to the best of its knowledge, but does not guarantee that the

programs/systems will fulfill the desires of the user. No warranty is made as to the specifications of features. Pinnacle Systems. retains the right to make alterations to the content of the manual without the obligation

to inform third parties. All tenders, sales, supply and manufacturing contracts from Pinnacle Systems, including consultancy,

installation and other contractual performance are subject exclusively to the General Sales and Delivery Terms of Pinnacle Systems.

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Part I - Getting Started

CHAPTER 1: WELCOME 1

Contents

ELCOME

OW THIS GUIDE IS ORGANIZED

CHAPTER 2: BEFORE YOU BEGIN 4

YSTEM REQUIREMENTS

ACKAGE CONTENTS

CHAPTER 3: INSTALLING ADOBE PREMIERE 7

CHAPTER 4: INSTALLING THE HARDWARE 8

EFRAGMENTING THE HARD DISK

NSTALLING THE PRO

-ONE 8

CHAPTER 5: CONNECTING BLACKBOX AND VIDEO DEVICES 11

OW TO CONNECT VIDEO AND AUDIO DEVICES

ONNECTING THE BLACK

ONNECTING THE AUDIO LOOPTHROUGH

ONNECTING THE VIDEO DEVICES

LAYER AND RECORDER IN ONE DEVICE

ONNECTING THE VIDEO MONITOR AND LOUDSPEAKERS

BOX 13

13 13 17 18

CHAPTER 6: INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE 19

4 5

NSTALLING THE SOFTWARE FOR WINDOWS

NSTALLING THE SOFTWARE FOR WINDOWS ME

NSTALLING THE SOFTWARE FOR WINDOWS

DDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR THE SETUP PROGRAM

FTER THE INSTALLATION

-ONE

AND THE SETTINGS TAB

98 SE 20

2000 / XP 24

26 28 31

CHAPTER 7: QUICK TOUR 34

REREQUISITES

OOKING UP VIDEO EQUIPMENT TO PRO

TARTING AND PLAYING BACK AN EXAMPLE PROJECT

REATING A NEW PROJECT

APTURE SETTINGS AND CAPTURE

DITING IN ADOBE PREMIERE

AYS OF EXPORTING

-ONE 35

User’s Guide

35 36 37 40 42

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Part II - Creating Movies

CHAPTER 8: WORKING WITH DVTOOLS 49

REPARATION

CANNING TAPES

IDEO RECORDING

LAYBACK

XPORT AS PREMIERE STORYBOARD

50 52 57 59 62

CHAPTER 9: PINNACLE EFFECTS 63

FFECTS ANIMATION (KEYFRAMING

RANSITIONS

ILTERS

EYFRAMING

INNACLE EFFECTS KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS

: A

DDITIONAL INFORMATION

CHAPTER 10: PINNACLE

INNACLE

PRO-ONE

REAL TIME

)64

65 77 87 88

PRO-ONE

& REAL TIME 89

CHAPTER 11: TITLEDEKO RT 98

ELCOME TO TITLEDEKO

AUNCHING TITLEDEKO

HE TITLEDEKO

ELECTING TEXT AND OBJECTS

ORMATTING TEXT AND OBJECTS

RANSFORMING TEXT AND OBJECTS

SING AND MODIFYING LOOKS AND STYLES

AYERS AND BACKGROUNDS

ET’S MAKE A TITLE

RT U

RT 98

RT 99

SER INTERFACE

100 104 106 108 111 114 118

CHAPTER 12: HOLLYWOOD FX RT 126

NTRODUCTION

EFORE YOU START

ETTING STARTED

UTORIAL

INNACLE ONLINE

ERFORMANCE

ROUBLESHOOTING

: T

RANSITIONS

: T

RANSITION

: E

NVELOPES

: P

ATH EDITING

& O

PTIONS

+ 132

126 126 127 127

134 137 143 143 145

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CHAPTER 13: ALPHA MAGIC FX 146

INTRODUCTION 146 ALPHA MAGIC FX AND PINNACLE GRADIENT WIPE 146 CREATE YOUR OWN GRADIENTS 149

CHAPTER 14: EXPORTING YOUR MOVIES 151

OUTPUT TO ANALOG VIDEO RECORDER 151 OUTPUT TO DV TAPE 151 EXPORT TO TAPE 152 OUTPUT AS AVI FILE 155 OUTPUT FOR DVD AND MPEG2-CD 157 OUTPUTTING INTERNET FORMATS 159

ADVANCED EXPORT SETTINGS 159

Part III - Tools, Tips & Utilities

CHAPTER 15: PINNACLE PRESETS 167

PINNACLE PRESETS 167 PINNACLE EXPORT PRESETS 168

CHAPTER 16: PINNACLE PRO-ONE CONTROL 170

SETTINGS—VIDEO INPUT 171 SETTINGS—VIDEO FORMAT 172 SETTINGS—AUDIO INPUT 173 SETTINGS—OUTPUT 174 SETTINGS—GENERAL 175

CHAPTER 17: INSTANT VIDEO RT 177

WHAT IS INSTANT VIDEO RT? 177 THE INSTANT VIDEO RT WINDOW 177 THE INSTANT VIDEO RT OPTIONS MENU 180

CHAPTER 18: EDITING WIDESCREEN PROJECTS 183

SHOOTING 16:9 WIDE SCREEN FOOTAGE 183 CAPTURING 16:9 WIDE SCREEN FOOTAGE 184 EDITING A 16:9 WIDE SCREEN PROJECT IN PREMIERE 184 OUTPUTTING A 16:9 WIDE SCREEN PROJECT TO TAPE 186 OUTPUTTING A 16:9 WIDE SCREEN PROJECT AS MPEG-2 FILE FOR CD OR DVD 186

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Part IV - Appendix

APPENDIX A: TECHNICAL DATA I

APPENDIX B: TROUBLESHOOTING III

ENERAL

ENERAL PROBLEMS

ROBLEMS WITH

ROBLEMS WITH THE VIDEO DISPLAY ON THE

ROBLEMS WITH CAPTURE

ROBLEMS WITH EDITING AND RENDERING

ROBLEMS WITH PLAYBACK AND OUTPUT

ROBLEMS WITH THE COMPATIBILITY OF VIDEO DEVICES

DVT

OOLS

PC S

CREEN

III III

VII

VIII

XIV

APPENDIX C: PINNACLE EFFECTS—KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS XV

APPENDIX D: PINNACLE DVTOOLS—KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS XVI

APPENDIX E: MULTIMEDIA TERMINOLOGY XVIII

APPENDIX F: LICENSE AGREEMENT XXVIII

FCC COMPLIANCE STATEMENT XXXIII

INDEX

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About the User’s Guide

This User’s Guide explains how to install and use the Pinnacle Pro-ONE and the Pro-ONE RTDV hardware and software. Instead of using the complete product name, the abbreviation Pro-ONE is used for a better readability.

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 TitleDeko RT.

Bullets mark instructions for optional steps the order of which is not important.

Connect the board to the blackBOX.

•

All keyboard commands appear in this font:

setup

Menus, commands, options or buttons which the user can select are written in

italics.

User’s Guide

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OTES

Pinnacle Pro-ONE

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Part I - Getting Started

Part I of this manual contains the introduction, the system requirements, the installation, the cabling and the commissioning of

Welcome

Before you begin

Installing Adobe Premiere

Installing the Hardware

Pro-ONE

Connecting the blackBOX and the Video Devices

Installing the Software

A Short Tour

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Chapter 1: Welcome

ELCOME

Thank you very much for choosing a product from Pinnacle Systems. We are pleased to be able to offer you a particularly powerful editing system in Pro-ONE, which opens up a new dimension in video editing in its class.

The difference between Pro-ONE and Pro-ONE RTDV is that the Pro-ONE RTDV has the capability to do RealTime-DV-out

It is very important for us not only to achieve the best performance but also to direct the operation of the equipment towards practical requirements. To this end, we have asked professional editors from around the world for their expectations and requirements. The outcome of this is a robust and productive product for experienced editors and producers. With Pro-ONE we want you to be able to give your creativity free rein. Choose and combine professional effects from the extensive range of professional effects and thus create the look that gives your productions the right appearance and the required substance – leave it to Pro-ONE to take care of the immediate presentation in full quality.

You will be impressed by the outstanding real-time capabilities of Pro-ONE. Display videos on 3D objects so that you can incorporate these with dramatic effect into a scene. Theme-related effects make it easier for you to set up scenes quickly. You can even combine up to 10 effects in real time.

We recommend that you experiment first with the examples included to find out more about the performance capabilities of Pro-ONE.

We hope you have fun with your new editing system.

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Chapter 1: Welcome

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OW THIS GUIDE IS ORGANIZED

This User Guide describes the Pro-ONE features and explains how to use them within Adobe Premiere. For detailed information on Adobe Premiere, please refer to the Adobe Premiere User's guide.

This manual consists of the following chapters:

Part I - Getting Started

Overview

The chapter “Welcome” introduces the Pinnacle Pro-ONE, provides an overview of its capabilities along with the conventions used and organization of this User’s Guide.

System requirements

The chapter “Before You Begin” gives you all necessary information about the system requirements needed to work efficiently with Pro-ONE. In addition the package contents are introduced in detail.

Installing Adobe Premiere

The chapter “Installing Adobe Premiere” tells you how to install Adobe Premiere.

Hardware installation

The chapter “Installing the Hardware” explains the hardware installation.

Connecting the blackBOX

The chapter “Connecting the blackBOX” shows how to connect the ProONE, the blackBOX and the video devices.

Software installation

The chapter “Installing the Software” describes the installation of the software under Windows 98 SE, Windows Me, Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

Short Tour

The chapter “Short Tour” gives you detailed information on how to capture, edit and playback video clips to tape. In addition, the Device control functions are described in detail.

Part II - Creating Movies

DVTools

The chapter “Pro-ONE and DVTools” introduces step by step how to capture, playback and export video clips using the DVTools.

Pinnacle Pro-ONE

Pinnacle Effects

The chapter “Pinnacle Effects” introduces the Pinnacle Systems’ real time transitions and filters which allow you to check the effects without having to render the clip.

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Real time Effects

The chapter “Pinnacle real time effects” provides an overview of the different kinds of Pinnacle real time effects and their use.

TitleDeko RT

The chapter “TitleDeko RT” explains how to use the TitleDeko RT character generator to add titles, rolls and crawls, with a variety of text effects.

Hollywood FX RT

The chapter “Hollywood FX RT” describes how to generate 3D transitions and realtime effects for your projects.

Alpha Magic FX

The chapter “Alpha Magic FX” introduces Alpha Magic FX, a collection of more than 300 top-quality transitions and dynamic effects.

Export

The chapter “Exporting the Projects” explains the settings for an export of your project.

Part III - Tools, Tips & Utilities

Pinnacle Presets

The chapter “Pinnacle Presets” gives you information about the Pinnacle presets included with Pro-ONE which contain settings that guarantee an optimal operation of Pro-ONE and Adobe Premiere.

Pro-ONE Control

The chapter “Pro-ONE Control ” describes all features of the Control, which allows you to specify individual settings.

Instant Video RT

The chapter “Instant Video RT” gives you information about how to minimize the rendering time under Adobe Premiere considerably.

Editing Widescreen Movies

The chapter “Editing Widescreen Movies” describes how to capture, edit and playback widescreen movies.

Part IV - Appendix

Appendix

The “Appendix” contains, the technical data, a troubleshooting guide, a detailed multimedia glossary, the license agreement, and the declaration of conformity.

Index

An index concludes this User’s Guide.

Chapter 1: Welcome

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This chapter recommends computer system components that are required for the operation of the Pro-ONE and lists the items included with the Pro-ONE.

For changes or supplements that could not be included in the printed documentation, please, refer to the ReadMe file on the CD-ROM supplied with your system!

YSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Please make sure your system meets the following requirements before installing the Pro-ONE:

Chapter 2:

Before You Begin

PC System

Processor: 733 MHz, Pentium III, Athlon or better



1 x 32-bit PCI 2.1 slot

 

Windows 98 SE / Windows Me

256 MByte RAM (or more)

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Windows 2000 / Windows XP

256 MByte RAM (recommended 512)

500 MByte hard disk capacity for system files and programs, e.g. Adobe



Premiere

UDMA100 or better, 20 GByte hard disk capacity for capture / playback



of video, able to sustain at least a minimum of a 15 MBytes/sec transfer rate.

DMA data transfer



You should absolutely install a DMA busmaster driver to ensure the smooth function of your PRO-ONE board. You will find this driver on the CDROM supplied with your motherboard, in the internet, or contact your dealer.

Pinnacle Pro-ONE

Graphics board with 1024 x 786 x 16 bpp with DirectDraw drivers,

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OpenGL compatible

DirectX 8.0 or higher

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CD-ROM drive

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48 kHz compatible sound board.

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Software

 Windows 98 SE, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP.

PACKAGE CONTENTS

Please make sure your Pro-ONE system is complete before you begin the installation. The system includes

Pro-ONE board

blackBOX

IEEE-1394 cable Audio cable

CD-ROM with: CD-ROM with Adobe Premiere

- Pro-ONE drivers

- Adobe Premiere plug-ins

- Adobe Premiere presets

- Sample project

- Instant Video RT

- Pinnacle RT Effects engine

- Hollywood FX RT

- Alpha Magic FX

- Alpha Magic Quick Reference

Depending on the delivery scope, the package contents may vary from the contents listed in this manual.

For model and serial number of your board, refer to the label on the board.

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- TitleDeko RT

- Pinnacle PCI Performance Enhancer (PPE)

- Online documentation

- Service and support information

- ReadMe and online help files

CD-ROM with This manual Pinnacle Impression DVD SE

If any parts are missing, please contact your retailer.

Computer components are sensitive to electrostatic charge. Do not take the Pro-ONE board out of its antistatic package until you install it.

Related Information

Refer to Pinnacle at http://www.pinnaclesys.com/support for the latest information on configurations and software updates.

Refer to Microsoft Windows documentation, online help and Microsoft Website for information on the Windows operating system.

Refer to Adobe www.adobe.com for the latest information on Adobe Premiere.

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Chapter 3:

Installing Adobe Premiere

The following chapter describes the procedure to install Adobe Premiere.

You must install Adobe Premiere your computer, because the Pro-ONE presets must be copied to the appropriate Adobe Premiere folder during the installation of the Pro-ONE software.

Proceed as follows to install Adobe Premiere:

1. Place the Adobe Premiere CD-ROM in your CD-ROM drive.

2. If the installation program does not start automatically, select

the

3. Depending on your drive, enter, for example:

If your CD-ROM drive has a different drive designation, change the path accordingly.

—or—

Click on mentioned above and double-click the

4. Click OK.

menu.

Start

e:\premiere\setup.

Browse

..., switch to your CD-ROM drive and to the directory

before

installing the Pro-ONE board in

Run…

setup.exe

file.

from

5. Follow the program installation instructions on the screen.

6. Install the Adobe Premiere Update.

After

you have installed Adobe Premiere on your computer, you can install

the Pro-ONE board and software.

If you ever need to reinstall Adobe Premiere, please remember to run the Pro-ONE setup program again, selecting at a minimum the Presets and PlugIns. Pro-ONE will not work correctly with Adobe Premiere if these components are missing.

Chapter 3: Installing Adobe Premiere

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Installing the Hardware

EFRAGMENTING THE HARD DISK

Before installing and configuring the Pro-ONE you should defragment your hard disk/s. Please use your Windows System tools for this. Under Windows 98 SE / Me you find the defragmenter tool via

Accessories, System Tools, Disk Defragmenter

Chapter 4:

Programs,

If you use Windows 2000 / XP, please proceed as follows: Click on

Computer Properties Defragment Now...

NSTALLING THE

The following chapter explains how to install the Pro-ONE into your computer.

, then click right on the disk to be defragmented, then choose

Tools

, and under

Defragmentation

click on the button

PRO-ONE

Pinnacle Pro-ONE

In the interest of your own safety and the flawless functioning of your new product and computer system please note the following:

Computer components are sensitive to static charge. Divert any



electrostatic charge from your person before touching the components with your hands or any tools.

Before opening the computer make sure that the power plug is



disconnected from the wall outlet.

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Inserting Pro-ONE

To insert the

Pro-ONE

into your computer, proceed as follows:

1. Discharge yourself.

Discharge yourself by touching the metal case of your computer.

2. Switch off the computer, disconnect the cables.

Switch off the computer and all peripheral devices. Pull out the power cord and disconnect all necessary cables.

3. Remove the cover.

Loosen the screws of the computer's cover and remove the cover.

4. Select a PCI slot.

Select a free (busmaster) PCI slot for the

Slot shields

Slots

Pro-ONE

board.

Power supply unit

PCI slots

5. Remove the slot bracket.

Remove the slot bracket at the back of the computer. If necessary, remove the screw at the cover.

6. Insert the board.

Insert the board carefully in the selected slot. Hold the board at the top edge and push both ends simultaneously into the slot. Press the board's top edge to make sure that the board is firmly seated in the slot. If your computer has an additional retainer opposite the slot, slide the board into this retainer as well so as to ensure better stability.

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If the board cannot be inserted without problems, do not force the board into place. The contacts at the connector could bend. Instead, pull the board out carefully and try again.

7. Screw in the slot bracket.

Screw the slot bracket tight.

8. Reconnect the cables.

Reassemble the computer’s casing. Reconnect the cables.

The Pro-ONE hardware installation is completed.

In the next step, you can connect the breakout box and the video devices as is described in the following chapter and install the software as described in the chapter „Installing the Software“.

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The following chapter tells you how to connect your video devices to the

Pro-ONE via the blackBOX, will need the appropriate cables.

The following illustration shows the Pro-ONE board with its connections:

Connects to DV devices

(1394 connector)

Connects to DV devices

(1394 connector)

Audio connector

Connects to the blueBOX

(26-pin D-t

pe)

Chapter 5: Connecting

blackBOX and Video Devices

with the computer turned off

. To do so you

The following illustration shows the connections of the blackBOX:

Video Inputs Audio Inputs

S-Video Composite Left

S-Video Composite Left Right

Video Outputs Audio Outputs

Right

DV Input /

Output

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OW TO CONNECT AUDIO AND VIDEO DEVICES

DV Camcorder

Input

Audio out to Soundboard Line in

blackBOX

Audio out

to Soundboard

DV devices

IEEE

Video

Audio out Soundboard

blackBOX

Audio

1394

Output

Speakers

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ONNECTING THE BLACK

Via the blackBOX you can connect your analog video devices or an external monitor to your Pro-ONE board. Connect the blackBOX to the Pro-ONE board directly via the cable of the blackBOX.

blackBOX Out Pro-ONE IN

BOX

blackBOX Cable

blackBOX Cable (DV)

ONNECTING THE AUDIO LOOPTHROUGH

For audio monitoring using your PC speakers, connect the Audio Output on the back of the Pro-ONE board to the Audio Line-IN of your sound board using the Audio cable included in the package.

Make sure to enable or un-mute the Line-In on the sound board to monitor the Pro-ONE's audio on the PC speakers. Do this via the audio mixer or the software included with the sound board.

26-pin D-type Connector

Input / Output DV

ONNECTING THE VIDEO DEVICES

In the following, the options for cabling your video source—referred to as the

player

that you want to digitize (“capture”) to your hard disk and then edit on your PC.

Subsequently, connections to the device—typically a VCR—that you would like to output your final production to.

—are described. The player provides the video and audio signals

Player: DV device

Devices that connect to the board include any DV or Digital 8 format video camcorder or recorder that has an IEEE-1394/DV connector. On many devices, this connector is labeled “i.Link”.

Chapter 5: Connecting the blackBOX and the Video Devices

recorder

are explained. The recorder is the

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To connect your DV camcorder/VCR to the Pro-ONE, use the IEEE-1394 DV cable included in the package.

1. Connect the IEEE-1394 cable to the Pinnacle

Pro-ONE

Connect the 6-pin connector of the IEEE 1394 DV cable to one of the 1394 data ports of your Pro-ONE.

2. Connect the IEEE-1394 cable to the DV device.

Connect the 4-pin connector of the IEEE 1394 AV cable to the DV IN/OUT or the DV OUT connector of your DV camcorder/VCR.

Video and audio signals are transferred via the IEEE-1394 cable so no other connection is required to connect your DV device as a player.

S-Video

Player: S-Video device / Composite video device

Choose this type of connection if your player has an S-Video output.

The following table gives an overview of the connections:

Player Out blackBOX In

S-Video Output

Audio Output L

Audio Output R

S-Video Input

Audio Input L

Audio Input R

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Composite

video

Choose this type of connection if your player has a Composite video output.

The following table gives on overview of the connections:

Player Out blackBOX In

Composite Video Output

Audio Output L

Audio Output R

Composite Video Input

Audio Input L

Audio Input R

If your player is equipped with S-Video outputs as well as with Composite video outputs, please choose S-Video, as this will provide the highest level of video quality.

If your player has a SCART connector, you will need an appropriate adapter. This adapter is available wherever video recorders are being sold.

Recorder: DV device

PAL device:

Many PAL devices sold in Europe usually have only a DV can be identified by the label DV OUT (and not DV IN/OUT) on the DV connector. Such devices do

not

support recording of DV data back to

videotape. Note that with Pinnacle Pro-ONE, you can of course use the analog outputs to play your finished DV project to an analog VCR.

output

. These

Devices that connect to the board include any DV or Digital 8 format video equipment that has an IEEE-1394/DV connector. On many devices, this connector is labeled “i.LINK”.

If you have not already done so, connect your DV camcorder/VCR to the Pro-ONE. Use the IEEE-1394 AV cable included in the package.

1. Connect the IEEE-1394 cable to the

Pro-ONE

Connect the 6-pin connector of the IEEE-1394 DV cable to one of the 1394 data ports of your Pro-ONE.

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2. Connect the IEEE-1394 cable to the DV device.

Connect the 4-pin connector of the IEEE-1394 AV cable to the DV IN/OUT connector of your DV camcorder/VCR.

Pro-ONE can output either to DV or to analog, but not both at the same time. You can select the active output later in Adobe Premiere by right-clicking on the Instant Video RT window and selecting

Settings

in the menu that

appears.

S-Video

Composite

Video

Recorder: S-Video device / Composite video device

Choose this type of connection if your recorder has an S-Video input.

The following table gives an overview of the connections:

blackBOX Out Recorder In

S-Video Output

Audio Output L

Audio Output R

Choose this type of connection if your recorder has a Composite input.

The following table gives an overview of the connections:

blackBOX Out Recorder In

Composite Video Output

Audio Output L

Audio Output R

S-Video Input

Audio Input L

Audio Input R

Composite Video Input

Audio Input L

Audio Input R

Pinnacle Pro-ONE

If your player is equipped with S-Video outputs as well as with Composite video outputs, please choose S-Video, as this will provide the highest level of video quality.

If your player has a SCART connector, you will need an appropriate adapter. This adapter is available wherever video recorders are being sold.

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LAYER AND RECORDER IN ONE DEVICE

Up to now, player and recorder have been treated as two separate devices. When editing video with Pro-ONE, it is also possible to combine both functions in one single video device. In this case, connect the device to the blackBOX as a player avoid video signal feedback, you should deactivate the option

loopthrough

in the Pro-ONE Control software.

as a recorder, as described above. In order to

and

Video

Similarly, in order to avoid audio signal feedback, you should deactivate the option

Audio loopthrough

in the Pro-ONE Control software.

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ONNECTING THE VIDEO MONITOR AND LOUDSPEAKERS

In order to check the image and the sound quality during capture, editing and output, we recommend that you connect a video monitor or TV set, either with integrated or separate loudspeakers. There are two possibilities:

The monitor can be connected to a free S-Video or Composite Video and



audio output of the blackBOX. If necessary, use an appropriate adapter.

Connect the monitor to the video and audio outputs of your recorder. In



this case the output signal of Pro-ONE is transmitted to the input of the recorder, through the recorder and on to the monitor.

Audio connection

To monitor audio it is just fine to connect the audio out of the Pro-ONE



with your sound card and use the computer loudspeakers.

In order to achieve the best quality when you master to tape use the audio



output of the blueBox and connect it to your recorder when outputting analog either S-Video or Composite.

If outputting IEEE-1394, Audio will be transmitted along with the Video on the IEEE-1394 cable and no additional connections need to be made.

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Chapter 6:

Installing the Software

After you have installed the Pro-ONE board in your computer, you can install the Pro-ONE drivers and software.

Make sure that you have installed Adobe Premiere Pro-ONE software.

The installation steps for Windows 98 SE / Me, and Windows 2000 / XP are slightly different. Please refer to the corresponding sections:

Installing the Software for Windows 98 SE as of page 20,



Installing the Software for Windows Me as of page 22.

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Installing the Software for Windows 2000 / Windows XP as of page 24.



During the installation the following items are copied to / installed on your hard disk:

Pro-ONE software



• Pro-ONE drivers

• Instant Video RT

• Pinnacle Real-time effects

• DVExpert

before

you install the

• PPE performance tool

DVTools



Presets / Plugins for Adobe Premiere



Hollywood FX RT



TitleDeko RT title generator



Alpha Magic Wipes



Online manual



Up-to-date ReadMe and Help files



The Pinnacle Pro-ONE program group is created.

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NSTALLING THE SOFTWARE FOR WINDOWS

Depending upon the system configuration you may be asked to re-start your computer during the installation. If this is the case, re-start your computer by clicking on the

Important: During the software installation you will install the IEEE1394 driver. For this installation you need the “base5.cab” file on Windows 98 SE installation CD-ROM.

To install the software for Windows 98 SE, proceed as follows:

1. Switch on computer.

Switch on your computer. Windows is started automatically.

If your computer is configured in such a way, that Windows is not started automatically, start Windows now.

button..

Yes

98 SE

VGA

After Windows starts, a new hardware (the “Standard PCI Graphics Adapter (VGA)”) is found.

The

Add New Hardware Wizard

2. Click

Click on the

3. Click

In the next window click on the

4. Select .

Now specify the folder in which Windows should search for the device drivers. Activate the check box CD-ROM drive, make sure all other check boxes are deactivated and insert the Pro-ONE CD in your CD-ROM drive, click the

The Pinnacle Pro-ONE D3D driver will be found. Click on

5. Follow the instructions.

Follow the instructions of the Windows installation program.

button.

CD-ROM drive

, insert the installation CD, click

button.

dialog appears.

button.

Next,

click

Pro-ONE

Overlay

Pro-ONE E4

Pinnacle Pro-ONE

A “PCI Multimedia Device” (the “Pinnacle Pro-ONE Overlay”) is found as a new hardware component. The software for the new component will be installed.

The “Pinnacle Pro-ONE E4” is found as a new hardware component. The driver is installed automatically.

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IEEE 1394

The “Texas Instruments PCI OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller” will be found.

6. Click

Click on the

7. Click

Click on the

8. Follow the instructions.

Follow the instructions of the Windows installation program.

Depending on your system, you may now be prompted for a restart. If this is the case, confirm with automatically after the restart.

Following, the Pinnacle software installation program starts.

Note: If the Setup program is not started automatically, please proceed as follows: If necessary, insert the Pro-ONE installation CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive, double click on the desktop and change to the CD-ROM drive. The file be detected. Open this file.

Next, Next

button.

button. Click

again.

. The installation will continue

Yes

My Computer

icon on the Windows

autorun.exe

will

—Or—

Select the where e:\ represents the driver letter for your CD-ROM drive. If necessary, enter another letter. Click on OK.

... command in the

Run

menu and enter

Start

e:\autorun

The Setup program

The Setup program is started in the language determined by the Regional Settings ( installed Windows version: German, English, or French.

If other Regional Settings than German, English or French are activated on your computer, you need to select the language in which the installation should be carried out.

9. If necessary, select language, click

If necessary, select the language in which the installation should be carried out.

Click on the

10.Follow the instructions.

Start

menu,

Settings, Control Panel, Regional Settings

button.

) of the

Follow the instructions of the setup program.

Please now continue with “Additional information for the Setup Program” section on page 26 in this chapter.

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NSTALLING THE SOFTWARE FOR WINDOWS ME

Depending upon the system configuration you may be asked to re-start your computer during the installation. If this is the case, re-start your computer by clicking on the

To install the software for Windows Me, proceed as follows:

1. Switch on computer.

Switch on your computer. Windows is started automatically.

If your computer is configured in such a way, that Windows is not started automatically, start Windows now.

Yes

button.

IEEE 1394

VGA

The “Texas Instruments PCI OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller” will be found. The

2. Insert Install CD and click Next.

Insert the Pro-ONE CD in your CD-ROM drive, and click the

3. Click

4. Follow the instructions.

The “ Standard PCI Graphics Adapter (VGA)” is found.

5. Click

Click on the

Follow the instructions of the Windows installation program.

Depending on your system, you may now be prompted for a restart. If this is the case, confirm with automatically after the restart.

Click on the installed.

Found New Hardware Wizard

button.

. The installation will continue

Yes

button. The “Pinnacle Pro-ONE D3D” driver will be

dialog appears.

button.

Pro-ONE

Overlay

Pro-ONE E4

Pinnacle Pro-ONE

6. Follow the instructions.

Follow the instructions of the Windows installation program.

A “PCI Multimedia Device” (the “Pinnacle Pro-ONE Overlay”) is found as a new hardware component. The software for the new component will be installed.

The “Pinnacle Pro-ONE E4” is found as a new hardware component. The driver is installed automatically.

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Depending on your system, you may now be prompted for a restart. If this is the case, confirm with the restart.

The Pinnacle software installation program starts.

Note: If the Setup program is not started automatically, please proceed as follows: Double click on the and change to the CD-ROM drive. The file detected. Open this file.

—Or—

. The installation will continue automatically after

Yes

My Computer

icon on the Windows desktop

autorun.exe

will be

Select the where e:\ represents the driver letter for your CD-ROM drive. If necessary, enter another letter. Click on OK.

... command in the

Run

menu and enter

Start

e:\autorun

The Setup program

The Setup program is started in the language determined by the Regional Settings ( installed Windows version: German, English, or French.

If other Regional Settings than German, English or French are activated on your computer, you need to select the language in which the installation should be carried out.

7. If necessary, select language, click

If necessary, select the language in which the installation should be carried out.

Click on the

8. Follow the instructions.

Start

menu,

Settings, Control Panel, Regional Settings

button.

) of the

Follow the instructions of the setup program.

For more information concerning the Pinnacle setup program read in the “Additional information for the Setup Program” section as of page 26 in this chapter.

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NSTALLING THE SOFTWARE FOR WINDOWS

Depending upon the system configuration you may be asked to re-start your computer during the installation. If this is the case, re-start your computer by clicking on the

To install the software for Windows 2000 / Windows XP, proceed as follows:

1. Switch on computer.

Switch on your computer. Windows is started automatically.

If your computer is configured in such a way, that Windows is not started automatically, start Windows now.

Important for Windows 2000 / Windows XP: Log in with administrator rights.

Yes

button.

2000 / XP

IEEE 1394

VGA

After the start of Windows the “Texas Instruments PCI OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller” is installed automatically.

The “Video Controller (VGA Compatible)” is found.

The

Found New Hardware Wizard

2. Click

Click on the

3. Click

In the next window click on the

4. Select

Now specify the folder in which Windows should search for the device drivers. Activate the check box check boxes are deactivated and insert the Pro-ONE CD in your CD-ROM drive, click the

The Pinnacle driver is found. Click on

5. Click

Confirm the

button.

CD-ROM drives

button.

Yes

Digital Signature

, insert the installation CD, click

appears.

button.

CD-ROM drives

window with

, make sure all other

Yes

Pinnacle Pro-ONE

6. Follow the instructions.

Follow the instructions of the Windows installation program.

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Pro-ONE

Overlay

A “Multimedia Controller” (the “Pinnacle Pro-ONE Overlay”) is found as a new hardware component.

7. Click

Pro-ONE E4

Click on the

8. Click

Click on the

9. Click

Confirm the

10.Follow the instructions.

Follow the instructions of the Windows installation program.

The “Pinnacle Pro-ONE E4” is found as a new hardware component.

11. Cl ic k

Confirm the

The driver is installed.

12.Follow the instructions.

Follow the instructions of the Windows installation program.

Next, Next

Yes

button.

button. Click on

Digital Signature

again.

window with

Yes

Depending on your system, you may now be prompted for a restart. If this is the case, confirm with

Note:

Under Windows 2000 / Windows XP the Pinnacle setup program is not started automatically. To start the setup program, please proceed as follows: Double click on the and change to the CD-ROM drive. The file autorun.exe will be detected. Open this file.

—Or—

Select the where e:\ represents the driver letter for your CD-ROM drive. If necessary, enter another letter. Click on OK.

The “Pinnacle Pro-ONE 1394” driver, which is effective following a restart, is entered during the setup program.

... command in the

Run

Yes

My Computer

menu and enter

Start

icon on the Windows desktop

e:\autorun

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The setup program

The setup program is started in the language determined by the Regional Settings ( installed Windows version: German, English, or French.

If other Regional Settings than German, English or French are activated on your computer, you need to select the language in which the installation should be carried out.

Start

menu,

Settings, Control Panel, Regional Settings

) of the

13.If necessary, select language, click

If necessary, select the language in which the installation should be carried out.

Click on the

14.Follow the instructions.

Follow the instructions of the installation program.

For more information concerning the Pinnacle setup program read in the “Additional information for the Setup Program” section as of page 26 in this chapter.

DDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR THE SETUP PROGRAM

button.

Selecting Setup Type

In the

Typical

Setup Type

option.

window, Pinnacle Systems recommends to select the



Typical

Installs all components and uses the default settings.



Compact

Skips some components (e.g. online manual) and uses the default settings.



Custom

Lets you select the components and allows to adjust the settings individually.

Selecting hard disk

If you wish to copy the files to another hard disk / another folder, click on the

Browse

folder. Click on the

The driver software should be installed on the system hard disk and not on the hard disk for the video files!

... button in the

button to proceed the installation.

Setup Type

window and define the hard disk / the

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Selecting components

If you have chosen Custom as setup type you can directly choose those components in the dialog box



Pinnacle Pro-ONE software

The option Pro-ONE software includes the drivers for Pro-ONE, which must be installed in order to use the functions of Pro-ONE.



System software

The System software includes DirectX and DirectMedia. If you have received the note at the beginning of the installation that there is no DirectX or an older version installed on your system, you should install the system software.



Adobe Premiere AddOns

Plug-ins for Adobe Premiere. Contains plug-ins for capture, device



control and playback for best performance under Adobe Premiere. In addition the Pro-ONE real time effects are installed.

TitleDeko RT. A character generator for producing high quality titles.



Alpha Magic FX. A collection of bitmaps that can be used with the



Pro-ONE’s gradient wipe realtime transition plug-in.

Select Components

, which you want to install.

Presets for Adobe Premiere which have been developed specifically



for the Pro-ONE board and the PAL and NTSC standard. These presets are required for working with Adobe Premiere.

Hollywood FX RT. A collection of high quality 3D effects. The



application Hollywood FX RT gets automatically installed during the Pro-ONE driver install.



Documentation

The User´s Guide is also available in PDF format and can be opened with the Acrobat Reader. If no Acrobat Reader or an older version has been installed on your computer you can install the current version. In addition, you can install a sample project file which will be copied into the “...\Program Files\Pinnacle\Pro-One\SampleProject” folder. If you wish to use this Sample Project, copy the folder to the capture / playback hard disk before opening the project in Adobe Premiere.



DVTools

DVTools let you scan for clips on your DV tape, add in and out points, control your DV devices, transfer DV to your hard disk and back to DV tape.

After having selected the components you want to install, click

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FTER THE INSTALLATION

To make sure that all Pro-ONE components are installed correctly, you can open the Device Manager to check this.

Windows 98 SE / Me

1394 Bus

Controller

Sound, video

and game

controllers

Do this by clicking on the Windows

Control Panel System

in your system appears.

If there are any conflicts indicated by yellow exclamation marks should try to resolve the conflicts, before working with your system.

•

. Now select the

Click on the

Pinnacle Pro-ONE-1394

To check if the Pinnacle Pro-ONE D3D, the Pinnacle Pro-ONE E4, and the Pinnacle Pro-ONE Overlay are installed correctly, click on the to “Sound, video and game controllers”. You should find the respective entries.

. In the window that opens, double-click on the icon labeled

Device Manager

left to “1394 Bus Controller”. You should find the

entry.

button and selecting

Start

tab. A list of all hardware devices

Settings

, you

and

left

Pinnacle Pro-ONE

Windows 2000 / XP

Do this by clicking on the Windows

Control Panel System

list of all hardware devices in your system appears.

If there are any conflicts indicated by yellow exclamation marks should try to resolve the conflicts, before working with your system.

. Now select the

. In the window that opens, double-click on the icon labeled

Hardware

tab and the

button and selecting

Start

Device Manager

Settings

button. A

, you

and

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1394 Bus

Controller

Click on the

•

the

Pinnacle Pro-ONE-1394

left to “IEEE 1394 Bus host controllers”. You should find

entry.

Sound, video

and game

controllers

VGA

To check if the Pinnacle Pro-ONE E4, and the Pinnacle Pro-ONE

•

Overlay are installed correctly, click on the game controllers”. You should find the respective entries.

Click on the

•

Pro-ONE-(3D Renderer)

left to “Display adapters”. You should find the

entry.

left to “Sound, video and

Pinnacle

One or more device/s is/are not installed correctly

In this case, it could help to run the Pro-ONE Setup program again.

1. Insert the installation CD into the CD-ROM drive.

The Setup program will start automatically.

Note: If the Setup program is not started automatically, please proceed as follows: Double click on the and change to the CD-ROM drive. The file detected. Open this file.

—Or—

Select the where e:\ represents the driver letter for your CD-ROM drive. If necessary, enter another letter. Click on OK.

... command in the

Run

My Computer

Start

icon on the Windows desktop

autorun.exe

menu and enter

will be

e:\autorun

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2. Click on No when you are asked whether you want to de-install the already installed software.

3. In the button.

4. In the

software

Setup Type

Select Components

option and then click

window select the

Custom

window choose the

option and click on the

Pinnacle Pro-ONE

5. Follow the instructions of the setup program.

After the reboot all components should be installed correctly.

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PRO-ONE

AND THE SETTINGS TAB

Note:

This paragraph exclusively refers to the installation under Windows

2000 and Windows XP!

When you have completed the (right mouse click on the desktop, you will find two entries under

Default Monitor on NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS/GeForce2 Pro (example)



Default Monitor on Pinnacle Pro-ONE (3D Renderer)



Pro-ONE

Display

installation, on the

Properties

command and

Settings

tab

tab)

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In order to play all Pinnacle effects in real time, the Pinnacle Pro-ONE (3D Renderer) has to be registered as Desktop extension. To check this, select the Default Monitor on Pinnacle Pro-ONE (3D Renderer). Make sure that the Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor check box is active.

Important: Under no circumstances should you activate the Use this device as the primary monitor option Always use your graphics board as primary

monitor, never the Pinnacle Pro-ONE (3D Renderer).

For all cases ...

If you should inadvertently use Pinnacle pro ONE (3D Renderer) as primary monitor (cursor and desktop symbols are invisible), you can correct this as follows:

1. Restart your computer.

1. To open the Windows Advanced Options Menu window, please press the <F8> several time during the start up of your computer.

2. Use the arrow keys to choose the Enable VGA Mode option and press the <Enter> key.

3. In the Please select the operating system to start window press the <Enter> key again.

Windows is started in the VGA mode.

4. Now, please delete the “Pinnacle Pro-ONE (3D Renderer)” entry in the Device Manager. Do this by clicking on the Windows Start button and selecting Settings and Control Panel. In the window that opens, double- click on the icon labeled System. Now select the Hardware tab and the Device Manager button.

5. Click on the Pro-ONE (3D Renderer)“ entry.

left to „Display adapters“. You should find the „Pinnacle

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6. Select the „Pinnacle Pro-ONE (3D Renderer)“ entry and click on the Action Menu and the command Uninstall.

7. Close the Confirm Device Removal window with OK.

8. You will be asked to re-start your computer, click on the Yes button.

After the Re-start of Windows the “Pinnacle Pro-ONE (3D Renderer)” is found as a new hardware component.

9. Confirm the Digital Signature window with Yes.

10. Cli ck r igh t o n th e de skt op and sel ec t th e Properties command.

11. In th e Settings tab make sure that your graphics board and not Pinnacle Pro-ONE (3D Renderer) is used as primary monitor and that the Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor check box is activated for Pinnacle Pro-ONE (3D Renderer).

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Chapter 7: Quick Tour

In this chapter you can take a quick tour to see the most important steps in creating a video using Pinnacle able to follow the tour with your system, then you can be sure that your system will function perfectly.

The following steps will be carried out based on an example project:

Pro-ONE

and Adobe Premiere. If you are

REREQUISITES



Hooking up your video equipment to Pinnacle



Starting the example project and its analog output



Creating a new project in Adobe Premiere



Capture settings and capturing video clips



Editing in Adobe Premiere with Pinnacle Effects (real-time effects and TitleDeko RT amongst others)



Exporting the video project.

A prerequisite for following the tour in this chapter is to have Pinnacle

ONE

installed, a control monitor connected to an analog output of the

blackBOX and a DV device for recording video.

In this chapter you will find out how to use the facilities of the board, which differ from the standard functions of Adobe Premiere. These differences refer to the general settings and project presets for the hardware and software of Pinnacle standard functions of Adobe Premiere, please refer to the Adobe Premiere manual.

Pro-ONE

. For more detailed information on the

Pro-ONE

Pro-

Pro-ONE

Pinnacle Pro-ONE

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HOOKING UP VIDEO EQUIPMENT TO PRO-ONE

• Connect your DV device to Pinnacle Pro-ONE using the FireWire-1394

interface (use the DV cable provided).

• Switch your DV device to the Player mode (VCR mode).

• If you are using an analog video device (VHS or S-VHS), make the video

and audio connections to the blackBOX.

• Connect your video monitor to the output of the blackBOX (e.g. via the

composite output).

• Also, make an audio connection to an external active loudspeaker. If

your monitor has its own audio system then this can be used.

STARTING AND PLAYING BACK A SAMPLE PROJECT

1. Copy the SampleProject file from where it installed to the video capture / playback disk drive for best performance. Double click on the My Computer, double click on the C:\, then double click on the Program Files. Double clicking on the Pinnacle folder, then Pro-ONE should reveal a folder named SampleProject. Right click on this and select Copy. Close the window. Double click on My Computer, then right click on D:\ (where D is the letter of your video capture / playback disk drive), and select Paste. Close this window.

2. Start Adobe Premiere from the program group in Pinnacle Pro-ONE (Start menu, commands Programs, Pinnacle Pro-One and Adobe Premiere).

3. Choose the project preset Pinnacle DV PAL (the project presets provided include all the defaults that will guarantee optimum performance of Pro-ONE with Adobe Premiere).

4. Now open the example project in Adobe Premiere using the File menu and the Open command:

d:\SampleProject\DemoProOne.ppj.

The project will be displayed in the Premiere editing window.

5. Activate the editing window by clicking with the mouse and then

pressing the <Enter>-key. The playback of the project should start

immediately.

The video will appear on your video monitor. If this is not the case, check the cabling or the program position (e.g. AV1).

Feel free to experiment and make changes, noting the changes made to the effects and the overall look and feel of the project. If you wish to save the changes, click on File, then Save As... and give the project a different name (e.g. MyChanges.ppj).

6. Close the sample project.

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REATING A NEW PROJECT

1. Create a new directory for storing all files specific to the project (video clips, titles, frames, etc.).

2. Start a new project using the

The

Load Project Settings

window will appear.

menu and the

File

New Project

command.

Here you will find that there are two project presets available in the “Pinnacle Pro-ONE – PAL” folder



Pinnacle DV PAL



Pinnacle DV PAL Widescreen

3. If you are using video material in 16:9 format choose or NTSC) NTSC) project preset.

All the real-time effects and titles will be matched accordingly to the selected mode and will be displayed with the appropriate aspect ratio and the corresponding resolution.

These defaults automatically set the right output resolution, change the sequence of the half frames, the audio format and set many other Adobe Premiere parameters to the values necessary for optimum operation of your Pro-ONE.

4. Now save your new project using the command. Choose the directory that you created earlier and enter a new project name.

Widescreen

here, otherwise choose the

menu and the

File

Pinnacle DV

Pinnacle DV (

Save as

PAL or

(PAL

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APTURE SETTINGS AND CAPTURE

1. Start the

Capture

The capture window will be opened. When the DV device is switched on (VCR mode), the device control will be detected automatically and the controls will appear at the bottom of the preview window. However, if you are using an analog video source, the the capture window at this point.

Movie Capture

and

Movie Capture

window using the

menu and the commands

File

Record

button will be shown in

Before you can record video sequences under Adobe Premiere, you must select the recording drive (Scratch Disks). The recording drive is the drive on which your video files are stored. It should have sufficient performance and enough free storage space for capturing the digital video. You can test this with the DVExpert tool (

Pinnacle Pro-ONE, Tools, DVExpert

movie recording, Premiere will automatically prompt you to select a drive for recording. When selecting the drive, please proceed as follows:

3. Click on the

The

Preferences

button in the

Edit

window will open.

Preferences

). When you initialize your first

area.

Start, Programs

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4. Select the destination directory on your video hard disk under

Disks

Scratch

Pinnacle DV device control

In the case of an analog video source, no device control is entered.

Close the window with OK.

5. The details of the project settings will be shown in the area. Open the the

Settings

The

Capture Settings Pinnacle Pro-ONE

Project Settings

button.

must be entered in the

window using the

window will appear.

Device Control

Capture Settings

button. Click on

Edit

area.

Pinnacle Pro-ONE



Video input

Choose the video input that your video source is connected to and adjust the values for brightness, contrast etc. as required (only selectable with analog video sources).

tab

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

Video format

Select the video standard and the frame size here.

tab



Audio input

Choose the audio input and the required audio recording format here. You can also adjust the recording level for the audio at this point if required.



General

Choose the overlay settings here.

6. Now click on OK to accept the new values and close the dialog window.

7. Click on the device control is selected, the button amongst the selection of other commands for the control of the device. The capture will start. The video will be displayed on your PC monitor and recorded.

8. Watch the progress indicator in the that frames are being omitted, press the <ESC> key to terminate the recording. Please check that your system resources are adequate for the settings made.

9. When you have captured your video material, press the <ESC> key to terminate the recording. A window will appear in which you can enter a file name. The video clip will then be automatically incorporated in the Adobe Premiere project window.

tab

Record

button in the

Record

Movie Capture

function will be displayed as a red

Movie Capture

window. When a

window. If you notice

10.Repeat this procedure a number of times.

Note:

your video material from a DV video source. One is to make the recording using IN and OUT points and another is to use batch capture (using a batch list that you have created yourself). You will find more detailed information in the Adobe instruction manual.

11.Close the

Your DV device can be switched off for the subsequent editing of the video project. While editing, use the analog cabling to your video monitor to display the real-time effects in real time. Only when you have finished your project you need to switch on your DV device again to save the project to DV.

In Adobe Premiere there are other ways in which you can capture

Movie Capture

window.

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DITING IN ADOBE PREMIERE

The following describes editing in Adobe Premiere with Pinnacle Effects (including real-time effects and TitleDeko RT) as well as playing back the project.

Real-time effect

1. To edit video clips, activate the drag this into the editing window onto video track

2. After this, drag a second video clip from the project window into the editing window onto video track editing window will increase automatically when the video clip is moved. By appropriate overlapping of the two video clips, a Pinnacle real-time transition can be added from the

Here there are a number of real-time effects available including

Magic effects

transition) as well as the high-quality 3D effects.

(which can be selected from the Pinnacle

Project

window. Choose a video clip and

Video 1A.

Video 1B.

The working area in the

Transitions / Pinnacle

Gradient Wipe

Hollywood FX RT

palette.

Alpha

real-time

Pinnacle Pro-ONE

3. Choose the clips in the transition determines the speed of the effect on playback.

Iris Round RT

Transition

transition and drag this between the two video

track. In doing so, note that the length of the

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4. Now start the first playback of the video project. Make sure that the editing window is active and press the <Space> bar (on the keyboard). If you press the <Space> bar again, the recording will be stopped. Another way of recording is by “scrubbing” in the editing window. To do this, move the mouse pointer to the time line (edit window). The frame corresponding to the position in the time line will appear in the preview window.

5. The video will appear on your video monitor. When this has happened, save your project.

TitleDeko

6. Open the commands and the size and style of the text. Select the text from the Edit menu using the

TitleDeko RT

and

New

Select All

title generator from the

TitleDeko

command and center this in the TitleDeko window.

. Here you can enter text and select a font

menu using the

File

7. Accept the title in Adobe Premiere with <F12> (save the title if you are prompted to do so).

The title will be created in the Adobe Premiere project window.

8. Drag the title into the editing window (video track Video 2) on top of the first video clip. Move the mouse to the end of the title and drag this to the required length. Now start playing back your project with the help of the <Space> bar. The video with the title will appear on your video monitor. Now save your project.

Note:

If you want to edit the title again, double-click on it in the editing window. TitleDeko will be opened and the title can be modified. If you now use the <F3> key, you will see the changes on the video monitor. Accept the title in Adobe Premiere with <F12>.

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In TitleDeko RT you can not only create static titles but also moving titles (rolling or sliding)!

Real-time filters

In the time filters. You can place these directly onto a video clip.

Transitions

palette on the

tab is a folder with Pinnacle real-

Video

A setup dialog will open where you can make all the settings. You can accept the settings by clicking on OK.

9. Now start playing back the video project with the help of the <Space> bar. The video with all the effects will appear on your video monitor.

Important:

an “x” ( rendered. To do this, press the <Enter> key. The necessary calculations will then be performed.

AYS OF EXPORTING

The following section describes the exporting of your project

to an analog recorder



to DV



as Pinnacle MP2



as Pinnacle AVI



All effects that have not originated from Pinnacle will show

) when they are being played back until they have been

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Outputting to an analog recorder

Outputting is currently set up for outputting via the

outputs)

a video recorder between the output of the blackBOX (composite or S-VHS as well as audio L+R) and the video monitor.

It is essential that you note the choice of program position on the video recorder (e.g. AV1).

1. By pressing the <Space> bar, the video project is sent to the video

2. If you are using effects that do not originate from Pinnacle, the message

. To record onto an analog video recorder it is necessary to connect

recorder via the blackBOX. Switch the recorder manually to “Record” first of all.

“Project needs rendering” will appear in the Instant Video RT window. Start the playback using the <Enter> key. All the necessary calculations will be carried out and the playback will start automatically. Before doing so, switch your video recorder manually to “Record”.

blackBOX (analog

Outputting to a DV device

If you are playing a new DV tape, this must have a continuous time code. To achieve this, switch your DV device into and press the Record button with the lens covered until the tape has been fully recorded.

Camera

mode. Rewind the tape

Some settings have to be made for outputting to DV tape.

1. To do this, in Adobe Premiere click on the with the right mouse button and choose the

The

Playback Settings Pinnacle Pro-ONE

your DV device in the

2. By pressing the <Space> bar, the video project is sent to the DV device (DV input) via the FireWire-IEEE 1394 interface. The recording function is not started automatically. The video should now be visible in the display of the DV device or on the video monitor connected to it.

Output

tab and close the window with OK.

Instant Video RT

Settings

window will appear. Select

command.

window

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3. To save the video to DV tape, ensure that the editing window is active and that

Preferences, Scratch Disks and Device Control

and the commands

The creation of the remaining effects will now start.

Pinnacle DV device control

Export Timeline

under

and

Scratch Disks

Export to Tape...

is set up (

). Choose the

File

Edit

4. In the function. This will automatically put the DV device into record mode.

If you should already have a video movie on your DV tape, you can specify the start of the recording by additionally activating the

tape options

The synchronized start of playback and recording. This procedure is not necessary with a new DV tape.

5. After completing the settings, confirm with

Premiere switches over to playback mode, instructs the device control to prepare the required operations and starts the playback. After playback has finished, Premiere switches back to editing mode once more.

The settings just made are not saved and must therefore be entered again as required.

6. If you find that recording has not been started or finished accurately, we would recommend you to use black frames at the start and end of your project. This will ensure that the whole project is recorded. Note that the accuracy of the device used. Pinnacle Systems cannot guarantee that all DV devices support this function.

Export to tape

in the

Preroll

button allows you to make fine adjustments to the

window, activate the

Timecode and Preroll

Export to tape...

function is dependent upon the DV

Activate recording deck

Print to

area.

OK.

Exporting as Pinnacle MP2

Another possibility for saving your video project is to export it as Pinnacle MP2. In this way you can prepare your video for further editing (with Pinnacle Impression) on DVD.

1. In Adobe Premiere, choose the

Timeline

target directory and the file name. Before saving, click on the Settings button

2. In the under

3. Click on the NTSC). If you have created your project in widescreen format, select

Pinnacle DVD

To carry out the MP2 export as an MPEG2-CD, you can either choose the preset or NTSC)

and

Movie.

Export Movie Settings File Type

Load

Pinnacle MPEG2-CD

Widescreen

In the window that follows, you can specify the

window select the entry

button and select the entry

(PAL or NTSC)

menu and the commands

File

Pinnacle DVD

Widescreen.

(PAL or NTSC) or

Export

Pinnacle MP2

(PAL or

MPEG2-CD

(PAL

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4. In this step, choose the entry Pinnacle DVD (PAL or NTSC) and close the Load Export Settings window with OK.

5. In the Export Movie Settings window, activate Pinnacle Impression using

the Advanced Settings button and activate the check box Open When

Finished.

6. Confirm all windows with OK.

The creation of the video project will now be started. When the calculations are complete, Pinnacle Impression will open automatically and the MP2 video file and the associated *.wav file will appear in the Impression editing window.

7. You can now add various menus and create the final MP2 file using the

Build DVD function. This is loaded into DVD burning software in order to create a DVD.

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Exporting as Pinnacle AVI

Exporting as Pinnacle AVI is another way of saving your video project. Here, you create an *.avi file from your project in Adobe Premiere.

Warning! The maximum possible size of the *.avi file to be created will depend upon the file system you are using, FAT16, FAT32 or NTFS.

1. In Adobe Premiere, choose the File menu and the commands Export Timeline and Movie. In the window that follows, you can specify the target directory and the file name. Click on the Settings button before saving.

2. In the Export Movie Settings window, choose the entry Pinnacle AVI under File Type. The details of the calculation will be shown under Current Settings.

3. Confirm all windows with OK.

The creation of the video project will now be started. When the calculations are complete, the clip widow will open and the video file (*.avi) can be played back by clicking on the Play button. The video will be displayed depending on the choice of video output – analog or DV (Instant Video RT, right mouse click, Settings).

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Part II - Creating Movies

Part II of this manual explains the applications that come with Pinnacle Pro-ONE.

Working with DVTools

Pinnacle Effects

Pinnacle Pro-ONE & Real Time

TitleDeko RT

Hollywood FX

Alpha Magic FX

Exporting Projects

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Chapter 8:

Working with DVTools

DVTools provides you with the facility to record video material or individual pictures easily and conveniently from an analogue or DV device onto the hard disk or to play it back on a videotape.

If you use a DV device, DVTools will also help you in viewing and archiving your DV tapes and will enable you to effectively choose the clips needed for your movie. Recording and playback take place automatically via the DV device control, even when you have several clips one after the other.

Your DV tapes are scanned and the positions of the clips stored in a database. You can show individual clips, define new starting and finishing points for a scene and conveniently arrange your clips in a Clip Gallery. Only then are the chosen scenes recorded onto your hard disk. The Clip Gallery can be exported to Adobe Premiere as a Storyboard for further processing.

In this way, you can edit the recorded video material in Adobe Premiere and then play back the finished results on a tape using DVTools.

Using the “Cutlist-Playback” facility (which means the consecutive playback of analogue, DV, or even different video material without gaps), you can of course also put together the best scenes from several DV tapes and save them to your hard disk. However, with DVTools, you can also save them for archiving onto a new DV tape without any difficulty. This saves you something both in time and in DV tapes.

Notable features

Tapescan with automatic scene identification (also manual)

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Recording from analogue and DV input

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Recording of file sizes greater than 2 GByte possible

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Cutlist Playback for analogue and DV

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Cutlist Playback for different material

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Recording time and date changes

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Batch list export to Adobe Premiere Storyboard format

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REPARATION

Connecting the video source

With DVTools you can record from both a DV device and from an analogue video source. If you have not already done so, connect your unit now to the Pro-ONE board (DV device) or the blackBOX (S-VHS / composite device). Switch the unit on and make sure that it is in playback have not already done so, insert a videotape into the unit.

mode. If you

VTR

Open DVTools

Choose program group and click on first time the “Capture Options” dialog box will appear. For information about this box, please refer to the “Checking the settings” section as of page

51.

Programs

in the

menu. Choose the

Start

DVTools

Pinnacle Pro-ONE

. If you open the DVTools for the very

Pinnacle Pro-ONE

You will find yourself in the DVTools – Capture Gallery window. Here, you can define the capture settings, scan DV tapes and record clips. For playing back video material onto videotape later, DVTools automatically switches over to the DVTools – Playback Gallery window. For more information, read the section “Playback” on page 59.

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The “New”, “Open” and “Save” buttons

You can create a new Capture Gallery using this button.

This button opens a new Playback Gallery.

With this button, you can open a Capture or Playback Gallery that has previously been saved.

The Capture / Playback Gallery will be saved when you click on this button.

You will also find these commands in the

Checking the settings

Check the settings by clicking on the edge of the window.

Settings

menu.

File

button at the upper right-hand

Check all the settings in the

should be set for the Capture Format.

Important:

on which the video data will be saved. Please select your video disk.

Click on the On the

Composite Overlay

You will find a detailed description of the individual parameters in the online help.

The

Default capture file

Settings...

Video input

, or

has been selected.

tab check that the correct input is set:

DV Camcorder

Capture Options

option lets you specify the disk drive

button in order to open the Pro-ONE check window.

. Open the

dialogue box.

General

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DV device only

CANNING TAPES

If you are using a DV device, check the settings under

Control settings

from within DVTools, click on the

You can record your video material directly from videotape by winding the source video to the required position and clicking on the Read more about this under

However if you want to record more material from different positions or if you do not have an overview of the DV tape contents, it is recommended that you first scan the whole videotape. This is only possible with DV devices on account of the device control required.

Scanning video tapes

When you scan a videotape, no video pictures are recorded onto the hard disk. The scanning only searches for the start and finish points of all the clips on a DV tape so that you can find the clips that you want to use for your final movie more easily.

and the

Tools

command in the menu. If you want to control your device

Activate device control

Special recordings

on Page 58.

check box.

Capture

Device

button.

You can choose the type of scene detection under

Automatic scene detection based on shooting time and date



Automatic scene detection based on video content



Create new scene every x seconds



Manual scene detection



With manual scene detection you define the start of a new scene by pressing the space bar during playback.

Note:

If possible, you should use formatted tapes for scanning so that a continuous time code is available as otherwise this can lead to scanning errors. You format tapes by first recording “nothing” on the tape from start to finish. To do this, wind the tape to the beginning, cover the lens with the cap and record the whole tape. This results in a continuous time code, which is also retained when you start recording.

Settings

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To start the scanning process, click on the

DV tape...

After the videotape has been rewound, DVTools identifies the tape.

If the tape is not known to the database, in the next step you are



requested to give a name and a description.

If the tape has already been scanned, you can terminate the procedure at



this point or repeat it.

DVTools then searches the videotape for clips. This process lasts about as long as it would take to play back the existing video material from your videotape.

command from the

Tools

button or choose the

Scan

To terminate the scan, press the <ESC> key

You can continue an interrupted scan from any point at any time. To do this, re-start the scanning process, choose following window either enter the clip number from which the scan is to be started or choose

A window will appear showing all the clips found on the tape in the form of a “Posterframe” (the first picture in a clip).

Continue.

Rescan

, click on OK, and in the

If you want to use several videotapes for your movie, proceed in this manner for each tape. The contents will be held separately for each tape in a database and can be called up again at any time. DVTools manages any number of tapes.

Choosing clips

In order to view information for a scene, double-click on the required clip. The

Clip Info

window will appear

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The

Clip Info

window shows the title of the clip, the time code and – if available – the editing points. You can also add a description of the clip at this stage, and set editing points.

In order to view the selected clip, wind the tape to the start of the clip by clicking on the

Wind to start

button.

When the DV device has found the start of the clip, click on the in the

DV device control

area.

Play

Editing clips

It is possible that you may not want to use the whole clip but only a certain part of it. In this case, you can edit the clip using the elements that you can see to the right of the Preview area. This takes place either in the Clip-Info window or using the controls in the lower right-hand part of the Capture Gallery preview window.

button

This step is not necessary if you have recorded the clip using the

Pinnacle Pro-ONE

Live capture

DV extract

buttons.

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Here, the start and finish points of a clip are defined using the (Start) and playback or you can stop the tape and then set the start and finish points. The tape can easily be wound forwards and backwards using the slide control (Jog-Shuttle) in the lower part of the

you have entered the start and finish points, click on finish points). The

(Finish) buttons. You can either click on the buttons during

DV device control

button will delete pre-defined trimming points.

area. When

(Accept start and

Incorporating video sequences into the Clip Gallery

When you have viewed your video material, you can now choose the clips that you want to capture on your hard disk. To do this, drag the required clips directly from the DV tape database into the Clip Gallery. You can arrange the clips in the Clip Gallery in any order you like. You can also change the order retrospectively.

You can use video material from any number of DV tapes in one Clip Gallery.

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Adding clips manually

If you want to add further clips manually (including from other videotapes), click on the

Add clips to capture gallery

button.

Click on the points. Click on the The clip will be added to the gallery.

button, select the

New

Apply

and

Add

and define the start and finish

Tape

buttons.

Saving a project / gallery

Save the contents of the start and finish points. To do this, choose the Clip Gallery menu. The Clip Gallery files will be saved on your hard disk with the ending *.sto.

Clip Gallery

with the added clips and the newly set

and

File

Save Gallery as...

from

Pinnacle Pro-ONE

When the clips from the Clip Gallery have been captured on hard disk, you can export the Clip Gallery to a Premiere Storyboard. Read about this under “Export as Premiere Storyboard” on Page 62.

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IDEO RECORDING

Recording clips on hard disk (Batch Capture)

After you have chosen the clips for your movie, you can create AVI files from them.

The status bar in the lower part of the expected size of all the AVI files to be created. DVTools checks to see that there is sufficient memory space available before recording.

To start the recording process, click on the hand part of the DVTools window or choose

gallery

Before starting the recording process, the selected clips is displayed. Here you can see which clips have already been captured and which are still to be recorded.

from the

Tools

menu.

Clip Gallery

Capture

Batch list

window shows the

button at the top right-

Capture Scenes from capture

window showing all the

The “circle” on the left beside the individual clips means that this clip has been selected for capture. You can remove this selection by clicking on the symbol with the mouse. Clicking on the “tick” will select all clips for capture or remove the selection as appropriate.

If a clip has been captured, the camera symbol will appear to the left of the clip. If you want to capture it again (e.g. because some frames have been left out), click on the camera symbol.

If you do not want to use the standard directory that you have selected under

Settings

which you would like to copy the AVI files.

, click on

AVI File,

enter a file name and choose a directory into

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If you do not want to use the standard directory that you have selected under

Settings

which you would like to copy the AVI files.

All clips in the Clip Gallery will then be recorded. The AVI files will be numbered consecutively in order and created in DVExplorer under

Captured Files

Note:

several clips, as files with a maximum size of 4 GByte can be stored on FAT32 formatted hard disks.

You will find particulars of the memory space in the status bar at the bottom.

, click on AVI file, enter a file name and choose a directory into

If an individual clip is larger than 4 GByte, it will be divided into

Special recordings

Live recordings

You can record your video material directly from videotape by winding the source video to the required position and clicking on the The sequence will be directly written to the hard disk. To stop recording, click on the to allocate a file name. After this, the giving you details of the number of recorded pictures and the pictures omitted. You can record as many sequences as you like in this way.

Stop capture

button. In the Save

DVTools – Report

window you will be asked

Capture

window will appear

button.

Image size

Movement

compensation

Recording DV extracts

With this button, you can record just an extract of the scanned video clip after you have reset the in and / or out point. Here too, the clip is recorded immediately onto the hard disk.

Recording individual frames

With DVTools you can also record individual frames from your video source. Before using DVTools for recording individual frames from your video material, you should check the particular settings for TV standard and BMP size under

Choose the image size for your single frame from the list box under

Snapshot

If the picture movement is to be filtered out (deinterlacing), choose the

Deinterlace

You will find more information on “deinterlacing” in the online help for this dialogue.

If you are working in VTR mode, look for the picture on your videotape that you want to record using the tape transport buttons and click on the button to stop the videotape.

Capture Options

option.

Pause

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LAYBACK

Click on the under which the BMP file is to be saved.

Snapshot

button. You can now enter a name and directory

In order to change to playback mode, choose the commands and

New Playback Gallery

The DVTools – Playback Gallery window will appear. The Clip Gallery is now used for playback and you can specify the playback settings here.

Click on them if required.

Settings

in order to check the playback parameters and to change

in the

File

menu.

New Gallery

Checking the settings

Before you start, check the playback settings by clicking on the button at the top right-hand edge of the window.

Settings

DV device only

Check all the settings in the

should be set for the playback format.

Click on the Output tab check that the correct output filter has been set:

Composite

activated. Open the selected.

You will find a detailed description of the individual parameters in the online help.

If you are using a DV device, check the settings under

Control settings

from within DVTools, click on the

Settings...

. If the output is to be made to a DV device, this option must be

General

command in the menu. If you want to control your device

Playback Options

button to open the Pro-One check window. On the

tab and make sure that an

Activate device control

dialogue box.

Tools

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S-video

Overlay

and the

check box.

has been

Device

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Putting together a playback sequence

Now bring together the clips that you want to record in the Clip Gallery. To do this, drag the clips into the Clip Gallery from the list of The clips will appear in the sequence of the clips by shifting them in the Clip gallery.

Playback Files

folder. You can change the

Captured Files

Importing video sequences

Along with the recorded video sequences, other clips can also be added to the gallery for playing back. To add a clip, click on the folder in the left part of the window with the left mouse button and choose the

Import file

files will appear in the required order in the Clip Gallery.

command. Highlight the required files and click on OK. The

Playback Files

folder. Drag the sequences into the

Captured Files

Start playback

Individual clips

All Clips

From current

position

Playing back individual clips in the gallery

In order to play back individual clips, double-click on the required clip in the Clip Gallery or in DVExplorer. The clip will be played back in the Clip Info window as soon as you click on points here if you do not want to play back the whole clip.

Playing back all clips in the gallery

If you want to play back all clips in the gallery, select the first clip in the Clip Gallery. Click right, select button in the Preview window. The clips will be played back in the order that they appear in the gallery.

Playing back clips from the current position

If you select any clip you like in the Clip Gallery as the first clip, click right, select window, all the clips from the selected clip onwards will be played back.

Seek start of clip

, and click on the

Seek start of clip

. You can also set start and finish

Play

, and click on the

button in the Preview

Play

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Capturing to tape

Recording with a digital device

If you want to capture the Clip Gallery on tape, click on the button. The

Activate the to start the recording.

Recording with an analog device

If you output the clips to an analog device, the recording is started immediately. Switch the unit to record as soon as you want to start recording.

Export to tape

Activate recording deck

window will appear.

check box and click on the OK button

Print to tape

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XPORT AS PREMIERE STORYBOARD

When you have arranged all the clips in the required order using DVTools, you can export these directly to Adobe Premiere. To do this, choose the

Export - Premiere Storyboard

the

DVTools - Export

name for a Premiere Storyboard file (*.stq) and click on OK.

If Adobe Premiere has not already been started, then you must start this application. Choose a suitable Pinnacle project preset and click on OK. Open the Storyboard using the project will appear in the Premiere Storyboard view.

window in order to export all the clips. Allocate a file

command in the

menu and the

File

menu. Click on OK in

Tools

command. The

Open

Pinnacle Pro-ONE

From here, you can incorporate the clips into the time line and assign effective transitions, filters, titles, etc. to them. You will find detailed information on Pinnacle Effects in the chapter on “Pinnacle Effects” as of page 63. The chapter “TitleDeko RT” on Page 98 describes in detail how fantastic titles can easily be produced.

For working with Adobe Premiere, in particular with regard to the possibilities for working with Storyboard, please refer to the associated user manual.

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Chapter 9:

Pinnacle Effects

This chapter explains how Pinnacle Pro-ONE works with transitions and filters. All effects can be used in real time and with many simultaneous real time combinations. You can find more detailed information on the real time features of Pinnacle Pro-ONE in the chapter “Pinnacle Pro-ONE & Real Time” on page 89.

The following diagram shows you an overview of the types of effects that Pinnacle Pro-ONE provides.

Pinnacle Pro-ONE

Real time effects

Pinnacle Pro-ONE

Real time

transitions

Pinnacle Pro-ONE

ha Magic

Pinnacle Pro-ONE

Real time filter

Hollywood FX RT

Pinnacle Pro-ONE

TitleDeko RT

Pinnacle transitions are

located in the Pinnacle

folder of the Transitions

window of Adobe

Premiere.

Use the Pinnacle

Gradient Wipe

transition to load

Alpha Magic.

Look for the Pinnacle

Filters in the Pinnacle

folder of Premiere's Video filter window.

Use Hollywood FX RT

Transition from the

Pinnacle folder in

Premiere's Transition

window.

under Adobe P remiere

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Open TitleDeko RT

by choosing File /

New / TitleDeko.

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FFECTS ANIMATION (KEYFRAMING

Many other video editing solutions provide real time effects and most also let you change a variety of parameters such as position, angle, border color and thickness and the direction of an effect.

Pinnacle Pro-ONE provides all that, but goes a step beyond, because it lets you animate nearly all effect parameters over time. Thus, you can not only create a picture-in-picture transition with a red border and a shadow, but you can animate the movement and even things like the border color over time.

)

This animation is achieved through so-called frame in your transition where parameters are set to a certain value. For example, you can use a keyframe at the beginning of a picture-in-picture transition to define the starting point of the video window. At the end, a second keyframe defines the end position. In between, Pinnacle Pro-ONE’s keyframing engine will then move the video window smoothly from the start to the end position.

Keyframing is a very powerful technique that gives you complete control over every single aspect of your effects. However, it can also be somewhat daunting at first. This is why many of the Pinnacle Pro-ONE effects provide presets, which are predefined animations that can be called up with a single mouseclick. These presets cover a range of typically used effects animations and are also a good starting point when trying to understand how keyframing works.

keyframes

. A keyframe is one

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RANSITIONS

Pinnacle Systems provides a large number of transitions under Adobe Premiere that all run in real time.

Make sure that you work with the transitions provided by Pinnacle Systems wherever possible, as otherwise you will not be able to get the benefit of the Pinnacle Pro-ONE real time features. Of course, you can combine the Pinnacle effects with other non Pinnacle effects in any way you choose, but they will not be played back in real time.

You will find the Pinnacle transitions in the easily be recognized by the default settings)

Some of the Pinnacle transitions are similar to the corresponding Premiere effects, but they typically provide more settings and also keyframing. Furthermore, they can be used in real time.

in the icon. (This icon may not appear with

Transitions

window. They can

You can change the parameters of each individual transition by

double-clicking the transition in the Adobe Premiere



window, or

double-clicking the transition after moving into the Timeline window.



Transition

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The individual elements of the effects window are described in more detail

below.

Preset

Controls

Preview Window

Safe

Zones

Overla

Output

General Settin

frame

Controld

Effect Parameter

Settin

Presets

Pla

back

Controls

Presets

Presets are saved effects animations. Pinnacle offers you the possibility of using ready-made effects animations for nearly all transitions. For each effect, on the left of the Effects dialog, you will find a selection of presets, which you can select and change to meet your own requirements. In addition, you may also create and save your own presets.

The Presets provided by Pinnacle may also be adjusted to fit your needs. In most cases, this is best done by first moving the position slider to the start (i. e. the leftmost position) and then changing parameters. Otherwise, you may inadvertently generate new keyframes.

With these buttons, you can scroll up or down among the presets.

Pinnacle Pro-ONE

In order to save and delete presets, use the

Save

and

Delete

buttons. Note

that the Pinnacle-supplied presets cannot be deleted

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You can use this button to open Pinnacle Preset Manager, which will help you to manage the presets that you have set up yourself. This also includes the import of presets that have been created on a different computer as well as the export of current presets.

Preview

In the preview window you can check to see what your transition will look like as you create your effects.

Action and title safe margins

Television sets enlarge a video image. In doing so, the outside edges are sometimes cut off at the edge of the screen (overscan). The extent of the overscan is not the same with all television sets. You should therefore make sure that the important parts of the video image, such as effects or titles for example, are situated within the so-called “safe” areas.

If you click on this button, the safe areas will be shown.

Video-safe area

Title-safe area

With these buttons, you can choose whether placeholders or your original clips are used in the preview.

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The “Original clips” option is only available if you opened the transition from the

If you would also like to check your video on your TV or video monitor, activate the the Premiere monitor window.

Controlling playback

You can view the transition from start to finish or position it at a particular point using the

You will be able to see the current position in the Premiere timeline in the timecode display beneath the position slider.

In addition, there are two types of markers shown on the slide control:



Timeline

Markers from the Premiere Timeline window are shown as red vertical lines above the position slider.

The current effect’s keyframes (see also “Keyframing” at the end of this chapter on Page 87) are shown as blue vertical lines below the position slider.

window.

Video output

position slider

option. The effect will then also be displayed in

Jumping to marker positions

With these buttons you can jump to the previous or next position respectively. Note that this is only possible if markers have been set on the Premiere timeline. If there are no Premiere markers during the time of the transition, the two buttons do not appear.

Defining the in and out points

These buttons set the starting and finishing point of the transition. They are also known as “in” and “out” points. To do this, move the position slider to the point where the transition is to start and click on the in point button. Then move the position slider to the point where the transition is to finish and click on the out point button. The location of the in and out points will be shown in the recessed area of the position slider.

Stop / Play / Loop

If you click on the current position of the slide control. Clicking on the playback. If you click on the beginning. If the playback is not stopped, it will loop back to the start indefinitely.

button, the transition will be played back from the

Play

button will end the

Stop

button, the clip will be played back from the

Loop

Pinnacle Pro-ONE

The current position in the Premiere timeline is displayed as timecode. The format is hour:minute:second:frame-count.

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General settings

Smooth motion

If the keyframing is activated, this button can be selected. A special kind of interpolation allows the progress of the effect to be played more smoothly.

Reverse

The sequence of the transition can be reversed with this button.

Swap sources

Video sources A and B can be swapped with this button.

Use Motion Tracking This button is only available with transitions with

If this button is activated, the transition will follow the movement path that the motion tracking RT filter has calculated. This button is only available if you have previously activated the “Motion Tracking” filter.

X- / Y parameters

For more information, please read the corresponding section on Page 83.

Keyframing

This button switches keyframing on and off.

Warning: If you switch keyframing off, all the settings and the keyframes for the current transition will be lost.

Moves to the previous or next keyframe.

A keyframe and all its parameters is copied, cut, inserted or deleted. This is also useful for moving the position of a keyframe: cut it and then paste it to a different location.

This indicator tells you that a keyframe is set at the current position for the indicated parameter.

The keyframe for this parameter can be switched off by clicking on this icon.

This tells you that a keyframe is possible but has not been set at the current position.

A keyframe is automatically set at this position by changing the parameter.

Parameters that do not have a keyframe symbol (e.g. the “Edge smoothing” in “Pinnacle Iris Round”), cannot be used for keyframing, i. e. they cannot be animated over time.

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You will find further details on this subject in the section on “Keyframing” at the end of this chapter on Page 87.

The end of this chapter and Appendix C on page XV contains an overview of the keyboard shortcuts that can be used with the Pinnacle Effects dialogs.

Other

settings

Depending on the effect, the dialog box will show other parameters such as direction, border (smoothing, width, color) and shadow (offset, opacity, direction). Parameters may be adjusted by using their sliders or knobs or by typing numbers into the numeric entry fields. Once a parameter is active by clicking it with the mouse, you can also use the mouse wheel or the arrow keys to change it.

The following sections describes a range of transitions and their settings features:

Iris Round RT

The “Iris Round RT” transition can be customized through a variety of parameters.

Coordinate X

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With this slider you can shift the center of the transition in the horizontal direction.. The current

Position

of the center is also displayed numerically.

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Coordinate Y

Please use this slider to shift the center of the transition in the vertical direction. The current

Position

of the center is also displayed numerically.

Progress

In this transition, the The larger the value, the more the circle opens. As a default, the progress runs from 0 to 100%—the circle opens linearly from zero up to its full size. Through keyframing of the progress, you can first open the circle, for example, and then close it again (see also “application example”) or you can freeze the movement for a certain amount of time.

The dot changes its appearance depending on the mouse pointer position:

Inactive.

Progress

slider controls the opening of the iris circle.

Border width

Border color

Edge smoothing

The center of the transition can be moved freely with the mouse.

The center of the transition can be moved to the right, left, up and down in the direction of the mouse pointer by clicking with the left mouse button.

You can apply borders of any desired width between the two elements of the transition by using this slider.

To define the color of the border, click on the color box and choose one of the standard Windows colors with the color picker dialog.

This slider adjusts the softness of the edge of the transition. Note that it may not be keyframed (i. e. animated over time). Its setting always applies to the entire duration of the effect. This parameter cannot be set for individual keyframes. Its value always applies to the whole effect.

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Application example

In this application example, you will set up keyframing in such a way that you open the circle to 50%, let it freeze for a short time and then close it again. Using keyframing, only a single transition needs to be used for this.

Proceed as follows:

1. First drag two video clips into the Timeline window, one each for video

track 1A and 1B, and overlap them for a second or two.

2. Now drag the

the two video clips.

3. Double-click on the transition. The effects dialog opens.

4. Switch keyframing on.

5. Make sure that you are at the beginning of the effect by moving the

position slider to the far left. Note that the value of Progress is “0” here. The iris is fully closed.

6. Now move the position slider to approximately 40% of the transition

duration and set the keyframe will appear next to Progress

7. Move the position slider even more to the right, to about 60%. Again

adjust the

8. Finally move the position slider to the far right - the end of the transition.

Change the progress value to “0”.

9. Play back the transition by clicking

for a short while and then closes again.

10. If you want, you can save your effects animation by clicking on the

button. Enter a name and click OK. A new icon will appear in the preset list.

Pinnacle Iris Round

Progress

slider to “50” and note the

effect to the transition track between

slider to “50”. Note that the symbol for a

. The iris opens up to 50%, stops

Play

Save

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Picture-in-Picture Pro RT

The Picture-in-Picture Pro RT transition offers you the possibility of displaying one picture within another and to “animate” it with additional effects such as rotation, zoom, border, shadow and opacity.

Keyframes can be set for all the parameters of the Picture-in-Picture Pro RT effect.

After you have opened the “Picture-in-Picture Pro RT” transition, you can adjust the following settings:

Coordinate

Enter the X and Y position for the Picture-in-Picture Pro RT. The center position is at “0 / 0”.

The picture can also be moved in the preview window directly by dragging the red dot with the mouse. When holding down the <Shift> or <Ctrl> keys the movement of the mouse can be restricted to the X and Y directions respectively.

More exact positioning can be achieved by direct entry in the X and Y fields or by using the arrow keys on the keyboard.

For all settings, if an input field has been selected with the mouse, the value of the field can be changed using the arrow keys, the mouse wheel and by direct entry from the keyboard. An entry is completed by pressing <Enter>.

Rotation

You can set the rotation around the Z axis either using the knob or via the input fields for

Number of revolutions

and

Angle

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Size

Adjusts the size of the picture.

Shape

Border width

Border color

Edge smoothing

Shadow

These controls adjust the shape of the corners, the border width and the border color. If you want no border, set the border width to “0”.

The slide control for the edge smoothing works differently in the Picture-inPicture Pro effect:



Colored border

If you have specified a colored border (

Edge smoothing

more the edge becomes blurred towards the outside, but it will remain well-defined towards the inside.



Colored border with shadow

If you have specified a colored border and a shadow, the values set also influence the shadow. The higher the value, the more transparent the shadow becomes towards the outside.



No border

If the Border width is “0”, the softness of the edge of the video window. The higher the value, the more the edge becomes blurred towards the inside.

Shadow

(Offset, Opacity, Direction)

settings affect this border. The higher the value, the

Edge smoothing

Border width

of 1 and above), the

parameter determines the

Setting up the

Picture-in-

Picture Pro RT

effect

To control the shadow of your picture, you can change the parameters for the offset, opacity and direction of the shadow. Individual keyframes can also be set for these parameters. In this way, the shadow can be made to wander around the object or the shadow opacity can change during the course of the effect.

If no shadow is to be used, make sure that the shadow offset is set to zero.

Note: The Picture-in-Picture Pro RT effect is also available as a filter. This is useful if you want to apply picture-in-picture to a video clip in track 2 or above. Not all features are available in the filter version of the Picture-inPicture effect.

If you want to create a Picture-in-Picture RT effect, please proceed as follows:

1. First drag two video clips onto the timeline, one each onto video track

1A and 1B. Trim and move them so that they start at the same time.

2. Now drag the Pinnacle Picture-in-Picture Pro RT effect to the transition

track between the two video clips.

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3. Double-click on the transition. The effects dialog opens.

4. Change the

5. Select 60 for

setting to 50.

Size

to round the corners.

Shape

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6. Add a 10 unit wide green border with

Border width

and

Border color

Adding

animation

7. Set the

8. Change the

9. Set and the shadow.

10.View the transition by clicking clips, ensure that the

If you want to animate your Picture-in-Picture Pro RT effect, please proceed as follows:

1. If you have not already done so, then drag two video clips onto the time bar, one each onto video track 1A and 1B. Trim and move them so that they start at the same time.

2. Now drag the Pinnacle Picture-in-Picture Pro effect to the transition track between the two video clips.

3. Double-click on the transition. The effects dialog opens.

4. Activate keyframing.

Shadow opacity

Shadow direction

Edge smoothing

to 75 and the

to 45 degrees. Turn the knob left for this.

to 25. Note that this influences both the green border

button is activated.

Shadow offset

. If you want to see your original

Play

to 50.

5. If you are not at the beginning of the effect, move the position slider to the start of the transition (i. e. the far left).

6. Drag the “Picture-in-Picture Pro RT” away from the center and into the lower left-hand corner by using the red dot. Alternatively, enter “-25”, “25” for the X and Y coordinates under <Enter>.

Ensure that the keyframing symbol is turned on for every parameter that you changed!

7. Leave the remaining parameters unchanged and move the position slider to the last frame of the transition (i. e. the far right).

8. Change the following parameters:

Position

9. View the changed effect by clicking original clips, ensure that the

Experiment with the other parameters such as shadow, opacity, rotation etc. You can set a keyframe at any point in the transition and change the parameters to achieve more complex animations. When finished, you may save your animation as a preset by clicking on

to “35”, “35”.

button is activated.

Shape

Play

Position

to “100%”,

. Confirm each entry with

to “30%” and

Size

. If you want to see your

Save

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Gradient Wipe RT

In addition to some of the parameters you have seen before, the Gradient Wipe RT transition allows you to define the effect by choosing one of over 400 Alpha Magic FX gradient wipe bitmaps.

These gradient wipe bitmaps contain information about the progress of the effect as different scales of gray. You can create your own transitions by producing your own PNG or BMP files or modifying already existing ones. You will find more detailed information on Alpha Magic FX in the Chapter “Alpha Magic FX” on Page 146 in this user manual.

If you use some of the Alpha Magic FX bitmaps very often, you can save the entire transition as a preset by clicking on the

Save

button.

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ILTERS

In addition to the transitions, the Pinnacle folder Pro-ONE includes the following real-time filters:

Color Adjust RT



Crop RT



Image Correction RT



Magic Shape RT



Motion RT



Picture-in-Picture RT



Zoom and Rotate RT



Under “Pinnacle Advanced” you will find the filters:

LensFlare RT



Magnifier RT



MultiForm PIP RT



Page Curl RT



Page Peel RT



Picture-in-Picture Pro RT



Replicate RT



Spotlight RT



Water Drop RT



Water Wave RT



The following filters can be found under “Pinnacle MT”:

Image Stabilize



Motion Tracker



Scene Cutter



The filters marked with a * are also available as transitions. However, transitions can only be used in the transition track between Video 1A and 1B. Filters can also be applied to video on the tracks 2 and above.

All Pro-ONE filters run in real time and can also be used in some combination with other effects and still play in real time. Read the chapter “Pinnacle Pro-ONE & Real Time” on Page 89 for more details on what plays in real time and what requires rendering.

The filters are employed by dragging them onto a clip in the timeline window.

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If you use the Pinnacle filters “Motion RT”, “Page Curl”, “Page Peel”, ”Picture-in-Picture Pro RT” and “LensFlare RT”, “Magic Shape RT, or “MultiForm PIP RT” on media in tracks 2 and above, then you should also set transparency on the clip so that the background is visible. To do this, click the clip with the right mouse button and select Video Options and then Transparency. Choose a Key Type of Alpha Channel for video clips and stills. TitleDeko RT titles will set their transparency automatically when placed onto the timeline.

The functionality of the filters that are not available as transitions is explained in more detail below:

Color Adjust RT

(This filter works in real time with video sequences, but not with bitmaps and titles.)

The Color Adjust RT filter allows you to adjust brightness and contrast for each of the three primary colors: red, green, blue.

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Crop RT

With this filter, parts of the video sequence are cut away and the remainder of the picture is scaled so that it fills the screen.

Image Correction RT

(This filter works in real time with video sequences, but not with bitmaps and titles.)

With this filter you can change the brightness, the contrast and the color saturation. Here too, the settings can be keyframed (animated over time) for interesting effects like fade-to-white.

Magic Shape RT

The Magic Shape RT filter allows a clip from your video sequence to appear over a background. You can define the shape of the clip and the background color by means of different parameters. If you create a second sequence in an additional video track, the clip can be seen at the same time as this sequence.

If you want to use a square or a circle, please make sure that you choose a 3:4 ratio for the size (Size X = 15, Size Y = 20, Size X = 30, Size Y = 40, ...).

You can create a star by dragging the value of the slider for Inner radius below 100.

You can also determine the color and the transparency of this clip.

Please note that Alpha Channel must be set as the key type under Transparency in the Effects window.

Motion RT

The Motion RT filter may be used for the animation of titles, and to position a video clip in 3D space.

Motion RT allows objects to be positioned, scaled and rotated in the X, Y and Z direction. In addition, you can also specify the opacity and the edge smoothing. Animation through keyframing is of course possible and works very similar to the Picture-in-picture transition.

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Zoom and Rotate RT

With this filter you can zoom and rotate the contents of your video clip.

You can specify the center point, the size (i. e. zoom factor) and the angle of rotation. All parameters can be animated over time using keyframing.

A typical application for Zoom and Rotate is to crop off unwanted edges from your video clips.

Note that the parameters Size and Rotation are not independent of each other. If you rotate, some amount of zoom will occur to ensure that entire video frame is filled with the clip image.

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Lensflare RT

This filter simulates the light reflection, which occurs when bright sunlight falls on the lens of a camera. You can make various adjustments to this filter by means of parameters such as intensity, radiation type or reflection intensity.

Magnifier RT

If you apply this filter to your video sequence, this will be played back as if viewed through a magnifying glass. Parameters such as size, position or refraction can be adjusted.

MultiForm PIP RT

Multiform Picture-in-Picture RT allows you to make a second video "show through" the sequence in a non-rectangular form. Unlike the Magic Shape RT filter, not just a part but the complete video sequence appears in the transition.

The parameters in the dialogue box are the same as those for the Magic Shapes.

Please note that Alpha-channel must be set as the key type under Transparency in the Effects window.

This filter is particularly effective if you use it in conjunction with the Motion Tracking filter. In this case, the clip from the sequence moves along the movement path of the second video sequence.

To do this, the “Motion Tracker” filter must be used and the Use Motion Tracking button must be activated.

For more information, compare the description of the Picture-in-Picture Pro RT transition on Page 72.

Replicate RT

If you use this filter, instead of being played back in one window, the sequence will be played back in several windows arrange side by side and above one another.

Spotlight RT

The parameters of the Spotlight RT filter are similar to those of the Magic Shapes RT and the Multiform Picture-in-Picture RT filters

In addition to their features, here you have the option of superimposing a spot on the video sequence and of defining its offset.

Along with the color of the selected clip from the sequence, you can also define the color of the surroundings of the clip.

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Water Drop RT

With this filter, you create the effect of a water drop, the shape of which you can define by means of several parameters.

Water Wave RT

The Water Wave RT filter creates a wave, the frequency and direction of which you can change.

Image Stabilize

Many digital cameras have an image stabilizing function. However, if you have forgotten to switch this on or if the result is not satisfactory, the quality of your video material can be improved with the Image Stabilize. Unwanted movements, “shakes” or jerky panning shots can be smoothed out using this filter.

The Image Stabilize first performs an analysis of the entire clip. It tries to determine camera movement through advanced techniques such as motion tracking and edge detection. This information is then used to compensate for the camera movement by zooming into the clip slightly and moving the window against the clip movement.

If the clip contains pans or zooms, the Image Stabilize attempts to detect them so that they are not “stabilized away”. Instead, in many cases a pan will get smoothed out and look even better.

Video material with scenes containing clear edges and well structured objects, lots of details and easy to track objects are particularly well suited to stabilization.

But the image stabilizer cannot do magic. With video material containing rapid movements, poor picture definition or low contrast or which are lacking well-defined objects that can be tracked, stabilizing can lead to poor results.

Also, the Pinnacle Image Stabilizer may not always recognize pans and zooms or it may track objects erroneously when they turn or the lighting changes drastically. And finally, zooming into the clip for compensation will result in a slight loss of image quality. This may or may not be noticeable, depending on the contents of your clip.

Using the Pinnacle Image Stabilizer

A new feature of the Image Stabilizer is the option to choose a clip for analyzing the motion of the video. In this regard, you can shift and change the size of the yellow frame in the video window directly with the mouse or you can use the appropriate slider. In this way, you can exclude objects that move independently in the foreground from the stabilizing.

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The zooming-in can also be controlled by means of the Size slider.

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Drag the Pinnacle Image Stabilizer onto a video clip in the timeline. A dialog will open automatically and the analysis will start. You will see the clip and some bright green markers that show motion tracking of points and edge detection.

In the position slider, you will also see a progress bar. When it reaches the end, the analysis phase is completed and you can close the dialog. The compensation of camera movement will now occur in real time when you play the clip in the timeline.

If you apply more edits to your project, you may have to run the analysis phase again—this is indicated by a red bar at the top of the timeline window. Do this by selecting the clip and clicking on Image Stabilize in the Premiere Effects Control palette.

To compare the result with the original video, use the “Picture-in-Picture” function or the “Clock” to view both videos – with and without filter – side by side.

Setup

Motion Tracker

The Motion Tracker filter can track the position of an object in a video clip. The tracking information can then be used in various other effects such as

Magic Shape RT, Multiform Picture-in-Picture RT

as many transitions. The center of the effect will then move as if it were “attached” to the object in the video clip.

Motion Tracking is done by first defining a reference frame in the video clip. Then, a point in this reference frame is selected by positioning a crosshair cursor. Now, the motion tracking process can be started. Once it is finished, the track will be displayed. It is now available in other effects that are placed in the same area of the timeline.

Differently colored bars at the bottom of the video window indicate the quality of the tracking: “green” corresponds to “very good”, “red” means “no tracking possible”. Please note that an object can only be tracked as long as it is visible.

The Motion Tracking process works best when the object to be tracked is clearly distinguished from the background or has a visible edge or corners.

If you have already applied other filters to the sequence, these should be deactivated in the the tracking process.

Effects

window before tracking, as they will slow down

Spotlight RT

as well

You can switch the display of the movement path on or off with this button.

This button shows or hides the quality bargraph at the bottom of the video window.

If small, red bars indicate that it has not been possible to track the object accurately, you should try selecting a different point for tracking.

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Click on this button to define a new Tracking. The crosshair cursor will then be displayed. Note that it is possible to set several reference frames.

reference frame

for the Motion

After positioning the crosshair cursor, the start the tracking process.

With this button, you can delete individual reference points.

Application example

In this example, you will use the magnifying lens to an object.

To do this, proceed as follows:

1. First, drag a suitable video clip for the motion tracking into the Timeline.

2. Now apply the this video clip.

The

Motion Tracking RT

3. With the slider, select a frame of the video clip in which the object to be tracked is clearly visible.

4. Click on the the video window.

5. Now drag the crosshair cursor with the mouse onto the object to be tracked. The frame around the crosshair cursor can be changed in size using the mouse - this marks the search radius for the motion tracking.

Motion Tracking RT

Set reference point

Motion Tracking RT

window will open.

button. A crosshair cursor will appear in

Start Motion Tracking

filter to attach a

filter from the

Pinnacle MT

button will

folder to

6. Click on the video window and also a quality bargraph at the bottom. Wait for the tracking to finish. If the bargraph shows red areas or if you notice that the tracking got lost at some point, then you may want to try to set a second reference point and then re-track by clicking

Tracking Delete

7. When the motion tracking is complete, close the dialog with OK.

The motion of the point is now available as a used by other effects at this point in the Timeline window.

8. Apply the same video clip in the Timeline.

The

Magnifier RT

9. Click the

the motion path. Note that this button is only visible if there is a motion track at this point in the timeline.

10.You may now adjust other parameters of the effect, such as size. It is also possible to turn on keyframing (cf. application example on Page 72) in order to combine motion tracking with additional animation. Note that changing the position of the magnifier will still be possible, but it is now relative to the motion track.

Start Motion Tracking

. You can always delete reference frames again by clicking

Magnifier RT

Use Motion Tracking

filter from the

dialog will open automatically.

button. You will see the track in the

Start Motion

motion path

Pinnacle Advanced

button. The magnifier will now follow

and can be

folder to the

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Other examples

Motion tracking can also be used to move a title or an image with an object in a video clip. In order to do this, first apply the to a clip in the timeline and track an object as described above. Now place a title or an image in track V2 or higher above the video clip. Make sure to turn on transparency if an image is used. Drag the title or image. Click then adjust the position and size as desired.

on Use Motion Tracking

Motion Tracking RT

Motion RT

in the

Motion RT

filter onto the

dialog and

filter

Scene Cutter

If you have digitalized video sequences that are made up of several scenes, you can "cut" the individual scenes with this filter and divide them up into individual clips. The scene cutting runs automatically. When the scene cutting is complete, you can define the minimum and/or the maximum length of the scenes. The Scene Cutter filter automatically creates a Storyboard file.

For the options available when working with storyboards, please refer to the associated Adobe Premiere User Manual.

Video Opacity

rubber band

Transparency:

Alpha Channel

Alpha Matte

Opacity and Transparency Effects

If you place a still image, title or video clip onto track 2 or above, the opacity of this media may be adjusted using the fade control, also known as a rubber band. If this rubber band is not visible, click on the triangle next to the word Video.

The rubber band is adjusted by dragging it at any point with the mouse. With Pro-ONE, the Premiere fade control will be performed in real time.

Furthermore, Pinnacle supports the transparency modes “Alpha Channel”, and“Black Alpha Matte” in real time when they are being used on still images and titles.

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Click with the right mouse button on the title or the graphic in the overlay track and choose the commands context menu. Select either

type



Alpha Channel

Choose channel, such as TitleDeko RT titles.



Black Alpha Matte

Use this option if, for example, the title appears on a black background. During the overlay, this black background will be made “transparent”.

Alpha Channel

, when your material already uses an alpha

Video Options

Alpha Channel,

and

Transparency

Black Alpha Matte

from the as the

Key



White Alpha Matte

Use this option if the title appears on a white background. During the overlay, the white background will be made “transparent”.

Setting an alpha channel is not necessary with titles that were created with Adobe Premiere or with TitleDeko RT, as these automatically activate the correct transparency when you place them onto the timeline.

Transparency

stills. TitleDeko RT titles will set their transparency automatically when placed onto the timeline.

. Choose a

Key Type

Alpha Channel

Video Options

for video clips and

and then

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Speed

Pro-ONE will play clips slower or faster in real time. To set this effect on a clip, right click it in the timeline and select rate as a percentage or a new duration.

The maximum speed that can be played in real time without dropping frames depends on a number of factors, for example the speed of your hard disks and the complexity of the timeline at this point. Generally, a speed of 300% or lower should always work in real time. However, if you arrange several clips with different speeds on top of each other, you should make sure that the sum of all speeds at any given point in the timeline does not exceed 300%.

If you want to replay the video sequence "backwards", enter a negative value. Here too, percentages up to -300% can be executed in real time.

If you do see dropped frames during playback, then please use the Pinnacle Render Timeline ( of the affected area.

For rates below 100% (“slow motion”), Pro-ONE interpolates the appropriate field of a frame for highest image quality.

File, New, Pinnacle Render Timeline

. Now enter either a new

Speed

) to force rendering

EYFRAMING

: A

DDITIONAL INFORMATION

Keyframing control for individual parameters

Each keyframable parameter of a transition or filter shows an indicator that also allows you to turn keyframing on or off for each keyframe of the animation individually.

An example to illustrate what this feature may be used for: take a Picture-inpicture Pro effect that has five keyframes which determine the size and position of the video window. If you now want to change the border color, you can do this by moving the position slider to the start and then adjusting the parameter animation, the border color will not change at these points as long as the Border color keyframe selection remains inactivated. In summary: each parameter has its own keyframe. If, for example, you set a keyframe for the position, this does not set a keyframe for the other parameters of a transition at this point. You must set a keyframe for every value required. You can see

whether you have set a keyframe for a certain parameter by this symbol

Border color

. Although there are four more keyframes in the

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INNACLE EFFECTS KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS

General Preview

<Shift> + <Q> Prev. marker <Ctrl> + Mouse Moves into X direction

<Shift> + <W> Next marker <Shift> + Mouse Moves into Y direction

<Shift> + <A> Prev. keyframe

<Shift> + <S> Next keyframe <Shift> + <1> Prev. frame

<Shift> + <2> Next frame Cursor left - 1

<Shift> + <C> Copy keyframes Cursor right + 1

<Shift> + <X> Cut keyframes Cursor down - 1

<Shift> + <V> Paste keyframes Cursor up + 1

<Shift> + <Del> Delete keyframes Minus - 1

<Shift> + <I> Set in point Plus + 1

<Shift> + <O> Set out point Page down - 10

Space Play / stop Page up + 10

Slider

Wheel Edit

Cursor left - 1 Cursor left Moves cursor in the edit area

Cursor right + 1 Cursor right Moves cursor in the edit area

Cursor down - 1 Cursor down - 1

Cursor up + 1 Cursor up + 1

Minus - 360 Minus Changes the directory

Plus + 360 Plus Will be ignored

Page down - 10 Page down - 10

Page up + 10 Page up + 10

Enter Will be ignored

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Chapter 10:

INNACLE

Creativity rule

of thumb

Pinnacle

PRO-ONE

Pinnacle you all the effects you need—and it is a very productive video editing system. You can create complex video projects very quickly, and key to this productivity are the Pinnacle real time effects. The Pinnacle engine gives you immediate, full quality playback even of sophisticated layered video effects.

This chapter summarizes the available real time effects, explains how even combined multi-layered effects can play in real time, and what can be done to make best use of the Pinnacle information about real time audio effects.

Do what you want. Use the effects you want. If some parts of your projects need to be rendered—no problem, Pinnacle accelerated render engine. But whenever an effect you want to apply is available as Pinnacle real time effect, use it. This will greatly increase your editing productivity, giving you time for more creativity and better results.

REAL TIME

Pro-ONE

delivers professional quality, high flexibility, and gives

Pro-ONE

& Real Time

Pro-ONE

video effects engine. It also gives

Pro-ONE

includes a hardware-

effects

Real time rule

of thumb

A segment of the timeline is real time playable if all the media in it are real time compatible, the number of media does not exceed the real time limits, all the effects are Pinnacle real time effects, and a few simple effects combination rules are fulfilled.

A real time segment will appear in the Premiere Monitor window and on the analog outputs immediately and in full quality when you play or scrub the timeline. This way, it can also printed to an analog tape deck without any rendering process (or alternatively, in the case of tape deck).

When you are finished editing your project and want to output it to DV or other formats such as MPEG or RealVideo, then an export process that includes rendering is required.

Pro-ONE

outputting on DV, all effects must first be rendered. On the other hand, with both on the analog and on the digital output.

outputs real time effects exclusively to the analog output. For

Pro-ONE RTDV,

the real time effects are available

Pro-ONE RTDV,

to a digital

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Real time compatible media

To be real time playable with Pinnacle Pro-ONE, all media on the timeline must be of one of the following formats:

DV AVI clips

Pinnacle Pro-ONE-compatible DV AVI files, either captured or rendered by a video application or from another source. The clip’s video standard, PAL or NTSC, must match the current Premiere project setting.

If you would like to use other video clips, you may import them into Premiere and put them into your project, but the affected segments will then require rendering. In many cases, a better approach is to put the clip into a new, empty project and then export it as a Pinnacle Pro-ONE DV AVI clip using the appropriate Pinnacle Pro-ONE preset. The resulting clip will then be real time playable in your project.

Still images and titles

Still images of all formats that Premiere can import will play back in real time. For titles, both TitleDeko RT and the Premiere title application will create files that are real time playable. A still image or title may contain transparency information in the form of an 8 bit alpha channel, but only one of these may be used at any point in the timeline if real time playback is desired. Real time playback is only possible when, at every point in the timeline, a maximum of one still image or title with alpha channel is used.

Although still images of any resolution can be imported and used in Premiere, you will achieve the best quality if you scale them to the appropriate video resolution (720x480 for NTSC or 720x576 for PAL) before using them in Premiere. This can be done with Adobe PhotoShop LE, which is included on your Premiere CD.

Real time effects

Pinnacle Pro-ONE includes two types of real time effects: transitions and filters.

Transitions are used in between two clips on the V1A and V1B tracks, they are located in the “Pinnacle” folder within the Premiere selection.

Filters, on the other hand, are applied to clips on the tracks V2 and above. These are stored in the “Pinnacle” and “Pinnacle Advanced” folders in the Premiere

For details about using the Pinnacle effects and animating them by using keyframes, please see Chapter “Pinnacle Effects” as of page 63.

Video

filter selection.

Transitions

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