Ulead VIDEOSTUDIO 11, VIDEOSTUDIO 11.5 PLUS, VideoStudio 11 Plus User Manual

User Guide

InterVideo Digital Technology Corporation

March 2007

English edition for Ulead® VideoStudio® 11, March 2007.

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Table of Contents

Welcome to Ulead VideoStudio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

How VideoStudio works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Setting up your computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Installing a capture card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Connecting a video camera to the computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Connecting a Digital TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Connecting analog video sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Connecting the capture or tuner card to the sound card . . . . . . . . 17

Installing and running VideoStudio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Preparation for video capturing and editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

The VideoStudio Launcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

DV-to-DVD Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Step 1: Scan for scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Step 2: Apply a theme template and burn to DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Movie Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Step 1: Add video and images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

Step 2: Select a template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Step 3: Finish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

VideoStudio Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

The user interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Starting a new movie project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Setting your preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Setting project properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Adding clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Previewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Setting a preview range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Undoing and redoing actions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Showing and hiding grid lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Saving your project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Saving project as Smart Package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Seamless DV and MPEG capture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

The Capture Step Options Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Capture Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

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DV Quick Scan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Importing from DVD/DVD-VR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Importing from Mobile Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Direct video capturing to MPEG format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51

The Edit Step Options Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Working with clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Adding clips to the Video Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Sorting clips in the Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Playback Speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Reversing video playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Trimming a clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Split by Scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Multi-trimming your video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Saving trimmed clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Exporting a video file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Capturing still images in the Edit Step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Ripple Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Enabling Smart Proxy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Converting multiple files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Enhancing clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Adjusting color and brightness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Adjusting White balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Adjusting tones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Applying video filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Pan & Zoom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Resizing and distorting clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Adding cues and chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72

The Effect Step Options Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Adding transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

The Album transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

The Flashback transition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

The Mask transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Mask transition options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Adding transitions to My Favorites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Applying selected transition effect to all clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Overlay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78

The Overlay Step Options Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Adding clips to the Overlay Track . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

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Adding multiple Overlay Tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Working with Overlay clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Trimming Overlay clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Repositioning the current Overlay clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Resizing an Overlay clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Distorting an Overlay clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Applying motion to the Overlay clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Enhancing Overlay clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Applying transparency to the Overlay clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Chroma Keying an Overlay clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Adding a mask frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Adding a border . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Applying a filter to the Overlay clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Using the same attributes for different Overlay clips . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Adding Objects or Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Adding Flash animations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Customizing the current object, frame, or Flash animation . . . . . . . 87

Title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

The Title Step Options Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Adding text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Adding preset text to your project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Inserting subtitles to your project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Editing text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Modifying text attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Rearranging the stacking order for multiple titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Repositioning a text in a multiple-title clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Rotating text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Applying animation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Animation effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Saving your titles to the Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

The Audio Step Options Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Adding audio files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Adding voiceover narration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Adding background music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Using the Clip Volume Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100

Trimming and cutting audio clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100

Stretching audio duration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101

Fade-in/out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102

Mixing audio tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102

Using the Surround Sound Mixer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102

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Duplicating an audio channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Volume rubber banding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

Applying audio filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Share . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107

The Share Step Options Panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Creating movie templates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Optimizing MPEG videos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Creating and saving a video file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Burning a DVD, VCD, SVCD or HD DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Assembling files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Adding/Editing chapters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Creating selection menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Previewing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Burning your project onto a disc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Project Playback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Exporting your movie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Export to Mobile Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Output video file to a different medium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Posting your video on a Web page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Sending a movie by e-mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Electronic greeting cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Setting your video as your Movie Screen Saver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

Creating an audio file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Recording back to a DV camcorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Recording back to an HDV camcorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126

Sharing your videos online . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Appendix A: Menus and dialog boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .128

Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

File menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Edit menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Clip menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Tools menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Help menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Dialog boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Advanced Settings (DV-to-DVD Wizard) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Audio Save Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Batch Convert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

Border/Shadow/Transparency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Capture Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Change Capture Plug-in . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Burning Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

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Preferences: File menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135

Preferences (Create Disc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .139

Preview Playback Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140

Project Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140

Project Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140

Project Settings (Create Disc) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142

Preview Files Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143

Select Device Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143

Appendix B: Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144

Menu command shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144

Step Panel shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144

Navigation Panel shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .144

Timeline shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145

Multi-trim Video shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146

Others . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146

Appendix C: Technology Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

Analog vs. Digital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147

HD Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .147

SmartRender Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148

DV SmartPlay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148

DVD, VCD, SVCD and HD DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148

Appendix D: System tweaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150

Enabling DMA for IDE disks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .150

Disabling Write-Behind Caching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .151

Setting the Paging File size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .152

Appendix E. Tips and techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

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Welcome to Ulead VideoStudio

Thank you for purchasing VideoStudio, the video editing software that allows even beginners to produce professional-looking movies. VideoStudio provides you with a complete set of tools to capture videos, edit them, and share your final production on CD, DVD, HD DVD, or the Web.

How VideoStudio works

VideoStudio follows a step-by-step paradigm that lets you easily capture, edit, and share your video. VideoStudio also offers more than a hundred transition effects, professional titling capabilities and simple soundtrack creation tools. Learn in seconds, create in minutes.

To make a movie production, first capture footage from a camcorder or another video source. You can then trim the captured videos, arrange their order, apply transitions, and add overlays, animated titles, voiceover narration, and background music. These elements are organized in separate tracks. Changes to one track do not affect other tracks.

A movie production is in the form of a VideoStudio project file (*.VSP), which contains information on the path location of the clips and how the movie has been put together. After you have finished your movie production, you can burn it to a VCD, DVD, HD DVD or record the movie back to your camcorder. You can also output your movie as a video file for playback on the computer, import it to mobile devices or share it online. VideoStudio uses the information in the video project file

Note: The availability of features depends on the VideoStudio version you have.

Components of a project as displayed in Timeline View

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to combine all the elements in your movie into a video file. This process is called rendering.

VideoStudio contains a sample finished project that lets you have a general overview of most of the features that are available in the program. This sample project also lets you experiment and get a general feel of how to use VideoStudio. Select Sample Project from the VideoStudio program group on the Windows Start menu.

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Getting Started

Before you install VideoStudio, make sure that your system meets the minimum hardware and software requirements to get the best performance.

System Requirements

* Plus version

For general and Proxy HDV Editing

Intel® Pentium® 4 or higher

Microsoft® Windows® XP SP2 Home Edition/Professional, Windows® XP Media Center Edition, Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows® Vista

512 MB of RAM or higher (1 GB of RAM may be recommended depending on the video capture device used)

1 GB of available hard disk space for program installation

Windows-compatible sound card (multi-channel sound card for surround sound support recommended)

Windows-compatible CD-ROM for installation

Non-Proxy HDV editing

Intel® Pentium® 4 3.0 GHz or higher with Hyper-Threading technology

Microsoft® Windows® XP (Service Pack2 for HDV camcorder support recommended)

1 GB of RAM (2GB or more recommended)

16X PCI ExpressTM display adapter

Input/Output Device Support

1394 FireWire cards for use with DV/D8/HDV*/AVCHD* camcorders

Support for OHCI Compliant IEEE-1394 and 1394 Adaptec 8940/ 8945

Analog capture cards for analog camcorders (VFW & WDM support for XP and BDA support for Vista)

Analog and Digital TV capture device (BDA support)

USB capture devices, PC cameras, and DVD/hard drive camcorders

Windows® compatible HD DVD, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, DVD-RAM or CD-R/RW drive

Apple iPod with video*, Sony PSP*, WMV Pocket PC, WMV Smartphone, Nokia Mobile phone, Microsoft Zune

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Setting up your computer

Before you can start making movie projects using your own video footage, you first need to capture video from your video camera into your computer. Your computer needs to be equipped with the proper capture card or interface port for connecting your video camera and for capturing video to your computer. Since capturing and video editing require a lot of computer resources, your computer must also be properly set up to ensure successful capturing and smooth editing of your videos.

Installing a capture card

If your capture card is a PCI-based card, install the card on your computer by inserting it in an available PCI slot on the computer’s motherboard.

Connecting a video camera to the computer

Use an IEEE-1394 cable to connect your digital camcorder to the IEEE-1394 port. Before purchasing one, check first the pin connectors used on your camcorder and your computer. Most DV and Digital 8 camcorders have a 4-pin connector, whereas desktop computers that come with IEEE-1394 ports or installed with IEEE-1394 cards usually have 6-pin connectors. The IEEE-1394 cable that is required for desktop computers is a 4-pin to 6-pin cable. Most notebook computers have 4-pin connectors which require a 4-pin to 4-pin cable.

Note: The type of capture card or interface port that you will need to connect your video camera to your computer depends on the type of video camera you have.

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Connecting the IEEE-1394 cable to the DV camcorder

Connecting a 4-pin to 6-pin IEEE-1394 cable to a desktop computer

Connecting a 4-pin to 4-pin IEEE-1394 cable to a notebook computer

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Checking the hardware setup

After connecting your digital camcorder to the computer, check if the device is detected by your Windows system. If you installed an IEEE-1394 card on your computer, check also if the card is detected.

To check if the IEEE-1394 card and digital camcorder are detected:

1. Insert your video tape into the camcorder and switch it on. Make sure it is in playback mode (usually named VTR or VCR). Check your camcorder's manual for specific instructions.

2. Open the Control Panel, then open System: Hardware - Device Manager.

3. Make sure the following device names are listed in the Device Manager.

Under Windows XP:

• 1394 Bus Controller

• <Brand name> DV Camcorder (The brand name depends on the DV

camcorder connected to the IEEE-1394 interface.)

4. If your digital camcorder has been detected properly, it will be listed as a source device in VideoStudio's Options Panel. In VideoStudio, select the Capture Step and check if your camcorder is displayed under the Source list in the Options Panel.

Note: In addition to commonly used Texas Instruments and Microsoft DV drivers, there are other drivers available. Consult your camcorder's manual for suitable drivers.

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Connecting a USB camera

To capture live video and still images from a USB camera, connect the camera to an available USB port on your computer.

USB cameras may require installation of a device driver, depending on the Windows version you are using. For information on how to install your USB camera, refer to its accompanying manual.

After properly installing your USB camera, check if it is detected by your Windows system.

To check if the USB camera is detected:

1. Open the Control Panel, then open System: Hardware - Device Manager.

2. In the Device Manager, double-click Imaging devices. Check if your USB camera is listed in this folder.

3. If your USB camera has been detected properly, it will be listed as a source device in VideoStudio's Options Panel. In VideoStudio, select the Capture Step and check if your USB camera is displayed under the Source list in the Options Panel.

Connecting a Digital TV

To capture digital television broadcasts, you need to install a Digital TV capture card or a digital TV adapter. Check the hardware’s user guide to learn information on how to connect it to your computer.

Connecting analog video sources

VHS, S-VHS, Video-8, and Hi8 camcorders and VCRs are examples of analog video sources. To capture video from analog sources, you will need to install an analog capture card in your computer.

Conventional broadcast television is also an analog source. To capture TV footage, you need to have a TV tuner card installed in your computer.

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Connecting the video device to the analog capture card

To connect your video device to the analog capture card, use either an S-Video or RCA Composite cable depending on your device's video output. If your video device has both types of output, use the S-Video connection for higher video quality captures.

If you want to use the Composite output of your video device, connect the yellow plugs of the Composite cable to the video output of your video device and the video input port of the analog capture card.

Note: TV capture cards provide S-Video/Composite inputs and a TV tuner, which can be used to capture both video and TV footage.

S-Video cable

Connecting the S-Video source to the capture card

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Most higher-end analog capture cards do not have the Composite/S-Video input ports crowded on the side of the cards. Instead, these cards come with an external breakout box that provide all the video input ports at the front of the box. Video devices can be connected to the capture card more easily through the breakout box.

Connecting a TV antenna to the tuner card

A tuner card has a TV antenna input just like the regular television monitor. Plug your TV antenna to the TV connector of the tuner card.

Note: When purchasing a tuner card, make sure you acquire one that provides the correct TV system (NTSC or PAL) for your region.

Composite cable

Connecting the Composite video source to the capture card

Breakout box

TV antenna cable

Connecting TV antenna to the tuner card

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Connecting the capture or tuner card to the sound card

Most capture and tuner cards only allow video capture. To preview the audio from your video device or TV and to capture the audio into your computer, you need to connect the audio output of the capture or tuner card to the sound card's Line In port. The required cables for connecting to the sound card are different for each type of video source:

Line-in and audio cables for S-Video

S-Video connection

Line-in and audio cables for Composite video

Composite video connection

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Installing and running VideoStudio

The VideoStudio CD has an auto-run feature that automatically starts up the installation.

Back up your projects and media files first before installing the new version of VideoStudio.

To install VideoStudio:

1. Insert the VideoStudio CD into your CD-ROM drive.

2. When the Setup screen appears, follow the instructions to install VideoStudio on your computer.

3. In addition to VideoStudio, these programs and drivers will be automatically installed:

Note: If the Setup screen does not appear after loading the CD, then you can manually start it by double-clicking the My Computer icon on your desktop, then double-clicking the icon for the CD-ROM drive. When the CD-ROM window opens, double-click the Setup icon.

Line-in cable for TV tuner card

TV tuner connection

Line-in cable for high-end TV capture card

High-end TV capture card connection

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To run VideoStudio:

• Double-click the VideoStudio icon on your Windows desktop. OR,

• Select the VideoStudio icon from the VideoStudio program group on the Windows Start menu.

Preparation for video capturing and editing

Capturing and video editing are tasks that require a lot of computer resources. Your computer must be properly set up to ensure successful capturing and smooth video editing. Below are some tips on how to prepare your digital camcorder and optimize your computer for capturing and editing.

• For better workability of DV Quick Scan and camcorder device control, correct timecode on the DV tape is a must. To do this, before shooting your video, use the standard playback (SP) mode and shoot a blank video (for example, leaving the lens cover on while recording) without interruption from start to end of a tape.

• It is recommended that you close all other applications when working with VideoStudio. You should also turn off any automatically-launched software like screen savers to avoid possible interruptions while capturing.

• If you have two hard drives in your system, it is recommended that you install VideoStudio to your system drive (usually C:) and store captured videos in your other drive (usually D:).

The choice of what hard disk to use is also crucial. Using a dedicated video hard drive, preferably with Ultra-DMA/66 7200 rpm and 30GB free space, is recommended.

•Make sure DMA is enabled for your hard disk.

• Disable Write-Behind Caching on the hard drive used for video capture.

• Increase the Paging File (Swap File) size to twice your amount of RAM.

•QuickTime

• SmartSound

•DirectX

• Windows Media Format

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The VideoStudio Launcher

When you run VideoStudio, a startup screen appears which allows you to choose between the following video editing modes:

DV-to-DVD Wizard

Use the DV-to-DVD Wizard to easily create a movie from the content of your DV tape then burn it onto a disc.

Step 1: Scan for scenes

Scan the DV tape and select the scenes you want to add to your movie.

1. Connect your camcorder to your computer and turn on the device. Set it to Play (or VTR/VCR) mode.

2. Select a recording device under Device.

3. Click the Capture format arrow to select a file format for captured videos.

4. Specify whether to burn all videos of the tape (Burn whole tape) or scan your DV tape (Scene detection).

To burn whole tape:

1. Select Burn whole tape and then specify the tape duration under Duration.

2. Click Next to apply template and burn onto DVD.

VideoStudio Editor gives you the full editing features of VideoStudio. It provides you total control over the movie production process, from adding clips, titles, effects, overlays, and music to making the final movie on disc or other medium.

Movie Wizard is ideal for users who are new to video editing. It guides you through the movie production process in three quick, easy steps.

DV-to-DVD Wizard allows you to capture video, add a theme template to it, then burn it onto a disc.

Tip: Select 16:9 to use widescreen for your project.

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To use Scene detection:

1. After selecting Scene detection, choose whether to scan the tape from the Beginning or Current position.

• Beginning: Scans the tape for scenes from the beginning. VideoStudio will

automatically rewind the tape if the tape position is not in the beginning.

• Current position: Scans the tape for scenes from the current tape position.

2. Specify the scan speed, then click Start Scan to begin scanning the DV device for scenes. Scenes are video segments that are distinguished by shooting date and time.

3. In the Storyboard, choose the scenes you want to include in your movie. To do this, select a scene then click Mark Scene.

4. Click Next to go to the next step.

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Step 2: Apply a theme template and burn to DVD

1. Specify a Volume name and Recording format for your movie.

2. Select a theme template from one of the available presets to apply to your movie then select its output video quality.

3. To customize the theme template text, click Edit Title.

4. In the Begin tab of the Edit Template Title dialog box, double-click the text to modify. You can also modify its attributes like font, color or shadow settings.

5. Click the End tab to modify its text. Click OK.

Tip: Click and select Save DV Quick Scan Digest to save scanned file and import

without having to scan again or Save DV Quick Scan Digest as HTML to manage large number of tapes by printing this HTML file and attaching it with your tapes.

Note: If you have more than one burner installed in your computer or the default drive is not a burner, specify the burner you want to use in the Advanced Settings dialog box.

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6. To mark your video clips with its date information, click Add as title in Video date information. Select Entire video if you want it to appear from beginning

to end. Or specify duration.

7. Click to burn your movie file to disc.

Movie Wizard

If you are new to video editing or you want to quickly make a movie, you can use the VideoStudio Movie Wizard to assemble video clips and images, add background music and titles, then output the final movie as a video file, burn it onto a disc, or further edit the movie in VideoStudio Editor.

Step 1: Add video and images

Assemble your video and images into a movie.

To add video and images:

1. Click one the following buttons to add video and images to your movie.

Tip: If you see at the bottom of the dialog box that the movie is too big to fit

onto a DVD, click Fit & Burn.

Click Capture to import video footage or images into your computer.

Click Insert Video to add video files of different formats such as AVI, MPEG, and WMV.

Click Insert Image to add still images. (You can create a photo slideshow if you choose to only add images.)

Click Insert DVD/DVD-VR to add video from a DVD-Video/DVD-VR formatted disc or from your hard drive.

Click Import from Mobile Device to add video from MS Windowsrecognized devices.

Tip: Click Library to open the media library that contains media clips that come with

VideoStudio. To import your own video or image files to the Library, click .

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2. If you selected multiple clips, the Change Clip Sequence dialog box will appear where you can arrange the order of the clips.

Drag the clips to the desired sequence then click OK.

3. The video and image clips that you selected for your movie will be added to the Media Clip List. Right-click a clip to open a menu with more options.

4. To preview the clips, select each clip in the Media Clip List and use the Jog Slider and Navigation Panel buttons. When trimming a clip, drag the Mark-in and Mark-out handles to select the desired start and end points of the clip.

5. Click to retrieve lost data from captured videos.

Click to choose desired

segments from a video file and extract them to the Media

Clip List.

Tip: You can also arrange clips in the Media Clip List by dragging them to the desired

sequence.

Jog Slider

Mark-in/ Mark-out handles

Navigation Panel

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Click to automatically split video clips into smaller clips based on their

shooting date and time.

You can also click to sort clips in the Media Clip List according to their

name or date.

To capture video and images:

1. Connect your camcorder to your computer and turn on the device. Set it to Play (or VTR / VCR) mode.

2. In VideoStudio Movie Wizard, click Capture.

3. Check if your camcorder is selected in the Source list.

4. Select the video file format to use for saving captured video files from the Format list. Specify the Capture folder in which to save the files.

5. Choose Split by Scene to separate scenes in your DV video clip into several clips based on frame content or shooting date and time.

6. Play the videotape in your camcorder, and position the tape on the part of the video where to start capturing.

7. Click Capture Video to start capturing. Click Stop Capture or press [Esc] to stop capturing.

8. To capture a still image from the video footage, pause the video on the desired image then click Capture Image.

9. Click Enable/Disable Audio Preview to play or stop DV audio preview while capturing.

Step 2: Select a template

Select a movie template to apply to your project. Each template provides a different theme which comes with preset start and ending video clips, transitions, title and background music.

Note: Click Options to customize capture settings specific to your video device.

Tip: If you are capturing video from a DV or HDV camcorder, use the Navigation Panel

to play your videotape.

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To apply a Theme template:

1. Select a theme template from the Theme template list.

Home Movie templates allow you to create movies that include both video and

images while Slideshow templates are used exclusively for creating image slideshows.

2. To set the overall length of your movie, click .

For Home Movie, specify the following options in the Duration dialog box:

For Slideshow templates, specify Smart

Pan & Zoom in the Settings dialog box. Smart Pan & Zoom automatically focuses

the pan and zoom motion to important parts of the image like the face.

• Fit to image duration: Trims the music background to fit the total duration of the slideshow.

Notes:

• To save your project, click then select Save.

• If you accessed VideoStudio Movie Wizard from within VideoStudio Editor, the above button will not appear and you will have to save from the File Menu when you go back to the editor.

• Fit to video duration: Keeps the

current movie duration.

• Fit to background music: Adjusts the

movie duration to fit into the length of the background music. (The background music is added to your movie in the second step of the Movie Wizard.)

• Specify duration: Lets you define a

custom duration for the whole movie.

Tip: Select Keep Previous to use the image duration you set in the previous page of the Movie Wizard.

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• Fit to background music tempo and duration: Adjusts the duration of each clip and the total duration of the slideshow to fit the background music's tempo and duration.

• Fit to background music tempo: Adjusts the duration of each clip to fit the background music's tempo.

3. For Home Movie templates, click to open the Mark Clips dialog box. Select a clip then click Must or Optional to specify whether or not to include the clip

in the show.

4. To replace the title, first select the preset title from the Title list. Double-click the preset text in the Preview Window and then type in your text.

5. Click to change text formatting.

In the Text Properties dialog box, select a font type, size and color for the text, and set the desired shadow color and transparency.

6. To replace the background music, click to open the Audio Options window. Locate and select the desired music file.

Click to specify music file settings.

Note: Click Auto to let the program decide which clips to retain or exclude.

Drag yellow handles to resize text

Drag blue-green handle to position or resize shadow

Drag purple handles to rotate text

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7. Use the Volume slider to adjust the volume of the background music with respect to the video's audio. Dragging the slider to the left increases the volume of the background music and decreases the volume of the video's audio.

8. Click Next.

Step 3: Finish

Select how to output the final movie:

VideoStudio Editor

VideoStudio Editor provides a step-by-step workflow that makes creating movies

simple and easy.

This section introduces you to the VideoStudio Editor interface and briefly explains the steps involved in creating a movie. Refer to the succeeding chapters for more in-depth information on each step.

Note: Make sure that your background music is 30 seconds or longer if you want to fit the video to the music. If the music duration is less than 30 seconds, the music will not be looped leaving the remaining video without any background music.

Note: If you opened the VideoStudio Movie Wizard within VideoStudio Editor, clicking Next will skip the last step and directly insert the clips onto the Timeline in the VideoStudio Editor.

Click Create Video File to output your movie as a video file that can be played back on the computer.

Click Create Disc to burn your movie onto a disc.

Click Edit in Ulead VideoStudio Editor to make further edits to your movie using VideoStudio Editor.

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The user interface

1Step Panel

Contains buttons that correspond to the different steps in video editing.

2 Menu Bar

Contains menus that provide different set of commands.

3Preview Window

Shows the current clip, video filter, effect, or title.

4 Navigation Panel

Provides buttons for playback and for precision trimming of clips. In the Capture Step, this also acts as the device control for the DV or HDV camcorder.

5 Toolbar

Contains buttons for switching between three project views and other quick settings.

6 Project Timeline

Displays all the clips, titles, and effects included in your project.

7 Options Panel

Contains controls, buttons, and other information that you can use to customize the settings of the selected clip. The contents of this panel change depending on the step you are in.

8 Library

Stores and organizes all of your media clips.

Note: To change the user interface layout, click Preferences: UI Layout.

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The Step Panel

VideoStudio simplifies the process of creating movies into seven simple steps. Click the buttons in the Step Panel to switch between steps.

The Menu Bar

The Menu Bar provides various commands for customizing VideoStudio, opening and saving movie projects, working with individual clips, and more.

Once a project is opened in VideoStudio, video can be recorded directly to your computer's hard disk in the Capture Step. Footage from a videotape can be captured as a single file or automatically divided into multiple files. This step allows you to capture video and still images.

The Edit Step and the Timeline are the heart of VideoStudio. This is where you arrange, edit, and trim your video clips. Video filters can also be applied to your video clips in this step.

The Effect Step lets you add transitions between video clips in your project. Choose from the variety of transition effects in the Library.

The Overlay Step allows you to superimpose multiple clips over another to create a picture-in-picture effect.

No movie would be complete without opening titles, captions and closing credits. In the Title Step, you can create animated text titles or choose from various presets in the Library.

Background music sets the mood of your movie. The Audio Step lets you select and record music files from one or several CD-ROM drives attached to your computer. You can also dub over your video in this step.

When your movie is complete, you can create a video file for sharing on the Web or output the movie on tape, DVD, or CD in the Share Step.

Note: These steps do not necessarily need to be followed in the order that they are presented.

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The Navigation Panel

The Navigation Panel is used to preview and edit the clips used in your project. Use the Navigation Controls to move around a selected clip or your project. Use the Trim Handles and Jog Slider to edit your clips.

When capturing video from a DV or HDV camcorder, the Navigation Controls are used for device control. Use these buttons to control your DV or HDV camcorder or any other DV device.

1Play Mode

Select whether you want to preview your project or only the selected clip.

2Play

Plays, pauses or resumes the current project or a selected clip.

3Home

Returns to the starting frame.

4 Previous

Moves to the previous frame.

5Next

Moves to the next frame.

6End

Moves to the end frame.

7 Repeat

Loops playback.

8 System Volume

Click and drag the slider to adjust the volume of your computer's speakers.

9Timecode

Allows you to directly jump to a part of your project or selected clip by specifying the exact timecode.

10 Jog Slider

Allows you to scrub through the project or clip.

11 Mark-in/out

Use these buttons to set a preview range in the project, or to mark the start and end points where to trim a clip.

12 Cut Clip

Cuts the selected clip into two. Position the Jog Slider to where you want the first clip to end and the second one to start, then click this button.

13 Enlarge Preview Window

Click to increase the size of the Preview Window. You can only preview, not edit, your clips when the Preview Window is enlarged.

14 Trim Handles

Allows you to set a preview range in the project or trim a clip.

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The Toolbar

The toolbar allows you to easily access buttons for editing. You can change your project view or zoom your project timeline by adjusting your Timeline ruler. Click Smart Proxy Manager to speed up editing of your HD videos and other large source files. Or use the Overlay Track Manager to add more overlay tracks.

The Project Timeline

The project timeline at the lower part of the VideoStudio Editor window is where you assemble your movie project.

1 Storyboard View

Shows image thumbnails of your movie on the timeline.

2 Timeline View

Allows you to perform frame-accurate editing of your clips.

3 Audio View

Shows the audio waveform view, allowing you to visually adjust the volume levels of your video clips, narration or background music.

4 Zoom controls

Allows you to change the timecode increments in the Timeline ruler.

5 Fit Project in Timeline Window

Zooms in or out to display all the project’s clips on the Timeline.

6 Insert media files

Displays a menu allowing you to place video, audio or image clips directly on the project.

7Undo

Lets you undo a previous function.

8Redo

Allows you to redo an undone function.

9 Enable/Disable Smart Proxy

Toggles between Enable and Disable Smart Proxy and allows you to customize proxy settings when creating working copies of your HD videos with lower resolution.

10 Batch Convert

Converts multiple video files to one video format.

11 Overlay Track Manager

Allows you to create multiple overlay tracks.

12 Enable/Disable 5.1 Surround

Enables you to create 5.1 Surround audio tracks.

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There are three types of views for displaying the project timeline: Storyboard, Timeline and Audio View. Click the buttons at the left side of the toolbar to switch between different views.

Click Enlarge to maximize the Storyboard display or show all tracks of the Timeline and Audio View. With a larger workspace, you can arrange video clips and apply transitions without having to scroll down to locate different tracks.

Storyboard View

Storyboard View is the fastest and simplest way to add video clips to your movie. Each thumbnail in the storyboard represents an event in you movie, an event being a video clip or a transition. Thumbnails show at a glance the chronological

Click to enlarge Storyboard View to show all video and image clips of the project.

Click to enlarge Timeline View and Audio View and show all tracks of the project.

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order of events in your project. The duration of each clip is shown at the bottom of each thumbnail.

You can drag and drop video clips to insert and arrange them. Transition effects can be inserted between video clips. A selected video clip can be trimmed in the Preview Window.

Timeline View

Timeline View gives you the most comprehensive display of the elements in your movie project. It divides a project into separate tracks for video, overlay, title, voice and music.

1 Add/Remove Chapter/Cue Point

Click to set chapter or cue points in your movie.

2 Ripple Editing

Enable/Disable Ripple Editing. When enabled, allows you to select which tracks to apply it to.

3Track buttons

Click the buttons to switch between different tracks.

4 Timeline scroll control

Enable/disable scrolling along the Timeline when previewing a clip that extends beyond the current view.

5 Project scroll controls

Use the left and right buttons or drag the Scroll Bar to move around your project.

6 Selected range

This color bar represents the trimmed or selected part of a clip or project.

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To switch to different tracks:

• Click a Step button in the Step Panel that corresponds to the track.

• Click the Track buttons.

• Double-click the desired track, or click a clip on the track.

Audio View

Audio View allows you to visually adjust the volume levels of video, voice and music clips.

Clips that contain audio are displayed with a volume rubber band that you can click and drag to adjust their volume.

The Options Panel

The Options Panel changes depending on the program's mode and the step or track you are working on. The Options Panel may contain one or two tabs. The controls and options in each tab vary, depending on the selected clip.

7 Timeline ruler

Displays the project’s timecode increments in hours: minutes:seconds.frames, which helps you determine clip and project length.

8 Video Track

Contains video/image/color clips and transitions.

9 Overlay Tracks

Contains overlay clips, which can be video, image or color clips.

10 Title Track

Contains title clips.

11 Voice Track

Contains voiceover clips.

12 Music Track

Contains music clips from audio files.

Tips:

• The wheel mouse can be used to scroll through the Timeline.

• When the pointer is over the Zoom Controls or Timeline ruler, you can use the wheel to zoom in and out of the Timeline.

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The Library

The Library is a storage depot for everything you need to create a movie: video clips, video filters, audio clips, still images, transition effects, music files, titles and color clips. These are collectively known as media clips.

To add media clips to the Library:

1. Click Load media to open a dialog box for locating the media clip to insert in the Library.

2. Select the desired file.

3. Click Open when you are finished.

To delete media clips from the Library:

1. Select the clip to remove from the Library, then press [Delete].

Or, right-click the clip in the Library and select Delete.

2. When prompted, verify whether you want to delete the thumbnail from the Library.

Tips:

• You can print images directly from the Library. Right-click the image to print then select Print Image and select an image size.

• Right-click the image then select Print Options to specify print alignment and borders.

Note: You can also drag and drop files from Windows Explorer straight to the Library.

Load media allows you to locate the clip you

want to add to the Library.

Right-click a clip in the Library to view the clip's properties as well as copy, delete, or split by scene.

Hold [Ctrl] or [Shift] to select multiple clips.

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Library Manager

The Library Manager organizes your custom Library folders. These folders help you store and manage all kinds of media files.

To use the Library Manager:

1. Click to launch the Library Manager dialog box. You can also click the Folder arrow and select Library Manager from the drop-down list.

2. Select a media type from the Available custom folders list.

3. Click New to display the New Custom Folder dialog box and create a new folder. Specify a Library Folder name and a Description. Click OK.

Click Edit to rename or modify the description of a selected custom folder.

Click Delete to remove a selected custom folder from the Library.

4. Click Close.

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Starting a new movie project

When you run VideoStudio, it automatically opens a new project and lets you start composing your movie production. A new project always uses VideoStudio's default settings. To check what these settings are, click File: Project Properties.

Project settings determine how your movie project is rendered when you preview it. Rendering is the process by which VideoStudio converts raw video, titles, sounds, and effects into a continuous stream of data which can be played back in your computer. You can modify the project settings in the Project Properties dialog box.

When you capture or insert your first video clip into the project, VideoStudio automatically checks the properties of the clip and your project. If properties such as file format, frame size, etc. are not identical, VideoStudio automatically adjusts the project settings to match the clip's properties. Changing the project settings to conform with clip properties allows VideoStudio to perform the SmartRender function.

Setting your preferences

Customize the program's working environment through the Preferences dialog box. You can specify a working folder for saving files, set undo levels, choose preferred settings for program behavior, enable Smart Proxy and more. To open the

Preferences dialog box, select File: Preferences [F6].

Tip:

The above message box lets you change the project properties to be the same as the first video clip inserted into the Timeline. To toggle between displaying and not displaying the message box, select or clear Show message when inserting first video clip into the Timeline in the Preferences dialog box.

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Setting project properties

Project Properties serve as your template for previewing your movie projects.

The project settings in the Project Properties dialog box determine the appearance and quality of a project when it is previewed on-screen. To customize project settings, select File: Project Properties.

When customizing project settings, it is recommended that you make the settings the same as the attributes of the video footage that will be captured to avoid distorting the video images and have smooth playback without jumping frames.

When you customize project properties to be the same as the desired output settings for your project (for instance, setting project properties to DVD settings if you will output the project to a DVD disc), you can have more accurate previews of your final movie.

Adding clips

There are three ways you can do to add clips to your project:

• Capture video clips from a video source. The video clips will be inserted onto

the Video Track.

• Drag clips from the Library onto the correct tracks.

• Click to directly insert media files to the different tracks.

Previewing

The Play button in the Navigation Panel serves two purposes: for playback of your entire project or a selected clip. To play back, click Project or Clip, then click Play.

While working on your project, you will want to preview your work frequently to see how your project is progressing. VideoStudio offers you two preview options:

Instant Playback and High Quality Playback. Select File: Preferences General, then choose the preview method that you prefer in Playback method.

• Instant Playback allows you to quickly preview changes in your project

without the need to create a temporary preview file, however, playback may be jerky depending on your computer resources.

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• High Quality Playback renders your project as a temporary preview file then plays this preview file. Playback is smoother in High Quality Playback mode, but rendering your project for the first time in this mode may take a long time to complete depending on the size of your project and computer resources.

In High Quality Playback mode, VideoStudio uses SmartRender technology which renders only the changes you made such as transitions, titles and effects, and eliminates re-rendering the entire project. SmartRender saves time when generating previews.

Setting a preview range

For faster previews, you may choose to play only a part of your project. The selected range of frames to preview is referred to as the preview range, and it is marked as a red bar in the Ruler Panel.

To play the preview area only:

1. Use the Trim Handles or the Mark-in/out buttons to select the preview range.

The Preview range mark-in and Preview range mark-out timecodes will then be displayed in the Options Panel.

2. To preview the selected range, select what you want to preview (Project or

Clip), then click Play. To preview the entire clip, hold [Shift], then click Play.

Undoing and redoing actions

You can undo or redo the last set of actions that you performed while working on your movie by clicking Undo [Ctrl+Z] or Redo [Ctrl+Y] in the toolbar.

Note: When Perform non-square pixel rendering is selected in the Project Options dialog box (opened from Project Properties dialog box), Instant Playback performance may be affected if computer resources are insufficient.

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Showing and hiding grid lines

You can use grid lines to guide you when repositioning or resizing images and videos or when adding titles to your movie.

• To show grid lines in the Edit and Overlay steps, select a clip in the Timeline then select the Attribute tab. Select Distort clip then select Show grid lines.

• To show grid lines in the Title step, select

Show grid lines in the Edit tab.

Saving your project

While composing your movie project, select File: Save [Ctrl + S] to frequently save your project and avoid accidental loss of your work. VideoStudio project files are saved in .VSP file format.

To automatically save your work, select File: Preferences - General then select Automatically save project every: and specify the time interval between saves.

To open an existing project, select File: Open Project [Ctrl + O]. To create a new project again, select File: New Project [Ctrl + N].

Saving project as Smart Package

Packaging a video project is useful if you want to back up your work or transfer your files for sharing or for editing in a laptop or another computer.

To save projects as Smart Package, select File: Smart Package. Specify the Folder path, Project folder name and Project file name. Click OK when done.

To open an existing project, select File: Open Project [Ctrl + O]. Browse for the project folder and choose the project file you want to open.

Tip: Click to adjust grid line settings.

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Capture

The bulk of video work involves working with raw footage. Transferring footage from a source device to the computer involves a process called capturing.

When capturing, video data is transferred from a source (usually a video camera) through a capture card to the computer’s hard drive.

VideoStudio lets you capture video from DV or HDV camcorders, mobile devices, analog sources, VCRs and digital televisions.

Seamless DV and MPEG capture

VideoStudio runs on Windows operating systems and is subject to limitations in file size when capturing or rendering video. VideoStudio automatically performs seamless capture, saving video into a new file every time the maximum allowable file size for a single video file has been reached.

Seamless capture will be performed only when capturing DV Type-1 or DV Type-2 (from DV camcorder), or when capturing MPEG video (from DV and HDV camcorder or analog capture device). The maximum captured file size per video file is 4 GB in Windows operating systems that use the FAT 32 partition file system. Captured video data in excess of 4 GB are automatically saved to a new file. In Windows XP which can use the NTFS file system, there is no limit in the captured file size.

Seamless capture is not available in VFW (Video For Windows) capture.

Note: VideoStudio automatically detects your file system and performs seamless capture only in a FAT 32 partition file system.

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The Capture Step Options Panel

The Capture Step Options Panel consists of four options: Capture Video, DV Quick Scan, Import from DVD/DVD-VR and Import from Mobile Device.

Capture Video

The steps on how to capture are similar for all types of video sources except for the available capture settings in the Capture Video Options Panel that can be selected for each type of source.

To capture video:

1. Click the Capture Step then click Capture Video.

2. To specify a capture duration, enter the values in the Duration box in the Options Panel.

3. Select your capture device from the Source list.

4. Select a file format to use for saving your captured video from the Format list.

5. Specify a Capture folder in which to save video files.

6. Click Options to open a menu for customizing more capture settings.

7. Scan your video to search the part to capture.

8. When you get to the part of the video that you want to capture, click Capture Video to start capturing.

9. If you specified a capture duration, wait for the capture to complete. Otherwise, click Stop Capture or press [Esc] to stop capturing.

Capture Video Options Panel

• Duration: Sets the length of time for the capture.

• Source: Displays the detected capture device and lists other capture devices installed in your computer.

• Format: Where you select a file format for saving your captured video.

• Capture folder: Where a copy of your captured file is saved.

Notes:

• When your camcorder is in Record mode (usually named CAMERA or MOVIE), you can capture live video.

• The available settings in the Video Properties dialog box vary, depending on the capture file format that you have chosen.

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• Split by scene: Automatically separates captured video into several files based on changes in shooting date and time. (This feature can be used only when capturing video from a DV camcorder.)

• Options: Displays a menu allowing you to modify your capture settings.

• Capture Video: Transfers video from your source to your hard disk.

• Capture Image: Captures the displayed video frame as an image.

• Enable/Disable Audio Preview: Disables audio preview on the computer while capturing DV or HDV.

If the audio sounds choppy, there may be a problem with previewing audio on your computer during DV capture. This does not affect the audio capture quality. If this happens, click Disable Audio Preview to mute the audio while capturing.

Digital Video (DV)

To capture Digital Video (DV) in its native format, select DV from the Format list in the Options Panel. This saves the captured video as a DV AVI file (.AVI).

DV AVI type-1 and type-2

When capturing DV, click Options in the Options Panel and select Video Properties to open a menu. In the Current Profile, choose whether to capture DV

as DV type-1 or DV type-2.

DV is a data stream that itself contains video and audio. With DV Type-1, the video and audio channels are stored unmodified as a single, interleaved stream in the AVI file. With DV Type-2, the video and audio channels are stored as two separate streams in the AVI file.

The advantage of Type-1 is that the DV data does not need to be processed, and is stored in its exact original format. The advantage of Type-2 is that it is compatible with video software that is not specially written to recognize and process Type-1 files.

Note: You can also use the DV Quick Scan option to capture DV video.

Note: To preview audio on the computer while capturing DV, click Enable Audio

Preview in the Options Panel.

If the audio sounds choppy, there may be a problem with previewing audio on your computer during DV capture. This does not affect the audio capture quality. If this

happens, click Disable Audio Preview to mute the audio.

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Controlling the DV camcorder with the Navigation Panel

When capturing from a DV camcorder, use the Navigation Panel to scan your footage and locate the scenes you want to capture.

High Definition Videos

You can import high definition video from your HD, DVD or Hard Disk Drive (HDD) camcorders.

To capture high definition videos:

1. Connect your HDV camcorder to your computer’s IEEE-1394 port using the IEEE-1394 cable.

2. Turn on your camcorder and switch it to Play/Edit mode and make sure that your HDV camcorder is switched to HDV mode.

3. Click Capture on the Step Panel. In the Options Panel, click .

Digital TV or DVB-T video

Before capturing, have the DVB-T source connected via a compatible capture card installed on your computer first.

To capture DVB-T video:

1. Click the Capture Step then click Capture Video.

2. In the Capture Step Options Panel, select Digital TV Source from the Source list.

3. Click Options and select Video Properties.

4. In Channel List, click Start Scan to start scanning for channels.

Note: For Sony HDV camcorders, flip open the LCD screen and see if HDVout I-Link is on the LCD screen to check if the camera is set to HDV mode. If you see DVout I-Link, press

P-MENU at the lower right of the screen. In the menu, press MENU> STANDARD SET> VCR HDV/DV and press HDV.

Shuttle Slider

Drag the Shuttle Slider to move forward and back through the footage at variable speeds. This is a quick way to find scenes you are looking for in your video.

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5. Click Capture Video.

6. Click Yes when prompted if you want to start capturing and auto-recover DVB-T video.

7. Follow the remaining steps as described in the procedure for capturing videos.

To recover captured DVB videos

1. Click Tools in the Menu bar and select Recover DVB-T Video.

2. In the Recover DVB-T Video dialog box, click Add and browse for the videos to recover.

3. Click Recover.

Analog video

When footage is captured from analog sources such as VHS, S-VHS, Video-8, or Hi8 camcorders/VCRs, it is converted to a digital format that can be read and stored by the computer. Before capturing, choose the desired file format to use for saving the captured video in the Options Panel’s Format list.

Click Options then select Capture Options to choose how you want footage to be captured.

To specify the type of video source you are capturing from, click Options then select Video Properties. In the dialog box that opens, you can customize the following capture settings:

•In the Input Source tab, choose whether you are capturing NTSC, PAL, or

SECAM video and select the Input source (Tuner, S-Video, or Composite).

•In the Color Manager tab, you can fine tune the video source to ensure good

quality captures.

In the Template tab, set the frame size and compression method to use for saving the captured video.

Note: DVB-T channels are not automatically scanned. Make sure to manually scan the channels first before capturing.

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TV footage

VideoStudio allows you to capture TV footage through a TV tuner. Capture a segment of your favorite television show on regular TV or cable then save it in your hard drive in AVI or MPEG.

Before capturing, you need to choose the following settings in the Options Panel:

1. Select your TV tuner device from the Source drop-down list.

2. Click Options: Video Properties to open the Video Properties dialog box. If needed, adjust the settings accordingly.

Click the Tuner Information tab to choose Antenna or Cable TV, scan available channels in your region, and more.

3. In the Channel box, specify the channel number from which to capture.

Split by scene

It often happens that a single DV tape contains several footages that were shot at different times. VideoStudio saves you the hassle of having to capture the segments one by one then save them as separate files. The Split by scene feature will do that job for you.

To use Split by scene option in Capture Step:

1. Select the Split by scene option in the Options Panel.

2. Click Capture Video. VideoStudio will automatically look for the scenes according to their shooting date and time and capture them as separate files.

DV Quick Scan

Use this option to scan a DV device for scenes to import. To use DV Quick Scan, refer to the first step in the DV-to-DVD Wizard section.

In DV Quick Scan, you can add the date and time of your video. After scanning your DV tape, click Next. This will then display the Capture to Timeline Settings dialog box. Select Insert to Timeline and choose Add video date information as title. If you want the shooting date to appear in the entire duration of the video, select Entire video or only during a specified time.

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Importing from DVD/DVD-VR

You can import DVD/DVD-VR formatted video from a disc or from your hard drive into VideoStudio.

To import from DVD/DVD-VR:

1. Click the Capture Step then click Import from DVD/DVD-VR. Select a DVD Title dialog box opens.

2. Locate the DVD drive that contains the video files and click Import.

3. In the Import DVD window, select which DVD tracks to import in Label. Use the preview screen to view the selected tracks to import.

4. Click Import to finish. All imported videos will be added to the thumbnail list in the Library.

Note: Click Import DVD Folder to search your hard drive for the video files. Browse for the DVD folder and click OK.

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Importing videos in AVCHD format

AVCHD (Advanced Video Codec High Definition), a new high-definition format, efficiently compresses videos using MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 standard and produces high quality videos.

You can import AVCHD videos stored in standard DVDs or hard disk and edit it in VideoStudio. To import AVCHD videos, follow the steps in Importing from DVD/ DVD-VR section.

Importing from Mobile Devices

You can insert media files from your mobile devices like Nokia cellphones, Microsoft Zune, Windows Mobile 5.0, iPod and PSP to your project.

To import videos from a mobile device:

1. In Capture Step Options Panel, click Import from Mobile Device.

2. Click the device where you want to import files from in Device.

3. Click the type of media file you want to add. Click to display all your media files in the device.

4. Select the media file and click OK.

5. You can also trim your video clips before you insert them to your project.

To trim video clips before inserting to project:

1. Select the clip you want to trim and click for preview of the clip.

2. At the bottom of the dialog box, drag the Jog Slider until you locate the point

in the video clip that you want to set as the start of the clip. Click .

3. Drag the Jog Slider until you locate the point in the video clip that you want to

set as the end of the clip. Click .

4. Click to watch your trimmed clip. When finished, click OK.

Note: Make sure your device is properly connected and it can be recognized by VideoStudio.

Tip: Click Settings to set where to browse for files and where to save imported and exported files.

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Direct video capturing to MPEG format

VideoStudio supports real-time capturing from DV, analog, or any video source to MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 formats. Capturing straight to MPEG saves hard drive space as its file size is smaller compared with DV AVI.

To capture video in MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 format:

1. In the Options Panel, select MPEG from the Format list to capture MPEG files that are intended for playback on the computer or for sharing on the Web.

You can also capture VCD, SVCD or DVD-ready MPEG files that can be burnt onto disc by selecting one of these formats from the Format list.

2. Click Options and select Video Properties. In the dialog box that opens, select a profile in the Current Profile dropdown menu.

When MPEG is selected in Format, you can also click Advanced to customize or add templates. The MPEG Settings dialog box then appears in which you can customize attributes for the MPEG file.

3. Click OK.

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Edit

The Edit Step is where you arrange, edit and trim the video clips used in your project. In this step, you can apply fade-in/fade-out effects to the existing audio of a video clip, multi-trim or split video, and adjust a clip's playback speed. You can also choose from a wide selection of video filters to apply to your clips.

The Edit Step Options Panel

The Edit Step Options Panel allows you to edit the video, image and color clips that you added to the Video Track. Video filters that you applied to your clips can be fine tuned in the Attribute tab.

Video tab

• Duration: Displays the duration of the selected clip in hours:minutes:seconds:frames. You can trim the selected clip by changing the clip duration.

• Clip volume: Allows you to adjust the volume of the audio segment of your video.

• Mute: Silences the audio segment of your video without deleting it.

• Fade-in/out: Gradually increases/decreases the volume of the clip for a smooth transition. Select File: Preferences - Edit to set the fade-in/out duration.

• Rotate: Rotates the video clip.

• Color Correction Allows you to adjust the hue, saturation, brightness, contrast, and gamma of the video clip. You can also adjust the White balance of the video or image clip or make auto tone adjustments.

• Playback Speed: Launches the Playback Speed dialog box where you can adjust the pace of your clip.

• Reverse video: Plays the video backward.

• Save as Still Image Saves the current frame as a new image file and places it in the Image Library. All enhancements made to the file are discarded before saving.

• Split Audio Allows you to separate the audio from a video file and place it on the Voice Track.

• Split by Scene Splits a captured DV AVI file based on the shooting date and time, or the changes in video content (i.e., motion change, camera shifting, brightness change, etc.).

• Multi-trim Video Allows you to choose desired segments from a video file and extract them.

Image tab

• Duration: Sets the duration of the selected image clip.

• Rotate: Rotates the image clip.

• Color Correction: Allows you to adjust the hue, saturation, brightness, contrast, and gamma of the image. You can also adjust the White balance of the video or image clip or make auto tone adjustments.

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• Resampling option: Sets how image size is adjusted.

• Keep aspect ratio maintains the relative width and height of the current image.

• Fit to project size makes the size of the current image the same as the project’s frame size.

• Pan & Zoom: Applies the Pan & Zoom effect to the current image.

• Presets: Provides various Pan & Zoom presets. Choose a preset from the dropdown list.

• Customize: Allows you to define how to pan and zoom the current image.

Color tab

• Duration: Sets the duration of the selected color clip.

• Color Picker: Click the color box to adjust the color.

Attribute tab

• Replace last filter: Allows the last filter applied to a clip to be replaced when you drag a new filter onto the clip. Clear this option if you want to add multiple filters to your clips.

• Applied filters: Lists the video filters that were applied to a clip. Click or to

arrange the order of the filters; click to remove a filter.

• Presets: Provides various filter presets. Choose a preset from the drop-down list.

• Customize Filter: Allows you to define how a filter transitions throughout the clip.

• Distort clip: Allows you to modify the size and proportions of the clip.

• Show grid lines: Select to display the grid lines. Click to open a dialog box where you can specify settings for the grid lines.

Working with clips

Clips, whether audio, video, images or effects, are the foundation of your project and manipulating them is the most important skill you can master.

Adding clips to the Video Track

You only work on the Video Track when you are in the Edit Step. On the Video Track, you can insert three types of clips: video, image and color clips.

Video clips

There are several ways of inserting video clips on the Video Track:

• Select a clip in the Library and drag and drop it to the Video Track. Multiple

clips can be selected by pressing [Shift] or [Ctrl].

• Right-click a clip in the Library then select Insert To: Video Track.

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• Select one or more video files in Windows Explorer then drag and drop to the Video Track.

• To insert a clip from a file folder directly to the Video Track, click Insert

Media Files located to the left of the Timeline.

Images

The ways of adding still images to the Video Track are the same as when adding video clips.

Before you start adding images to your project, determine first the image size that you want for all your images. By default, VideoStudio adjusts the size to keep the image’s aspect ratio. To make the size of all inserted images the same as your project’s frame size, select

File: Preferences - Edit then change the Image

resampling option default to Fit to project size.

Color clips

Color clips are solid colored backgrounds that are useful for titles. For example, insert a black color clip as background for end credits. You can use the preset color clips or create new color clips in the Library.

To select a color clip in the Color Library:

1. Select Color from the Library drop-down menu.

2. Choose your desired color displayed in the Library and drag to the Video or Overlay Track.

3. To load another color that is not in the Library, click the color box beside the Color Picker. Here, you can select a color either from Ulead Color Picker or the Windows Color Picker.

4. Set the Duration of the color clip in the Options Panel.

Notes:

• Aside from video files, you can also add video from DVD or DVD-VR formatted discs.

•Use the Fade-in/out buttons to make the audio of the video clips in your project smoothly fade from one clip to the next.

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Sorting clips in the Library

To arrange clips in the Library, click in the Library to open the Options menu, then select Sort by Name or Sort by Date.

The way video clips are sorted by date depends on the file format. DV AVI files (i.e., AVI files captured from DV camcorders) will be arranged by order of the shooting date and time of the footage. Other video file formats will be sorted by order of file date.

Playback Speed

You can modify the playback speed of your videos. Set your video in slow motion to emphasize a movement, or set it to play at lightning speed and give your movie a comical air. Simply adjust the speed attributes for your video clip by clicking Playback Speed under the Options Panel of the Edit Step. Drag the slider according to your preferences (i.e., slow, normal or fast), or enter a value. The higher the value you set, the faster the playback of your clip. (Values range from

10-1000%). You can also specify a set duration for the clip in Time stretch. Click Preview to view the results of your settings then click OK when finished.

Notes:

• You can also right-click on the Library then select the desired sorting type in the Sort By submenu.

• To toggle between ascending and descending order, select Sort by Name or Sort

by Date again.

Tips:

•Hold [Shift] then drag the end of the clip on the Timeline to change the playback speed.

• The black arrow means you are trimming or extending the clip, while the white arrow means that you are changing the playback speed.

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Reversing video playback

Reverse the playback of the video by selecting Reverse video in the Options Panel.

Trimming a clip

The best part of editing your movie on your computer is the ease with which you can snip and trim your work with frame by frame accuracy. There are three ways of trimming a clip:

To split a clip into two:

1. Select the clip you want to split on the Storyboard or Timeline.

2. Drag the Jog Slider to the point where you want to cut the clip.

3. Click to cut the clip into two clips. To remove one of these clips, select the

unwanted clip and press [Delete].

To trim a clip with the Trim Handles:

1. Select a clip on the Storyboard or Timeline.

2. Click and drag the Trim handles to set the Mark-in/Mark-out points on the clip.

For more precise trimming, click on a Trim handle, hold it, and use the left or right arrow keys on your keyboard to trim one frame at a time. The Mark-in/ Mark-out points can also be set by pressing [F3] and [F4], respectively.

3. Click Play Clip to preview the trimmed clip.

Tip: Click or to set the cutting point more precisely.

Trim handles

Mark-in/ Mark-out

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To trim a clip directly on the Timeline:

1. Click a clip in the Timeline to select it.

2. Drag the yellow Trim handles on either side of the clip to change its length. The Preview Window reflects the position of the Trim handle in the clip.

Or, click the timecode in the Duration box in the Options Panel and enter the desired clip length

3. Other clips in your project automatically reposition themselves according to changes made.

Split by Scene

Use the Split by Scene feature in the Edit Step to detect different scenes in a video file and automatically break it down into several clip files.

The way VideoStudio detects scenes depends on the type of video file. In a captured DV AVI file, scenes can be detected in two ways:

• DV Recording Time Scan detects scenes according to their shooting date

and time.

• Frame Content detects content changes, such as motion change, camera

shifting, brightness change, etc., and splits them into separate files.

In an MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 file, scenes can only be detected based on content changes (i.e., by Frame Content).

Tip: You can also use Zoom controls to display each frame of your video in the Timeline and trim one frame at a time. The Scroll Bar makes navigating through your project quicker and easier. A wheel mouse can also be used to scroll, and to zoom by pressing

[Ctrl].

Note: Changes made in the video Duration box only affect the Mark-out point. The Mark-

in point remains unchanged.

Duration

Trim handles

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To use Split by Scene on a DV AVI or MPEG file:

1. Go to the Edit Step and select a captured DV AVI file or an MPEG file in the Timeline.

2. Click Split by Scene in the Options Panel. This will open the Scenes dialog box.

3. Choose your preferred scan method (DV Recording Time Scan or Frame Content).

4. Click Options. In the Scene Scanning Sensitivity dialog box, drag the slider to set the Sensitivity level. A higher value means more precision in the scene detection.

5. Click OK.

6. Click Scan. VideoStudio then scans through the video file and lists all the detected scenes.

7. You may merge some of the detected scenes into a single clip. Simply select all the scenes that you want to join together then click Join. The plus sign (+) and a number indicates how many scenes are merged into that particular clip. Click Split to undo any Join actions that you have done.

8. Click OK to split the video.

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Multi-trimming your video

The Multi-trim Video feature is another method for breaking down a clip into multiple segments. While Split by Scene is automatically done by the program, Multi-trim Video gives you complete control over the clips you wish to extract, making it even easier for you to manage your project.

To trim a video file into multiple clips:

1. Go to the Edit Step and click Multi-trim Video in the Options Panel.

2. View the whole clip first by clicking Play to determine how you want to mark segments in the Multi-trim Video dialog box.

3. Choose the number of frames to display by dragging the Timeline zoom. You can choose to display the smallest subdivision of one frame per second.

4. Drag the Jog Slider until you get to the part of the video that you want to use

as the beginning frame of the first segment. Click Start.

1 Timeline zoom

Drag up and down to sub-divide a video clip into frames per second.

2 AccuCut Timeline

Scan a video clip frame by frame for accurate mark-in and mark-out positions.

3 Jog Wheel

Use to scroll to different parts of the clip.

4 Shuttle Slider

Preview the clip at different playback speeds.

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5. Drag the Jog Slider again, this time, to the point where you want the segment

to end. Click End.

6. Do steps 4 and 5 repeatedly until you have marked all the segments you want kept or removed.

7. Click OK when finished. The video segments that you kept are then inserted onto the Timeline.

Using Ad-Zapper

VideoStudio lets you search your videos for commercial intervals. Clicking this feature extracts the commercials to the media list.

• Detection sensitivity allows you to control the rate of distinguishing

between commercials.

• Merge CF merges all your extracted clips that are identified as commercials.

Tips:

• To mark segments, you can also press [F3] and [F4] while playing the video.

• Click Invert Selection to toggle between marking segments that you want

to retain or marking segments that you want taken out from the clip.

• Quick search interval allows you to set a fixed interval between frames and browse through the movie using the set value.

Navigation controls in the Multi-trim Video dialog box:

Reverses or advances through the video in fixed increments. By default, these buttons move up or down through the video in increments of 25 seconds.

Plays a preview of the final trimmed video.

Plays the video file. Hold [Shift] then click to play only the selected segments.

Moves to the start or end frame of a trimmed segment.

Moves to the previous/next frame in the video.

[F5] [F6]

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Saving trimmed clips

Frequently, when you make changes (i.e., after auto-splitting clips using Split by Scene, extracting clips using Multi-trim Video, or manually trimming clips), you may wish to make a permanent change to the clip and save the edited file. VideoStudio gives you a margin of safety in that it saves the trimmed video to a new file and does not alter the original file.

To save, select a trimmed clip in the Storyboard, Timeline or the Library and select

Clip: Save Trimmed Video.

Exporting a video file

VideoStudio provides you with a number of ways to export and share a video file. A video file can be exported to a Web page, converted to an executable greeting card, sent by e-mail, or set as a desktop screen saver.

Select a video file in the Library and click . Choose the type of output for your video.

Capturing still images in the Edit Step

A still image can be captured in the Edit Step by selecting a specific frame in the Timeline and saving it as an image file. In this manner, possible distortions are avoided since the image is not acquired from a running video, unlike in the

Capture Step.

To capture still images:

1. Select File: Preferences - Capture. Choose Bitmap or JPEG as the Captured still image save format. If you selected JPEG, also set the Image quality.

2. Select a video clip in your project

3. Drag the Jog Slider to the frame you want to capture.

4. Switch to an image folder in the Library. The folder can be the default Image folder, or the one created by yourself.

5. Select Clip: Save as Still Image. The new image file is saved to the hard disk and is represented as a thumbnail in the image folder you assigned.

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Ripple Editing

Ripple Editing allows you to insert clips while automatically moving other clips

(including empty spaces) aside, to make room for it on the Timeline. Use this mode to maintain the original track synchronizations when inserting additional clips.

To insert clips in Ripple Editing mode:

1. Click Ripple Editing to activate the panel, then select the corresponding box for each track where you want to apply Ripple Editing.

2. Drag the clip to insert from the Library to the desired position on the Timeline. As soon as the new clip is in place, all clips where Ripple Editing is applied will shift accordingly while maintaining their track positions relative to one another.

Ripple Editing also works when removing clips. In the example below, Overlay and Title Tracks maintain their position relative to the video after the clip in the middle has been removed.

Note: Ripple Editing can be applied from any of the three project views.

Ripple Editing is enabled for the tracks where content is inserted.

A color clip is inserted before the original clip and all clips where Ripple Editing is applied shift accordingly

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Enabling Smart Proxy

Proxy files are lower resolution working copies of video files. They are reduced in resolution or compression bit rate for only one reason --to speed up editing of HDV and other large video source files. Proxy files are source-dependent rather than project-dependent. In other words, proxy files can be shared among different projects.

When you edit and preview your project in Instant Play mode, proxy files will be used as substitutes for their large video source counterparts. Whereas when you preview your project in high-quality playback mode or when you render a video file, the original video source files will be used.

To enable the creation of proxy files, go to File: Preferences - Smart Proxy, then select the Enable Smart Proxy option. In the Smart Proxy tab of the Preferences dialog box, you can set the condition when proxy files need to be

generated and choose a proxy file format. Or you can also click in the toolbar

and select Enable Smart Proxy. Select Settings to customize Smart Proxy settings.

Once Smart Proxy is enabled, proxy files will automatically be created and used in your project whenever you insert video files into the Timeline.

In the toolbar, click and select Smart Proxy Manager to see the list of video files to be generated as proxy files. Select the files you want to include in your queue and then click OK.

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Converting multiple files

Batch Convert allows you to simultaneously convert a large number of files to another format.

To do Batch Convert:

1. Click .

2. Click Add and then choose the files you want to convert.

3. Select an output folder in Save in folder.

4. In Save as type, choose your desired output type.

5. Click Convert.

The result is shown in the Task Report dialog box. Click OK to finish.

Enhancing clips

VideoStudio lets you improve the quality of a video or image clip by adjusting its current properties such as its color settings in Color Correction.

Adjusting color and brightness

Adjust color and brightness settings of images and video in the Timeline by clicking

Color Correction in the Options Panel.

To adjust color and brightness:

1. Select the video or image clip to enhance in the Timeline.

2. Drag the sliders to the right to intensify the Hue, Saturation, Brightness, Contrast or Gamma of the clip.

3. Watch the Preview Window to see how the new settings are affecting the image.

Adjusting White balance

White balance restores the natural color temperature of an image by removing wrong color casts due to conflicting light source and incorrect camera settings.

For example, an object illuminated with incandescent lights may turn out too reddish or yellowish in an image or video clip. To successfully achieve its natural

Note: Click Reset to restore the original color settings of the clip.

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effect, you need to identify a reference point in your image which represents the color white. VideoStudio gives you different options in selecting the white point:

• Auto Gives you automatic calculation of the fitted white point that is wellmatched with the overall color of your image.

• Pick Color Allows you to manually select the white point in the image. Use the Eyedropper Tool to pick a reference area that should be white or neutral gray.

• White balance presets Automatically selects white point by matching specific light conditions or scenarios.

• Temperature Allows you to specify color temperature of light sources in Kelvin (K). Lower values indicate Tungsten, Fluorescent and Daylight scenarios while Cloudy, Shade and Overcast fall under high color temperature.

To adjust White balance:

1. Select an image or video clip in the Timeline or the Library.

2. In the Edit Step Options Panel, click Color Correction.

3. Select White balance.

4. Determine how you want to identify the white point. Choose among the different options. (Auto,

Pick color, White balance presets or Temperature)

5. If you have selected Pick color, choose Show preview to display a preview area in the Options Panel.

6. When you drag your cursor to the Preview area, it will change to an eyedropper icon.

7. Click to identify a reference point in your image which represents the color white.

8. Watch the Preview Window to see how the new settings are affecting the image.

Tip: Click the White balance dropdown arrow to display more color adjustments you can use. Select Vivid Color or Normal Color for the color intensity. The Weaker, Normal and Stronger options specify the level of sensitivity of White balance.

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Adjusting tones

To adjust the tone quality of your video or image clips, click Color Correction in the Edit Step Options Panel and select Auto Tone Adjustment. You can indicate if you want the clip as Brightest, Brighter, Normal, Darker or Darkest by clicking the Auto Tone Adjustment dropdown arrow.

Applying video filters

Video filters are effects that you can apply to clips in order to change their style or appearance. For example, you can improve the color balance of a clip, or make it look like a painting.

Video filter samples:

• DeBlock smoothens uneven areas in a clip and reduces noise like block artifacts or mosquito effect that are usually found in some highly compressed videos.

• DeSnow removes visible and dynamic “snowy” noise patterns in videos captured from sources with poor TV signals or video clips usually taken under low lighting conditions or by cameras with high ISO values.

• Anti-shake allows you to correct or stabilize sub-standard videos due to camera shake.

To apply a video filter to a clip (video or image) in the Video Track:

1. Select a clip in the Timeline.

2. Click the Attribute tab in the Edit Step Options Panel.

3. Choose a video filter from the Video Filter folder in the Library to apply to your clip (by clicking the thumbnail).

4. Drag and drop the video filter onto your clip in the Video Track.

Note: By default, the filter applied to a clip is always replaced with the new filter dragged onto the clip. Clear Replace last filter to apply multiple filters to a single clip. VideoStudio allows you to apply a maximum of five filters to a single clip.

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5. Click Customize Filter in the Options Panel to customize the attributes of the video filter. Available options depend on the selected filter.

6. Preview how your clip looks with the video filter applied to it using the Navigator.

Key frame settings

VideoStudio allows you to customize video filters in a variety of ways. One way is by adding key frames to your clips. Key frames are frames in a clip where you can specify a different attribute or behavior for your video filter. This gives you the flexibility to determine how your video filter will look like at any point in a clip.

To set key frames for your clips:

1. Drag and drop a video filter from the Library onto a clip in the Timeline.

2. Click Customize Filter. The dialog box for the video filter opens.

3. In the Key frame controls, drag the Jog Slider or use the arrows to go to the frame where you'd like to change the attributes of your video filter.

4. Click Add key frame to set that frame as a key frame in the clip. You can adjust the video filter settings for that particular frame.

Note: When there is more than one video filter applied to a clip, you can change the order of filters by clicking or . Changing the order of the video filters will have drastic effects on your clip.

Note: Settings available in the dialog box are different for each video filter.

Note: You can use the mouse wheel to zoom in or out of the Timeline Control bar for

precise placement of key frames.

Note: A diamond-shaped mark on the Timeline Control bar will appear. This indicates the frame is a key frame in the clip.

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5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 to add more key frames to your clip.

6. Use the Timeline controls to edit or to go to a key frame in the clip.

• To delete a key frame, click Remove key frame .

• Click Reverse key frames to reverse the sequence of key frames in the Timeline such that the sequence starts with the last key frame and ends with the first key frame.

• To move to the succeeding key frame, click Go to next key frame .

• To move to the key frame prior to the one selected, click Go to previous

key frame .

7. Adjust the video filter settings according to your preferences.

8. Preview the changes you've made by clicking Play in the Preview Window of the dialog box.

9. Click OK when finished.

Pan & Zoom

Pan & Zoom is applied to still images, and it emulates the pan and zoom effect of

a video camera. To apply this effect to an image, select an image clip in the Timeline, then select Pan & Zoom and click Customize Pan & Zoom.

In the Pan & Zoom dialog box, the crosshairs in the Image Window represent

the key frames in the image clip where settings can be customized to produce the pan and zoom effect. When customizing each key frame, use the Image Window to focus on an area or to pan the image; use the Options tab settings to customize the zooming effect.

Tip: You can preview the clip with applied video filter on VideoStudio’s Preview Window or an external device such as a TV monitor or DV camcorder.

Click , then click to open the Preview Playback Options dialog box where you can choose the display medium.

Note: Pan & Zoom cannot be applied to masked images.

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The procedure below shows an example of how to first zoom in on a subject, then pan and zoom out to show the whole image.

To apply Pan & Zoom:

1. Drag the Start key frame, represented by a crosshair in the Image Window, to the subject that you want to focus.

2. Zoom in on the subject by minimizing the marquee box or by increasing the Zoom ratio.

3. Drag the crosshair of the End key frame to your desired final point.

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4. Click to preview the effect.

5. Click OK to apply the effect to the image.

Resizing and distorting clips

To resize or distort a clip:

1. Select a clip in the Video Track then select the Attribute tab under the Options Panel.

2. Select Distort clip then drag any of the following handles:

• Yellow handles at the corners to resize the clip proportionally (A).

• Yellow handles at the sides to resize without maintaining proportions (B).

• Green handles at the corners to skew the clip (C).

Tips:

• Click the Anchor boxes to move the marquee box at fixed positions in the Image Window.

• To zoom in or out of a fixed area without panning the image, select No panning.

• To include a fade-in/out effect, increase the Transparency. The image will fade to the Background color. Click the color box to choose a background color, or click

to select a color on the Image Window.

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Adding cues and chapters

Adding cues and chapters helps you to navigate through your project once you have recorded them onto a disc.

To add project cues:

1. Click the Chapter/Cue Menu.

2. Select Cue Point.

3. Drag the cursor to the part of the project you want to add cues and click the bar below the Timeline ruler. Notice that blue arrow icon was added.

Another step of adding cue points is to drag the Timeline slider to the desired cue point position in your project. Click the Add/Remove Cue Point.

4. Repeat Step 3 to add more cue points.

Tip: You can also use the Cue Point Manager when adding cue points. Select Add and specify the timecode and name of cue for easy identification. Click OK and then Close.

Cue points

A cue point was added to the Timeline

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To add chapters:

1. Make sure that the Chapter Point is selected in the Chapter/Cue Menu.

2. Drag the cursor to the part of the project you want to assign as chapters and click the bar below the Timeline ruler. Notice that, below your Timeline ruler, yellow chapter points are set as markers in your movie.

You can also drag the Timeline slider to the desired chapter point position in your project. Click the Add/Remove Chapter Point.

3. To edit a chapter, click on a chapter point you want to edit and drag to a new position.

4. To rename, double click a chapter point and then enter a new chapter name. Click OK.

Note: To remove chapters and cues, simply drag the markers outside the Timeline ruler and then drop. Or you can also drag the Timeline ruler to the chapter or cue point you want to remove and then click Add/Remove Chapter Point or Add/Remove Cue Point.

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Effect

Transition effects make your movie smoothly change from one scene to the next. They are applied between clips in the Video Track and their attributes can be modified in the Options Panel. Effective use of this feature can add a professional touch to your movie.

The Effect Step Options Panel

VideoStudio pretty much takes care of all the details to make your transitions smooth and professional. You can, however, further customize your transitions after adding them to your project. The Effect Step Options Panel displays the settings of your selected transition so that you can change their various parameters. This gives you complete control of exactly how your transitions will behave in your movie.

• Duration: Shows the duration of the applied effect on the selected clip in hours:minutes:seconds:frames. You can adjust the duration by changing the timecode values.

• Border: Determines the thickness of the border. Enter 0 to remove the border.

• Color: Determines the hue of the transition effect's border or flap.

• Soft edge: Specifies how well you want the transition effect to blend with the clips. A Strong soft edge results in a less pronounced transition, thus creating a smooth progression from one clip to another. This option works best for irregular shapes and angles.

• Direction: Specifies the direction of a transition effect. (This is only applicable to some of the transition effects.)

Note: The attributes in the Options Panel vary depending on the type of transition effect that is selected and applied to your project.

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Adding transitions

The Library provides a wide range of preset transitions from crossfades to explosions that you can add to your project.

To add a transition:

1. Click the Effect Step, then select one of the categories of transitions from the Folders list.

2. Scroll through the effects thumbnails in the Library. Select and drag an effect to the Timeline, roughly between two video clips. Drop your effect and it will snap into place. You can only drag and drop one clip at a time.

To replace a transition in your project, drag the new transition from the Library onto the transition thumbnail to be replaced on the Storyboard or Timeline.

Note: By default, you need to manually add transitions to your project. If you want VideoStudio to automatically add transitions between clips, select File: Preferences - Edit then select Use default transition effect. This saves you time in selecting transitions, especially when you are creating a slideshow project that contains images only, since transitions are randomly chosen from the Library and automatically added between images.

Tip: Double-clicking a transition in the Library automatically inserts it into the first empty transition slot between two clips. Repeating this process will insert a transition into the next empty transition slot.

You can add transitions either in Storyboard View or Timeline View.

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The Album transition

One of the transitions you will find in the Library is the Album transition. Album simulates the turning pages similar to that of flipping photo album pages. You can choose from a variety of album layouts, change the album cover, background, size, and position, and more.

To apply the Album transition:

1. Click the Effect Step then select Album from the Library.

Apply by dragging a transition thumbnail in between two clips on the Video Trac k.

2. In the Options Panel, click Customize to open the Flip-Album dialog box.

3. In the Layout section, choose the desired look for the album.

4. In the Album tab, set the album’s Size, Position and Orientation.

To change the album cover, select a preset from Album cover templates, or select Custom album cover then import your own cover image.

5. Click the Background and Shadow tab.

To change the background of the album, select a preset from Background templates, or select Custom background then import your own background image.

To add a shadow, select Shadow. Set the shadow position by adjusting the X-

offset and Y-offset values. To make the shadow look softer, increase Soft edge.

6. Click the Page A tab. Customize the first page of the album.

To change the image on the page, select a preset from Album page templates, or select Custom album page then import your own image.

To adjust the size and position of the clip on the page, adjust the Size, X, and Y values.

7. Click the Page B tab. Customize the second page of the album.

Follow step 6 to make adjustments.

8. Use the slider and buttons below the Preview Window in the dialog box to preview the results.

9. Click OK to apply the adjustments.

Note: To change the shadow color, click the color box and choose the desired color.

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The Flashback transition

You can use the Flashback transition to simulate a flashback or introduce a dream sequence for the next scene. Light is added to the dissolving scenes to create a dreamy effect.

The Flashback transition contains the following options:

• Fade level: Set the thickness of the soft edge of the mask.

• Halo brightness: Set the intensity of the light.

• Halo size: Set the coverage of the light.

• Contrast: Set the color contrast between the two clips.

• Middle flash: Adds an element of light to the dissolving mask.

• Inverse: Reverses the effect of the mask.

The Mask transitions

Different patterns or objects such as shapes, leaves, balls, and more can be used in transition effects by rendering them as masks. You can select from preset masks or import a BMP file and use it as a mask for your transition.

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Mask transition options

The Mask transitions contain the following options. The availability of the option depends on the type of mask selected.

• Masks: Select a preset template to use as mask for the transition.

• Current: Click to open a dialog box where you can browse BPMP files to use as the transition’s mask.

• Middle flash: Adds an element of light to the dissolving mask.

• X/Y Opposite: Reverses the path direction of the Mask.

• Sync Clip: Matches the motion of the clip to the motion of the mask.

• Inverse: Reverses the effect of the mask.

• Rotation: Specify how many degrees the mask will rotate.

• Fade level: Set the thickness of the soft edge of the mask.

• Size: Set the size of the mask.

• Interval: Specify the distance between each copy of the mask.

• Path: Select how the mask will move during the transition.

• Apply on: Select whether to apply the mask on the before or after clip.

Adding transitions to My Favorites

You can collect your favorite transitions from different categories and compile it in My Favorites folder. This way, you can easily search the transition effects you use more often.

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To save a transition in My Favorites:

1. Right-click a transition effect in the Library.

2. Select Add to My Favorites.

Applying selected transition effect to all clips

You can apply a transition effect to all clips without having to manually drag the effect to the Timeline.

Select a transition effect in the Library and click . Select Apply current effect

to whole project or you can right-click on the transition effect and select the same option.

To insert randomly selected transition effects, select Apply random effect(s) to whole project.

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Overlay

The Overlay Step allows you to add overlay clips to combine with your videos in the Video Track. Use an Overlay clip to create a picture-in-picture effect or add a lower-third graphic to create more professional-looking movie productions.

The Overlay Step Options Panel

There are two tabs in the Overlay Step Options Panel: Edit tab and Attribute tab.

Edit tab

The Edit tab allows you to customize properties such as clip duration, playback speed, and audio properties of the Overlay clip. The available options in this tab will depend on the selected Overlay clip.

Attribute tab

The Attribute tab allows you to apply motion, transparency, filters and border to the Overlay clip.

• Mask & Chroma Key: Opens the Overlay Options Panel where you can specify the transparency and Overlay options to be applied to the Overlay clip.

• Options: Displays various commands you can apply to the Overlay clip.

• Replace last filter: Allows the last filter applied to a clip to be replaced when you drag a new filter onto the clip. Clear this option if you want to add multiple filters to your clips.

• Applied filters: Lists the video filters that were applied to a clip. Click or to arrange the order of the filters.

• Delete filter: Removes the selected filter from the Overlay clip. Click to remove a filter.

• Presets: Opens a menu where you can select a preset for the selected filter to apply to the Overlay clip.

• Customize Filter: Opens a dialog box where you can define settings and options for the selected filter.

• Direction/Style: Determines the type of movement to be applied to the Overlay clip.

• Enter/Exit: Set the directions in which the clip will enter and leave the screen.

• Rotate before/after pause duration: Select to rotate the clip before or after pause duration.

• Fade-in/Fade-out motion effect: Select to gradually increase or decrease the transparency of the clip when it enters or leaves the screen.

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• Show grid lines: Select to display the grid lines. Click to open a dialog box where you can specify settings for the grid lines.

Overlay Options Panel

• Transparency: Sets the opacity of the clip. Drag the slider or enter a value to adjust the transparency.

• Border: Enter a value to set the thickness of the border. Click the Color Box to select the border color.

• Apply Overlay options: Select to specify how transparent section of the Overlay clip will be rendered.

• Type: Select whether to apply preset or imported masks on an Overlay clip or specify a color to be rendered as transparent.

• Similarity: Specify the color range of a selected color’s pixels that will be rendered as transparent. Click the Color Box then select the color that will be

rendered as transparent. Click to select a color in the Overlay clip.

• Crop: Removes unwanted borders from your Overlay clip. Set how much of the clip's Height and Width you want cropped.

• : Goes back to the previous Options Panel.

Adding clips to the Overlay Track

Drag media files to the Overlay Track on the Timeline to add them as overlay clips for your project.

To add a clip to the Overlay Track:

1. In the Library, select the media folder that contains the Overlay clip that you want to add to your project.

2. Drag the media file from the Library to the Overlay Track on the Timeline.

Tip: To load media files into the Library, click . In the dialog box that opens, locate the media file and click Open.

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3. Customize the Overlay clip using the options available in the Edit tab.

4. Click the Attribute tab. The Overlay clip is then resized to a preset size and positioned at the center. Use the options in the Attribute tab to apply motion to the Overlay clip, add filters, resize and reposition the clip, and more.

Adding multiple Overlay Tracks

You can also insert media files on another Overlay Track for added impact for your movie. You can either show or hide these Overlay Tracks in your project. Click Overlay Track Manager to open the Overlay Track Manager dialog box. Select the Overlay Tracks to display.

Tips:

• To insert a media file directly to the Overlay Track, right-click the Overlay Track and select the type of file you want to add. The file will not be added into the Library.

• You can also use color clips as Overlay clips.

Tips:

• To make Overlay clips with transparent backgrounds, you can create a 32-bit alpha channel AVI video file or an image file with an alpha channel. You can use an animation program such as Ulead COOL 3D Production Studio or an image editing program such as Ulead PhotoImpact to create these video and image files.

• Another alternative is to use VideoStudio’s Mask & Chroma Key function to mask a specific color on an image.

Note: Click Enlarge to show all tracks of the Timeline. With a larger workspace, you can arrange video and image clips without having to scroll down to locate different Overlay Trac ks .

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Working with Overlay clips

Adding multiple Overlay Tracks gives you more creative possibilities for your movie. You can superimpose clips over a background video with portions of the overlay being transparent or add objects and frames to your video. Achieving different effects for your projects can be easy when you know how to use Overlay clips and tracks.

Trimming Overlay clips

You can trim a clip in the Overlay Track like the way you trim a clip in the Video Track. To cut clips in the Video and Overlay Tracks all at once, select Project as

the Play mode and then drag the slider to the part you want to cut. Click .

Repositioning the current Overlay clip

Click to select the Overlay clip in the Timeline. After clicking the Attribute tab, drag the Overlay clip to the desired area on the Preview Window. It is recommended that you keep the Overlay clip within the title safe area.

You can also click Options in the Attribute tab to open a menu where you can automatically place the Overlay clip in a preset position on the video. Here, you can also resize the Overlay clip to keep the aspect ratio, revert it to the default size, use the original size of the Overlay clip, or resize it to occupy the entire screen.

Resizing an Overlay clip

After clicking the Attribute tab, drag a handle on the Overlay clip on the Preview Window to resize it. If you drag a yellow corner handle, it will keep the aspect ratio when you resize the clip.

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It is recommended that you keep the Overlay clip within the title safe area.

The Keep Aspect Ratio in Options resizes the Overlay clip based on the width or height, depending on which is longer in length, of the Overlay clip.

Distorting an Overlay clip

Each corner of the marquee of the Overlay clip have green nodes which you can use to distort the Overlay clip. Drag the green nodes to distort the Overlay clip.

Applying motion to the Overlay clip

After clicking the Attribute tab, select where the Overlay clip will Enter and Exit the screen under Direction/Style. Click a specific arrow as to where you want your clip to enter and exit in your movie.

Note: When you resize or distort the Overlay clip then go back to the Edit tab, the clip will appear to have resized back to its original size. This is only for editing purposes, the Overlay clip retains its properties.

Tip: Hold [Shift] while dragging the green nodes to keep the distortion within the current clips’s marquee.

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Enhancing Overlay clips

Applying transparency, border and filters are some of the ways you can enhance your Overlay clips. You can also chroma key the Overlay clip to remove its background color and show the clip in the Video Track as the new background.

Applying transparency to the Overlay clip

In the Attribute tab, click Mask & Chroma Key to go to the Overlay Options Panel. Drag the Transparency slider to set the opacity of the Overlay clip.

Chroma Keying an Overlay clip

Chroma key is a popular technique that makes a particular color in a clip transparent to be able to show underlying clips, objects or layers. Usually, Chroma Key is used as special effects in movies or a TV program’s weather forecast.

To specify Chroma Key settings to the current Overlay clip:

1. Click Mask & Chroma Key in the Attribute tab to go to the Overlay Options Panel.

2. Select Apply Overlay options then Chroma Key in Type.

Tip: Pause Duration determines how long your pause will be in the designated area before the clip exists the screen. If you applied motion to the Overlay clip, drag the Trim handles to set the Pause Duration.

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3. Click the Color Box and select the color to be rendered as transparent. Or select

and then click a color in the Preview area of the Options Panel that will be

rendered as transparent.

4. Watch the Preview Window to see how the new settings are affecting the image.

Adding a mask frame

Masking is a powerful method to control your clips’ transparency. A mask or a matte, as it is also called, is simply a black and white image you can use in your projects to define which areas of your video become transparent and which remain opaque.

Tip: Drag the Similarity slider to specify the color range of the selected color that will be rendered as transparent.

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To add a mask frame:

1. Click Mask & Chroma Key in the Attribute tab to go to the Overlay Options Panel.

2. Select Apply Overlay options then Mask Frame in Type.

3. Select a mask frame.

4. Watch the Preview Window to see how the new settings are affecting the image.

5. To import a mask frame, first create a mask for your project. Click and browse for the image file.

Adding a border

In the Attribute tab, click Mask & Chroma Key to go to the Overlay Options Panel. Drag the Border slider to set the thickness of the border of the Overlay clip. Set the color of the border by clicking the Color Box beside the slider.

Applying a filter to the Overlay clip

You can apply video filters to your Overlay clips. For more details on how to apply, you can refer to Edit: Applying video filters.

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Using the same attributes for different Overlay clips

You can use the attributes (size and position) of one Overlay clip and apply it to a different Overlay clip on your movie project. To apply the same attributes, first right-click the source Overlay clip then select Copy Attributes. Next, right-click the target Overlay clip then select Paste Attributes.

Adding Objects or Frames

Add decorative objects or frames for your videos as Overlay clips.

To add an object or frame:

1. In the Library, select Decoration: Object/Frame in the Gallery list.

2. Select an object/frame then drag it onto the Overlay Track on the Timeline.

3. Click the Attribute tab to resize and reposition the object/frame.

Adding Flash animations

Give more life to your videos by adding Flash animations as Overlay clips.

To add a Flash animation:

1. In the Library, select Flash Animation in the Gallery list.

2. Select a Flash animation then drag it onto the Overlay Track on the Timeline.

3. Click the Attribute tab to resize and reposition the Flash Animation.

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Customizing the current object, frame, or Flash animation

Use the various options available in the Edit and Attribute tabs to customize your object and frame. You can add animation, apply transparency, resize the object or frame, and more.

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Title

While a picture may be worth a thousand words, the text in your video production (i.e., subtitles, opening and closing credits, etc.) adds to the clarity and comprehensibility of your movie. In VideoStudio's Title Step, create professionallooking titles, complete with special effects, in minutes.

The Title Step Options Panel

The Title Step Options Panel allows you to modify text properties such as font, size, and color.

Edit tab

• Duration: Displays the duration of the selected clip in hours:minutes:seconds:frames. You can adjust the duration by changing the timecode values.

• Vertical text: Click to make the orientation of the title vertical.

• Font face: Where you select your desired font style.

• Font size: Where you set your desired font size.

• Color: Click on this to specify your preferred font color.

• Line spacing: Sets the spacing, or leading, between lines of text.

• Rotate by degree: Sets the specified angle and direction (clockwise or counter clockwise) of the text.

• Multiple titles: Select to use multiple text boxes for your text.

• Single title: Select to use a single text box for your text. This is automatically selected when opening a project file from older versions of VideoStudio.

• Text backdrop: Select to apply a horizontal color bar as background for your text.

Click to use a solid or gradient color and to set the transparency of the text backdrop.

• Border/Shadow/Transparency: Sets the border and intensity of the shadow and transparency of the text.

• Open Subtile File: Inserts a previously saved movie subtitle.

• Save Subtitle File: Saves the movie subtitle to a file for future use.

• Show grid lines: Select to display the grid lines. Click to open a dialog box where you can specify grid line settings.

Animation tab

• Apply Animation: Enables or disables animation of the title clip.

• Type: Where you can select your preferred animation effect for your title.

• Presets: Select a preset for the selected animation type to apply to your text.

• Customize animation attributes: Opens a dialog box where you can specify animation settings.

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Adding text

Ulead VideoStudio allows you to add text either in multiple text boxes or in a single text box. Using multiple text boxes gives you the flexibility to position the different words of your text anywhere on the video frame and allows you to arrange the stacking order of the text. Use a single text box when you are creating opening titles and end credits for your projects.

To add multiple titles:

1. In the Options Panel, select Multiple titles.

2. Use the buttons in the Navigation Panel to scan your movie and select the frame where you want to add the title.

3. Double-click the Preview Window and type in your text.

Click outside the text box when you are done typing. To add another set of text, double-click again on the Preview Window.

4. Repeat step 3 to add more sets of text.

If you switch to Single title before adding to the Timeline the multiple text that you entered, only the selected text or the first text that you typed in (when no text box is selected) will be retained. The other text boxes will be removed and the

Text backdrop and Rotate by degree options will be reset and disabled.

To add a single title:

1. In the Options Panel, select Single title.

2. Use the buttons in the Navigation Panel to scan your movie and select the frame where you want to add the title.

Double-click the Preview Window and type in your text.

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3. In the Options Panel, set the Line spacing.

4. When you are done typing the text, click the Timeline to add the text to your project.

It is recommended to keep your text within the title safe area. The title safe area is the rectangular box on the Preview Window. By keeping the text within the bounds of the title safe area, the whole text will not be truncated when viewed on a TV screen. You can display or hide the title safe area by selecting File: Preferences -

General tab - Display title safe area in Preview Window.

Adding preset text to your project

The Library contains various preset text that you can use for your projects. To use these preset text, select Title in the Gallery list then drag the preset text onto the Title Track.

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Inserting subtitles to your project

You can use your own movie subtitle files for your project. To insert your own, click Open Subtitle File. In the Open dialog box, locate the file you want to use and click Open.

To edit its text attributes, select the Font, Font size, Font color, Line leading and Glow shadow for your subtitles. You can also choose Vertical text to set the text orientation to vertical.

Saving subtitle files

Saving movie subtitles allows you to reuse them in the future. Click Save Subtitle File to open the Save As dialog box. Locate where to save your movie subtitle and click Save.

Note: To open subtitles with non-English characters, select the appropriate option in Language.

Notes:

• Movie subtitles will automatically be saved as *.utf files.

• To save subtitles in foreign languages like Chinese, Japanese or Greek, click Open Subtitle File in the Options Panel and browse for the particular file. Before you open the file, however, make sure you select the corresponding language in Language.

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Editing text

For single titles, select the title clip on the Title Track and click the Preview Window.

For multiple titles, select the title clip on the Title Track and click the Preview Window then click the text that you want to edit.

Modifying text attributes

Modify the attributes of your text, such as font face, style, size, and more, by using the available settings in the Options Panel.

More options allow you to set the style and alignment, apply a Border, Shadow and Transparency and add a Text backdrop to your text.

A text backdrop superimposes your text on a horizontal color bar that stretches

across the video frame. Click to open the Text Backdrop dialog box to select whether to use a solid or gradient color and to set the transparency of the text

backdrop.

Notes:

• Once a title clip has been inserted onto the Timeline, you can adjust its duration by either dragging the handles of the clip, or entering a Duration value in the Options Panel.

• To see how the title appears on the underlying video clip, select the title clip and then click Play Trimmed Clip or drag the Jog Slider.

Tip: When you are creating multiple title clips that share the same attributes such as font type and style, it is a good rule of thumb to store one copy of your title clip in the Library. (Just drag and drop the title clip from the Timeline into the Library.) This way, you can easily duplicate the title clip (by dragging it from the Library back onto the Title Track) and then change the title.

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Rearranging the stacking order for multiple titles

In the Preview Window, click the text box you want to rearrange. After selecting, right-click it then on the menu that opens, select how you want to restack the text.

Repositioning a text in a multiple-title clip

Rotating text

Using the purple handles, you can rotate a text towards the position of your cursor in the Preview Window. To rotate a text, make sure that you have selected a text to display the yellow and purple handles. In the Preview Window, click and drag a purple handle to the position you want.

You can also specify a value in Rotate by degree of the Options Panel to apply a more precise angle of rotation.

Applying animation

Apply motion to your text with VideoStudio’s text animation tools such as Fade, Moving Path, and Drop.

To apply animation to the current text:

1. In the Animation tab, select Apply animation.

2. Select the animation category to use in Type.

3. Select a preset animation from the box under Type.

4. Drag the Pause duration handles to specify how long the text will pause after it enters and before it exits the screen.

Drag the text box to the new position.

Tip: Click to open a dialog box where you can specify animation attributes.

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Animation effects

Drop dialog box

• Accelerate: Select to start animating the next unit of the title clip before the current unit exits the screen.

• Unit: Determines how the title appears in the scene:

Text: The whole title appears in the scene. Character: The title appears in the scene one character at a time. Word: The title appears in the scene one word at a time. Line: A line of text appears in the scene one at a time.

Fade dialog box

• Unit: Determines how the title appears in the scene.

• Pause: Applies a break in between the start and end direction of the animation. Select No Pause to make the animation run seamlessly.

• Fade style:

Fade-in: Makes the title gradually appear. Fade-out: Makes the title gradually disappear. Cross-fade: Makes the title gradually appear when it enters the scene and disappear as it

exits the scene.

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Fly dialog box

• Accelerate: Select to start animating the next unit of the title clip before the current unit exits the screen.

• Start/End unit: Determines how the title appears in the scene:

• Pause: Applies a break in between the start and end direction of the animation. Select No Pause to make the animation run seamlessly.

• Enter/Exit: Denotes the trail from where the motion of the title will start and end. Click the center button to make the title static.

Moving Path

Pop-up dialog box

• Character Base Displays the applied font face in the Preview window.

• Unit: Determines how the title appears in the scene.

• Pause: Applies a break in between the start and end direction of the animation. Select No Pause to make the animation run seamlessly.

• Direction: Specify where the text will originate when the effect is triggered.

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Swing dialog box

• Pause: Applies a break in between the start and end direction of the animation. Select No Pause to make the animation run seamlessly.

• Swing degree: Select the level of curve applied to the text.

• Enter/Exit: Denotes the trail from where the motion of the title will start and end.

• Clockwise: Select to animate the curve in a clockwise direction.

Turn dialog box

• Enter/Exit: Denotes the trail from where the motion of the title will start and end.

• Pause: Applies a break in between the start and end direction of the animation. Select No Pause to make the animation run seamlessly.

Zoom dialog box

• Show title: Select to display the title at the end of the animation.

• Unit: Determines how the title appears in the scene:

• Zoom start/Zoom end: Enter the title zoom ratio at the start and end of the animation.

Saving your titles to the Library

If you still intend to use the title you have created for other projects, it is recommended that you save it in the Library. Simply select a title in the Timeline and drag it to the Library.

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Audio

Sounds are one of the elements that determine the success of your video production. VideoStudio's Audio Step allows you to add both narration and music to your project.

The Audio Step consists of two tracks: Voice and Music. Insert your narrations on the Voice Track and your background music or sound effects on the Music Track.

The Audio Step Options Panel

The Audio Step Options Panel consists of two tabs: Music & Voice tab and Auto Music tab. The Music & Voice tab allows you to copy music from your audio

CD, record your voice and apply audio filters to your audio tracks. The Auto Music tab allows you to use third-party music tracks for your project.

Music & Voice tab

• Duration: Displays the duration of the audio track in hours:minutes:seconds:frames. You can also pre-set the length of the recording by entering the desired duration.

• Clip volume: Adjusts the volume level of the recorded clip.

• Fade-in: Gradually increases the volume of the clip.

• Fade-out: Gradually decreases the volume of the clip.

• Record Voice: Opens the Adjust Volume dialog box where you can first test the volume of your microphone. Click Start to start recording. VideoStudio creates a new clip to the right of the existing audio in the Voice Track on the Timeline. This changes into Stop during the recording process.

• Import from Audio CD: Opens a dialog box where you can import music tracks

from an audio CD. Click to update your CD information either from the CD-text in the audio CD or from the Internet.

• Playback Speed: Opens a dialog box where you can change the speed and duration of an audio clip.

• Audio Filter: Opens the Audio Filter dialog box where you can apply audio filters to the selected audio clip.

• Audio View: Changes your timeline into audio waveform. When clicked, the Surround Sound Mixer tab is displayed.

Auto Music tab

• Duration: Displays the total duration of the selected music.

• Clip volume: Adjusts the volume level of the selected music. A value of 100 retains the music’s original volume level.

• Fade-in: Gradually increases the volume of the music.

• Fade-out: Gradually decreases the volume of the music.

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• Scope: Specify how the program will search for SmartSound files.

Local: Searches for SmartSound files stored in the hard disk. Mounted: Searches for SmartSound files stored in the hard disk and CD-ROM drives Owned: Searches for SmartSound files that you own including those stored in CDs. All: Searches for all SmartSound files available in your desktop computer and the

Internet.

• Library: Lists the available libraries from which music can be imported.

• Music: Select the desired music to add to your project.

• Variation: Select from a variety of musical instruments and tempo to apply to the selected music.

• Play Selected Music: Plays back the music with the selected Variation.

• Add to Timeline: Inserts the selected track to the Music Track of the Timeline.

• Auto trim: Automatically trims the audio clip to fit the empty space based on the Jog Slider position.

• SmartSound Quicktracks: Opens a dialog box where you can view information and manage the SmartSound Library.

Adding audio files

VideoStudio provides a separate Voice Track and Music Track but you may

interchangeably insert voice and music files on either track. To insert, click and select Insert Audio. Choose which track to insert your audio file.

The VideoStudio CD also comes with several audio clips ready for you to use. Click

Load audio to add them to the Library for easy access.

Adding voiceover narration

Documentaries and news features often use narrations to help the audience understand what is going on in the video. VideoStudio allows you to record your own narration with crisp and clear results.

To add voiceover narration:

1. Click the Music & Voice tab.

2. Move to the section of the video where you want to insert your narration by using the Jog Slider.

Tip: Click Audio View for easier editing of your audio clips.

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3. Click Record Voice. The Adjust Volume dialog box appears.

4. Speak into the microphone and check if the meter responds accordingly. Use the Windows audio mixer to adjust the volume of the microphone.

5. Click Start and begin speaking into the microphone.

6. Press [Esc] or click Stop to stop recording.

Adding background music

Set the tone of your movie with the background music of your choice. VideoStudio can record and convert song tracks from your CD into WAV files and then insert them onto the Timeline.

VideoStudio also supports WMA, AVI, and other popular audio file formats which you can directly insert onto the Music Track.

Importing music from an audio CD

Capture music by importing from an audio CD. VideoStudio copies the CDA audio file then saves it in your hard drive as a WAV file.

To import music from an audio CD:

1. Click Import from Audio CD in the Music & Voice tab to open the Rip CD Audio dialog box. To check if the disc is detected, see to it that Audio drive is

enabled.

2. Select the tracks to be imported in the Track List.

3. Click Browse and select the destination folder where the imported files will be saved.

4. Click Rip to start importing the audio tracks.

Note: You cannot record over an existing clip. When a clip is selected, recording is disabled. Make sure that a clip is not selected by clicking on an empty area on the Timeline.

Tip: The best way to record narrations is to do the recording in 10 to 15-second sessions. This makes it easier to remove a badly recorded narration and redo it. To remove, just select the clip on the Timeline and press [Delete].

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Adding third-party music

VideoStudio’s Auto Music feature lets you easily create composer-quality soundtracks from royalty-free music and use them as background music in your project. You can have different tempos or musical instrument variations per music.

To add third-party music:

1. Click the Auto Music tab.

2. Select how the program will search for music files in Scope.

3. Select the Library from where to import the music.

4. Under Music, select the music you want to use.

5. Select a Variation of the selected music. Click Play Selected Music to play back the music with the variation applied.

6. Set the Volume level then click Add to Timeline.

Using the Clip Volume Control

Trimming and cutting audio clips

After recording voice and music, you can easily trim your audio clips on the Timeline. There are two ways to trim audio clips:

• On the Timeline, a selected audio clip has two yellow handles that can be

used for trimming. Just grab a handle, either from the beginning or end, and drag it to shorten a clip.

Note: Auto Music Maker utilizes the patented SmartSound Quicktracks technology in soundtrack creation and features a variety of SmartSound royalty-free music.

Tip: Select Auto trim to automatically trim the audio clip to fit the empty space based on the Jog Slider position.

You will find the volume control in the Options Panel. Clip volume represents the percentage of the original recorded volume. Values range from 0 to 500%, where 0% completely silences the clip and 100% retains the original recorded volume.

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