User manual PINNACLE STUDIO 10

[. . . ] Pinnacle Studio 10 Plus Including Studio SE, Studio and Studio Plus Easy, MORE Powerful, MORE Creative Video Editing 41006205 MANUAL S10 (PLUS) SOFTWARE GB 0106 Special thanks to Mike Iampietro, William Chien, Richard Edgley, Ivan Maltz, Keith Thomson, Jörg Weselmann, and Chris Zamara. Documentation: Nick Sullivan Copyright © 1996-2005 Pinnacle Systems, Inc. You agree not to remove any product identification or notices of the property restrictions from Pinnacle Systems' products or manuals. Pinnacle Systems, Pinnacle Studio Plus, TitleDeko, RTFx and VST are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of Pinnacle Systems, Inc. [. . . ] It is generally more convenient for the viewer to browse a few menu pages with many buttons per page than many pages of a few buttons each. During playback, the only buttons visible are those to which you have assigned links. Menus with fewer buttons have more space for captions; those with many buttons will have abbreviated captions or none at all. Whether you need captions, and if so whether they should be simple ("Chapter 1") or descriptive ("Cutting the cake") is a matter of your authoring style and the content of your movie. In the VCD and S-VCD formats, the viewer must select chapters numerically (by keying numbers on the remote control), so it is usual to provide button captions that include the chapter number when authoring for these formats. Chapter 9: Disc menus 169 Dropping menus on the Timeline When you drag a menu from the Album and drop it onto the video track or the title track, Studio gives you the option of automatically generating links to all video clips to the right of the menu on the Timeline. Multiple clips are combined into chapters if necessary to achieve the minimum chapter length you specify. This is the quickest, easiest way to link in a disc menu, but may not be what you want in a particular authoring situation. If you check the Don't ask me again checkbox, your choice of Yes or No becomes the default action when you drag in a menu in future. You can also set the default action, or reinstate the confirmation window, in the When adding a disc menu area of the Project preferences options panel (see "Project preferences" on page 253). To create your chapter links manually, rather than using the automatic linking feature, use the Set disc chapter command on the pop-up context menu for each video clip you want to add, or use the Set chapter button on the Clip properties tool for disc menus. 170 Pinnacle Studio 10 Plus The DVD Player Control Studio's Player provides a specialized set of controls for previewing movies that contain menus, patterned after the button layout on a typical DVD remote control. Switch the Player to DVD mode by clicking the DVD toggle button at the bottom right corner of the Player. A grouping of DVD controls appears and activates below the Player preview screen: Here are the functions of the individual DVD controls: Main menu: Jumps to the first menu in your movie and begins (or continues) playing. Previous menu: Jumps to the most recently active menu and begins (or continues) playing. Clicking the button again jumps back from the menu to the most recent clip. Previous chapter, Next chapter: Clicking the Previous chapter button takes you to the start of the current chapter if you aren't there already. The Next chapter button takes you forward to the next chapter in the movie. Within a menu, these buttons step Chapter 9: Disc menus 171 backwards and forwards respectively through the menu pages. Button selection: The four arrow controls in this cluster move the onscreen cursor within a disc menu to select one of its buttons. The oval button in the middle of the cluster activates the currentlyselected on-screen button, which is indicated by highlighting. Activating menu buttons directly One feature of the Player that set-top DVDs don't have is the ability to click the buttons directly on the screen. Whenever a button is visible in the Player preview area in DVD mode, you can click it to follow the button link. Editing menus on the Timeline Menus can be trimmed on the Timeline just like any other still image clip (see "Trimming on the Timeline using handles" on page 81). Setting the clip duration is generally less crucial for menu clips than for other types, since menus cycle during playback while waiting for user input. If you want a looping video background or looping audio with your menus, though, you will want to match the menu's duration to that of the clips involved. 172 Pinnacle Studio 10 Plus The menu track Menu buttons link to particular points within your movie. 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