User manual PINNACLE STUDIO 11

[. . . ] Pinnacle Studio 11 Plus Including Studio, Studio Plus and Studio Ultimate Easy, MORE Powerful, MORE Creative Video Editing Special thanks to Travis White, Richard Edgley, Kenn LeGault, Jan Piros, Jörg Weselmann, Mikel Zwissler and Sulekha Somasekhar. Documentation: Nick Sullivan Copyright © 1996-2007 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, Scorefitter and the Pinnacle Pinwheel logo are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of Pinnacle Systems, Inc. [. . . ] A new Chapter 9: Disc menus 177 track appears at the top of the Timeline, and a small "flag" appears over each of your clips. Instant slideshow: This time, start in the Still Images section of the Album. Drag as many images as you like onto the video track of an empty project, then drag in any disc menu as the first clip on the Timeline, and again click Yes when asked if you want links automatically created. Turn next to the Transitions section of the Album, pick any transition, and drag it between the menu and the first of your still images. Finally, select all of the still images (click the first, then shift-click the last), click with the right mouse button, and choose Ripple Transition from the pop-up menu. Menus and titles The similarity noted on page 177 between titles and disc menus is not just on the surface: a menu is essentially "a title with buttons". Any title on the Timeline's main video track can be converted to a disc menu simply by adding one or more buttons in the Title Editor. Using menus from the Album The Disc Menus section of the Album contains a collection of menus that have been designed for particular occasions, authoring styles and chapter counts. Each menu provides a background picture, a title, a set of chapter buttons (generally with spaces for 178 Pinnacle Studio 11 Plus thumbnail frames), and a pair of Next page and Previous page buttons. The number of chapter buttons per page varies from one menu design to another, so one criterion for selecting a menu is the number of clips you want it to handle. 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. 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 Chapter 9: Disc menus 179 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 267). 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. 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. 180 Pinnacle Studio 11 Plus 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. [. . . ] You are not licensed to use this product to violate any law, including copyright laws. Please respect the rights of content owners when using this product. 356 Pinnacle Studio 11 Plus APPENDIX G: Keyboard shortcuts The terms Left, Right, Up and Down in this table refer to the arrow (cursor) keys. Main Studio interface Space bar J K L X or Ctrl+Up Y or Ctrl+Down A or I S or O Ctrl+Left Ctrl+Right Alt+Left Alt+Right Alt+Ctrl+Left Alt+Ctrl+Right G D F E or Home Play and stop Fast reverse (hit multiple times for faster playback) Halt playback Fast forward (hit multiple times for faster playback) Step forward 1 frame Step back 1 frame Mark in Mark out Trim in point by -1 frame Trim in point by +1 frame Trim out point by -1 frame Trim out point by +1 frame Rolling trim out point by -1 frame (trims following clip too) Rolling trim out point by +1 frame Clear mark in and mark out Go to mark in (in trimmer tool) Go to mark out (in trimmer tool) Go to start Appendix G: Keyboard shortcuts 357 R or End Left Right Delete Insert Page up Page down Numeric pad + Numeric pad C V M Ctrl+Page up Ctrl+Page down Go to end Select previous clip Select next clip Delete selected clip(s) Split clip at scrubber position Go to next page in Movie Window Go to previous page in Movie Window Zoom in the Timeline Zoom out the Timeline Set menu chapter Clear menu chapter Set return to menu Go to previous menu chapter Go to next menu chapter Title Editor Alt+Plus Alt+Minus Ctrl+Plus Ctrl+Minus Ctrl+0 Ctrl+1 Ctrl+2 Ctrl+3 Ctrl+4 Ctrl+5 Ctrl+6 Ctrl+7 Ctrl+8 Ctrl+9 Ctrl+K Ctrl+M Shift+Left Shift+Right Bring to front Send to back Bring forward one layer Send back one layer Text justification off Text justification: bottom left Text justification: bottom center Text justification: bottom right Text justification: middle left Text justification: middle center Text justification: middle right Text justification: top left Text justification: top center Text justification: top right Kern, leading and skew Move, scale and rotate Expand character selection left Expand character selection right 358 Pinnacle Studio 11 Plus Ctrl+Left Ctrl+Right Ctrl+Down Ctrl+Up Shift+Ctrl+Left Shift+Ctrl+Right Shift+Ctrl+Down Shift+Ctrl+Up Alt+Left Alt+Right Shift+Alt+Left Shift+Alt+Right Reduce horizontal scale of, or squeeze (kern), text selection depending on current edit mode (move/scale/rotate or kern/skew/leading) Increase horizontal scale of, or stretch (kern), text selection Reduce scale or leading of text selection depending on current edit mode Increase scale or leading of text selection Same as Ctrl+Left (coarse) Same as Ctrl+Right (coarse) Same as Ctrl+Down (coarse) Same as Ctrl+Up (coarse) In text selection: Move characters left. Same as Alt+Left (coarse) Same as Alt+Right (coarse) Appendix G: Keyboard shortcuts 359 Index 2 2D editor (video effect), 123 Title Editor. [. . . ]