User manual PINNACLE STUDIO 14 README

[. . . ] Pinnacle Studio Version 14 Including Studio, Studio Ultimate and Studio Ultimate Collection Your Life in Movies Documentation by Nick Sullivan Copyright ©1996-2009 Pinnacle Systems, Inc. Content such as music, photos, video and celebrity images are protected by the laws of many countries. You may not use other people's content unless you own the rights or have the permission of the owner. This product or portions thereof are protected under one or more of the following United States patents: 5, 495, 291; 5, 946, 445 6, 469, 711; 6, 532, 043; 6, 678, 461; 6, 901, 211; 6, 907, 191 7, 124, 366; 7, 165, 219; 7, 286, 131; 7, 301, 092; and 7, 467, 244. [. . . ] All versions of the Clip properties tool allow you to set the duration and name of the current clip, as follows: · To set the length of time the still image is displayed, change the value in the Duration counter. · The Name text field lets you assign a custom name to the clip to replace the default one assigned by Studio. Clip names are used by the Movie Window's Text view, and can also be viewed on the fly-by labels that appear when your mouse hovers over clips in the Storyboard view. The Clip properties tool for disc menus is described in Chapter 11: Disc menus. See Chapter 12: The Classic Title Editor and Chapter 13: The Motion Titler for details about editing the properties of titles. 212 Pinnacle Studio Editing photos and graphics The Clip properties tool for editing bitmapped images allows you to perform several important imageprocessing tasks: · Zoom in on your pictures and photos in order to crop away unneeded material and focus on only the essential part of the image; · Rotate the image in 90-degree increments to permit the use of photos taken in "portrait" mode; · Remove the "red-eye" effect that can occur when the subject of a photograph looks directly into the camera when the flash goes off; · In Studio Ultimate, put together "pan-and-zoom" animations in which a high-resolution image is viewed as a succession of smoothly-connected closeups at various degrees of magnification. This technique is closely associated with the well-known documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. The Clip properties tool for photos has pan-andzoom controls for focusing on an area of interest. In Studio Ultimate, pan-and-zoom can be animated to create the effect of traversing the image from one focus to another. Animated `P&Z' can be obtained in other versions by upgrading to Studio Ultimate. Chapter 10: Still images 213 If an image needs rotating by 90 degrees to bring it into "landscape" mode (wider than high), start by clicking one of the image rotation buttons. If needed, click the button more than once until the clip is properly oriented. If you want to reframe the image, click directly on the tool's preview window and, while holding the left mouse-button down, drag the image in any direction until it is properly positioned. Next, use the Zoom slider to magnify or reduce the image size as desired. Adjust the position and magnification with these controls until the image is cropped and framed to your satisfaction. The Reset button removes all your position and zoom changes, restoring the original framing of the image. The red-eye reduction feature helps restore a natural appearance to photos in which the subject's eyes are tinged with red. (This problem is caused by light from the flash unit bouncing off the retina of the eye when the subject is looking directly into the camera. ) To activate red-eye reduction, click the left button in the red eye group. Now click the image preview with the left mousebutton above and to the left of the area in which redeye reduction should be applied. While holding the button down, drag down and to the right until the area is fully enclosed. When you release the mouse-button, the red-eye reduction effect is instantly applied within the rectangle you have outlined. It is usually not necessary to be highly precise when marking out the red-eye reduction area. In fact, a larger rectangle may even yield a better result than a smaller 214 Pinnacle Studio one that encloses the eyes and no more. If the red-eye reduction does not clear up the problem entirely on the first attempt, try again with a different rectangle size. Studio's red-eye reduction algorithm provides excellent results with a wide variety of photos. [. . . ] See Still images Import All media, 35 Analog video and audio, 47 Audio and video levels, 21 BD (Blu-ray Disc), 48 Copyright protection (DVD, BD), 48 Digital cameras, 49 DVD, 48 From DV or HDV camera, 42 From IEEE 1394 (FireWire), 42 From local disk, 35 Manually-controlled recording, 45 Mark-In, Mark-Out, 44 Photos, 49 Record video/audio, 45 Record with Mark In/Out, 45 Single-frame, 21 Snapshot, 52 Source, 35 Stop-motion animation, 49 G Glossary, 409 GOP Closed, 412 Size, 416 Grab frames tool Described, 219 Graphics Editing, 213 Groups Temporary, In Classic Title Editor, 246 Grungelizer (audio effect), 328 H Hard drive 436 Pinnacle Studio Import From panel (Import Wizard), 20 Import mode Introduced, 1 L Layers In Classic Title Editor, 241 Import To panel (Import Wizard), 23 Import Wizard Compression options, 30 Filename panel, 32 Import From panel, 20 Import To panel, 23 Mode panel, 27 Options, 19 Overview, 18 Scene detection options, 31 Selecting media, 34 L-cut A/B, 183 Defined, 130 Explained, 131 Lens flare (video effect), 176 Letterboxing, 113 Leveler (audio effect), 329 Levels, Audio and video In analog import, 21 Lighting, 179 Links Adjusting, 229 Automatic creation of, 225 Creating, 229 Deleting, 230 Editing, 230 In disc menu tool, 234 On disc menus, 221 Repositioning, 230 Return to menu, 229 Setting with drag-and-drop, 234 Show numbers while editing, 231 Importing Overview, 17 Importing content from past versions, 15 Insert edit A/B, 183 Insert editing, 128 Audio, 130 Introduced, 128 Method, 128 Internet Saving movie to, 349 Local disk (Import), 35 Locked content Activating, 12 Invert, 178 Locking tracks, 98 J J-cut A/B, 183 Defined, 130 Explained, 133 Indication of, 127 Long shots (videography tip), 401 Luma key (video effect), 175 M Magnify (video effect), 176 Make Movie Partial, 333 Jog buttons, 9 K Ken Burns, 213 Keyboard conventions, xv Keyframing (of video effects parameters), 160, 163 Knowledge base, 382 Index Make Movie mode, 331 Introduced, 2 Making movies, 331 Markers. See Clip markers Create between markers, 333 Mark-In, Mark-Out 437 Recording, 45 Mark-In, Mark-Out (Import), 44 Media Selecting for import, 34 Media Player, 346 Memory card, importing from. See File-based media Menu and Title Editor, 237 Menu and Title Editors, 257 Menu buttons Highlighting, 255 Looks section, 267 Motions section, 272 Objects section, 266 Photos section, 265 Videos section, 264 Movie Previewing, 5 Movie Window, 91 Clipboard operations, 110 Drag-and-drop editing, 110 Find scene in Album, 66, 116 Interface features, 115 Positioning, 94 Status message area, 91 Trimming on the Timeline, 117 Views, 95 Menu commands, xv Menu Editor. See Disc menus Microphone Connecting, 307 MP2 files, 340 MP3 files, 85, 340 MPEG Rendering for output, 333 Multiple capture files Using, 111 MMC. [. . . ]