User manual ULEAD INSTAMEDIA TIME-SHIFT QUICK GUIDE

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(See "Animation effects" on page 99). Tip: You can also click the Presets arrow to select a preset to apply to your text. 4. Click OK to apply the animation effect. 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. Line: A line of text appears in the scene one at a time. Fade dialog box 100 ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE · Unit: Determines how the title appears in the scene: Text: The whole title appears in the scene. Line: A line of text appears in the scene one at a time. · · Pause Applies a break in between the start and end direction of the animation. Cross-fade: Makes the title gradually appear when it enters the scene and disappear as it exits the scene. 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: Text: The whole title appears in the scene. Line: A line of text appears in the scene one at a time. · · Pause Applies a break in between the start and end direction of the animation. 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 ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE 101 Pop-up dialog box · Unit: Determines how the title appears in the scene: Text: The whole title appears in the scene. Line: A line of text appears in the scene one at a time. · Direction Specify where the text will originate when the effect is triggered. Swing dialog box · · · · Pause Applies a break in between the start and end direction of the animation. Move to the section of the video where you want to insert your narration by using the Jog Bar. ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE 105 Note: You cannot record over an existing clip. Make sure that a clip is not selected by clicking on an empty area on the Timeline. 3. Speak into the microphone and check if the meter responds accordingly. Press [Esc] or click Stop to stop recording. 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]. 106 ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE 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 MP3 files and other popular audio file formats which you can directly insert onto the Music Track. To check if the disc is detected, see to it that Disc and Track in the Options Panel are enabled. When you are ready to record the song track into the Timeline, click Record Selected Track. When you load or add an audio track from an audio CD into the Library or Timeline, VideoStudio converts the CDA audio file to WAV. [. . . ] PAL is common in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, China, Thailand, and some other Asian places, which has a frame rate of 25 fps. In the world of DV and DVD, NTSC has the video resolution of 720x480 pixels, while PAL has 720x576 pixels. Overlay These are the superimposed video or image clips over existing clips in your project. Plug-ins Plug-ins are utilities that add more functions and effects to a program. In Ulead VideoStudio, plug-ins have made it possible for the program to automatically recognize capture devices as well as output videos for different purposes such as for e-mail, Web page, video greeting cards, and DV recording. Profile A Profile covers various attributes for a Windows Media Format file such as bit rate, number and type of streams, compression quality, frame size and so on. Project File In VideoStudio, a project file (*. VSP) contains the required information to link all associated image, audio, and video files. You need to open a project file first before starting video-editing in VideoStudio. Render Rendering is the process of making a finished movie from the source files in a project. Scenes A scene is a series of frames binded by continuity. [. . . ]