User manual ULEAD MEDIASTUDIO PRO 6

[. . . ] January 2000 First English edition for MediaStudio Pro version 6. 0, January 2000 © 1992­2000, Ulead Systems, Inc. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or storing in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form without the express written permission of Ulead Systems, Inc. Software license The software described in this document is furnished under a License Agreement which is included with the product. This Agreement specifies the permitted and prohibited uses of the product. Licenses and trademarks Ulead, Ulead Systems logo, MediaStudio and MediaStudio Pro are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of Ulead Systems, Inc. [. . . ] You can apply an Audio Filter by dragging its thumbnail from the Audio Filter gallery of the Production Library onto an audio clip. Click the Audio Filters button or Clip: Audio Filters or right-click the clip and select Audio Filters from the pop-up menu. Select the filter you want to apply from the Available filters list and click Add. Click the Options button to view the filter and change its attributes. (Every filter has different options. ) Audio Filters dialog box 5. Change the various filter attributes until you get the result you want. (The options in this dialog box vary depending on the type of filter you are using. ) 6. The Audio Filters dialog box closes and the filter is applied to the clip. 184 MEDIASTUDIO PRO USER GUIDE Changing the amplification of an audio clip To change the amplification of an audio clip, you can use the Amplify filter or, for quicker results, edit the audio clip directly from the Timeline. By changing the amplification of a clip, you can effectively control how one audio clip fades into or out of another. Click on the blue volume baseline that appears in the middle of the clip. Drag the control point up to increase amplification at this point, down to decrease. (To add additional control points, repeat steps 2 and 3. )] Note: To remove a control point, drag it off the top or bottom of the clip. If you hold down the SHIFT key before adjusting the control points, you will see values (in dB and %) for the exact amplification. Changing the amplification of an audio clip from the Timeline Adding a soundtrack Putting background music into your movie is simple, but you must carefully control the volume of both the source video and the music audio file to make it work. The best source for background music is your personal CD collection (as long as your movie is for personal use only and assuming you are extremely careful to follow all legal requirements concerning copyrighted material). It is possible to record CDs using Windows Recorder or even Audio Editor, but the best way is to use a CD Ripper, widely available on the Internet (try http://www. mp3. com for starters). When you "rip" a CD, you are extracting the actual data with 100% fidelity. MediaStudio Pro supports a large number of audio formats, with *. WAV files being the most popular. MP3 files may be smaller, but they require a lot of CPU power and will often cause slower operation in Video Editor. VIDEO EDITOR: CHAPTER THREE 185 Once you've inserted your soundtrack, you'll probably want to fade the music in and out smoothly to allow the audio from your video to be heard, or to hear a separate voiceover track. Create four control points at the following locations: at the beginning of the fade in, at the end of the fade in, at the beginning of the fade out, and at the end of the fade out. Drag the two middle control points lower to set the volume. Voiceover audio clip Background music audio clip Manually adjusting the volume lines Volume line Control points Note: For greater accuracy in editing, zoom in on the clips with the Zoom tool or Ruler Unit button (see page 119). It can be faster to simply preview the audio instead of both the audio and the video. Create a preview area and click File: Create Audio File to test the audio from the faded portion of the clip. You can automatically fade the audio at the beginning and end of two overlapping clips by using the Audio Cross-Fade tool, as detailed on page 38. 186 MEDIASTUDIO PRO USER GUIDE Creating titles Adding titles is an important part of nearly every video project. The most common examples of this are the opening and ending titles and credits. [. . . ] VC-97 resizing program window VC-78 saving . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TUT1-27 capturing Digital VideoTUT1-26 capturing MPEG videoTUT1-28 setting up DV . . . . . . . . . . VE-137 changing a clip's speed VE-136 Clip Selection toolVE-130, VE-143 INDEX 357 clip visibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VE-118 insertingVE-113, VE-114, VE-116 relinking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ]