User manual ULEAD MEDIASTUDIO PRO 7

[. . . ] January 2003 First English edition for MediaStudio Pro version 7, January 2003 © 1992­2003, 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. [. . . ] MediaStudio Pro supports a large VIDEO EDITOR: CHAPTER THREE 211 number of audio formats, with *. WAV files being the most popular. 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 135). 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. 212 MEDIASTUDIO PRO USER GUIDE Creating titles Video Editor uses a title plug-in to manage title creation, animation and type effect plug-ins when you are doing your projects. The default title plug-in that comes with the program is the Ulead title plug-in. You can add more animation and type effects plug-ins into Video Editor by following these steps: To install new plug-ins: 1. Select the animation or type effect plug-in files that you want to use in Video Editor 2. Copy and paste them in the respective plug-in folder in the Video Editor program folder structure. The most common examples of this are the opening and ending titles and credits. In Video Editor, you can place title clips in any of the video tracks, but in most cases you will want to place them into an overlay track (V1-V99). Doing so allows you to superimpose the text over your background video. Click OK and place the clip into an overlay track (V1) on the Timeline. VIDEO EDITOR: CHAPTER THREE 213 INSERT TITLE CLIP DIALOG BOX 1 2 3 5 4 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1. Open loads a previously created text file (*. TXT file extension) for the Title text. Preview window displays a preview of the title text and provides button controls for playing the title clip. It is recommended that your title stays within the area inside this box. Preview slider and button controls Drag the slider to see how the title clip progresses. Click the button controls to advance forward/backward by one frame or jump to the start/end of the clip. Play in Preview Window or External Monitor outputs the results in Video Editor's Preview and/or an external monitor. Preview Playback Options opens a dialog box where you can specify where to preview the filter/effect. Text orientation toggles between making the text's orientation vertical or horizontal. [. . . ] 314 Editing and customizing WMV profiles 100 Editing in A/B Roll mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 428 MEDIASTUDIO PRO USER GUIDE I Insert Title Clip dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Instant Playback performing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 New project creating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ]