User manual ULEAD MEDIASTUDIO PRO 8

[. . . ] September 2005 P/N: C22-180-110-0A0001 First edition for Ulead® MediaStudio Pro® 8, September 2005. 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 All rights reserved. Ulead, the Ulead Systems logo, and MediaStudio are registered trademarks of Ulead Systems, Inc. [. . . ] With the Zoom window open, you can still work on your moving path by dragging the control points in the Motion Control window. Most of these controls will be available in the Effects Manager:Moving Path that will be opened after you drag the Moving Path thumbnail onto the clip in timeline. In Video Editor, you can choose from six distinct moving paths: 2D Basic, 2D Advanced, 3D, Cylinder, Sphere and Picture in Picture (you can also customize your own paths in the custom folder). You can access Moving Path controls in two different places within the program. Either right-click on the clip and choose Moving Path from the pop-up menu or click to open the Effects Manager. Selecting the clip in the timeline then clicking on the Moving Path will open up the controls. You can set the motion parameters in the Effects Manager or create an animated motion path interactively in the Preview Window. 128 VIDEO EDITOR To create a moving path in the Preview Window: 1. Drag the 2D Basic Moving Path onto the clip from Production Library: Moving Path folder. Click the Start control point (S) in the Motion Control window within the Effects Manager. In the Preview Window, drag on the clip surrounded by the green squares; position the clip where you want it to begin the movement. Click the End control point (E) in the Motion Control window within the Effects Manager. In the Preview Window, drag on the clip surrounded by the green squares; position the clip where you want it to begin the movement. Click the Play button to preview the moving path. Click on the yellow squares across the clip's borders to distort it nonproportionally. One common use for the 2D Basic Moving Path is to fix clips in a motionless position within another clip boundaries. You can often see this technique in live broadcasts, advertisement reels and news. You can think of it as a still moving path. To create a still moving path: A still moving path 1. Drag a clip into the Video1 track: this is the background (the anchor). Drag a clip into the Video2 track: this is the overlay. CHAPTER 4: ADDING EFFECTS AND TITLES 129 3. Change the Width value to 100 (the Height value automatically changes to keep the ratio). Change the X value to 240, and the Y value to 70 (this moves the center of the overlay to the upper right). Click on the End control point and repeat steps 5 and 6, entering exactly the same values. The 2D Advanced Moving Path dialog box is similar to the 2D Basic Moving Path except that you can rotate a clip around its central point and distort it. To create a 2D advanced moving path: 1. Select the 2D Advanced thumbnail from the Moving Path gallery and drag it onto a clip. Enter a rotation value, or drag the rotation dial to the desired value. [. . . ] From the Program list, select a program and use the Jog Bar and the markin/mark-out buttons. You can use [Ctrl] or [Shift] to select multiple programs from Program list and drag them to the Playlist entry point list. or Setting the name for a program, playlist, or entry point You can assign names to programs, playlists, and entry points in order to easily identify them. To set a program name: 1. The new name is shown in the Program list. To set a playlist name: 1. [. . . ]