User manual ULEAD VIDEO STUDIO 8

[. . . ] 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 ICI Library © 1991­1992 C-Cube Microsystems. Ulead and the Ulead Systems logo are registered trademarks and Ulead VideoStudio is a trademark of Ulead Systems, Inc. Intel, Pentium and MMX are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of Intel Corporation. [. . . ] 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. Enter/Exit Denotes the trail from where the motion of the title will start and end. Clockwise Select to animate the curve in a clockwise direction. Turn dialog box · · Enter/Exit Denotes the trail from where the motion of the title will start and end. Pause Applies a break in between the start and end direction of the animation. Select No Pause to make the animation run seamlessly. 102 ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Zoom dialog box · · Show Title Select to display the title at the end of the animation. 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. · Zoom start/Zoom end: Enter the title zoom ratio at the start and end of the animation. ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE 103 Audio Sounds are one of the elements that determine the success of your video production. VideoStudio's Audio Step allows you to add both narration and music to your project. Insert your narrations on the Voice Track and your background music or sound effects on the Music Track. The Audio Step Options Panel The Audio Step Options Panel consists of two tabs: Music & Voice tab and Auto Music tab. The Music & Voice tab allows you to copy music from your audio CD, record your voice and apply audio filters to your audio tracks. The Auto Music tab allows you to use thirdparty music tracks for your project. Note: You cannot apply audio filters to the audio of your clips on the Video and Overlay Tracks. Music & Voice tab · · · Disc: Select the disc drive where the songs you want to record are located. Track: Where you select the particular audio track you want to record. Record Voice: Opens the Adjust Volume dialog box where you can first test the volume of your micophone. VideoStudio creates a new clip to the right of the existing audio in the Voice Track on the Timeline. This changes into Stop during the recording process. · · 104 ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE · Duration: Displays the duration of the audio track in hours:minutes:seconds:frames. You can also pre-set the length of the recording by entering the desired duration. Audio Filter: Opens the Audio Filter dialog box where you can apply audio filters to the selected audio clip. · · · · · Auto Music tab · · · · Library: Lists the available libraries from which music can be imported. Variation: Select from a variety of musical instruments and tempo to apply to the selected music. Play Selected Music: Plays back the music with the selected Variation. Add to Timeline: Inserts the selected track to the Music Track of the Timeline. SmartSound Quicktracks: Opens a dialog box where you can view information and manage the SmartSound Library. Fade-out: Gradually decreases the volume of the music. · · · · · · Adding voiceover narration Documentaries and news features often use narrations to help the audience understand what is going on in the video. [. . . ] In Ulead VideoStudio, each scene that is captured using the Split by Scene feature is based on the footage's recording date and time. In a captured DV AVI file, scenes can be separated into several files ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE 191 based on the footage's recording date and time or by changes in the content of the video. In an MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 file, scenes are separated into files based on content changes. Seamless Capture As a workaround to the 4 GB capture file size limitation in Windows systems that use the FAT 32 file system (such as Windows 98 and Windows Me), Ulead VideoStudio automatically saves captured video as a new file when this limitation has been reached. This method, known as seamless capture, allows the capturing process to be performed uninterrupted no matter how long the footage is. [. . . ]