User manual ULEAD VIDEO TOOLBOX 2 HOME EDITION

[. . . ] August 2004 English edition for Ulead VideoToolBox 2 Home Edition, August 2004. 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 Video ToolBox is a trademark of Ulead Systems, Inc. [. . . ] Drag the Shuttle Control to quickly reverse or advance through the video. Plays the whole video. Moves to the start or end frame of a trimmed segment. Moves to the previous/next frame in the video. 16 ULEAD VIDEO TOOLBOX 2 HOME EDITION USER GUIDE Creating an image slideshow You can create a video slideshow using your images. To create, click Insert Image then in the dialog box, select the images (press [Ctrl] or [Shift] to select multiple files) you want to include in the slideshow and click Open. (See "Preferences" on page 21). Rotating an image Use the rotate buttons selected image. to change the orientation of the Rearranging the position of the clips Rearrange the clips in the Media Clip List by dragging and dropping the clip to the desired position. Step 3: Choose a style Choose a movie style for your project then customize movie style attributes such as transition effects, background music and text. Selecting a movie style In the Options Panel, click the style you want to use. Tip: If you do not want to apply a style to your project, select the white thumbnail in the Options Panel. ULEAD VIDEO TOOLBOX 2 HOME EDITION USER GUIDE 17 Changing the transition effect Transition effect Options Panel · · Transition effect Select the transition effect you want to use in the drop-down menu. Delete All Click to remove all transition effects in the Media Clip List. To change the transition effect: 1. In the Media Clip List, click the transition effect you want to change. 2. In the Options Panel, select a transition effect from the dropdown menu. Tip: Click Delete All to remove all transition effects from the project. Editing text Text Options Panel · · · · · Font face Select your desired font style. Click the color box to change the shadow color. · · 18 ULEAD VIDEO TOOLBOX 2 HOME EDITION USER GUIDE To edit the text: 1. Click an empty space in the Preview Window when you are done editing the text. Adjust the text attributes using the settings in the Options Panel. Changing the background music Audio Options Panel · Open Audio File Opens a dialog box where you can locate an audio file to use as the background music. Remove background music Removes the background music from the project. Music/Video slider Adjust the volume of the background music with respect to the video's audio. Normalize Audio Select to automatically adjust the volume to a standard level. This is useful when the background music used is recorded at varying volume levels. · · · To change the background music: 1. In the dialog box, locate the audio file you want to use for your background music and click Open. Use the Volume slider to adjust the volume of the background music with respect to the video's audio. Dragging the slider to ULEAD VIDEO TOOLBOX 2 HOME EDITION USER GUIDE 19 the left increases the volume of the background music and decreases the volume of the video's audio. Step 4: Create Video File Create a video file using one of the supported output video formats. In the Create Video File dialog box, enter the file name then click Save. If you have Ulead VideoStudio 8 or Ulead DVD Movie Factory 3 installed in your computer, the Burn button will be displayed in the Options Panel. Click Burn to use VideoStudio or MovieFactory to burn your video onto a disc. Note: The Burn button is only available for the DVD, VCD and SVCD formats. 20 ULEAD VIDEO TOOLBOX 2 HOME EDITION USER GUIDE Appendix Dialog boxes Batch Convert · Batch Convert List Displays the video files to be converted. The size, type, date modified and path of the video files are also displayed. [. . . ] DVD-VR compliant: Select to automatically set the video data rate to be compliant to DVD-VR specifications. Audio settings · Audio format: Select an audio coding format for DVD-Video. MPEG video encoding format include audio encoding, which use lossy information. Linear PCM (LPCM) is an uncompressed audio format which is similar to CD audio, but with higher sampling frequencies and quantizations. [. . . ]