User manual ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO 5

[. . . ] November 2000 First English edition for Ulead VideoStudio version 5. 0, November 2000. 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. [. . . ] Don't forget that you can always undo just about any changes you've made in your project by pressing the Ctrl+Z keys. You can set up the levels of undo by pressing the F6 key to open the Preferences dialog box. 35 ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Trimming a clip with the Options panel: 1 Select a clip on the Timeline or in the Library. For example, click the seconds ("), and the numbers begin blinking. The Mark in shows where the clip begins and the Mark out point displays the end of the trimmed clip. 4 Click the Apply changes button. Note: Changes made in the Video duration box only affect the Mark out point. The Mark in point remains unchanged. Video duration Displays and sets the length of time of the clip. Arrow buttons Use these to fine tune your trimming. Video mark in / out Displays the points in the original clip where the trimming takes place. Reset Sets all values back to defaults. Apply changes button Applies new settings made on the Options panel to the selected clip. The Library can store multiple versions or copies of a single video clip. This means that you can break large clips up into a number of smaller clips using the trim tools and save these clips to the Library as separate entries. The source video file itself is not physically altered, nor are actual copies made of the original file. This is very useful since it allows you to manage your production very creatively, but it does not take up any more disk space since you still have only one video file saved on the hard disk. Creating multiple versions of a single clip: 1 Select a clip from the Library. 4 Reinsert the original clip into the Library by clicking the Load video button. Repeat steps 1 to 4 to create more versions as needed. 36 Note: In step 1, if you want to use an existing clip in the current project, drag a clip from the Timeline into the Library first. STORYBOARD The method of trimming illustrated here allows you to use your original video file as the source for a number of different clips in the Library. This type of editing does not affect the source file anyway. This clip is a trimmed version of the original video file saved on the hard disk. You can see at a glance that it has indeed been trimmed by selecting the clip and checking the Options panel or the Trim bar. Once the clip is trimmed, you can rename the thumbnail in the Library to avoid confusion between the trimmed and the original. (See detail on renaming in the notes below. ) This Library contains five versions of the same clip. Selected clips are highlighted in blue. When the original clip is reinserted into the Library, the Mark in point is zero and the Mark out point is the last frame. The Trim bar clearly shows that the clip has not been trimmed. Many times, when you make an edit, you may wish to make a permanent change to the clip and save the edited file. Again, Ulead VideoStudio gives you a margin of safety in that it saves the trimmed video to a new file and does not alter the original file. You can press the Delete key or drag the thumbnail to remove it from the Library, or even remove the original file to recover disk space when you are sure of your changes. Breaking a clip into multiple files: 1 Select a clip from the Library or Timeline. 4 You now have two different physical video files on your hard disk, the original file (such as SOURCE. AVI), and a trimmed copy (such as SOURCE-1. AVI). Notes: · To rename a thumbnail, click on the name of the thumbnail and modify it in the same way as you would in Windows Explorer. · Dragging a clip from the Timeline to the Trash only removes the thumbnail. [. . . ] Compression is achieved through a codec. MP3 Abbreviation of MPEG Audio Layer-3. MP3 is an audio compression technology that produces near CD audio quality at a very small file size, making it transfer quickly over the Internet. Data Rate The amount of data per second that is transferred from one part of your computer to another. In digital video, the data rate of your source is very important: CD-ROMs have lower data rates than hard disks. The data rate of the Internet is very low. MPEG-1 A standard for video and audio compression used in many products like VCD. [. . . ]