User manual PINNACLE STUDIO 9

[. . . ] Pinnacle Studio 9 Including Studio SE, Studio QuickStart, Studio Standard and Studio Plus Easy, MORE Powerful, MORE Creative Video Editing Special thanks to Mike Iampietro, William Chien, Richard Edgley, Ivan Maltz, Jon McGowan, Keith Thomson, Jörg Weselmann, and Chris Zamara. Documentation: Nick Sullivan Copyright © 1996-2004 Pinnacle Systems, Inc. You agree not to remove any product identification or notices of the property restrictions from Pinnacle Systems' products or manuals. Pinnacle Systems, Pinnacle Studio Plus, TitleDeko, RTFx and VST are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of Pinnacle Systems, Inc. [. . . ] The Menu type options This pair of options determines whether you or Studio will organize the chapter links for this menu. If you choose Auto scene index, Studio will ensure that your chapter links are in the same order on the menu as they are in the movie itself, even if you shuffle the order of the clips in the Movie Window. With the Manual setting, the order in which chapters are shown on the menu is up to you. Tip: If you want to sort your chapter links yet still retain future control of their order, you can click Auto scene index first (to sort the links), then Manual. Link property controls The controls in this area set the display properties of the chapter links on the menu. Button selector: Every link button in your menu, no matter which page it is on, has a unique sequence number. Use the arrow buttons on this 172 Pinnacle Studio 9 control to select the menu button you want to work on. Button caption text field: Edit the text for the current button without going to the Title Editor. The "#" character in button captions has a special meaning: Studio replaces it with the button's sequence number. Use this feature to ensure that your buttons are correctly numbered regardless of changes in the layout of the menu. To edit other characteristics of a button caption ­ its position, font, and styling ­ click the Edit menu button to invoke the Title Editor. Set thumbnail button: By default, the thumbnail frame displayed on a menu button is the frame to which the button links. Just move the Timeline scrubber to the exact frame you want (as shown in the Player), and click the set thumbnail button. Moving thumbnails checkbox: Check this option if you would like your menu's buttons to show moving video from their target chapters rather than a static thumbnail frame. Because this feature requires that the moving thumbnails be pre-rendered, the results won't appear immediately when you preview your movie in the Player. Instead you will see a "background rendering" progress bar appear in the Timescale over the menu clip. The bar gradually changes color as the rendering operation progresses. Editing is not interrupted ­ Studio carries out the rendering while you work. Chapter 9: Disc menus 173 For more on background rendering, see "Hollywood FX for Studio" (page 140); and "Edit Settings" (page 256). Chapter-editing controls The controls in this area select or modify the individual chapter buttons within a menu. The Set chapter buttons: These buttons set or sever the link between the currently-selected chapter button on the menu and its target clip. To set a link: Position the Timeline scrubber within a menu, video or still image clip, and click the Create chapter button. For video and still image clips, the chapter point is set to the exact location of the scrubber within the clip. Set return button: This creates a "return-tomenu" link at the end of the current clip, which is where you almost always want it. To create a return-to-menu link in the Clip properties tool, position the Timeline scrubber in the clip where you want the link, and click Set return to menu. The Return after every chapter checkbox: Set this option to add a return-to-menu link after every chapter in this menu. [. . . ] Main Studio interface Space bar J K L X or Ctrl+Up Y or Ctrl+Down A or I S or O Ctrl+Left Ctrl+Right Alt+Left Alt+Right Alt+Ctrl+Left Alt+Ctrl+Right G D F E or Home R or End Play and stop Fast reverse (hit multiple times for faster playback) Halt playback Fast forward (hit multiple times for faster playback) Step forward 1 frame Step back 1 frame Mark in Mark out Trim in point by -1 frame Trim in point by +1 frame Trim out point by -1 frame Trim out point by +1 frame Rolling trim out point by -1 frame (trims following clip too) Rolling trim out point by +1 frame Clear mark in and mark out Go to mark in (in trimmer tool) Go to mark out (in trimmer tool) Go to start Go to end Appendix G: Keyboard shortcuts 345 Left Right Delete Insert Page up Page down Numeric pad + Numeric pad C V M Ctrl+Page up Ctrl+Page down Select previous clip Select next clip Delete selected clip(s) Split clip at scrubber position Go to next page in Movie Window Go to previous page in Movie Window Zoom in the Timeline Zoom out the Timeline Set menu chapter Clear menu chapter Set return to menu Go to previous menu chapter Go to next menu chapter Title Editor Alt+Plus Alt+Minus Ctrl+Plus Ctrl+Minus Ctrl+0 Ctrl+1 Ctrl+2 Ctrl+3 Ctrl+4 Ctrl+5 Ctrl+6 Ctrl+7 Ctrl+8 Ctrl+9 Ctrl+K Ctrl+M Shift+Left Shift+Right Bring to front Send to back Bring forward one layer Send back one layer Text justification off Text justification: bottom left Text justification: bottom center Text justification: bottom right Text justification: middle left Text justification: middle center Text justification: middle right Text justification: top left Text justification: top center Text justification: top right Kern, leading and skew Move, scale and rotate Expand character selection left Expand character selection right 346 Pinnacle Studio 9 Ctrl+Left Ctrl+Right Ctrl+Down Ctrl+Up Shift+Ctrl+Left Shift+Ctrl+Right Shift+Ctrl+Down Shift+Ctrl+Up Alt+Left Alt+Right Shift+Alt+Left Shift+Alt+Right Reduce horizontal scale of, or squeeze (kern), text selection depending on current edit mode (move/scale/rotate or kern/skew/leading) Increase horizontal scale of, or stretch (kern), text selection Reduce scale or leading of text selection depending on current edit mode Increase scale or leading of text selection Same as Ctrl+Left (coarse) Same as Ctrl+Right (coarse) Same as Ctrl+Down (coarse) Same as Ctrl+Up (coarse) In text selection: Move characters left. Same as Alt+Left (coarse) Same as Alt+Right (coarse) Appendix G: Keyboard shortcuts 347 Index A A/B editing, 121 Abbreviations, xiv Album Clipboard operations, 74 Disc Menus section, 56, 165 Drag-and-drop editing, 74 Filled during capture, 17 Image sections, 148 Interface features, 38 Introduced, 17 Menu usage, 39 Overview, 35 Previewing, 6, 37 Preview-quality scenes, 27 Selecting video scenes, 44 Sound Effects section, 54 Source folders, 37 Still Images section, 53 Title Editor. See Title Editor Album Titles section, 52 Transitions section, 50, 137 Video Scenes section, 38, 73 Scene view, 46 Select By Name, 46 Set Thumbnail, 42 Subdivide Scenes, 48 Alpha Magic transitions, 139 Analog Capture quality options, 32 Levels during capture, 33 Outputting to, 231 Animated pan-and-zoom, 154 Animation, 282 Aspect ratios (frame formats), 22, 42 Capture option, 250 Mixing, 76 Audio Adjusting on Timeline, 213 Background music, 200 Insert editing, 90 Original, 199 Overlay, 120 Overlay, original, 200 Sound effects, 200 Synchronized with video, 87 Synchronous, 63, 142, 199 Tracks on Timeline, 199 Transitions, 142 Uses of, 197 Using in Studio, 198 Using without video, 75 Voice-overs, 200 Volume and mixing, 210, 215 Album menu Combine Scenes, 47 Comment view, 46 Details view, 45 Find Scene in Project, 39, 77 Icon view, 45 Scene detection commands, 50 Index 349 Audio clips, 63 Interface details, 211 Trimming, 208 Of video effects, 100 Backgrounds section Of Title Editor Album, 191 Audio compression, 265 Settings (for AVI output), 265 Balance Adjusting on Timeline, 214 Audio effects, 220 Basic, 221 Equalizer, 223 Grungelizer, 224 Icons, 221 Karaoke, 225 Leveler, 226 Noise reduction, 221 Reverb, 226 Tool, 220 Unlocking, 97 Balance and volume, 71, 210 Bit rate (VBR vs. CBR), 267, 275 Black and white (video effect), 107 Blur (video effect), 112 Buttons Chapter. 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