User manual ULEAD MEDIASTUDIO PRO 8.0 - SMART COMPOSITOR DESIGNER

Smart Compositor Designer USER GUIDE 1 Welcome to Smart Compositor Designer Smart CompositorTM Designer (SCD) is a design tool that lets you create Smart Compositor templates that you can use for your MediaStudio Pro projects. An easy-to-follow workflow guarantees fast and easy creation of your Smart Compositor templates. System Requirements Minimum Requirements · · · · · · Intel® Pentium® III compatible system (500MHz CPU) Microsoft®, Windows® 2000 with SP4 or XP Microsoft® DirectX® 9 256MB RAM (512MB or higher recommended) 1GB of available hard disk space (10GB recommended) CD or DVD-ROM drive Real-time features perform best with at least: · · · · Pentium 4, 2.0GHz CPU 512MB RAM 7200rpm IDE dedicated hard drive PCI-Express Dual Head (AV Out) Graphics cards for output Using the Smart Compositor Designer Tool Step 1: Create your project Work on your project like you used to, placing titles, media clips, filters and other movie elements. When you are finished working on your project, launch the Smart Compositor Designer tool by selecting Project: Design Tool. 2 Smart Compositor Designer USER GUIDE Notes: · · For video clips with sound, you have to "split" the audio track from the video track. If you do not split, the audio track will be ignored. There must be only one audio clip for a project (including virtual clip). Smart Compositor Designer will prompt an error message if there is more than one audio clip on the Timeline. Smart Compositor Designer does not support 3D moving path, project clips, and silence clips. · Step 2: Customize settings In the Smart Compositor Designer tool, customize the properties of each element in your video. By customizing the properties, you can lock certain settings or specify which settings the user can change in the template. The settings that you can customize will depend on the type of video element. Smart Compositor Designer USER GUIDE 3 Step 3: Save the template Save the tempate that you have just created so you can use it inside Smart Compositor. To save the template: 1. Select the path where you want to save the template in Save folder. Click to browse your computer for a Save folder. 2. Type in a Name and select the Category type. Category type determines the folder where your template will be placed in Smart Compositor. Tip: In Category type, select Customized to create your own folder. Type in the name in Customized. 3. Select how you want to save the template in Save Option. Select Package as an Installer (EXE) to package all the files used in your template into an EXE file. Select Package source files into a folder to package all the files used in your template into a folder. 4 Smart Compositor Designer USER GUIDE 4. In Thumbnail, use the arrow buttons to select the thumbnail image to use for your template. Click computer for a thumbnail image. to browse your 5. Click Save. After the save process, click Finish. Using your template in Smart Compositor Installer After creating the installer file, close MediaStudio Pro 8 then double-click the EXE file to unpack the files. Your template is automatically added into the Smart Compositor category you specified after you launch MediaStudio Pro again. Folder When you package your files into one folder, a folder with an encoded file name is created (e.g. 00DBAB454923102FB50BA407ED11AFDA). You need to manually copy and paste that folder into D:\Program Files\Ulead Systems\Ulead MediaStudio Pro 8.0\uct_plug to make your template appear in Smart Compositor. After copying, go into the folder then cut and paste the XXX.uct file into the uct_plug folder. By packaging your files into a folder, it also gives you flexibility in editing the clips you used in the template. You can simply open the specific clip in MediaStudio Pro, edit it then save the clip. Next time you use your template, the clip will be updated as well.