Detailed instructions for use are in the User's Guide.
Pinnacle Studio 10 Plus
Including Studio SE, Studio and Studio Plus
Easy, MORE Powerful, MORE Creative Video Editing
Special thanks to Mike Iampietro, William Chien, Richard Edgley, Ivan Maltz, Keith Thomson, Jörg Weselmann, and Chris Zamara. Documentation: Nick Sullivan Copyright © 1996-2005 Pinnacle Systems, Inc. and its licensors. All rights reserved. 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. and its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. Manufactured under license from Dolby Laboratories. © 1992-2005 Dolby Laboratories. All rights reserved. Dolby is a trademark of Dolby Laboratories. mpegable DS 2.2 © 2005 Dicas Digital Image Coding GmbH. Pentium, Centrino, the Intel Centrino logo and the Intel Inside logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. QDesign MPEG-1 Layer 2 Fast Encoder/Decoder © 1996-2005 by QDesign Corporation. QuickTime and the QuickTime logo are trademarks used under license. The QuickTime logo is registered in the U.S. and other countries. The RealProducer is included under license from RealNetworks, Inc. Real Producer version 8.0. copyright 1995-2005, RealNetworks, Inc. "RealProducer", "RealVideo," "RealServer," and "Real" logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of RealNetworks, Inc. All rights reserved. SmartSound is a registered trademark of SmartSound Inc. Windows Media is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. No part of this manual may be copied or distributed, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any human or computer language, in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, manual, or otherwise, without the express written permission of Pinnacle Systems, Inc. Pinnacle Systems, Inc. 280 North Bernardo Avenue Mountain View, CA 94943 Printed in the USA.
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Table of contents
BEFORE YOU START ..................................................XI
Equipment requirements......................................................................... xi Abbreviations and conventions.............................................................xiii On-line help ........................................................................................... xv
CHAPTER 1: USING STUDIO ....................................... 1
Undo, Redo, Help, Support and Premium ............................................... 3 Setting options ......................................................................................... 4 Edit mode .................................................................................................... 5 The Player................................................................................................ 6 Playback controls..................................................................................... 8 Further editing topics............................................................................. 11 Expanding Studio .................................................................................. 11
CHAPTER 2: CAPTURING VIDEO.............................. 17
The Capture mode interface.................................................................... 19 The Diskometer ..................................................................................... 21 The Camcorder Controller..................................................................... 22 The capture process.................................................................................. 23 Capture hardware................................................................................... 23 Capture step-by-step .............................................................................. 25 Scene detection...................................................................................... 27
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...Digital capture ...................................................................................... 28 Audio and video levels  digital ............................................................ 30 Analog capture.......................................................................................... 30 Capture quality options.......................................................................... 31 Audio and video levels  analog............................................................ 31 Importing video from DVD ..................................................................... 33
CHAPTER 3: THE ALBUM .......................................... 35
The Video Scenes section ......................................................................... 38 Opening a captured video file................................................................ 40 Viewing captured video......................................................................... 43 Selecting scenes and files ...................................................................... 45 Displaying scene and file information ................................................... 46 Comment view....................................................................................... 46 Combining and subdividing scenes ....................................................... 48 Redetecting scenes................................................................................. 50 The Transitions section ............................................................................ 51 The Titles section...................................................................................... 53 The Still Images section ........................................................................... 54 The Sound Effects section........................................................................ 57 The Music section ..................................................................................... 58 The Disc Menus section............................................................................ 55
CHAPTER 4: THE MOVIE WINDOW........................... 59
Movie Window views................................................................................ 62 Storyboard view..................................................................................... 63 Timeline view........................................................................................ 63 Text view ............................................................................................... 67 The toolboxes ............................................................................................ 68 The Video toolbox ................................................................................. 69 The Audio toolbox................................................................................. 71
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CHAPTER 5: VIDEO CLIPS ........................................ 73
Video clip basics ....................................................................................... 74 Adding video clips to your movie ......................................................... 74 Working with multiple capture files ...................................................... 76 The project video format ....................................................................... 77 Interface features ................................................................................... 79 Trimming video clips................................................................................ 81 Trimming on the Timeline using handles .............................................. 81 Clip-trimming tips ................................................................................. 85 Trimming with the Clip properties tool................................................. 86 Resetting trimmed clips ......................................................................... 88 Splitting and combining clips .................................................................. 89 Advanced Timeline editing ...................................................................... 90 Insert editing.......................................................................................... 92 Split editing ........................................................................................... 94 Using video effects .................................................................................... 98 Working with the effects list.................................................................. 99 Changing effect parameters ................................................................. 101 Keyframing.......................................................................................... 103 Using keyframing ................................................................................ 106 Previewing and rendering.................................................................... 108 Video effects library ............................................................................... 109 Standard effects ...................................................................................... 111 Auto color correction........................................................................... 111 Noise reduction.................................................................................... 112 Stabilize ............................................................................................... 112 Plus effects............................................................................................... 113 Lighting ............................................................................................... 114 Speed ................................................................................................... 114 Blur...................................................................................................... 114 Emboss ................................................................................................ 115 Motion blur.......................................................................................... 115 Old film ............................................................................................... 116 Soften................................................................................................... 116
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Stained glass ........................................................................................ 117 True camera blur.................................................................................. 117 Luma key ............................................................................................. 117 2D Editor ............................................................................................. 118 Color map ............................................................................................ 118 Lens flare ............................................................................................. 118 Magnify ............................................................................................... 119 Water drop ........................................................................................... 119 Water wave.......................................................................................... 119 Black and white ................................................................................... 120 Color correction................................................................................... 120 Invert ................................................................................................... 120 Posterize .............................................................................................. 121 RGB color balance............................................................................... 121 Sepia .................................................................................................... 121 The SmartMovie music video tool......................................................... 122
CHAPTER 6: EDITING WITH STUDIO PLUS ........... 125
Introducing the overlay track............................................................... 125 A/B editing .......................................................................................... 127 The Picture-in-picture tool................................................................... 128 The Chroma key tool ........................................................................... 133 Selecting colors ................................................................................... 140
CHAPTER 7: TRANSITIONS..................................... 141
Transition types and their uses ............................................... ...
