Detailed instructions for use are in the User's Guide.
Pinnacle Studio 11 Plus
Including Studio, Studio Plus and Studio Ultimate
Easy, MORE Powerful, MORE Creative Video Editing
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Table of contents
BEFORE YOU START ..................................................XI
Equipment requirements......................................................................... xi Abbreviations and conventions............................................................. xiv On-line help .......................................................................................... xvi
CHAPTER 1: USING STUDIO ....................................... 1
Undo, Redo, Help, Support and Premium ............................................... 2 Setting options ......................................................................................... 3 Edit mode .................................................................................................... 4 The Player................................................................................................ 5 Playback controls..................................................................................... 7 Further editing topics............................................................................. 11 Expanding Studio .................................................................................. 11
CHAPTER 2: CAPTURING VIDEO.............................. 17
The Capture mode interface.................................................................... 18 The Diskometer ..................................................................................... 20 The Camcorder Controller..................................................................... 22 The capture process.................................................................................. 22 Capture hardware................................................................................... 23 Capture step-by-step .............................................................................. 24 Scene detection...................................................................................... 26 Digital capture .......................................................................................... 28 Audio and video levels  digital ............................................................ 29
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Analog capture.......................................................................................... 30 Capture quality options.......................................................................... 31 Audio and video levels  analog............................................................ 31 Importing video from DVD ..................................................................... 32 Importing media from external devices.................................................. 34
CHAPTER 3: THE ALBUM .......................................... 37
The Video Scenes section ......................................................................... 40 Opening a captured video file................................................................ 44 Viewing captured video......................................................................... 47 Selecting scenes and files ...................................................................... 48 Displaying scene and file information ................................................... 50 Comment view....................................................................................... 50 Combining and subdividing scenes ....................................................... 52 Redetecting scenes................................................................................. 54 The Transitions section ............................................................................ 55 The Titles section...................................................................................... 57 The Still Images section ........................................................................... 58 The Disc Menus section............................................................................ 59 The Sound Effects section........................................................................ 61 The Music section ..................................................................................... 62
CHAPTER 4: THE MOVIE WINDOW........................... 65
Movie Window views................................................................................ 68 Storyboard view..................................................................................... 68 Timeline view........................................................................................ 69 Text view ............................................................................................... 73 The toolboxes ............................................................................................ 73 The Video toolbox ................................................................................. 75 The Audio toolbox................................................................................. 77
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CHAPTER 5: VIDEO CLIPS ........................................ 79
Video clip basics ....................................................................................... 80 Adding video clips to your movie ......................................................... 80 Working with multiple capture files ...................................................... 82 The project video format ....................................................................... 83 Interface features ................................................................................... 85 Trimming video clips................................................................................ 87 Trimming on the Timeline using handles .............................................. 87 Clip-trimming tips ................................................................................. 91 Trimming with the Clip properties tool................................................. 92 Resetting trimmed clips ......................................................................... 94 Splitting and combining clips .................................................................. 95 Advanced Timeline editing ...................................................................... 96 Insert editing.......................................................................................... 98 Split editing ......................................................................................... 100 Using video effects .................................................................................. 104 Working with the effects list................................................................ 105 Changing effect parameters ................................................................. 107 Keyframing.......................................................................................... 109 Using keyframing ................................................................................ 112 Previewing and rendering.................................................................... 115 Video effects library ............................................................................... 115 Standard effects ...................................................................................... 117 Auto color correction........................................................................... 118 Noise reduction.................................................................................... 118 Stabilize ............................................................................................... 119 Speed ................................................................................................... 120 Plus effects............................................................................................... 120 Blur...................................................................................................... 121 Emboss ................................................................................................ 121 Old film ............................................................................................... 122 Soften................................................................................................... 122 Stained glass ........................................................................................ 122 Luma key ............................................................................................. 123 2D Editor ............................................................................................. 123 Earthquake........................................................................................... 123 Lens flare ............................................................................................. 124
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Magnify ............................................................................................... 124 Motion blur.......................................................................................... 124 Water drop ........................................................................................... 125 Water wave.......................................................................................... 125 Black and white ................................................................................... 125 Color correction................................................................................... 125 Color map ............................................................................................ 126 Invert ................................................................................................... 126 Lighting ............................................................................................... 127 Posterize .............................................................................................. 127 RGB color balance............................................................................... 128 Sepia .................................................................................................... 128 White balance ...................................................................................... 129 The SmartMovie music video tool......................................................... 129
CHAPTER 6: TWO-TRACK EDITING WITH STUDIO PLUS.... 133
Introducing the overlay track............................................................... 133 A/B editing .......................................................................................... 1 ...
