Detailed instructions for use are in the User's Guide.
Pinnacle Studio
Version 12 Including Studio, Studio Plus and Studio Ultimate
Your Life in Movies
Special thanks to Markus Duerr, Travis White, Bertrand de Vregille, Richard Edgley, Jörg Tewes, Jan Piros, Jörg Weselmann, Mikel Zwissler and Sulekha Somasekhar. Documentation: Nick Sullivan Copyright ©1996-2008 Pinnacle Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Please respect the rights of artists and creators. Content such as music, photos, video and celebrity images are protected by the laws of many countries. You may not use other people's content unless you own the rights or have the permission of the owner. This product or portions thereof are protected under one or more of the following United States patents: 5,495,291; 5,946,445 6,469,711; 6,532,043; 6,678,461; 6,901,211; 6,907,191 7,124,366; 7,165,219; 7,286,131; and 7,301,092. Other patents are pending. Mpegable DS 2.2 ©2004 Dicas Digital Image Coding GmbH. Manufactured under license from Dolby Laboratories. This product contains one or more programs protected under international and U.S. copyright laws as unpublished works. They are confidential and proprietary to Dolby Laboratories. Their reproduction or disclosure, in whole or in part, or the production of derivative works therefrom without the express permission of Dolby Laboratories is prohibited. Copyright 1993-2005 by Dolby Laboratories. All rights reserved. MPEG Layer-3 audio coding technology licensed from Fraunhofer IIS and Thomson Multimedia. Portions of this product were created using LEADTOOLS ©1991-2006, LEAD Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Portions utilize Windows Media Technologies ©1999-2005 Microsoft Corporation. Real Producer SDK ©1995-2005 Real Networks Inc. This product contains portions of imaging code owned and copyrighted by Pegasus Imaging Corporation, Tampa, FL. All rights reserved. MPEG Layer II Audio by QDesign Corp. This product contains a YouTube API. 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
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Table of contents
BEFORE YOU START .................................................. XI
Equipment requirements ........................................................................ xii 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................................................................................................ 4 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 ............................................................ 30
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Analog capture.......................................................................................... 30 Capture quality options.......................................................................... 31 Audio and video levels  analog ............................................................ 31 Importing video from DVD ..................................................................... 33 Importing media from external devices.................................................. 34
CHAPTER 3: THE ALBUM .......................................... 37
The Video Scenes section ......................................................................... 41 Opening a captured video file ................................................................ 44 Viewing captured video ......................................................................... 48 Selecting scenes and files ...................................................................... 49 Displaying scene and file information ................................................... 50 Comment view....................................................................................... 51 Combining and subdividing scenes ....................................................... 52 Redetecting scenes................................................................................. 54 The Transitions section ............................................................................ 55 The Montage® Themes section ................................................................ 57 The Titles section ...................................................................................... 58 The Still Images section ........................................................................... 59 The Disc Menus section ............................................................................ 59 The Sound Effects section ........................................................................ 61 The Music section ..................................................................................... 62
CHAPTER 4: THE MOVIE WINDOW ........................... 63
Movie Window views................................................................................ 67 Storyboard view..................................................................................... 67 Timeline view ........................................................................................ 67 Text view ............................................................................................... 74 The toolboxes ............................................................................................ 74 The Video toolbox ................................................................................. 76 The Audio toolbox ................................................................................. 78
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CHAPTER 5: VIDEO CLIPS ........................................ 81
Video clip basics ....................................................................................... 82 Adding video clips to your movie ......................................................... 82 Working with multiple capture files ...................................................... 83 The project video format ....................................................................... 84 Interface features ................................................................................... 87 Trimming video clips................................................................................ 89 Trimming on the Timeline using handles .............................................. 89 Clip-trimming tips ................................................................................. 93 Trimming with the Clip properties tool................................................. 94 Resetting trimmed clips ......................................................................... 96 Splitting and combining clips .................................................................. 97 Advanced Timeline editing ...................................................................... 98 Insert editing ........................................................................................ 100 Split editing ......................................................................................... 102 The SmartMovie music video tool......................................................... 106
CHAPTER 6: MONTAGE® THEMES AND THEME EDITING........................................ 111
Using themes ........................................................................................... 113 The Themes section of the Album ....................................................... 114 Creating theme clips ............................................................................ 115 Working with theme clips on the Timeline ......................................... 117 Anatomy of a theme ............................................................................ 118 Opening the Theme Editor tool............................................................ 121 Using the Theme Editor tool ................................................................ 122
CHAPTER 7: VIDEO EFFECTS................................. 125
Working with the effects list................................................................ 126 Changing effect parameters ................................................................. 128 Keyframing .......................................................................................... 130 Using keyframing ................................................................................ 133 Previewing and rendering .................................................................... 135
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Video effects library ............................................................................... 136 Standard effects ...................................................................................... 138 Auto color correction ........................................................................... 138 Noise reduction .................................................................................... 139 Stabilize ............................................................................................... 139 Speed ................................................................................................... 140 Plus effects............................................................................................... 140 Blur ...................................................................................................... 141 Emboss ................................................................................................ 142 Old film ............................................................................................... 142 Soften................................................................................................... 143 Stained glass ........................................................................................ 143 Luma key ............................................................................................. 143 2D Editor ............................................................................................. 144 Earthquake ........................................................................................... 144 Lens flare ............................................................................................. 144 Magnify ............................................................................................... 145 Motion blur .......................................................................................... 145 Rotate................................................................................................... 145 Water drop ........................................................................................... 146 Water wave .......................................................................................... 146 Black and white ................................................................................... 146 Color correction ................................................................................... 147 Color map ....................................................... ...
