Detailed instructions for use are in the User's Guide.
Studio 9
Professional Quality Movie-Making
Special thanks to Mike Iampietro, William Chien, Richard Edgley, Ivan Maltz, Jon McGowan, Keith Thomson, Jörg Weselmann, and Chris Zamara. Documentation: Nick Sullivan Copyright © 2003 Pinnacle Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Pinnacle Systems is a registered trademark, and Pinnacle Studio, SmartCapture, SmartMovie, Hollywood FX, RTFx and VST are trademarks, of Pinnacle Systems, Inc. QDesign MPEG-1 Layer 2 Fast Encoder/Decoder copyright © 19962002 by QDesign Corporation. The RealProducer is included under license from RealNetworks, Inc. RealProducer version 8.0. copyright 1995-2002, 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. Pro Logic is a registered trademark of Dolby Laboratories Inc. Windows Media is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. You agree not to remove any product identification or notices of the property restrictions from Pinnacle Systems' products or manuals. 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 and Help .............................................................................. 2 Setting options ......................................................................................... 4 Edit mode .................................................................................................... 5 The Player................................................................................................ 6 Playback controls..................................................................................... 8 Further editing topics............................................................................. 11
CHAPTER 2: CAPTURING VIDEO.............................. 13
The Capture mode interface.................................................................... 14 The Diskometer ..................................................................................... 16 The Camcorder Controller..................................................................... 18 The capture process.................................................................................. 19 Capture hardware................................................................................... 19 Capture step-by-step .............................................................................. 21 Scene detection...................................................................................... 23
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Digital capture .......................................................................................... 25 SmartCapture: Preview-quality capture................................................. 26 Full-quality capture................................................................................ 28 Audio and video levels  digital ............................................................ 29 Analog capture.......................................................................................... 30 Capture quality options.......................................................................... 31 Audio and video levels  analog............................................................ 31
CHAPTER 3: THE ALBUM .......................................... 33
The Video Scenes section ......................................................................... 36 Opening a captured video file................................................................ 38 Viewing captured video......................................................................... 42 Selecting scenes and files ...................................................................... 43 Displaying scene and file information ................................................... 44 Comment view....................................................................................... 45 Combining and subdividing scenes ....................................................... 46 Redetecting scenes................................................................................. 49 The Transitions section ............................................................................ 50 The Titles section...................................................................................... 51 The Still Images section ........................................................................... 52 The Sound Effects section........................................................................ 53 The Disc Menus section............................................................................ 54
CHAPTER 4: THE MOVIE WINDOW........................... 55
Movie Window views................................................................................ 57 Storyboard view..................................................................................... 58 Timeline view........................................................................................ 58 Text view ............................................................................................... 62 The toolboxes ............................................................................................ 62 The Video toolbox ................................................................................. 64 The Audio toolbox................................................................................. 66
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CHAPTER 5: VIDEO CLIPS ........................................ 69
Video clip basics ....................................................................................... 70 Adding video clips to your movie ......................................................... 70 Working with multiple capture files ...................................................... 71 Interface features ................................................................................... 72 Trimming video clips................................................................................ 73 Trimming on the Timeline using handles .............................................. 74 Clip-trimming tips ................................................................................. 77 Trimming with the Clip properties tool................................................. 78 Resetting trimmed clips ......................................................................... 80 Splitting and combining clips .................................................................. 81 Advanced Timeline editing ...................................................................... 82 Insert editing.......................................................................................... 83 Split editing ........................................................................................... 86 Using video effects .................................................................................... 90 Working with the effects list.................................................................. 91 Changing effect parameters ................................................................... 92 Fading effects in and out ....................................................................... 94 Previewing and rendering...................................................................... 94 Video effects  the basic set...................................................................... 95 Cleaning effects......................................................................................... 96 Auto color correct.................................................................................. 97 Noise reduction...................................................................................... 97 Stabilize ................................................................................................. 98 Time effects ............................................................................................... 99 Strobe..................................................................................................... 99 Speed ................................................................................................... 100 Color effects ............................................................................................ 101 Black and white ................................................................................... 101 Color correction................................................................................... 101 Posterize .............................................................................................. 102 Sepia .................................................................................................... 102
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Fun effects ............................................................................................... 103 Lens flare ............................................................................................. 103 Noise.................................................................................................... 104 Water drop ........................................................................................... 104 Style effects.............................................................................................. 105 Blur...................................................................................................... 105 Emboss ................................................................................................ 106 Mosaic ................................................................................................. 107 Old film ............................................................................................... 107 The SmartMovie music video tool......................................................... 108
CHAPTER 6: TRANSITIONS..................................... 111
Transition types and their uses ............................................................ 112 Previewing transitions in your movie .................................................. 115 Audio transitions ................................................................................. 116 The Ripple Transition command ......................................................... 117 Trimming transitions ............................................................................. 118 Trimming with the Clip properties tool............................................... 118
CHAPTER 7: STILL IMAGES .................................... 121
Editing still images ................................................................................. 124 Trimming with the Clip properties tool............................................... 125 The Frame Grabber ............................................................................... 125 The Frame grabber tool ....................................................................... 126
CHAPTER 8: DISC MENUS....................................... 129
Disc authoring in Studio ...................................................................... 131 Using menus from the Album.............................................................. 133 The DVD Player Control..................................................................... 135 Editing menus on the Timeline............................................................ 136 Editing with the Clip properties tool ................................................... 138 The Disc menu tool.............................................................................. 144
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CHAPTER 9: THE TITLE EDITOR ............................ 145
Launching the Title Editor................................................................... 146 The Title Editor controls ....................................................................... 147 Title-type buttons................................................................................. 147 Object toolbox ..................................................................................... 148 Edit ...
