Detailed instructions for use are in the User's Guide.
Pinnacle Studio 9
Including Studio SE, Studio QuickStart, Studio Standard and Studio Plus
Easy, MORE Powerful, MORE Creative Video Editing
Special thanks to Mike Iampietro, William Chien, Richard Edgley, Ivan Maltz, Jon McGowan, Keith Thomson, Jörg Weselmann, and Chris Zamara. Documentation: Nick Sullivan Copyright © 1996-2004 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. © 1992-2003 Dolby Laboratories. All rights reserved. Dolby is a trademark of Dolby Laboratories. mpegable DS 2.2 © 2004 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 © 19962002 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 1995-2002, 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. 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.............................................................xiv On-line help ........................................................................................... xv
CHAPTER 1: USING STUDIO ....................................... 1
Undo, Redo, Help and Unlock................................................................. 2 Setting options ......................................................................................... 3 Edit mode .................................................................................................... 5 The Player................................................................................................ 6 Playback controls..................................................................................... 8 Further editing topics............................................................................. 11 Expanding Studio .................................................................................. 11
CHAPTER 2: CAPTURING VIDEO.............................. 15
The Capture mode interface.................................................................... 17 The Diskometer ..................................................................................... 19 The Camcorder Controller..................................................................... 20 The capture process.................................................................................. 21 Capture hardware................................................................................... 21 Capture step-by-step .............................................................................. 23 Scene detection...................................................................................... 25
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Digital capture .......................................................................................... 26 SmartCapture: Preview-quality capture................................................. 27 Full-quality capture................................................................................ 29 Audio and video levels  digital ............................................................ 31 Analog capture.......................................................................................... 32 Capture quality options.......................................................................... 32 Audio and video levels  analog............................................................ 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 ...................................................................... 44 Displaying scene and file information ................................................... 45 Comment view....................................................................................... 46 Combining and subdividing scenes ....................................................... 47 Redetecting scenes................................................................................. 49 The Transitions section ............................................................................ 50 The Titles section...................................................................................... 52 The Still Images section ........................................................................... 53 The Sound Effects section........................................................................ 54 The Disc Menus section............................................................................ 56
CHAPTER 4: THE MOVIE WINDOW........................... 59
Movie Window views................................................................................ 62 Storyboard view..................................................................................... 62 Timeline view........................................................................................ 63 Text view ............................................................................................... 67 The toolboxes ............................................................................................ 67 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 ...................................................... 75 Interface features ................................................................................... 76 Trimming video clips................................................................................ 78 Trimming on the Timeline using handles .............................................. 78 Clip-trimming tips ................................................................................. 82 Trimming with the Clip properties tool................................................. 83 Resetting trimmed clips ......................................................................... 85 Splitting and combining clips .................................................................. 86 Advanced Timeline editing ...................................................................... 87 Insert editing.......................................................................................... 89 Split editing ........................................................................................... 91 Using video effects .................................................................................... 95 Working with the effects list.................................................................. 96 Changing effect parameters ................................................................... 98 Fading effects in and out ....................................................................... 99 Previewing and rendering.................................................................... 100 Video effects  the basic set.................................................................... 101 Cleaning effects....................................................................................... 103 Auto color correct................................................................................ 103 Noise reduction.................................................................................... 104 Stabilize ............................................................................................... 104 Time effects ............................................................................................. 105 Speed ................................................................................................... 105 Strobe................................................................................................... 106 Color effects ............................................................................................ 107 Black and white ................................................................................... 107 Color correction................................................................................... 108 Posterize .............................................................................................. 108 Sepia .................................................................................................... 109
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Fun effects ............................................................................................... 109 Lens flare ............................................................................................. 110 Noise.................................................................................................... 110 Water drop ........................................................................................... 111 Style effects.............................................................................................. 112 Blur...................................................................................................... 112 Emboss ................................................................................................ 113 Mosaic ................................................................................................. 113 Old film ............................................................................................... 114 Stained glass ........................................................................................ 115 The SmartMovie music video tool......................................................... 115
CHAPTER 6: TWO-TRACK EDITING WITH STUDIO PLUS ... 119
Introducing the overlay track............................................................... 119 A/B editing .......................................................................................... 121 The Picture-in-picture tool................................................................... 123 The Chroma key tool ........................................................................... 128 Selecting colors ................................................................................... 135
CHAPTER 7: TRANSITIONS..................................... 137
Transition types and their uses ............................................................ 138 Previewing transitions in your movie .................................................. 141 Audio transitions ................................................................................. 142 The Ripple Transition command ......................................................... 143 Trimming transitions ............................................................................. 144 Trimming with the Clip properties tool............................................... 145
CHAPTER 8: STILL IMAGES .................................... 147
Editing still images ................................................................................. 150 Editing image clip properties. ...
