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........................................................ 16 Readme .............................................................................. 16 PA R T I : V I D E O E D I T O R Chapter 1: Getting Started ............................................... 18 Understanding the workspace ............................................ 19 Standard Toolbar .............................................................20 Panel Manager ................................................................20 Timeline Toolbar ..............................................................21 Personalizing the workspace ..............................................21 Saving the layout ............................................................22 Setting up a video project .................................................. 22 Creating a new video project .............................................22 Opening an existing project ..............................................24 Customizing a video project ..............................................25 Project Options dialog box ................................................. 25 Saving project settings as a template .................................. 27 Enabling Smart Proxy .......................................................27 Saving a video project ......................................................27 Capturing video .................................................................. 28 Video Capture .................................................................28 Batch Capture .................................................................30 Scan DV Tape ..................................................................30 Creating project segments in Smart Compositor ................ 31 Using the Production Library .............................................. 36 Placing clips into the Production Library ..............................36 4 ULEAD MEDIASTUDIO PRO Using the Storyboard ....................................................... 37 Nested timelines ............................................................. 38 Working with folders ........................................................ 38 Drag and drop ................................................................ 39 Viewing Production Library thumbnails ............................... 39 Adding effects to the Production Library ............................. 39 Preferences ........................................................................ 40 Chapter 2: Working with the Timeline ..............................45 Inserting clips .................................................................... 46 Inserting video, audio and image clips ................................ 46 Extracting extra audio tracks ..............................................47 Inserting voiceover .......................................................... 47 Inserting title, color, and silence clips ................................. 49 Inserting Ulead video file types .........................................49 Inserting UIS files ........................................................... 50 Inserting soundtracks from third-party music ...................... 50 Inserting Video Editor projects .......................................... 51 Push Away insertion ........................................................ 51 Working with tracks ........................................................... 52 Single-track editing ......................................................... 52 Adding or deleting tracks .................................................. 52 The Track buttons ........................................................... 52 Determining the visibility of clips ....................................... 53 Displaying clips on the Timeline ......................................... 53 Zooming in/out of the Timeline ......................................... 54 General Timeline and Summary Timeline ............................ 54 Creating nested timelines ................................................... 56 Inserting nested timelines ................................................ 56 Editing a timeline ............................................................ 57 Working with virtual clips .................................................. 57 Viewing virtual clips in the Source Window .......................... 58 Adding virtual clips to the Production Library .......................58 Chapter 3: Editing .............................................................59 Making selections in the Timeline ....................................... 60 Using the Clip Selection Tool ............................................ 60 TABLE OF CONTENTS 5 Using the Time Selection Tool ...........................................61 Using the Track Selection Tool ..........................................61 Using the Track buttons ....................................................62 Grouping clips .................................................................62 Working with clips .............................................................. 63 Pasting attributes ............................................................63 Aligning clips ...................................................................64 Splitting the audio from video clips ....................................64 Changing the volume of clips .............................................65 Changing the speed of clips ..............................................65 Reversing the frames of a clip ...........................................67 Relinking clips .................................................................67 Calibrating video clips ......................................................68 Freezing a frame .............................................................68 Setting field options for video clips .....................................69 Working with cues .............................................................. 71 Placing project cues .........................................................71 Placing clip cues ..............................................................72 Placing chapter cues .......................................................73 Locating clips ..................................................................... 73 Locating an empty time slot ..............................................74 Trimming clips .................................................................... 74 Trimming in the Source Window ........................................75 Trimming in the Preview Window ........................................ 76 Using the Trim Window ....................................................76 Using the Scissors Tool to trim clips ..................................77 Defining trim options ........................................................78 Smart Trim .....................................................................79 Multi-trim Video ................................................................. 79 Split by Scene ..................................................................... 81 Ripple Editing ..................................................................... 82 Ripple Editing examples ....................................................83 Inserting clips into the middle of an existing clip ..................84 Using the Source Window ................................................... 85 Previewing your work ........................................................ 88 Previewing ......................................................................89 6 ULEAD MEDIASTUDIO PRO Instant Play ................................................................... 90 Using DV SmartPlay ......................................................... 92 Performing scrub previews ................................................ 92 Previewing on an external device ....................................... 93 Managing preview files ..................................................... 93 Chapter 4: Adding Effects and Titles .................................95 Using transition effects ...................................................... 96 Transition effects basics .................................................... 96 Customizing a transition ................................................... 97 Commonly used transitions ............................................... 99 The Flashback transition ................................................. 100 The Mask transitions ...................................................... 101 Mask transition options ....................................................102 Audio transitions ........................................................... 102 Using key frame controls in dialog boxes ......................... 103 Effects Manager ............................................................... 105 Previewing the applied effects ......................................... 106 Editing in the Preview Window ......................................... 107 Organizing effects ......................................................... 108 Overlay ............................................................................. 109 Overlay Options dialog box ............................................. 110 Overlay key types .......................................................... 111 Understanding Alpha Channels ........................................ 112 Using Gamma correction ................................................ 113 Working with mattes ...................................................... 114 Creating image and video mattes ......................................114 Using Grayscale mattes ...................................................115 Applying video filters ....................................................... 115 Applying a regional matte to a video filter ......................... 118 Video enhancement filters ................................................120 Enhance Lighting Tool ................................................... 120 Color Correction Tool .................................................... 121 Color correcting selected regions ................................... 122 Color correcting with the HSL wheel ................ ...