Version 4.0 User Guide Ulead Systems, Inc. October 1999 Seocnd English edition for Ulead VideoStudio version 4.0, October 1999. © 1992-1999 Ulead Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or storing in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form without the express written permission of Ulead Systems, Inc. Software license The software described in this document is furnished under a License Agreement which is included with the product. This Agreement specifies the permitted and prohibited uses of the product. Licenses and trademarks ICI Library © 1991­1992 C-Cube Microsystems. Ulead Systems, Inc., Ulead, the Ulead logo, and Ulead VideoStudio are trademarks of Ulead Systems, Inc. PhotoDisc images copyright 1999, PhotoDisc. PhotoDisc is a trademark of PhotoDisc, Inc. 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Taipei, Taiwan 110 Tel: +886 (2) 2764-8599 Fax: +886 (2) 2764-9599 URL: www.ulead.com E-mail: info@ulead.com.tw Europe: Wolfenbütteler Str. 33 38102 Braunschweig Germany Tel: +49-531-220-7920 Fax: +49-531-220-7999 URL: www.ulead.de E-mail: info@ulead.de Japan: No. 202, TE Building 4-5-16 Yohga, Setagaya-ku Tokyo 158-0097 Japan Tel: +81-3-5491-5661 Fax: +81-3-5491-5663 URL: www.ulead.co.jp E-mail: info@ulead.co.jp Contents 22 Step by step 24 28 38 40 44 50 Start & Capture Getting video onto your PC. Special info on DV and MPEG! 2 4 8 10 18 Important stuff Licenses, trademarks, and title page. Step by step The big picture Storyboard Basic cutting, pasting, and arranging your movie. An overview of the world of digital video and Ulead VideoStudio. Check out What's New? on p. 7. Installation Getting the software onto your computer. Effects Adding that professional touch between scenes with transition effects. The Video Wizard An introduction to the Video Wizard and how it can make your life easier. Title Beginning and ending titles, credits, and captions. Map of Ulead VideoStudio A map of the program and how to get around. Voice & Music Sound, background music, and voiceovers. Finish Finishing your movie and outputting a final cut. Special sections on DV and MPEG movies. 58 60 Glossary Words you can use to sound like an expert at cocktail parties. Index The big picture Just a few years ago, digital video was something that was out of reach for the average consumer. Powerful computers were too expensive and difficult to use. Recently, PC prices have plummeted while processing speeds have skyrocketed. Now, just about any new computer can do a decent job with home movies. And with software programs like Ulead VideoStudio 4.0, you don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure it all out. An introduction to digital video Tens of millions of camcorders have been sold around the world and computers have become standard fare in the home. It hasn't taken long for video capture cards to make the connection between the two. So what's the big deal with digital video? Besides being really fun, digital video on a PC is also quite revolutionary. Editing your video on your computer offers you the ease of mouse clicks, drag and drop operations, and cut and paste editing. What's more, with VideoStudio, you have access to nearly a hundred transition effects, professional titling capabilities and simple soundtrack creation tools. Learn in seconds, create in minutes. How it works The software follows a step-by-step paradigm. By working on one step at a time, editing tasks remain uncomplicated throughout the entire process, from start to finish. The two distinct program modules, Video Wizard and the main program, Ulead VideoStudio, both utilize this concept. The Video Wizard Video Wizard is a complete digital video editing program. It is primarily a quick start application that simplifies the creation of movies. Ulead VideoStudio itself is also amazingly easy to use and offers advanced editing controls and a fantastic array of tools and effects. Ulead VideoStudio 4 Getting video off of your camera and onto your PC's hard drive is the first step in creating digital video. This process is known as capturing video. You will also need a capture card so your computer can receive and interpret the video data from your camera. To make sure that everything works properly, follow your capture card's installation instructions. A short section of video captured to your computer is known as a video clip. You can scroll through your movie as easily as you do a Web page in a browser. With little effort, you can edit frame by frame, as well as change the order of scenes using the drag and drop method. Putting a transition effect in between clips is as easy as select and apply. Adding titles and credits is just like using a word processor. Type in your text and choose a style. And with a few more clicks, you can animate your titles to scroll or fade. 5 Ulead VideoStudio breaks your movie up into separate tracks, which gives you broad creative freedom. While your video probably already has a sound track, adding a voiceover narration brings clarity to your personal videos. Better still, add background music off of your favorite music CDs to set the mood in your movie. These tracks are independent, so changes to one track don't affect the other. All of the tracks in your movie are organized into a video project file. This project contains all of the information about how your movie is put together, but it is not your actual movie. All of the edits you make in your project do not affect the original clips themselves. This means that you can trim and edit without fear of making permanent changes to your original clips. When it is all ready to go, your computer collects all of the information together to create your final video file. This process is called rendering. So follow along in Ulead VideoStudio's step-by-step path and you'll find that your friends are amazed at the professional quality of your home movies. The only question you'll hear more often than "How'd you do that?" is "When's the sequel?" 6 What's New? New! Improved! Ulead VideoStudio 4.0 is a revolution in video. Smashing the 2GB file limit, automatic music recording from your CDs, support for MP3 audio files, a flexible titling engine, and automatic configuration are only a few of the many improvements. DV Computer video technology has changed faster than anyone could have predicted. Digital Video (DV) has taken the world by storm, becoming the format of choice for enthusiasts. It is easy to configure your computer to capture DV data from your camcorder, and the quality is superior to S-VHS. Most DV camcorders allow you to transfer footage from your computer back to tape, using the IEEE-1394 interface, with no loss of quality. Ulead VideoStudio has always supported DV editing, but the 4.0 version fully supports all aspects of DV. Setting up (see page 9) your computer to work with DV is extremely easy. You can even control your camcorder (see page 9) with Ulead VideoStudio and your mouse! And the best part is, Ulead VideoStudio also lets you record your final video back to your camcorder (see page 58) so that you can play the movie on big screen television. MPEG The other Big Story in recent developments is MPEG. Ulead VideoStudio gives you the power to edit MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 movies with amazing frame-accurate technology. The wide availability of CD writing hardware, or CD-R, allows anyone to create their own Video CD (VCD). Ulead VideoStudio 4.0 lets you create WhiteBook standard MPEG-1 movies (see page 56) that are ready to be written to a VCD. Ulead VideoStudio 4.0 also allows you to create amazing DVD quality movies using the MPEG-2 format, which is also used in direct digital satellite television. Start by capturing MPEG video straight from your camcorder, if your hardware supports it (see page 25), then trim and edit your movie with frame accuracy. Finally, take advantage of DVD quality (see page 57) to create your final MPEG-2 movie. This flexible technology allows you to create MPEG-2 movies from any source for a truly professional solution. Possibly the best method is to capture and edit using the lossless quality of DV and then output a highly compressed MPEG-2 movie. 7 Installation To install Ulead VideoStudio: 1. Place the Ulead VideoStudio CD into your CD-ROM drive. 2. When the Setup screen appears, follow the instructions to install Ulead VideoStudio onto your computer. Note: If the Setup screen doesn't appear after loading the CD, then you can manually start it by double-clicking the My Computer icon on your desktop, then double-clicking the icon for the CDROM drive. When the CD-ROM window opens, double-click the Setup icon. Ulead VideoStudio installation screen. The following applications are important in making digital video work well on your computer. The installation program will walk you through installing: · QuickTime 3 · NetShow Tools Ulead VideoStudio Web site. To run Ulead VideoStudio: · Double-click the Ulead VideoStudio (or Video Wizard) icon on your Windows desktop. · Or select the Ulead VideoStudio (or Video Wizard) icon from the Ulead VideoStudio program group on the Windows Start menu. Running Ulead VideoStudio from Windows Start menu. 8 Setting up DV support With the advent of Digital Video (DV), it has never been easier to capture, edit, and record video on your PC. Follow the installation instructions of your IEEE-1394 (AKA: FireWire, iLink) capture card, and consult your camcorder's manual for the proper hardware installation procedures. Setting up Ulead VideoStudio for DV 1. Connect your camcorder to your IEEE-1394 capture card. 2. Turn on your camcorder and set it to Play mode (or VTR mode). See your camcorder's manual for specific instructions. 3. Run Ulead VideoStudio. 4. Click the Global Options button and select Change Capture Plug-in. 5. Select the appropriate DV Capture Plug-in (this will vary depending on your hardware): Ulead DirectShow Capture Plug-in or Adaptec Capture Plug-in. If you have changed to a new plug-in, please restart VideoStudio. 6. Go to the Capture step and test the new settings. You also need to set up how Ulead VideoStudio will control your camcorder. The appropriate settings depend on your particular capture card. You may have to try a few settings to discover the one that works. Setting up DV device control 1. Click the Global Options button and click Select Device Control. 2. In the Device Control dialog box, click the Current device list. 3. Select your device. This will vary depending on your hardware: MS 1394 Device Control, TI 1394 Device Control, or Adaptec 1394 Device Control. 9 The Video Wizard The Video Wizard is the fastest and easiest way to get video onto your PC, arrange the various scenes, and create a finished movie. It is a great tool for setting up projects for editing in Ulead VideoStudio. Starting Ulead Video Wizard. In the Start step, you'll be able to quickly check your computer's setup and get your first project going. Begin by creating a Project. Just like a professional production, a movie is composed of many separate elements. In Ulead VideoStudio, these elements are conveniently organized into a single project file, or *.VSP. Getting started 1. Enter a Project name. 2. Click the Browse button to specifically select a location for your project file (optional). 3. Click the Get Video button to go to the next step and start capturing new scenes for your project. Note: Depending on the video source device (digital camera, camcorder, VCR, etc.) that is currently connected to your computer, the output is displayed in the Preview Window. To check your video source device's settings, click the Video Source button. 10 Ulead Video Wizard ready to capture video. In the Get Video step, you will be able to capture, or record, all the scenes that you want to use in your movie. When capturing, watch the capture information below the Preview window. Capturing video 1. Turn on your video source device and check all the connections to your computer. 2. Watch the Preview window for the output of your video sour ...