User manual PINNACLE STUDIO 12

[. . . ] 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. 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. [. . . ] The parameters for pan-and-zoom are exactly parallel to those offered by the tool interface: you can use the sliders to set Zoom, Horizontal position and Vertical position. The "red-eye reduction" controls of the tool interface do not have equivalent parameters, however. Tip: Studio Plus users can use keyframing to create Pan and zoom slideshows using the effect parameters. Parameter settings for the Pan-and-zoom effect. 188 Pinnacle Studio THE FRAME GRABBER The Frame Grabber can capture a still image from any video capture source supported by Studio, or extract a single frame from any video clip in your current project. The grabbed frame can be added directly to your movie or saved out to disk in any of a number of standard graphics formats. Once you have saved a grabbed frame to disk, you can: · Use it in other software applications. · Import it back into your movies as a still image via the Album or the Title Editor. The Frame grabber tool Use the Frame grabber tool in conjunction with the Player. Play the movie or source video until the frame you want is displayed in the Player, then click the Grab button. The grabbed frame appears in the tool's preview area, ready to be added to your movie or saved as a file on disk. Grab from: Select a source for the frame grabber by clicking either the Movie or the Camcorder button at the top of the tool. Choosing Camcorder means that the Chapter 10: Still images 189 frame grabber will use your current video source, as configured in the Capture source options panel (page 284) and the Capture format options panel (page 287). Note: Grabbing a frame from the camcorder is not supported for HDV equipment. The Frame grabber in grab-from-movie mode. With DV equipment, you can navigate the source tape from within the tool. Transport controls: If your source video is a digital camcorder or VCR connected to a 1394 port, Studio provides convenient on-screen transport controls for locating the frame you wish to grab. For a description of these controls see "The Camcorder Controller" on page 22. Reduce flicker: If the source video of the frame grab contains a large amount of motion, the grabbed frame may show flickering, which can be reduced or eliminated by checking the Reduce flicker option. Because Reduce flicker also reduces resolution somewhat, you should not use the option if the overall result is undesirable for a particular image. 190 Pinnacle Studio Grab: Click the Grab button when you have located the frame you want to grab in the Player and configured the Reduce flicker option. The grabbed frame is displayed in the tool's preview area, and the two output buttons (Add to Movie and Save to Disk) are enabled. Add to movie: This button inserts the grabbed frame into the Movie Window video track ahead of the currently-selected clip. Save to disk: This button opens a Save As dialog so that you can select a folder, file name and image format for the file in which the grabbed frame will be stored. The dialog also provides controls that let you set the resolution of the saved image to any of several standard sizes, to the original size of the grabbed frame, or to a custom size that you enter. If the "aspect ratio" (the ratio of the width to the height) of the size you choose is different from that of the grabbed frame, the image is stretched as necessary. This can introduce visible distortion of shapes; for instance, people may appear either unnaturally thin or unnaturally squat. Chapter 10: Still images 191 CHAPTER 11: Disc menus With the advent of the DVD, VCD and S-VCD disc formats, video became an interactive medium, with new possibilities for both videographer and audience. Developing ­ "authoring" ­ a disc in one of these formats means going beyond the old idea of creating a movie to be viewed in strict sequence from beginning to end. Now the audience can decide which parts of the movie to view, and in what order. [. . . ] Plus, 256 Stereo Echo, 261 Stereo Spread, 262 Tool, 255 Unlocking, 127 Backgrounds section Of Title Editor Album, 223 Balance Adjusting on Timeline, 246 Balance and volume, 79, 242 Black and white (video effect), 146 Blur (video effect), 141 Blu-ray Output movie to, 266 Buttons Add Marker, 71 Audio scrubbing, 64 Chapter. See Disc menus Clip, 64 Clip delete, 65 Clip marker, 64 Clip split, 64 Delete Marker, 71 DVD toggle, 5 Edit menu, 77 Highlighting, 227 Audio levels Changing during capture, 20 In analog capture, 32 In DV capture, 30 Audio scrubbing button, 64 Audio toolbox, 78 Audio track Linked to video track, 100 388 Pinnacle Studio Mode, 2 Playback, 8 Razorblade, 97 Reset (pan-and-zoom), 184 Split clip, 97, 101 Split clip/scene, 64 Start/stop capture, 21 Tool selector, 75 Toolbox, 74 Track-locking, 99 Undo, Redo, Help, Support and Activate, 2 View selection, 64 Capture settings, 20 Captured video Folders, 44 Opening file, 44 CD audio clips Properties of, 241 CD audio tool, 79, 234 ChannelTool (audio effect), 258 Chapter links. See Links Chapters On menu track, 200 Buttons section Of Title Editor Album, 226 Chorus (audio effect), 258 Chroma key Background cloth for, 166 Tips, 165 Tool, 160 Video effect, 164 C Camcorder Controller, 19, 20, 22, 190 Capture, 17 Analog quality options, 31 And the Album, 19 Audio and video levels, 31 Change directory, 21 Device selection, 24 Devices, 284 Digital vs. analog, 20 Directory, 21 Drive-speed, 29 Format options, 287 From analog sources, 30 From DV, 28, 30 From DVD, 33 From HDV, 30 Hardware, 23 MPEG options, 290 Preparing hard drive, 317 Scene detection, 26 Source options, 284 Sources, 23 Step-by-step, 24 To multiple files, 83 Clip markers, 71 Adding, deleting, naming, 71 Controls, 73 Clip properties Duration, 182 Name, 182 Clip properties tool, 71, 76, 78 For audio clips, 240 For disc menus, 202 For still images, 182 For transitions, 177 For video clips, 95 Trimming with, 94, 177 Clipboard With Album and Movie Window, 82 Clips Audio, 67 Changing name, 94 Combining, 98 Deleting, 65 Splitting, 64, 97 Theme, 113, 115, 117 Trimming on the Timeline, 89 Trimming tips, 93 Video, 67 Capture mode Interface, 18 Introduced, 1 Close-ups, 351 Index 389 Color correction (video effect), 147 Color effects White balance, 149 DirectX, xii Disc Image on hard drive, 265 MPEG encoding, 28 Previewing, 198 Saving movie to, 265 Color map (video effect), 147 Colors Selecting, 167 Combine Clips menu command, 98 Compression Audio, 307 Video, 305, 306 Disc chapter command, 198 Disc menu tool, 77, 207 Disc menus, 193 Automatic link creation, 197 Button captions, 197 Chapter editing, 206 Creating, 209 Described, 193 Editing, 209 Editing links, 202 Editing on Timeline, 200 Link numbers during editing, 203 Loop during playback, 194 Menus vs. [. . . ]