User manual PINNACLE STUDIO9

[. . . ] 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. 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. [. . . ] The Title Editor is not limited to creating passive titles. For disc projects, you can also add and edit the special buttons needed for handling viewer interaction with the menus of VCD, S-VCD and DVD movies. Creating a title in the Studio 9 Title Editor tool. The large area containing the picture and the text is the Edit Window, while the panel occupying most of the right-hand side is the Title Editor Album. Other controls are in clusters around the Edit Window. Chapter 10: The Title Editor 177 Launching the Title Editor Reflecting the versatility of the Title Editor is the variety of ways of accessing it from Studio's Edit mode, using either one of the tools in the Video toolbox (see page 69) or a mouse command on one of the Timeline tracks (see page 63). · To create a full-screen title or menu: Select Go to · · · · · · Title/Menu Editor from the right-button context menu in the Timeline video track. To create an overlay title or menu: Double-click the Timeline title track. To create a title or menu from the toolbox: Open the Create title tool and click Title Overlay or Full Screen Title. To edit a full-screen title: Double-click the title in any Movie Window view, or right-click the title and select Go to Title/Menu Editor. To edit a full-screen menu: Double-click the menu in any view and click the Edit Menu button, or rightclick the menu and select Go to Title/Menu Editor. To edit an overlay title or menu: Double-click the clip on the title track or in List View, or right-click it in any view and select Go to Title/Menu Editor. To edit a title or menu from the toolbox: With the clip open in the Clip properties tool, click the Edit Menu or the Edit Title button. If the list seems overwhelming, don't let it concern you. In practice, getting to the Title Editor by the nearest available means will give the result you want. If you do accidentally create an overlay when you want a full178 Pinnacle Studio 9 screen title or menu, or vice versa, just drag it onto the other Timeline track. If you find yourself creating a title when you wanted a disc menu, you can easily switch over in the Title Editor. THE TITLE EDITOR CONTROLS The main Title Editor controls are laid out in clusters around the Edit Window (see the picture on page 177). Title-type buttons The four buttons in this cluster sit on the left side of the screen above the Title Editor's Edit Window. Only one of them can be selected at a time. Choose the first button if you are creating a still title. The second creates a roll, in which the title text and graphics travel upwards on the screen as the title displays, like the credits at the end of a move. The third creates a crawl, in which the title is displayed as a single line of text moving from right to left across the screen like the bulletins on a TV news show. Availability: Rolls and crawls are not supported in the SE and QuickStart versions of Studio. The fourth button is for creating disc menus, which you can usefully think of as "titles with buttons". In fact, a Chapter 10: The Title Editor 179 menu is just like any other title except for two attributes: · A menu has at least one button. A title has none. Adding a button to a title turns it into a menu, and deleting the last button on a menu turns it into a title. By the same token, if you click the Menu button while editing a title, Studio automatically adds a button to the title. · A menu cannot have rolling or crawling text. The Title Editor does not allow you to add menu buttons to a rolled or crawled title. Object toolbox This cluster of four Title Editor tool buttons is located at left below the Edit Window. [. . . ] No selection: Move right all text from cursor to end of line. Same as Alt+Left (coarse) Same as Alt+Right (coarse) Appendix G: Keyboard shortcuts 347 Index A A/B editing, 121 Abbreviations, xiv Album Clipboard operations, 74 Disc Menus section, 56, 165 Drag-and-drop editing, 74 Filled during capture, 17 Image sections, 148 Interface features, 38 Introduced, 17 Menu usage, 39 Overview, 35 Previewing, 6, 37 Preview-quality scenes, 27 Selecting video scenes, 44 Sound Effects section, 54 Source folders, 37 Still Images section, 53 Title Editor. See Title Editor Album Titles section, 52 Transitions section, 50, 137 Video Scenes section, 38, 73 Scene view, 46 Select By Name, 46 Set Thumbnail, 42 Subdivide Scenes, 48 Alpha Magic transitions, 139 Analog Capture quality options, 32 Levels during capture, 33 Outputting to, 231 Animated pan-and-zoom, 154 Animation, 282 Aspect ratios (frame formats), 22, 42 Capture option, 250 Mixing, 76 Audio Adjusting on Timeline, 213 Background music, 200 Insert editing, 90 Original, 199 Overlay, 120 Overlay, original, 200 Sound effects, 200 Synchronized with video, 87 Synchronous, 63, 142, 199 Tracks on Timeline, 199 Transitions, 142 Uses of, 197 Using in Studio, 198 Using without video, 75 Voice-overs, 200 Volume and mixing, 210, 215 Album menu Combine Scenes, 47 Comment view, 46 Details view, 45 Find Scene in Project, 39, 77 Icon view, 45 Scene detection commands, 50 Index 349 Audio clips, 63 Interface details, 211 Trimming, 208 Of video effects, 100 Backgrounds section Of Title Editor Album, 191 Audio compression, 265 Settings (for AVI output), 265 Balance Adjusting on Timeline, 214 Audio effects, 220 Basic, 221 Equalizer, 223 Grungelizer, 224 Icons, 221 Karaoke, 225 Leveler, 226 Noise reduction, 221 Reverb, 226 Tool, 220 Unlocking, 97 Balance and volume, 71, 210 Bit rate (VBR vs. CBR), 267, 275 Black and white (video effect), 107 Blur (video effect), 112 Buttons Chapter. 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