User manual ULEAD MEDIASTUDIO PRO 8

[. . . ] September 2005 P/N: C22-180-110-0A0001 First edition for Ulead® MediaStudio Pro® 8, September 2005. © 1992-2005 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 All rights reserved. [. . . ] Select the audio clip you want to apply the filter to. Click the Audio Filters button or Clip: Audio Filters or right-click the clip and select Audio Filters from the pop-up menu. Select the filter you want to apply from the Available filters list and click Add. The filter is moved to the Applied filters list. Click the Options button to view the filter and change its attributes. (Every filter has different options. ) 5. Change the various filter attributes until you get the result you want. (The options in this dialog box vary depending on the type of filter you are using. ) 6. The Audio Filters dialog box closes and the filter is applied to the clip. Filling the left or right audio channel With the Fill Left and Fill Right audio filters, you can copy audio from one channel and paste it to the other channel in clips that contain stereo audio. This is very useful when a clip incorporates two languages, with one from the left and the other from the right channel and you want to have the same content for both channels. You can also create stereo files using just the mono source audio. All you will need to do is copy it to both channels. To apply the Fill Right/Left filter: 1. In the Audio Filters dialog box, select either Fill Left or Fill Right from the Available Filters list. One channel will then be automatically copied into the other. CHAPTER 4: ADDING EFFECTS AND TITLES 133 Removing vocals You can apply the Vocal Reduction filter to remove the vocal from a sound track. To remove vocal from audio: 1. In the Audio Filters dialog box, select Vocal Reduction from the Available Filters list. Click Add>> then adjust the Strength and Vivid mode settings in the Vocal Reduction dialog box. Vocal removal or reduction is an art, and it has a trade-off. Usually, there are musical instruments at the same pan location (position in the stereo sound field) as the vocal to be removed. Vocal Reduction gives you control over how much bass and treble music frequencies you keep that are at the same location as the vocal. Creating titles Adding text to your video is essential in many situations. Titles often appear in the beginning and at the end of the movies. You can also put titles along the action to complement on-screen action. Title clips are treated as any other media clip in your project. They can be altered with any of the transformations and effects from MediaStudio arsenal. To create a title clip: 1. [. . . ] To speed up the workflow, you can also create templates for video settings that you frequently use. As for a slideshow without transition effects and background music, you can export the slideshow to separate bitmap image files. Note: You can decide which audio channels to export by adjusting the audio export mode on the General tab of the Preferences dialog box. To export video files: 1. Select the video clip you want to export from the Program video clip list. Select a file type (and the following settings if needed). [. . . ]