User manual PINNACLE STUDIO 9-PROFESSIONAL QUALITY MOVIE-MAKING

[. . . ] Studio 9 Professional Quality Movie-Making Special thanks to Mike Iampietro, William Chien, Richard Edgley, Ivan Maltz, Jon McGowan, Keith Thomson, Jörg Weselmann, and Chris Zamara. Documentation: Nick Sullivan Copyright © 2003 Pinnacle Systems, Inc. Pinnacle Systems is a registered trademark, and Pinnacle Studio, SmartCapture, SmartMovie, Hollywood FX, RTFx and VST are trademarks, of Pinnacle Systems, Inc. QDesign MPEG-1 Layer 2 Fast Encoder/Decoder copyright © 19962002 by QDesign Corporation. [. . . ] Clear the Highlight style checkbox if you want to disable button highlighting while working in the Title Editor. 164 Studio 9 CHAPTER 10: Sound effects and music Video may be thought of as primarily a visual medium, but the role of sound in your movies is often no less important than that of the images on the screen. Feature film and television productions include numerous types of audio, beginning with the dialog and other sounds created during live action. In your movies, that raw soundtrack is brought in along with the video during Capture mode. It appears in the Movie Window Timeline view on the original audio track below the video track. Most commercial productions also require sound effects ­ slamming doors, crashing cars, barking dogs, etc. ­ and incidental music, which may consist of music created especially for the production, songs taken from recordings, or both. Voice-overs and other customized audio are also often needed. You can use all these types of add-on sound in your own movies: · A good starter set of effects in wav format is installed with Studio, and others are available from many sources. · The SmartSound tool automatically creates a music track of any desired duration in a variety of styles. Chapter 10: Sound effects and music 165 · You can drop mp3 files from the Album onto the Timeline or import CD audio tracks with the CD audio tool. · The Voice-over tool lets you add narration or commentary as you preview your edited video. Audio, whatever its type, is added to your production as clips in the Movie Window. These can be moved around, trimmed and edited in much the same way as video clips and still images. Once a sound clip is part of your movie, you can modify it with fades and other volume adjustments. You can adjust the positioning of your clips within a stereo or surround mix, and even change that positioning arbitrarily within the clip. You can also apply Studio's audio effects, including noise reduction and reverb among others. About surround sound A "surround" mix uses Dolby® Pro Logic® technology to encode the surround-sound audio onto a pair of stereo channels. Disc playback systems equipped with a Pro Logic decoder and a "5. 1" or better speaker layout can recover the original surround information. On other systems, the Pro Logic soundtrack will be heard as conventional stereo. To preview surround sound while editing in Studio, your PC's sound card must be connected to a sound system that includes a Pro Logic decoder, such as a powered speaker system with Pro Logic decoding or a Pro Logic-compatible AV receiver. For best results a digital audio connection (RCA or optical) is recommended. Note: Even if you cannot hear your surround mix in preview mode, it will still appear on your DVDs. 166 Studio 9 The Timeline audio tracks The Movie Window's Timeline view contains three tracks for audio: Original audio track: This contains the audio captured along with your video clips. It is sometimes called "synchronous" audio because it is recorded simultaneously with the video track. Sound effects and voice-overs track: Sound effects and voice-overs are the typical content on this track. [. . . ] Same as Alt+Left (coarse) Same as Alt+Right (coarse) Appendix G: Keyboard shortcuts 309 Index A Abbreviations, xiii Album Clipboard operations, 70 Disc Menus section, 54, 133 Drag-and-drop editing, 70 Filled during capture, 14 Image sections, 122 Interface features, 37 Introduced, 14 Menu usage, 37 Overview, 33 Previewing, 6, 35 Preview-quality scenes, 26 Selecting video scenes, 43 Sound Effects section, 53 Source folders, 35 Still Images section, 52 Title Editor. See Title Editor Album Titles section, 51 Transitions section, 50, 111 Video Scenes section, 36, 69 Select By Name, 46 Set Thumbnail, 41 Subdivide Scenes, 47 Alpha Magic transitions, 113 Analog Capture quality options, 31 Levels during capture, 31 Outputting to, 196 Animation, 245 Aspect ratios (frame formats), 20, 41 Capture option, 214 Mixing, 71 Audio Adjusting on Timeline, 180 Background music, 167 Insert editing, 85 Original, 167 Sound effects, 167 Synchronized with video, 82 Synchronous, 58, 116, 167 Tracks on Timeline, 167 Transitions, 116 Uses of, 165 Using in Studio, 166 Using without video, 71 Voice-overs, 167 Volume and mixing, 177, 182 Album menu Combine Scenes, 46 Comment view, 45 Details view, 44 Find Scene in Project, 37, 72 Icon view, 44 Scene detection commands, 49 Scene view, 45 Audio clips, 58 Interface details, 178 Trimming, 175 Audio compression, 229 Index 311 Settings (for AVI output), 229 Audio effects, 187 Basic, 188 Equalizer, 190 Icons, 188 Leveler, 191 Noise reduction, 188 Reverb, 191 Tool, 187 Black and white (video effect), 101 Blur (video effect), 105 Buttons Chapter. See Disc menus Clip, 55 Clip delete, 56 Clip split, 55 DVD toggle, 6 Edit menu, 64 Highlighting, 164 Mode, 3 Playback, 8 Razorblade, 81 Split clip, 81, 84 Split clip/scene, 56 Start/stop capture, 17 Tool selector, 63 Toolbox, 62 Track-locking, 82 Undo, Redo and Help, 2 View selection, 55 Audio levels Changing during capture, 16 In analog capture, 32 In DV capture, 29 Audio toolbox, 66 Audio track Linked to video track, 83 Audio tracks, 168 Auto color correct (video effect), 97 Automatic scene detection. MPEG, 199 Saving movie as, 199 Buttons section Of Title Editor Album, 161 AVI files, 53 C B Camcorder Controller, 15, 16, 18, 126 Capture, 13 Analog quality options, 31 Analog vs. [. . . ]