User manual ULEAD INSTAMEDIA TIME-SHIFT QUICK GUIDE

[. . . ] Ulead and the Ulead Systems logo are registered trademarks and Ulead VideoStudio is a trademark of Ulead Systems, Inc. Intel, Pentium and MMX are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of Intel Corporation. Microsoft, Windows, DirectX and/or other Microsoft products referenced herein are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Adobe, the Adobe logo, and Acrobat are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. [. . . ] It is recommended to keep your text within the title safe area. The title safe area is the rectangular box on the Preview Window. By keeping the text within the bounds of the title safe area, the whole text will not be truncated when viewed on a TV screen. You can display or hide the title safe area by selecting File: Preferences General tab - Display title safe area in Preview Window. 96 ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE To edit the text: · For single titles, select the title clip on the Title Track and click the Preview Window. · For multiple titles, select the title clip on the Title Track and click the Preview Window then click the text that you want to edit. Notes: · Once a title clip has been inserted onto the Timeline, you can adjust its duration by either dragging the handles of the clip, or entering a Duration value in the Options Panel. · To see how the title appears on the underlying video clip, select the title clip and then click Play Clip or drag the Jog Bar. Tip: When you are creating multiple title clips that share the same attributes such as font type and style, it is a good rule of thumb to store one copy of your title clip in the Library. (Just drag and drop the title clip from the Timeline into the Library. ) This way, you can easily duplicate the title clip (by dragging it from the Library back onto the Title Track) and then change the title. To add preset text to your project: The Library contains various preset text that you can use for your projects. To use these preset text, select Title in the Library Folder list then drag the preset text onto the Title Track. ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE 97 Modifying text attributes Modify the attributes of your text, such as font face, style, size, and more, by using the available settings in the Options Panel. (See "The Title Step Options Panel" on page 98). Click More options to access more options you can use to modify your text attributes. These options allow you to set the style and alignment, apply a Border, Transparency and Shadow and add a Text backdrop to your text. To apply animation to the current text: 1. Click the Type arrow then select the desired animation effect. Click to open a dialog box where you can set how the animation will be applied to your text. (See "Animation effects" on page 99). Tip: You can also click the Presets arrow to select a preset to apply to your text. 4. Click OK to apply the animation effect. Animation effects Drop dialog box · · Accelerate: Select to start animating the next unit of the title clip before the current unit exits the screen. Unit: Determines how the title appears in the scene: Text: The whole title appears in the scene. Character: The title appears in the scene one character at a time. Word: The title appears in the scene one word at a time. Line: A line of text appears in the scene one at a time. Fade dialog box 100 ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE · Unit: Determines how the title appears in the scene: Text: The whole title appears in the scene. Character: The title appears in the scene one character at a time. Word: The title appears in the scene one word at a time. Line: A line of text appears in the scene one at a time. · · Pause Applies a break in between the start and end direction of the animation. [. . . ] In the world of DV and DVD, NTSC has the video resolution of 720x480 pixels, while PAL has 720x576 pixels. Overlay These are the superimposed video or image clips over existing clips in your project. Plug-ins Plug-ins are utilities that add more functions and effects to a program. In Ulead VideoStudio, plug-ins have made it possible for the program to automatically recognize capture devices as well as output videos for different purposes such as for e-mail, Web page, video greeting cards, and DV recording. Profile A Profile covers various attributes for a Windows Media Format file such as bit rate, number and type of streams, compression quality, frame size and so on. Project File In VideoStudio, a project file (*. VSP) contains the required information to link all associated image, audio, and video files. You need to open a project file first before starting video-editing in VideoStudio. Render Rendering is the process of making a finished movie from the source files in a project. Scenes A scene is a series of frames binded by continuity. In Ulead VideoStudio, each scene that is captured using the Split by Scene feature is based on the footage's recording date and time. [. . . ]