Operation Manual

236 Pinnacle Studio 9
Options are provided for turning off either the
audio or the video. You may want to make an AVI
audio-only file for import into another program.
Alternatively, you might want to omit the audio
from a small web-page video in order to minimize
the file size.
The remaining options pertain to compression. For
more information see “Make AVI file settings” on
page 264.
3. Check the Diskometer to make sure you have
enough drive space.
4. Click the green Create AVI file button. Enter a
name for your AVI file when prompted.
The default directory for saving your file is:
C:\My Documents\Pinnacle Studio\My Projects
Click OK to start creating the file. To create the
AVI, Studio will decode any MPEG video in the
project, render any titles, effects and Hollywood FX
transitions, then compress the resulting frame using
the codec you specified in the Make AVI File
options panel.
This is generally a slow process: the actual time
depends on the speed of your computer and the
length of your video.
Checking your results
Once your movie has been rendered, you will
probably want to review the results. Click the
open file button to the left of the Settings button, and
select the avi file you have just created (or any other
that you want to view). Windows Media Player will
then open and display the file.