Operation Manual

Chapter 6: Montage
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CHAPTER 6:
Montage
Pinnacle Studio’s Montage is a method of enhancing your movies
with off-the-shelf slideshow, animation and multitrack editing
effects. Numerous professionally
designed sequences, called templates, are
available to give your productions instant
impact. The templates are grouped into
matching themes, so that along with the
technical sophistication of the templates
you will also find it easy to maintain a
consistent look.
But the prepared templates are only half
the magic of Montage. The other half is customization. Montage
templates have slots that can contain several types of custom data,
including video, text captions, photos and more. You can fill in a slot
just by dragging a suitable asset to the corresponding displayed drop
zone.
Montage in the Library
Templates are grouped by theme in the Montage section of the
Library. Each theme consists of a set of templates that can be added
to your project as ‘Montage clips’. You can create attractive,
visually consistent sequences that integrate artist-created titles and
animations with your own photos and video. See “The Montage
section of the Library” on page 147 for further information.