User Guide Ulead Systems, Inc.
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ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Welcome to Ulead VideoStudio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 How VideoStudio works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Installing and running VideoStudio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Setting up your computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Installing a capture card . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Direct video capturing to Windows Media Video Selecting a profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Editing and customizing a video profile . . . . . . Capturing still images . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 55 56 58 Edit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE The Audio Step Options Panel . . . . . . . Adding voiceover narration . . . . . . . . . Adding background music . . . . . . . . . Importing music from an audio CD Adding audio files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Trimming and cutting audio clips . . . . . Stretching audio duration . . . . . . . . . . Fade-in/out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mixing audio tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Using the Clip Volume Control . . . Using the Surround Sound Mixer .
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Preferences: File menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Preferences (Create Disc) . . . . . . . . . . . . Preview Playback Options . . . . . . . . . . . . Project Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Project Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Project Settings (Create Disc) . . . . . . . . . Preview Files Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Select Device Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Video and Audio Capture Property Settings Video Color Manager . . . . .
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Welcome to Ulead VideoStudio Thank you for purchasing VideoStudio, the video editing software that allows even beginners to produce professional-looking movies. VideoStudio provides you with a complete set of tools to capture videos, edit them, and share your final production on CD, DVD, HD DVD, or the Web. Note: The availability of features depends on the VideoStudio version you have.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE the information in the video project file to combine all the elements in your movie into a video file. This process is called rendering. Installing and running VideoStudio The VideoStudio CD has an auto-run feature that automatically starts up the installation. Back up your projects and media files first before installing the new version of VideoStudio. To install VideoStudio: 1. Insert the VideoStudio CD into your CD-ROM drive. 2.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Setting up your computer Before you can start making movie projects using your own video footage, you first need to capture video from your video camera into your computer. Your computer needs to be equipped with the proper capture card or interface port for connecting your video camera and for capturing video to your computer.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE 6-pin IEEE-1394 ports on a desktop computer 4-pin IEEE-1394 ports on a notebook computer Connecting the camcorder to the IEEE-1394 interface Use an IEEE-1394 cable to connect your digital camcorder to the IEEE-1394 port. Before purchasing one, check first the pin connectors used on your camcorder and your computer.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Connecting a 4-pin to 6-pin IEEE-1394 cable to a desktop computer Connecting a 4-pin to 4-pin IEEE-1394 cable to a notebook computer Checking the hardware setup After connecting your digital camcorder to the computer, check if the device is detected by your Windows system. If you installed an IEEE-1394 card on your computer, check also if the card is detected. To check if the IEEE-1394 card and digital camcorder are detected: 1.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Under Windows XP or Windows Me: • 1394 Bus Controller • DV Camcorder (The brand name depends on the DV camcorder connected to the IEEE-1394 interface.) Under Windows 2000: • 1394 Bus Controller • Image Device: Microsoft DV Camera and VCR (For Microsoft DV driver only.) • Sound, video and game controllers: 1394 camcorder (For Texas Instruments Windows XP: Device Manager DV driver only.) Windows XP: Device Manager Windows 2000: Device Manager 4.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Sony HDV camcorder If you have connected your Sony HDV camcorder before to your computer, check the Device Manager to see if your camcorder is detected as a DV device or AV/C tape device (see image below). If the camcorder is detected as an AV/C tape device, you can capture HDV footage. HDV Mode Analog video sources VHS, S-VHS, Video-8, and Hi8 camcorders and VCRs are examples of analog video sources.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Note: TV capture cards provide S-Video/Composite inputs and a TV tuner, which can be used to capture both video and TV footage. Connecting the video device to the analog capture card To connect your video device to the analog capture card, use either an S-Video or RCA Composite cable depending on your device's video output. If your video device has both types of output, use the S-Video connection for higher video quality captures.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Composite cable Connecting the Composite video source to the capture card Most higher-end analog capture cards do not have the Composite/S-Video input ports crowded on the side of the cards. Instead, these cards come with an external breakout box that provide all the video input ports at the front of the box. Video devices can be connected to the capture card more easily through the breakout box.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE TV antenna cable Connecting TV antenna to the tuner card Note: When purchasing a tuner card, make sure you acquire one that provides the correct TV system (NTSC or PAL) for your region. Connecting the capture or tuner card to the sound card Most capture and tuner cards only allow video capture.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Line-in and audio cables for Composite video Composite video connection Line-in cable for TV tuner card Line-in cable for high-end TV capture card TV tuner connection High-end TV capture card connection 17
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Checking the hardware setup After connecting your analog source to the capture or tuner card, check if the card is detected by your Windows system. To check if the capture or tuner card is detected: 1. If you are using a video device such as a camcorder as your source, insert your videotape into the video device and switch it on. Make sure it is in the playback mode (usually named VTR or VCR). 2. Open the Control Panel, then open System: Hardware - Device Manager. 3.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE 3. If your USB camera has been detected properly, it will be listed as a source device in VideoStudio's Options Panel. In VideoStudio, select the Capture Step and check if your USB camera is displayed under the Source list in the Options Panel. Preparation for video capturing and editing Capturing and video editing are tasks that require a lot of computer resources. Your computer must be properly set up to ensure successful capturing and smooth video editing.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Getting started When you run VideoStudio, a startup screen appears which allows you to choose between the following video editing modes: • VideoStudio Editor gives you the full editing features of VideoStudio. It provides you total control over the movie production process, from adding clips, titles, effects, overlays, and music to making the final movie on disc or other medium. • Movie Wizard is ideal for users who are new to video editing.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE To use Scene detection: 1. After selecting Scene detention, choose whether to scan the tape From beginning or From current position. • From beginning: Scans the tape for scenes from the beginning. VideoStudio will automatically rewind the tape if the tape position is not in the beginning. • From current position: Scans the tape for scenes from the current tape position. 2. Specify the scan speed, then click Start Scan to begin scanning the DV device for scenes.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE 4. Click Next to go to the next step. Tips: • Click and select Save DV Quick Scan Digest to save scanned file and import without having to scan again or Save DV Quick Scan Digest as HTML to manage large number of tapes by printing this HTML file and attaching it with your tapes. Step 2: Apply a theme template and burn to DVD 1. Specify a Volume name and Recording format for your movie.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Step 1: Add video and images Assemble your video and images into a movie. To add video and images: 1. Click one the following buttons to add video and images to your movie. Click Capture to import video footage or images into your computer. Click Insert Video to add video files of different formats such as AVI, MPEG, and WMV. Click Insert Image to add still images. (You can create a photo slideshow if you choose to only add images.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Jog Slider Mark-in/ Mark-out handles Library Media Clip List Navigation Panel Tip: You can also arrange clips in the Media Clip List by dragging them to the desired sequence. 4. To preview the clips, select each clip in the Media Clip List and use the Jog Slider and Navigation Panel buttons. When trimming a clip, drag the Mark-in and Mark-out handles to select the desired start and end points of the clip. 5. Click Click to retrieve lost data from captured videos.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Click to automatically split video clips into smaller clips based on their shooting date and time. You can also click to sort clips in the Media Clip List according to their Name or Date. To capture video and images: 1. Connect your camcorder to your computer and turn on the device. Set it to Play (or VTR / VCR) mode. 2. Check if your camcorder is selected in the Source list. 3. Click the Capture tab in the VideoStudio Movie Wizard. 4.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Step 2: Select a template Select a movie template to apply to your project. Each template provides a different theme which comes with preset start and ending video clips, transitions, title and background music. Notes: • To save your project, click then select Save. • If you accessed VideoStudio Movie Wizard from within VideoStudio Editor, the above button will not appear and you will have to save from the File Menu when you go back to the editor.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE For Slideshow templates, specify Smart Pan & Zoom in the Settings dialog box. Smart Pan & Zoom automatically focuses the pan and zoom motion to important parts of the image like the face. • Fit to image duration: Trims the music background to fit the total duration of the slideshow. Tip: Select Keep Previous to use the image duration you set in the previous page of the Movie Wizard.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Note: Click Auto to let the program decide which clips to retain or exclude. 4. To replace the title, first select the preset title from the Title list. Double-click the preset text in the Preview Window, then type in your text. Double-click to edit text Drag corner to resize text 5. Click Drag to position shadow to change text formatting.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Note: Make sure that your background music is 30 seconds or longer if you want to fit the video to the music. If the music duration is less than 30 seconds, the music will not be looped leaving the remaining video without any background music. 7. Use the Volume slider to adjust the volume of the background music with respect to the video's audio. Dragging the slider to the left increases the volume of the background music and decreases the volume of the video's audio.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE VideoStudio Editor VideoStudio Editor provides a step-by-step workflow that makes creating movies simple and easy. This section introduces you to the VideoStudio Editor interface and briefly explains the steps involved in creating a movie. Refer to the succeeding chapters for more in-depth information on each step. The user interface 1 2 8 3 7 4 5 6 1 Step Panel Contains buttons that correspond to the different steps in video editing.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE 5 Toolbar Contains buttons for switching between three project views and other quick settings. 6 Project Timeline Displays all the clips, titles, and effects included in your project. 7 Options Panel Contains controls, buttons, and other information that you can use to customize the settings of the selected clip. The contents of this panel change depending on the step you are in. 8 Library Stores and organizes all of your media clips.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE No movie would be complete without opening titles, captions and closing credits. In the Title Step, you can create animated text titles or choose from various presets in the Library. Background music sets the mood of your movie. The Audio Step lets you select and record music files from one or several CD-ROM drives attached to your computer. You can also dub over your video in this step.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE 11 10 12 13 14 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 2 Play Mode Select whether you want to preview your project or only the selected clip. Play Plays, pauses or resumes the current project or a selected clip. 3 Home Returns to the starting frame. 4 Previous Moves to the previous frame. 5 Next Moves to the next frame. 6 End Moves to the end frame. 7 Repeat Loops playback. 8 System Volume Click and drag the slider to adjust the volume of your computer's speakers.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Smart Proxy Manager to speed up editing of your HD videos and other large source files. Or use the Overlay Track Manager to add more overlay tracks. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 Storyboard View Shows image thumbnails of your movie on the timeline. 2 Timeline View Allows you to perform frame-accurate editing of your clips.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Storyboard View Storyboard View is the fastest and simplest way to add video clips to your movie. Each thumbnail in the storyboard represents an event in you movie, an event being a video clip or a transition. Thumbnails show at a glance the chronological order of events in your project. The duration of each clip is shown at the bottom of each thumbnail. You can drag and drop video clips to insert and arrange them. Transition effects can be inserted between video clips.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Timeline View Timeline View gives you the most comprehensive display of the elements in your movie project. It divides a project into a separate tracks for video, overlay, title, voice and music. 6 1 7 2 8 9 3 10 11 12 4 5 1 Chapter Point Bar Click to set chapter points in your movie. 2 Ripple Editing Enable/Disable Ripple Editing. When enabled, allows you to select which tracks to apply it to.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE To switch to different tracks: • Click a Step button in the Step Panel that corresponds to the track. • Click the Track buttons. • Double-click the desired track, or click a clip on the track. Tips: • The wheel mouse can be used to scroll through the Timeline. • When the pointer is over the Zoom Controls or Timeline ruler, you can use the wheel to zoom in and out of the Timeline.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE The Library The Library is a storage depot for everything you need to create a movie: video clips, video filters, audio clips, still images, transition effects, music files, titles and color clips. These are collectively known as media clips. Tips: • You can print images directly from the library. Right-click the image to print then select Print Image and select an image size. • Right-click the image then select Print Options to specify print alignment and borders.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE To delete media clips from the Library: 1. Select the clip to remove from the Library, then press [Delete]. Or, right-click the clip in the Library and select Delete. 2. When prompted, verify whether you want to delete the thumbnail from the Library. Sorting clips in the Library To arrange clips in the Library, click in the Library to open the Options menu, then select Sort by Name or Sort by Date. The way video clips are sorted by date depends on the file format.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE 3. Click New to display the New Custom Folder dialog box and create a new folder. Specify a library Folder name and a Description. Click OK. Click Edit to rename or modify the description of a selected custom folder. Click Delete to remove a selected custom folder from the Library. 4. Click Close. Exporting a video file VideoStudio provides you with a number of ways to export and share a video file.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE When you capture or insert your first video clip into the project, VideoStudio automatically checks the properties of the clip and your project. If properties such as file format, frame size, etc. are not identical, VideoStudio automatically adjusts the project settings to match the clip's properties. Changing the project settings to conform with clip properties allows VideoStudio to perform the SmartRender function.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Setting project properties Project Properties serve as your template for previewing your movie projects. The project settings in the Project Properties dialog box determine the appearance and quality of a project when it is previewed on-screen. To customize project settings, select File: Project Properties.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE • Instant Playback allows you to quickly preview changes in your project without the need to create a temporary preview file, however, playback may be jerky depending on your computer resources. • High Quality Playback renders your project as a temporary preview file then plays this preview file.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Undoing and redoing actions You can undo or redo the last set of actions that you performed while working on your movie by clicking Undo [Ctrl+Z] or Redo [Ctrl+Y] in the toolbar. Showing and hiding grid lines You can use grid lines to guide you when repositioning or resizing images and videos or when adding titles to your movie. • To show grid lines in the Edit and Overlay steps, select a clip in the Timeline then select the Attribute tab.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Capture The bulk of video work involves working with raw footage. Transferring footage from a source device to the computer involves a process called capturing. When capturing, video data is transferred from a source (usually a video camera) through a capture card to the computer’s hard drive. Seamless DV and MPEG capture VideoStudio runs on Windows operating systems and is subject to limitations in file size when capturing or rendering video.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE The Capture Step Options Panel The Capture Step Options Panel consists of three options: Capture Video, DV Quick Scan, Import from DVD/DVD-VR and Import from Mobile Device. Capturing video VideoStudio lets you capture video from DV or HDV camcorders, analog camcorders, VCRs, and television.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE To capture video: 1. Click the Capture Step then click Capture Video. 2. To specify a capture duration, enter the values in the Duration box in the Options Panel. 3. Select your capture device from the Source list. 4. Select a file format to use for saving your captured video from the Format list. 5. Specify a Capture folder in which to save video files. 6. Click Options to open a menu for customizing more capture settings. 7. Scan your video to search the part to capture. 8.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE the AVI file. With DV Type-2 (which is the default), the video and audio channels are stored as two separate streams in the AVI file. The advantage of Type-1 is that the DV data does not need to be processed, and is stored in its exact original format. The advantage of Type-2 is that it is compatible with video software that is not specially written to recognize and process Type-1 files.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Shuttle Slider Drag the Shuttle Slider to move forward and back through the footage at variable speeds. This is a quick way to find scenes you are looking for in your video. High Definition Videos Once you have the HDV plug-in installed, you can import high definition video from your HDV camcorder such as Sony HDR-HC1. To capture from Sony’s HDR-HC1 HDV camcorder: 1. Connect your Sony HDV camcorder to your computer’s IEEE-1394 port using the IEEE-1394 cable. 2.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Digital TV DVB-T video Before capturing, have the DVB-T source connected via a DVB-T compatible capture card installed on your computer first. To capture DVB-T video: 1. Click the Capture Step then click Capture Video. 2. In the Capture Step Options Panel, select Digital TV Source from the Source list. 3. Click Options and select Video and Audio Capture Property Settings. 4. Click the Channel Scan tab. Select Channel List to start scanning for channels.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Click Options then select Capture Options to choose how you want footage to be captured. To specify the type of video source you are capturing from, click Options then select Video and Audio Capture Property Settings. In the dialog box that opens, you can customize the following capture settings: • In the Source tab, choose whether you are capturing NTSC, PAL, or SECAM video and select the Input source (Tuner, S-Video, or Composite).
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE After fine tuning the volume, you can start capturing footage from your analog device. Use the controls on your analog device to scan your videotape and locate the footage that you want to capture. Tip: A delay in capture may be due to the confirmation dialog box or connection between devices. It is better to rewind your tape to an earlier point before the actual footage you want to capture and just trim the video later.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE 3. Specify the location of the DVD folder in the Browse for folder window then click OK. 4. In the Import DVD window, select which DVD tracks to import in Label. Use the preview screen to view the selected tracks to import. 5. Click Import to finish. All imported videos will be added to the thumbnail list in the Library.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Tip: Click Settings to set where to browse for files and where to save imported and exported files. 5. You can also trim your video and audio clips before you insert them to your project. To trim video and audio clips before inserting to project: 1. Select the clip you want to trim and click for preview of the clip. 2. At the bottom of the dialog box, drag the Jog Slider until you locate the point in the video or audio clip that you want to set as the start of the clip.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE MPEG Settings dialog box then appears in which you can customize attributes for the MPEG file. Direct video capturing to Windows Media Video Now you can capture directly from an analog source or DV camcorder straight to Windows Media Video (WMV). WMV is an extensible file format that handles synchronized multimedia data and supports "live content" transmission over a wide array of networks. To directly capture to WMV format, select WMV from the Format list.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Editing and customizing a video profile Profile Selection lists all the profiles available in your system. You can use the Manage Profiles to edit, create, remove, and duplicate a profile. System-defined profiles cannot be edited. However, You can create a customized one base from it. A Custom profile can be edited by clicking Edit and changing specific profile attributes. You can also create a new profile by clicking New.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Note: System-defined profiles cannot be edited directly. You must create a copy before editing the corresponding attributes. To do this, select a system defined profile and then click Copy. Select the created copy of the profile and then click Edit to modify the attributes. Clicking Edit invokes Edit Profile. It will guide you in specifying your preferred attributes.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE 4. Under General Information, specify a reference name for the created or edited profile in Name of Profile. 5. Select the media types supported by the profile in Media types. 6. Under Output, you may choose to allow the profile to compress the video file or not. Enter a brief description of the profile under Description. Click Next. Capturing still images In addition to video, VideoStudio also allows you to capture still images.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Edit The Edit Step is where you arrange, edit and trim the video clips used in your project. In this step, you can apply fade-in/fade-out effects to the existing audio of a video clip, multi-trim or split video, and adjust a clip's playback speed. You can also choose from a wide selection of video filters to apply to your clips. The Edit Step Options Panel The Edit Step Options Panel allows you to edit the video, image and color clips that you added to the Video Track.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Image tab • Duration: Sets the duration of the selected image clip. • Rotate: Rotates the image clip. • Color Correction: Allows you to adjust the hue, saturation, brightness, contrast, and gamma of the image. • Resampling option: Sets how image size is adjusted. There are two options: Keep aspect ratio maintains the relative width and height of the current image; Fit to project size makes the size of the current image the same as the project’s frame size.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Video clips There are several ways of inserting video clips on the Video Track: • Select a clip in the Library and drag and drop it to the Video Track. Multiple clips can be selected by pressing [Shift] or [Ctrl]. • Right-click a clip in the Library then select Insert To: Video Track. • Select one or more video files in Windows Explorer then drag and drop to the Video Track.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE 2. Choose your desired color displayed in the Library and drag to the Video or Overlay Track. 3. To load another color that is not in the Library, click the color box beside the Color Picker. Here, you can select a color either from Ulead Color Picker or the Windows Color Picker. 4. Set the Duration of the color clip in the Options Panel.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE For more precise trimming, click on a Trim handle, hold it, and use the left or right arrow keys on your keyboard to trim one frame at a time. The Mark-in/ Mark-out points can also be set by pressing [F3] and [F4], respectively. Trim handles Mark-in/ Mark-out 3. Click Play Clip to preview the trimmed clip. Tip: You can also use Zoom controls to display each frame of your video in the Timeline and trim one frame at a time.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Saving trimmed clips Frequently, when you make changes (i.e., after auto-splitting clips using Split by Scene, extracting clips using Multi-trim Video, or manually trimming clips), you may wish to make a permanent change to the clip and save the edited file. VideoStudio gives you a margin of safety in that it saves the trimmed video to a new file and does not alter the original file.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE To insert clips in Ripple Editing mode: 1. Click Ripple Editing to activate the panel, then select the corresponding box for each track where you want to apply Ripple Editing. 2. Drag the clip to insert from the Library to the desired position on the Timeline. As soon as the new clip is in place, all clips where Ripple Editing is applied will shift accordingly while maintaining their track positions relative to one another.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE To edit a chapter, click on a chapter pointer you want to edit and drag to a new position. To rename, double click a chapter pointer and then enter a new chapter name. Click OK. To remove, simply drag the pointer outside the timeline ruler and then drop. Enabling Smart Proxy Proxy files are lower resolution working copies of video files.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE To do Batch Convert: 1. Click . 2. Click Add and then choose the files you want to convert. 3. Select an output folder in Save in folder. 4. In Save as type, choose your desired output type. 5. Click Convert. 6. The result is shown in the Task Report dialog box. Click OK to finish. Adjusting color and brightness Adjust color and brightness settings of images and video in the Timeline by clicking Color Correction in the Options Panel.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Tips: • Hold [Shift] then drag the end of the clip on the Timeline to change the playback speed. • The black arrow means you are trimming or extending the clip, while the white arrow means that you are changing the playback speed. Reversing video playback Reverse the playback of the video by clicking Reverse video in the Options Panel.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE 4. Switch to an image folder in the Library. The folder can be the default Image folder, or the one created by yourself. 5. Select Clip: Save as Still Image. The new image file is saved to the hard disk and is represented as a thumbnail in the image folder you assigned. Split by Scene Use the Split by Scene feature in the Edit Step to detect different scenes in a video file and automatically break it down into several clip files.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE a number indicates how many scenes are merged into that particular clip. Click Split to undo any Join actions that you have done. 8. Click OK to split the video. Multi-trimming your video The Multi-trim Video feature is another method for breaking down a clip into multiple segments. While Split by Scene is automatically done by the program, Multi-trim Video gives you complete control over the clips you wish to extract, making it even easier for you to manage your project.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE 2. In the Multi-trim Video dialog box, view the whole clip first by clicking to determine how you want to mark segments. 3. Choose the number of frames to display by dragging the Timeline zoom. You can choose to display the smallest subdivision of one frame per second. 4. Drag the Jog Slider until you get to the part of the video that you want to use as the beginning frame of the first segment. Click Start. 5.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Using Ad-Zapper VideoStudio lets you search your videos for commercial intervals. Clicking this feature extracts the commercials to the media list. • Program detection sensitivity allows you to control the rate of distinguishing between commercials. • Quick search interval allows you to set a fixed interval between frames and and browse through the movie using the set value. • Merge CF merges all your extracted clips so that they appear as on thumbnail in your media list.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Fish Eye distorts the video to give your audience a feel of looking through a glass ball. Before After Enhance Lighting improves video exposure which is ideal to correct poorly lit videos. Before After To apply a video filter to a clip (video or image) in the Video Track: 1. Select a clip in the Timeline. 2. Click the Attribute tab in the Edit Step Options Panel. 3.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Note: By default, the filter applied to a clip is always replaced with the new filter dragged onto the clip. Clear Replace last filter to apply multiple filters to a single clip. VideoStudio allows you to apply a maximum of five filters to a single clip. 5. Click Customize Filter in the Options Panel to customize the attributes of the video filter. Available options depend on the selected filter. 6.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Key frame Controls Note: You can use the mouse wheel to zoom in or out of the Timeline Control bar for precise placement of key frames. 4. Click Add key frame to set that frame as a key frame in the clip. You can adjust the video filter settings for that particular frame. Note: A diamond-shaped mark on the Timeline Control bar will appear. This indicates the frame is a key frame in the clip. 5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 to add more key frames to your clip. 6.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Tip: You can preview the clip with applied video filter on VideoStudio’s Preview Window or an external device such as a TV monitor or DV camcorder. Click , then click to open the Preview Playback Options dialog box where you can choose the display medium. Pan & Zoom Pan & Zoom is applied to still images, and it emulates the pan and zoom effect of a video camera.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE To apply Pan & Zoom: 1. Drag the Start key frame, represented by a crosshair in the Image Window, to the subject that you want to focus. Image Preview 2. Zoom in on the subject by minimizing the marquee box or by increasing the Zoom ratio. Image Preview 3. Drag the crosshair of the End key frame to your desired final point.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE 4. Click to preview the effect. 5. Click OK to apply the effect to the image. Tips: • Click the Anchor boxes to move the marquee box at fixed positions in the Image Window. • To zoom in or out of a fixed area without panning the image, select No panning. • To include a fade-in/out effect, increase the Transparency. The image will fade to the Background color. Click the color box to choose a background color, or click to select a color on the Image Window.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Effect Transition effects make your movie smoothly change from one scene to the next. They are applied between clips in the Video Track and their attributes can be modified in the Options Panel. Effective use of this feature can add a professional touch to your movie. Adding transitions The Library provides a wide range of preset transitions from crossfades to explosions that you can add to your project. You can add transitions either in Storyboard View or Timeline View.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE 2. Scroll through the effects thumbnails in the Library. Select and drag an effect to the Timeline, roughly between two video clips. Drop your effect and it will snap into place. You can only drag and drop one clip at a time. Tip: Double-clicking a transition in the Library automatically inserts it into the first empty transition slot between two clips. Repeating this process will insert a transition into the next empty transition slot.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE The Album transition One of the transitions you will find in the Library is the Album transition. Album simulates the turning pages similar to that of flipping photo album pages. You can choose from a variety of album layouts, change the album cover, background, size, and position, and more. To apply the Album transition: 1. Click the Effect Step then select Album from the Library.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE 4. In the Album tab, set the album’s Size, Position and Orientation. To change the album cover, select a preset from Album cover templates, or select Custom album cover then import your own cover image. 5. Click the Background and Shadow tab. To change the background of the album, select a preset from Background templates, or select Custom background then import your own background image. To add a shadow, select Shadow.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE To adjust the size and position of the clip on the page, adjust the Size, X, and Y values. 7. Click the Page B tab. Customize the second page of the album. Follow step 6 to make adjustments. 8. Use the slider and buttons below the Preview Window in the dialog box to preview the results. 9. Click OK to apply the adjustments. The Flashback transition You can use the Flashback transition to simulate a flashback or introduce a dream sequence for the next scene.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE The Mask transitions Different patterns or objects such as shapes, leaves, balls, and more can be used in transition effects by rendering them as masks. You can select from preset masks or import a BMP file and use it as a mask for your transition.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Mask transition options The Mask transitions contain the following options. The availability of the option depends on the type of mask selected. • • • • • • • • • • • • Rotation: Specify how many degrees the mask will rotate. Fade level: Set the thickness of the soft edge of the mask. Size: Set the size of the mask. Sync Clip: Matches the motion of the clip to the motion of the mask. Inverse: Reverses the effect of the mask.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Overlay The Overlay Step allows you to add overlay clips to combine with your videos in the Video Track. Use an overlay clip to create a picture-in-picture effect or add a lower-third graphic to create more professional-looking movie productions. Adding clips to the Overlay Track Drag media files to the Overlay Track on the Timeline to add them as overlay clips for your project. To add a clip to the Overlay Track: 1.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE 4. Click the Attribute tab. The overlay clip is then resized to a preset size and positioned at the center. Use the options in the Attribute tab to apply motion to the overlay clip, add filters, resize and reposition the clip, and more. Tips: • To make overlay clips with transparent backgrounds, you can create a 32-bit alpha channel AVI video file or an image file with an alpha channel.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE To apply motion to the current overlay clip: In the Attribute tab, select where the overlay clip will Enter and Exit the screen under Direction/Style. Click a specific arrow as to where you want your clip to enter and exit in your movie. Tip: Pause Duration determines how long your pause will be in the designated area before the clip exists the screen. If you applied motion to the overlay clip, drag the Trim handles to set the Pause Duration.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE 3. Click the Color Box then select the color to be rendered as transparent. Without Chroma Key With Chroma Key Tips: • Select then click on a color in the image that will be rendered as transparent. • Drag the Similarity Slider to specify the color range of the selected color that will be rendered as transparent. To add a border around the current overlay clip: In the Attribute tab, click Mask & Chroma Key to go to the Overlay Options Panel.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE To resize the current overlay clip: In the Attribute tab, drag a handle on the overlay clip on the Preview Window to resize it. If you drag a yellow corner handle, it will keep the aspect ratio when you resize the clip. It is recommended that you keep the overlay clip within the title safe area.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE To distort the current overlay clip: Each corner of the marquee of the overlay clip have green nodes which you can use to distort the overlay clip. Drag the green nodes to distort the overlay clip. Tip: Hold [Shift] while dragging the green nodes to keep the distortion within the current clips’s marquee. To reposition the current overlay clip: In the Attribute tab, drag the overlay clip to the desired area on the Preview Window.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE The Overlay Step Options Panel There are two tabs in the Overlay Step Options Panel: Edit tab and Attribute tab. Edit tab The Edit tab allows you to customize properties such as clip duration, playback speed, and audio properties of the overlay clip. The available options in this tab will depend on the selected overlay clip. Attribute tab The Attribute tab allows you to apply motion, transparency, filters and border to the overlay clip.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Apply overlay options: Select to specify how transparent section of the overlay clip will be rendered. Type: Select whether to apply preset masks on an overlay clip or specify a color to be rendered as transparent. Similarity: Specify the color range of a selected color’s pixels that will be rendered as transparent. Click the Color Box then select the color that will be rendered as transparent. Click to select a color in the overlay clip.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Adding Flash animations Give more life to your videos by adding Flash animations as overlay clips. To add a Flash animation: 1. In the Library, select Flash Animation in the Folder list. 2. Select a Flash animation then drag it onto the Overlay Track on the Timeline. 3. Click the Attribute tab to resize and reposition the object/frame.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Title While a picture may be worth a thousand words, the text in your video production (i.e., subtitles, opening and closing credits, etc.) adds to the clarity and comprehensibility of your movie. In VideoStudio's Title Step, create professionallooking titles, complete with special effects, in minutes. Adding text Ulead VideoStudio allows you to add text either in multiple text boxes or in a single text box.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE If you switch to Single title before adding to the Timeline the multiple text that you entered, only the selected text or the first text that you typed in (when no text box is selected) will be retained. The other text boxes will be removed and the Text backdrop option will be disabled. To add a single title: 1. In the Options Panel, select Single title. 2. Use the buttons in the Navigation Panel to scan your movie and select the frame where you want to add the title.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE • 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 Trimmed Clip or drag the Jog Slider.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE 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. More options allow you to set the style and alignment, apply a Border, Shadow and Transparency and add a Text backdrop to your text. A text backdrop superimposes your text on a horizontal color bar that stretches across the video frame.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE The Title Step Options Panel The Title Step Options Panel allows you to modify text properties such as font, size, and color. Edit tab • Duration: Displays the duration of the selected clip in hours:minutes:seconds:frames. You can adjust the duration by changing the timecode values. • Vertical text: Click • Font face: Where you select your desired font style. • Font size: Where you set your desired font size.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Applying animation Apply motion to your text with VideoStudio’s text animation tools such as Fade, Moving Path, and Drop. To apply animation to the current text: 1. In the Animation tab, select Apply Animation. 2. Select the animation category to use in Type. 3. Select a preset animation from the box under Type. Tip: Click to open a dialog box where you can specify animation attributes. 4.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Fade dialog box • 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. Select No Pause to make the animation run seamlessly.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Moving Path Pop-up dialog box • Character Base Displays the applied font face in the Preview window. • 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.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE • Pause: Applies a break in between the start and end direction of the animation. Select No Pause to make the animation run seamlessly. Zoom dialog box • Show Title: Select to display the title at the end of the animation. • 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.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Audio Sounds are one of the elements that determine the success of your video production. VideoStudio's Audio Step allows you to add both narration and music to your project. The Audio Step consists of two tracks: Voice and Music. Insert your narrations on the Voice Track and your background music or sound effects on the Music Track. The Audio Step Options Panel The Audio Step Options Panel consists of two tabs: Music & Voice tab and Auto Music tab.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Auto Music tab • Duration: Displays the total duration of the selected music. • Volume: Adjusts the volume level of the selected music. A value of 100 retains the music’s original volume level. • Fade-in: Gradually increases the volume of the music. • Fade-out: Gradually decreases the volume of the music. • Scope: Specify how the program will search for SmartSound files. Local: Searches for SmartSound files stored in the hard disk.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE 4. Speak into the microphone and check if the meter responds accordingly. Use the Windows audio mixer to adjust the volume of the microphone. 5. Click Start and begin speaking into the microphone. 6. Press [Esc] or click Stop to stop recording. Tip: The best way to record narrations is to do the recording in 10 to 15-second sessions. This makes it easier to remove a badly recorded narration and redo it. To remove, just select the clip on the Timeline and press [Delete].
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE 3. Select the Library from where to import the music. 4. Under Music, select the music you want to use. 5. Select a Variation of the selected music. Click Play Selected Music to play back the music with the variation applied. 6. Set the Volume level then click Add to Timeline. Tip: Select Auto trim to automatically trim the audio clip to fit the empty space based on the Jog Slider position.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Tip: You can also trim a clip in the Library by using the Trim handles. Aside from trimming, you can also cut audio clips. Drag the Jog Slider to the position where you want to cut the audio clip then click Cut clip based on Jog Slider position. You can then delete the excess part of the clip. Tip: To play the trimmed portion of the clip, click Play Trimmed Clip. Note: VideoStudio also has an Auto-trim function.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Tips: • You can specify how long the clip will play in Time stretch duration. The speed of the clip will automatically adjust to the specified duration. This feature will not trim the clip when you specify a shorter time. • You can stretch the time of an audio clip in the Timeline by holding [Shift] then dragging the yellow handles on the selected clip. Fade-in/out Background music that starts and ends gradually is commonly used to create smooth transitions.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Using the Surround Sound Mixer Unlike stereo stream that carries only two audio channels, Surround Sound delivers a whole lot more realism to your living room. It has five separate audio channels encoded into one file which is delivered to five speakers and one sub-woofer frequency effect. The Surround Sound Mixer has all the controls to position sounds around the listener, outputting audio through the 5.1 configuration of multiple speakers.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Using Surround Sound All audio channels in Surround Sound have a set of similar controls that you will find in the stereo configuration of this panel, plus a few more specific controls. • Six-channel VU Meter Front Left, Front Right, Center, Sub-woofer, Surround Left, Surround Right. • Center controls the amount of output sound from the center speaker. • Sub-woofer controls the amount of low-frequency sound output.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE channel in the Attribute tab in the Options Panel then select which audio channel to duplicate. Volume rubber banding The volume rubber band is the horizontal line in the middle of the track and can only be seen when you are in Audio View. You can use the rubber band to adjust the volume of the audio track of video clip and the audio clips in the Music and Voice tracks. To adjust the volume level using the rubber band: 1. Click Audio View. 2.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Applying audio filters VideoStudio allows you to apply filters such as Amplify, Long Echo, Normalize, Pitch Shift, Remove Noise, Reverb, Stadium and Volume Labeling to your audio clips in the Music and Voice tracks. You can only apply audio filters when you are in Timeline View. To apply audio filters: 1. Click Timeline View. 2. Select the audio clip on which to apply an audio filter. 3. In the Options Panel, click Audio Filter. This opens the Audio Filter dialog box.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Share Render your project into a video file format that is suitable for your audience or purpose. You can export the rendered video file as a Web page, multimedia greeting card, or send it to a friend by e-mail. All these and more can be done in VideoStudio's Share Step. A DVD authoring wizard is also integrated in this step, enabling you to directly burn your project as a DVD, SVCD, or VCD.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Creating movie templates Movie templates contain settings which define how to create the final movie file. By using the preset movie templates provided by Ulead VideoStudio, or by creating your own templates in the Make Movie Manager, you can have multiple variations of your final movie.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Creating and saving a video file Before rendering your entire project into a movie file, select File: Save or Save As to save it first as a VideoStudio project file (*.VSP). This allows you to return to your project anytime and make edits. If you want to preview your project before creating a movie file, switch to Project Mode and click Play in the Navigation Panel.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE 3. Enter the desired file name for your movie and click Save. The movie file will then be saved and placed in the Video Library. Tip: • To save on rendering time, use the same settings for your source video (e.g. captured video), VideoStudio project, and movie template. You can also render your project partially. SmartRender allows "changes only" rendering, eliminating the need to re-render an entire video sequence when slight modifications have been made.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Burning a DVD, VCD, SVCD or HD DVD Click Create Disc in the Options Panel to output your project (together with other VideoStudio projects or videos) to create a DVD, VCD, SVCD and HD DVD. In the dialog box that opens, first choose an output format. Second, decide whether you want to add other projects and videos. See the following sections for more information.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Assembling files Import videos or VideoStudio project files (VSP) you want to include in your final movie. To add videos: 1. Click Add video files. Locate the folder where the videos are, and then select one or more video clips you want to add. 2. Click Open. Notes: • You can add video formats such as AVI, QuickTime, and MPEG files. You can also add VCD video (DAT) files. • After a video clip is added to the Media Clip List, sometimes you may see a black thumbnail.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE You can trim a video and VideoStudio project using the Jog Slider, mark-in/out, and navigation controls. Trimming a video gives you the freedom to precisely edit the video length. Tip: You can also add videos from DVD/DVD-VR discs. Adding/Editing chapters This feature is only available when the Create menu option is selected. By adding chapters, you can create submenus linked to their associated video clip.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE To create or edit chapters linked to a video clip: 1. Select a video in the Media Clip List. 2. Click Add/Edit Chapter. 3. Drag the Jog Slider to move to a scene to set it as a chapter then click Add Chapter. Or, click Auto Add Chapters to let VideoStudio automatically select chapters. Tips: • If you want to use Auto Add Chapters, your video must be at least one minute long or the video has scene change information.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Clip 1 Clip 2 Main menu Submenu #1 In this example, Clip 1 has three chapters so when you click the Clip 1 video thumbnail, it will jump to submenu #1. If you look at Clip 2, it has no chapters assigned to it so when you click Clip 2, the video will start playing from the beginning. To edit menus: 1. By default, VideoStudio automatically makes all required menus for you. Use Currently displayed menu to switch to the menu you want to edit. 2.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE 3. Click "My Title" to customize the menu heading. You can also click the text description under each video thumbnail for customization. Note: If you do not modify “My Title” and the thumbnail descriptions or skip Step 2, there will be no menu heading and thumbnail text in the final output. 4. In the Edit tab, you can further customize your movie by adding background image, music or audio and by modifying font properties.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Burning your project onto a disc This is the final step in the disc creation process. You can burn your movie onto a disc, create a DVD folder structure on your hard drive so you can play the DVD movie on your computer or create a disc image file of your movie to save on your hard drive. Tip: For details about the different disc formats, you can refer to Appendix C: Technology Overview - DVD, VCD, SVCD and HD DVD. To burn your movie onto a disc: 1.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE • Close prompts you to save your work and close Ulead VideoStudio. Burning options • Disc burner Specify the settings for your burning device. • Label Enter a volume name of up to 32 characters onto the CD/DVD. • Drive Select the disc burner that you want to use to burn the video file. • Copies Set the number of disc copies to burn. • Disc type Displays the output disc format for the current project. • Create to disc Select to burn your video project onto a disc.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE • Required space Use the following indicators as reference when burning your projects. These indicators help determine if you have sufficient space to successfully burn your project onto the disc. Required/Available hard disk space Displays the space needed by the working folder of the project and the space available for use in the hard drive. Required/Available disc space Displays the space needed to fit the video file in the disc and the space that is available for use.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE 3. In the Project Playback - Options dialog box, select Use device control then click Next. Note: If you only want to output the preview range of your project to the DV camcorder, select Preview range. 4. In the Project Playback - Device Control dialog box, use the Navigation Panel to go to the section of the DV tape where to start recording your project.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Tip: Click Transmit to device unit for preview to preview your project on the DV camcorder’s LCD monitor. 5. Click Record. When recording is complete, click Finish. Exporting your movie VideoStudio provides you with a number of ways to export and share your movie, which will be discussed in the following sections. Export to Mobile Device A video file can be exported to other external devices such as Windows mobilebased devices such as Smartphone/Pocket PC/PDA and PSP.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE 4. Click OK. Output video file to a different medium The Output the video file to a different medium is only allowed after you create a final video file of your project or you select a video file that is in the Library. You cannot export project files. Posting your video on a Web page The Internet is another medium where you can share your movies but there are a few things you need to take into consideration.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Your default browser will open, displaying your page. When you upload this page to your Web server, you need to change one line of code to reflect the relative links to the associated movie file. With Activemovie control Without Activemovie control Sending a movie by e-mail When you select E-mail, VideoStudio automatically opens your default e-mail client and inserts the selected video clip into a new message as an attachment.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE 2. Select Mail & Newsgroups in the Category list. 3. Select Use Netscape Messenger from MAPI-based applications. 4. Click OK. To enable MAPI in Eudora: 1. In Eudora, select Tools: Options. 2. Select MAPI in the Category list. 3. Select Always under Use Eudora MAPI server. Electronic greeting cards Share your video with friends and relatives by creating multimedia greeting cards. VideoStudio packs the movie into an executable (EXE) file that automatically plays the video.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE The background templates that are provided with VideoStudio are JPEG image files. You can create your own templates in any graphics editor, or even use still frames captured from your movies. To use your own backgrounds, search for images using Browse next to the Background template file name entry box. Setting your video as your Movie Screen Saver Personalize your desktop computer by creating your own video file then setting it as your screen saver.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE 5. Enter a file name and click Save. Recording back to a DV camcorder After editing your project and creating a video file, VideoStudio allows you to record the video to your DV camcorder. You can only record a video that is using DV AVI format to your DV camcorder. To record a movie to your DV camcorder: 1. Turn your camcorder on and set it to Play mode (or VTR / VCR mode). See your camcorder's manual for specific instructions. 2. Click the Share Step. 3.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Appendix A: Menus and dialog boxes Menus File menu • New Project: Creates a new Ulead VideoStudio project file. This clears the existing workspace and opens the new project with the specified settings in the New dialog box. If you have an unsaved project opened in the workspace when you click New Project, Ulead VideoStudio prompts you to save the changes first.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE • Exit: Closes the Ulead VideoStudio program. It displays a message, prompting you to save your current project. Edit menu • Undo: Reverses past actions that you performed on your project. Ulead VideoStudio allows you to go back up to the last 99 actions. The number of steps that you can undo depends on the settings you specify in the File: Preferences - General tab. • Redo: Allows you to reverse up to 99 of the last undo commands you performed.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE • Save Trimmed Video: Cuts the selected part according to the Trim Handles and saves it as a new video file. After trimming to a video file, a thumbnail of this new video appears in the Library. • Save as Still Image: Saves the current frame in the Preview Window as a new image file. A thumbnail of this new image appears in the Library.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE • Recover DVB-T Video: Retrieves lost data from captured videos. • Full Screen Preview: Gives an actual size preview of your project using the entire screen of a PC or TV monitor. This is only available in the Capture and Share steps. • Save Current Frame as Image: Saves the current frame in the Preview Window as an image file in the Library. • Print Options: Opens a dialog box where you can specify settings for printing still images.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Dialog boxes Advanced Settings (DV-to-DVD Wizard) • Disc format: Displays the format of the currently inserted disc. • Delete temp files after burning: Select to delete the temporary files in the working folder after burning. • Working folder: Enter or locate a folder for temporary files. • Auto add chapter: Select to automatically add chapters based on a specific time. • Create DVD folders: Select to retain the DVD folder in your hard drive after burning.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Compression tab • Format: Click to open the Audio Format dialog box where you can change the audio characteristics. • Attributes: Select from the drop-down list of audio characteristics to use for saving. Batch Convert • Batch Convert List: Displays the video files to be converted. The size, type, date modified and path of the video files are also displayed. • Add: Opens the Batch Convert dialog box where you can select the files you want to convert.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Shadow tab • Shadow type: Select the type of shadow to apply to your text. The availability of the options below depends on the type of shadow: • X: Sets the horizontal distance between the text and shadow. • Y: Sets the vertical distance between the object and shadow. • Color: Click to select the color of the shadow. • Transparency: Set the transparency of the text. The higher the value the more transparent the shadow.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE • Drive Select the disc burner to use in recording the video file. • Speed Select the recording speed to use in burning the video file. • Files to include on disc Choose additional items that you want to include on the disc. Copyright information Select to include the Ulead VideoStudio copyright text. Personal folder Select to include any other folders on the disc. • Advanced settings Lets you adjust more disc burning settings.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE files to the clips. This is important when the file in the Library is moved to another folder location. • Show message when inserting first video clip into Timeline: Enables VideoStudio to prompt a message when it detects that an inserted video clip's properties do not match with the current project settings. When you capture or insert your first video clip into the project, VideoStudio automatically checks the properties of the clip and your project.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE • Clip display mode: Determines the manner to which your video clip will be presented on the Timeline. Select Thumbnail only if you want your clip to be represented by a corresponding thumbnail on the Timeline. Select File name only if you want your clip to be represented by its file name on the Timeline. Or you can select Thumbnail and file name to have your clip represented by its corresponding thumbnail and file name.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE • Image resampling option: Select a method for your image resampling. • Default inserted image/color clip duration: Specifies the default clip length for all image clips and colors that will be added in your video project. Unit of time for the duration is in seconds. • Default audio fade in/out duration: Specifies the default duration for fading in and fading out of a video clip's audio.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Preview tab • Specify additional folders for preview files: Indicates which folder Ulead VideoStudio can use to save preview files. The folder shown is the folder specified in the SET TEMP statement of your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Specify other folders if you have additional drives or a partitioned drive. If you only have one drive, leave the other boxes empty. • Limit hard disk usage to: Specifies how much memory you want to allocate just for the Ulead VideoStudio's program.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE created in Ulead VideoStudio will not play correctly in these players. Select this option to make sure that the VCD created will play in these players. • Anti-flicker filter: Select to apply the anti-flickering filter to the menu pages. The anti-flickering filter reduces the "flickering" that happens when using a television (interlaced display) to view the menu pages.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE • External playback device: Select a device where to preview your clip with the filter applied. You can use a DV camcorder’s LCD monitor or another device such as a TV. If your display card supports two output devices, select Dual Head Device to preview the clip on the other device connected to your display card. • Options: Click to adjust or modify the properties of the selected external playback device.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE • Support X-Disc Includes Extended disc (XDVD, XVCD, XSVCD) compatible files to your project. • Two-pass conversion Improves the quality of the output video by analyzing the video data first before encoding. • Treat MPEG audio as non-DVD compliant: This is an option under “Do not convert DVD compliant MPEG files.” Select to treat all video files that has MPEG audio as non-DVD compliant. The MPEG audio track will not be rendered to LPCM during output.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE • Timecode offset: Specify a value to adjust the discrepancy between the actual playing time of your device and the trimming marks specified in the DV Recording dialog box. If for example you have specified the mark in timecode for capturing and then after the process, the captured start frame is the frame before the actual mark in timecode, you can then set a value of -4 to correct the timing between the device and your capture board.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE • TV audio: Select the audio format currently used by the TV. • Channel: Enter the channel of the television program you plan to capture footage from. • Advanced: Click to open the TV Channel Manager dialog box where you can scan for the TV channels available in your region. Capture tab • Compression: Shows the available compression schemes. A no compression option is also available. • Frame size: Select the size of the frame or define your own for the video file.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE • Perform non-square pixel rendering: Select to perform non-square pixel rendering when previewing your video. Non-square pixel support helps avoid distortion and keeps the real resolution of DV and MPEG-2 content. Generally, the square pixel is suited for the aspect ratio of computer monitors while the non-square pixel is best used for viewing on a TV screen. Remember to take into account which medium will be your primary mode of display.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE • Load: Click to load a previously saved color palette. • Audio: Click to open the Audio Format dialog box where you can change the audio characteristics. • Advanced: Click to open the Advanced Options dialog box where you can specify additional settings for your saved video. Advanced Options • Target playback drive: Specify the data rate of your storage device.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Appendix B: Shortcuts Menu command shortcuts Ctrl + N Create a new project Ctrl + O Open a project Ctrl + S Save a project Alt + Enter Project Properties F6 Preferences Ctrl + Z Undo Ctrl + Y Redo Ctrl + C Copy Ctrl + V Paste Del Delete F1 Help Step Panel shortcuts Alt + C Go to Capture Step Alt + E Go to Edit Step Alt + F Go to Effect Step Alt + O Go to Overlay Step Alt + T Go to Title Step Alt + A Go to Audio Step Alt + S Go to Share Step U
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Navigation Panel shortcuts F3 Set mark-in F4 Set mark-out Ctrl + 1 Switch to Project mode Ctrl + 2 Switch to Clip mode Ctrl + P Play/Pause Shift + Play button Play the currently selected clip Ctrl + H Home Ctrl + E End Ctrl + U Previous frame Ctrl + T Next frame Ctrl + R Repeat Ctrl + L System Volume Ctrl + I Split Video Tab ; Enter • Toggle between the Trim Handles and Jog Slider.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Timeline shortcuts Ctrl + A • Select all clips in the Timeline. • Single title: Select all characters in the on-screen edit mode. Ctrl + X Single title: Cut selected characters in the on-screen edit mode. Shift + Click Select multiple clips in the same track. (To select multiple clips in the Library, Shift+Click or Ctrl+Click the clips.) Left Select the previous clip in the Timeline. Right Select the next clip in the Timeline. +/- Zoom in/out.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Others ESC • Stop capturing, recording, rendering, or close a dialog box without making any changes. • If you switched to Full Screen Preview, press [Esc] to change back to the VideoStudio Editor interface. Double-click a tran- Double-clicking a transition in the Library automatically insition in the Effects serts it into the first empty transition slot between two clips. Library Repeating this process will insert a transition into the next empty transition slot.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Appendix C: Technology Overview Analog vs. Digital With repeated use, the magnetic tape used in High-8, 8 mm, VHS, and S-VHS becomes prone to wear and tear. It gets thinner and thinner until the video could no longer be played. On the other hand, the quality of digital video doesn't diminish over time. You can play DVs countless times and still expect the quality to be as sharp as it originally was.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE HD Technology HDV users are by definition concerned with picture quality. VideoStudio allows you to work with high definition videos just as you would with DV: batch capture, edit, apply filters and transitions, then output to various formats such as SD, HD or WMV-HD for Web-sharing.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE the first time you inserted your captured video clips. When you add more captured video clips, VideoStudio directly plays back the project without rendering. In addition to previewing your video files, Ulead VideoStudio gives you an option to instantly preview your project without creating temporary files. With the Instant Playback option, you can play the entire project without having to wait then preview it immediately.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE running time of an SVCD is about 30-45 minutes. Although you could extend this to 70 minutes, you will have to compromise sound and image quality. SVCDs can be played back on stand-alone VCD/SVCD players, most DVD players, and all CDROM/DVD-ROM with a DVD/SVCD player software.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Appendix D: System tweaks Enabling DMA for IDE disks Direct Memory Access (DMA) is a method of transporting data from the system's main memory without passing through the CPU. Open the Control Panel's System program, and in the Device Manager, enable DMA (Direct Memory Access) for all the hard disks (in the primary and secondary IDE channels) that will be used for capturing video. DMA avoids possible drop frame problems when you are capturing video.
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ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Disabling Write-Behind Caching Disable Write-Behind Caching on the hard drive used for video capture.
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ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Setting the Paging File size Change the values of your Paging File (Swap File) size. Set the minimum and maximum to twice your amount of RAM. For instance, if you have 256MB of RAM, set both your minimum and maximum paging file limits to 512.
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ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Appendix E. Tips and techniques A. DV camcorder tips • Format the DV tape before shooting video. Formatting a DV tape is desirable for batch capture and for accurately locating timecodes. Formatting here means to record a "blank" video from start to end without interruption. This is what a professional cameraman will do with a new DV tape. Once it is formatted, you can start shooting video.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE C. Troubleshooting tips • Power on the camcorder to reestablish connection. Camcorders may automatically shut down to save power, as such, losing the connection between the camcorder and Ulead VideoStudio is common. When this happens, users need to turn on the camcorder to reestablish connection. There is no need to close and reopen VideoStudio, since the program can automatically detect capture devices. • When VideoStudio cannot accurately locate timecodes...
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Glossary Analog A signal that is not digital. Most VCRs, radio/television broadcasting, AV in/out, SVIDEO, and stereos are analog. Computers are digital, dealing in ones and zeros. Information from an analog source must be digitized to be used on a computer. Aspect Ratio The relationship of width to height for a given image or graphic.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Compression Making a file smaller by removing redundant data. Nearly all digital video is compressed in some way or another. Compression is achieved through a codec. Data Rate The amount of data per second that is transferred from one part of your computer to another. In digital video, the data rate of your source is very important: CDROMs have lower data rates than hard disks. The data rate of the Internet is very low.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE DVD Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) is popular in video production because of its quality. Not only does it guarantee superb audio and video quality, it can also hold several times more data than VCDs and SVCDs. DVDs make use of the MPEG-2 format, which has a much bigger file size than MPEG-1, and can likewise be produced as single or dual-sided, and single and dual-layered. They can be played on standalone DVD players or on the DVD-ROM drive of your PC.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Frame Size The size of displayed images in video or animation sequences. If an image intended for the sequence is larger or smaller than the current frame size, it must be resized or cropped. HDV Abbreviation for High Definition Video. It is the video recording format that allows for high data compression, and in turn allows for higher picture resolutions. HDV can go up to 1920 x 1080 in resolution. HiColor A 16-bit image data type that can contain up to 65,536 colors.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Key frame A specific frame in a clip that is flagged for special editing or other activities in order to control the flow, playback or other characteristics of the completed animation. For example, when applying a video filter, assigning different effect levels on the beginning and end frames shows a change in the appearance of the video from start to end of the video clip.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE MPEG-2 A subset of MPEG-1. It's a standard for video and audio compression used in products like DVD. For NTSC DVD, its video resolution is 720x480 pixels at 29.97 fps. For PAL DVD, it works at 720x576 pixels at 25 fps. NLE Non Linear Editing. Conventional editing on a VCR is necessarily linear because you must access clips on a video tape in order. Computer editing can be done in any order that is convenient.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE 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. In a captured DV AVI file, scenes can be separated into several files based on the footage's recording date and time or by changes in the content of the video.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Storyboard A storyboard is a visual representation of your movie. Individual clips are represented as image thumbnails on the timeline. Streaming This is a relatively new Internet technology that allows large files to be played as they are being downloaded. Streaming is commonly used for large video and audio files. SVCD Super Video CD (SVCD) is commonly described as an enhanced version of VCD. It is based on MPEG-2 technology with Variable Bit Rate (VBR) support.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Trim The process of editing or cropping a movie clip. Computer video can be trimmed frame by frame. VCD Video Compact Disc (VCD) is a special version of a CD-ROM that uses the MPEG1 format. The quality of the exported movie is almost the same, but usually better than VHS tape-based movies. A VCD can be played back on a CD-ROM drive, VCD player, and even on a DVD player.
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Index Numerics 4 GB limitation 45 A ActiveMovie 129 Adding 42, 93 audio files 107 background music 106 chapters 65 clips to Overlay Track 86 clips to the Video Track 60 clips to your project 42 Flash animations 94 frames 93 media clips to the Library 38 multiple titles 95 music from audio CD 106 objects 93 preset text 97 single title 96 text 95 third-party music 106 voiceover 105 Adjusting color and brightness 67 Ad-Zapper 72 Album Transition 81 Allow access to capture de
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE analog capture or tuner card 18 USB camera 18 Chroma Key 88 Clip Volume Control 109 Color (Effect Step) 80 Color clips 61 Color Correction 60 Connecting 9 Analog video 13 camcorder to the IEEE-1394 interface 10 4-pin to 4-pin cable 10 4-pin to 6-pin cable 10 capture or tuner card to the sound card 16 DV or Digital 8 camcorder 9 Sony HDV camcorder 13 TV antenna to the tuner card 15 USB camera 18 video device to the analog capture card 14 Converting multiple files 66 Create Audi
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Select Device Control 148 Video and Audio Capture Property Settings Capture 150 Channel (TV tuner only) 149 Source 149 Video Color Manager 150 Video Save Options 150 AVI 151 AVI - Advanced Options 152 General 151 Ulead VideoStudio 150 Digital 157 Digital 8 camcorder 9 Digital TV DVB-T video 50 Direct Memory Access 161 Direction (Effect Step) 80 Disable Audio Preview 46 Display Source Volume Panel when capturing 140 Display title safe area in Preview Window 142 Distorting
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE High Quality Playback 43 Home Movies 26 I IEEE-1394 9 Images 61 Import from Audio CD 104 Import from Mobile Devices 23 Importing from an audio CD 106 Importing from Mobile Devices 53 Installing a capture card 9 Installing and running VideoStudio 8 Instant Playback 43, 159 Instant Playback target 143 J Jog Slider 33 K Keep aspect ratio 60, 90 Key frame 74 L Library 38 sorting clips 39 Library Manager 39, 137 M Make Movie Manager 137 Mark-in/out 33 Mask & Chroma Key 88, 89,
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Perform SmartRender 150 Play Mode 33 Playback method 142 Playback Speed 59, 67 Preferences 134 Preferences (Create Disc) 145 Preview Files Manager 137 Preview range 43 Previewing 42 Profile 55, 56 Program detection sensitivity 72 Project Playback 126 Project Properties 42, 134 R Rearranging stacking order for titles 98 Recover DVB-T Video 50, 137 Relink 134 Rendering 40 Replace last filter 60, 92 Repositioning 91 overlay clip 91 Resize overlay clip 90 Resizing and distort
ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE Title Step 95 Toolbar 33 Transparency 88 overlay clip 88 Trim Handles 33 Trim handles 63 Trimming 62 audio clips 107 Trim Bar 62 Trim handles 63 Troubleshooting 168 TV footage 52 TV tuner 52 U USB camera 18 V Variation 105 VCD 159 VCD player compliant 145 Video clips 61 Video filter 72 applying to a clip in the Video Track 72 applying to overlay clip 91 key frame 74 Video Track 42, 60 VideoStudio Editor 20, 30 Menu Bar 32 Navigation Panel 32 Options Panel 37 project timeline
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