Pinnacle Studio for Dazzle

Pinnacle Studio for Dazzle

Version 1.0

Your Life in Movies

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This product or portions thereof are protected in the United States by one or more of the following United States Patents: 5,495,291; 6,469,711; 6,532,043; 6,901,211; 7,124,366; 7,165,219; 7,286,132; 7,301,092 and 7,500,176; and in Europe by one or more of the following European Patents: 0695094 and 0916136. Other patents are pending.

Mpegable DS 2.2 ?2004 Dicas Digital Image Coding GmbH. Portions of this product were created using LEADTOOLS ?1991-2006, LEAD Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved. Portions utilize Windows Media Technologies ?1999-2005 Microsoft Corporation MPEG Layer II Audio by QDesign Corp. This product is based in part on the work of the Independent JPEG Group.

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Table of contents

BEFORE YOU START

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Abbreviations and conventions .............................................................. ix Help and on-line help ............................................................................. xi

CHAPTER 1: USING PINNACLE STUDIO

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The Library.............................................................................................. 3 The Movie Editor and the Disc Editor..................................................... 6 The media editors .................................................................................... 7 The Player................................................................................................ 8 Pinnacle Studio Projects .......................................................................... 9

CHAPTER 2: THE LIBRARY

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Understanding the Library ..................................................................... 14 Location tabs ......................................................................................... 16 The Asset Tree ...................................................................................... 17 Collections ............................................................................................ 19 Managing Library assets ....................................................................... 21 The Browser ......................................................................................... 24 Thumbnails and details ......................................................................... 25 Optional indicators and controls ........................................................... 28 The Library preview ............................................................................. 31

Using the Library .................................................................................... 35 Choosing what to display ...................................................................... 35 Tags ...................................................................................................... 38 Correcting media ................................................................................... 41 Video scene detection ........................................................................... 42

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CHAPTER 3: THE MOVIE EDITOR

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The project timeline ................................................................................. 55 Timeline fundamentals ......................................................................... 55 The timeline toolbar .............................................................................. 60 The timeline track header ..................................................................... 67 Timeline audio functions ...................................................................... 69

Editing movies ......................................................................................... 69 Adding clips to the timeline .................................................................. 71 Title Editor, voice-over ......................................................................... 75 Deleting clips ........................................................................................ 76 Clip operations ...................................................................................... 76 Using the Clipboard .............................................................................. 88 Speed .................................................................................................... 89 Movies within movies ........................................................................... 91 Transitions ............................................................................................ 92 Clip effects ............................................................................................ 98 Clip context menus ............................................................................... 99

CHAPTER 4: MEDIA EDITING: CORRECTIONS

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Media editing overview ...................................................................... 103

Correcting photos .................................................................................. 108 Photo editing tools .............................................................................. 109 Photo corrections ................................................................................ 110

Correcting video .................................................................................... 115 Video tools .......................................................................................... 116 Video corrections ................................................................................ 119

Correcting audio .................................................................................... 122

CHAPTER 5: MEDIA EDITING: EFFECTS

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Effects in the media editors ................................................................ 125 Effects on the timeline ........................................................................ 129 The Settings panel .............................................................................. 131 Working with keyframes .................................................................... 133 Video and photo effects ...................................................................... 135 Working with transitions .................................................................... 140

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Pan-and-zoom ..................................................................................... 141

CHAPTER 6: MONTAGE

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Note: Montage is disabled in the Pinnacle Studio for Dazzle version; upgrade to Pinnacle Studio 16 to use the Montage feature.

The Montage section of the Library ................................................... 147

Using Montage templates ...................................................................... 148 Montage clips on the timeline ............................................................. 149 Anatomy of a template ........................................................................ 151

Montage Editing .................................................................................... 154 Using the Montage Editor ................................................................... 155

CHAPTER 7: THE TITLE EDITOR

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Launching (and leaving) the Title Editor ............................................ 159

The Library ............................................................................................ 160

Creating and editing titles ..................................................................... 166 Background settings ........................................................................... 168 Look settings ...................................................................................... 169 The Edit window ................................................................................ 173 Text and text settings .......................................................................... 175

The Layer List ....................................................................................... 181 Working with the Layer List ............................................................... 182

CHAPTER 8: SOUND AND MUSIC

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The Audio Editor ................................................................................... 193

Audio on the timeline ............................................................................ 204 Timeline audio functions .................................................................... 204

Audio creation tools ............................................................................... 211 The Voice-over tool ............................................................................ 214

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