User manual PINNACLE STUDIO 9-PROFESSIONAL QUALITY MOVIE-MAKING

[. . . ] Studio 9 Professional Quality Movie-Making Special thanks to Mike Iampietro, William Chien, Richard Edgley, Ivan Maltz, Jon McGowan, Keith Thomson, Jörg Weselmann, and Chris Zamara. Documentation: Nick Sullivan Copyright © 2003 Pinnacle Systems, Inc. Pinnacle Systems is a registered trademark, and Pinnacle Studio, SmartCapture, SmartMovie, Hollywood FX, RTFx and VST are trademarks, of Pinnacle Systems, Inc. QDesign MPEG-1 Layer 2 Fast Encoder/Decoder copyright © 19962002 by QDesign Corporation. [. . . ] A final parameter is shadow direction, for which there are eight possibilities. Chapter 9: The Title Editor 157 To change the look of an existing object, simply click on the look you want while the object is selected. New objects are created with the most recently selected look. Selecting a look in the Looks Browser: Each button in the Standard tab is available in eight styles, which are presented to you as a submenu. Each look has a numeric ID that displays as a tool-tip under your mouse. The Custom tab lets you customize the supplied looks or create your own by adjusting the parameters listed above. Three identical sets of controls adjust the parameters for face, edge and shadow respectively. Here are the face controls: 158 Studio 9 The three option buttons across the top select a solid color, a gradient, or no color (transparency). Clicking the color swatch beside the first button invokes an otherwise standard Windows color-picker dialog to which an Opacity slider (0-100%) has been added. The swatch beside the second button pops up a gradient designer that lets you define a gradient by assigning the starting colors to each corner of a square surface. Click the color swatches in the corners of the gradient window to set the color for that corner in a color-picker dialog. Note: Some of the more elaborate supplied looks employ special internal features and so cannot be edited. The Favorites tab lets you save particular custom looks that you may want to re-use in the future, to save you from having to remember or record the parameters you used. Click the left-hand button to save the current look as one of your favorites. Click the right-hand button to delete the currently-selected "favorite". Chapter 9: The Title Editor 159 The Backgrounds section A title or menu can have four types of background: a solid color, a gradient, transparency (no background at all) or an image file (such as a drawing, photograph or saved video frame). The color and gradient options in the Backgrounds section of the Title Editor work in just the same way as those described above for the Looks Browser (page 157), except that the color or gradient you select is instantly applied to the background of the title you are editing. If you are working on an overlay title, you may find interesting ways to use the Opacity setting on the colorpicker dialogs for these buttons, especially when the overlay is coupled with transitions. Normally, though, you'll use a transparent background for titles, and transparency is the default background selection for a new title or menu. The final option for backgrounds is picture ­ an image file in any standard format. As with many of the sections of Studio's main Album, the backgrounds are drawn from a source folder that may be changed using 160 Studio 9 the folder button. The image file you select with the folder button becomes the new background, and the image files in the folder are displayed as thumbnails on the Album panel. If necessary, the Title Editor stretches the background image until it fills the width or height of screen but does not change its proportions. The Pictures section As with the background pictures just discussed, the images in the Pictures section of the Title Editor Album can be of any standard type. Instead of being stretched to fill the Edit Window, however, these pictures are added to the title as picture objects and displayed at normal size with eight control points that allow them to be repositioned and resized (though not rotated or skewed). Picture objects behave just like text objects and the two types of graphic object with respect to grouping, alignment and similar controls. The Buttons section Since buttons are the magic ingredient that turns titles into interactive menus, this section of the Title Editor Album is mainly of interest for DVD, VCD and S-VCD authoring. Chapter 9: The Title Editor 161 Broadly speaking, a button is an area of the screen with which the user can interact in some way. Buttons are classified according to the action they produce when the user activates them, and not by their appearance, which generally should be chosen to give a strong clue to their behavior, but is not required to. The four types of button are: · Normal: Clicking the button causes playback to jump to a chapter (that is, ordinary video) or another menu. The link between the button and its target is created in the Clip properties tool, not in the Title Editor. · Thumbnail: This special form of the normal button type displays a thumbnail frame (or a moving thumbnail preview) from the part of the movie to which it links. · Previous: This button appears on the second and later pages of multi-page menus (menus with more links from normal or thumbnail buttons than will fit on one page). [. . . ] No modification of or amendment to this License will be effective unless in writing signed by both parties. If any provision of this License is held invalid or unenforceable, the remainder of this License will continue in full force and effect. 306 Studio 9 APPENDIX G: Keyboard shortcuts The terms Left, Right, Up and Down in this table refer to the arrow (cursor) keys. Main Studio interface Space bar J K L X or Ctrl+Up Y or Ctrl+Down A or I S or O Ctrl+Left Ctrl+Right Alt+Left Alt+Right Alt+Ctrl+Left Alt+Ctrl+Right G D F E or Home R or End Play and stop Fast reverse (hit multiple times for faster playback) Play at normal speed Fast forward (hit multiple times for faster playback) Step forward 1 frame Step back 1 frame Mark in Mark out Trim in point by -1 frame Trim in point by +1 frame Trim out point by -1 frame Trim out point by +1 frame Rolling trim out point by -1 frame (trims following clip too) Rolling trim out point by +1 frame Clear mark in and mark out Go to mark in (in trimmer tool) Go to mark out (in trimmer tool) Go to start Go to end Appendix G: Keyboard shortcuts 307 Left Right Delete Insert Page up Page down Numeric pad + Numeric pad C V M Ctrl+Page up Ctrl+Page down Select previous clip Select next clip Delete selected clip(s) Split clip at scrubber position Go to next page in Movie Window Go to previous page in Movie Window Zoom in the Timeline Zoom out the Timeline Set menu chapter Clear menu chapter Set return to menu Go to previous menu chapter Go to next menu chapter Title Editor Alt+Plus Alt+Minus Ctrl+Plus Ctrl+Minus Ctrl+0 Ctrl+1 Ctrl+2 Ctrl+3 Ctrl+4 Ctrl+5 Ctrl+6 Ctrl+7 Ctrl+8 Ctrl+9 Ctrl+K Ctrl+M Shift+Left Shift+Right Bring to front Send to back Bring forward one layer Send back one layer Text justification off Text justification: bottom left Text justification: bottom center Text justification: bottom right Text justification: middle left Text justification: middle center Text justification: middle right Text justification: top left Text justification: top center Text justification: top right Kern, leading and skew Move, scale and rotate Expand character selection left Expand character selection right 308 Studio 9 Ctrl+Left Ctrl+Right Ctrl+Down Ctrl+Up Shift+Ctrl+Left Shift+Ctrl+Right Shift+Ctrl+Down Shift+Ctrl+Up Alt+Left Alt+Right Shift+Alt+Left Shift+Alt+Right Reduce horizontal scale of, or squeeze (kern), text selection depending on current edit mode (move/scale/rotate or kern/skew/leading) Increase horizontal scale of, or stretch (kern), text selection Reduce scale or leading of text selection depending on current edit mode Increase scale or leading of text selection Same as Ctrl+Left (coarse) Same as Ctrl+Right (coarse) Same as Ctrl+Down (coarse) Same as Ctrl+Up (coarse) In text selection: Move characters left. Same as Alt+Left (coarse) Same as Alt+Right (coarse) Appendix G: Keyboard shortcuts 309 Index A Abbreviations, xiii Album Clipboard operations, 70 Disc Menus section, 54, 133 Drag-and-drop editing, 70 Filled during capture, 14 Image sections, 122 Interface features, 37 Introduced, 14 Menu usage, 37 Overview, 33 Previewing, 6, 35 Preview-quality scenes, 26 Selecting video scenes, 43 Sound Effects section, 53 Source folders, 35 Still Images section, 52 Title Editor. [. . . ]