User manual ADS TECH VIDEO STUDIO 7

[. . . ] VIDEOSTUDIO HELP Table of Contents | Index Back 1 VIDEOSTUDIO HELP Table of Contents | Index Back 2 First English edition for Ulead VideoStudio version 7. 0, January 2003. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or storing in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form without the express written permission of Ulead Systems, Inc. Software license The software described in this document is furnished under a License Agreement, which is included with the product. This Agreement specifies the permitted and prohibited uses of the product. [. . . ] Also, while editing, you will want to preview your work frequently to see how your project is progressing. VideoStudio offers you two preview options: Instant Playback and High Quality Playback. Instant Playback allows you to preview changes in your project without the need to create a temporary preview file. High Quality Playback renders a preview file and provides a quick preview right after. For faster previews, you may choose to play only a part of your project. The selected range of frames to preview is referred to as the preview area, and it is marked as a red bar in the Ruler Panel. To play the preview area only: 1. Use the Trim Bar or the Mark in/out buttons to select the preview area. The Preview range mark in and Preview range mark out timecodes will then be displayed in the Options Panel. To preview the selected range of frames, hold [Shift], select what you want to preview (Project or Clip), then click Play. VIDEOSTUDIO HELP Table of Contents | Index Back 58 Preview Files Manager Use Preview Files Manager to free hard disk space occupied by temporary preview files used in your project. To delete temporary preview files: 1. Click File: Preview Files Manager to invoke the Preview Files Manager dialog box. Select the VSP project under Project file name where the temporary preview files you want to remove are located and click Delete. This removes only the temporary preview files and not the actual VSP project. Click Delete All to remove all temporary preview files of all VSP projects. Click Close. Tip: Press [Ctrl + S] to quickly save your project from time to time. This ensures that all project settings and file links are always updated. Inserting a clip into the Timeline To add video clips to the Timeline, you can use drag and drop or browse and select, depending on where your clips are located. To insert a video clip into the Timeline: · Select a clip in the Library and drag and drop it to the Timeline. · To insert a clip from a file folder directly to the Timeline, click Insert Media Files located to the left of the Timeline. VIDEOSTUDIO HELP Table of Contents | Index Back 59 Trimming a clip The best part of editing your movie on your computer is the ease with which you can snip and trim your work with frame by frame accuracy. To trim a clip from the Timeline: 1. Drag the yellow Trim handles on either side of the clip to change its length. The Preview Window reflects the position of the Trim handle in the clip. Or, click the timecode in the Duration box in the Options Panel and enter the desired clip length. Other clips in your project automatically reposition themselves according to changes made. Note: Changes made in the Video duration box only affect the Mark out point. The Mark in point remains unchanged. Trim handles It is most convenient to use the Trim Bar in adjusting your clips. This is the green bar beneath the Preview Window which represents the selected portion of a clip. [. . . ] Windows systems such as Windows 2000 and Windows XP that are installed using the NTFS file system do not have the 4 GB limitation. SmartRender SmartRender technology renders only project changes, eliminating the need to re-render whole projects and enabling fast previewing. VIDEOSTUDIO HELP Table of Contents | Index Back 119 Split by Scene This feature automatically splits up different scenes into individual files. In Ulead VideoStudio, the way scenes are detected depends on which step you are in. In the Capture Step, Split by Scene detects individual scenes based on the original footage's recording date and time. [. . . ]