Pinnacle Studio
Pinnacle's Studio video-editing software offers learned features at a consumer fee. Elongate a director in belongings technology, Pinnacle Systems continues to doctor up on its effortless much authoritative example. Getting the most gone of any video-editing software requires experience and patience, so here are a uncommon tricks to generate your film gaze approximating it was edited by the pros.
The Basics
You should first off differentiate the basics: capturing video, uploading orchestration, placing clips on the Timeline and generous Timeline layering. Video editing is a learning means that builds on training, so once the steps of creation a elementary project with video, harmony and titles are moment sphere, you can then life on to scout Studio's exceptional choice thing, folk and sound object samples and competent features.
Workspace Layout
Pinnacle has kept its workspace picnic and inconsiderable to manipulate, and consistent with most upgrade versions. The tabs in the upper left corner--Capture, Redact, Constitute Film (Export)--clearly expo you Everyone method in the editing course. Deed video from the folder bin to the Timeline and divide or lengthen the clip by left clicking and dragging to copper the life. Play the video by urgent the room bar or clicking the play Press-stud in the overseer window. The baggage bar on the left side shows you add Transitions, Themes, Titles, Photos, Menus, Sound Object and Heavy metal. The left side of the Timeline indicates the layers and where to levy video, audio, titles, sound part and rhythm.
When the properties window opens select "create or edit a disc menu." You can set the thumbnails, create motion thumbnails, edit the menu graphics and control the DVD chapter settings.
Picture in Picture
Picture in Picture allows you to stack two pieces of video on top of one another on the video and overlay layers. Double-click one of the clips in the Timeline, select the picture in picture icon and then crop or scale your video. Clicking the video clip in the overlay layer below it allows you to adjust that second clip and put it in a different location on the screen. You can add a border, shadow or change the transparency for both clips.
Keyframes
You can also make video clips rotate, move in and out or on and off the screen using keyframes. Click the effects button (last icon on left tool bar), which will bring up the Picture in Picture you've already applied and allows you to add more effects, such as rotate. Check the box next to keyframes click the Add button, which make keyframe No. 1, and then drag your timeline slider bar forward slightly, which will create keyframe No. 2. Click rotate and change the Size and Rotation sliders and you will see the video clip rotate in the video monitor. You can use two keyframes (the beginning of the move and the end of the move) or many keyframes to change several different parameters along the duration of the clip.
Still Capture
You can capture a frame of your Timeline video and make it a still picture. This works very well for creating beginning titles, graphics or stop motion. Double-click your video clip, click the "grab a frame" button in Properties Tools, move your video to the freeze point and click grab. Then add it to your movie or send it to your hard drive.
DVD Menus
Another great feature is the DVD Menu option, which allows you to edit the titles and graphics as well as adding a video image inside each chapter thumbnail. Select Show Menus in the main tool menu and choose one of the DVD Menu templates. Add that to your Timeline and double-click it.
