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DV-to-DVD Wizard. Step 1: Scan for scenes. Step 2: Apply a theme template and burn to DVD Movie Wizard. Step 1: Add video and images. Step 2: Select a template. Step 3: Finish. VideoStudio Editor. The user interface. The Step Panel. The Menu Bar. The Toolbar. The Project Timeline. The Options Panel. The Library. Starting a new movie project. Setting your preferences. Setting project properties. Adding clips. Previewing. Undoing and redoing actions. Showing and hiding grid lines. Saving your project. Seamless DV and MPEG capture. The Capture Step Options Panel. Capturing video. Digital Video (DV). High Definition Videos. Digital TV DVB-T video. Analog video. Capturing TV footage. DV Quick Scan. Importing from DVD/DVD-VR. Importing from Mobile Devices Direct video capturing to MPEG... format..

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Direct video capturing to Windows Media Video Selecting a profile. Editing and customizing a video profile. Capturing still images. The Edit Step Options Panel. Adding clips to the Video Track. Video clips. Images. Color clips. Trimming a clip. Saving trimmed clips. Ripple Editing. Adding chapters using Chapter Point Bar Enabling Smart Proxy. Converting multiple files. Adjusting color and brightness. Playback Speed. Reversing video playback. Capturing still images in the Edit Step. Split by Scene. Multi-trimming your video. Using Ad-Zapper. Applying video filters. Key frame settings. Pan & Zoom. Resizing and distorting clips. Adding transitions. The Effect Step Options Panel The Album transition. The Flashback transition. The Mask transitions.

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Adding clips to the Overlay Track Multiple overlay tracks. The Overlay Step Options Panel. Adding Objects or Frames. Adding Flash animations. Adding text. Modifying text attributes. The Title Step Options Panel Applying animation. Animation effects.

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Components of a project as displayed in Timeline View
A movie production is in the form of a VideoStudio project file (*.VSP), which contains information on the path location of the clips and how the movie has been put together. After you have finished your movie production, you can burn it to a VCD, DVD, HD DVD or record the movie back to your camcorder. You can also output your movie as a video file for playback on the computer. VideoStudio uses
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. When the Setup screen appears, follow the instructions to install VideoStudio on your computer.
Note: If the Setup screen does not appear after loading the CD, then you can manually start it by double-clicking the My Computer icon on your desktop, then double-clicking the icon for the CD-ROM drive. When the CD-ROM window opens, double-click the Setup icon.
3. In addition to VideoStudio, these programs and drivers will be automatically installed: QuickTime SmartSound Windows Media Format To run VideoStudio: Double-click the VideoStudio icon on your Windows desktop. OR, Select the VideoStudio icon from the VideoStudio program group on the Windows Start menu. DirectX Indeo

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. Since capturing and video editing require a lot of computer resources, your computer must also be properly set up to ensure successful capturing and smooth editing of your videos.
Installing a capture card
If your capture card is a PCI-based card, install the card on your computer by inserting it in an available PCI slot on the computers motherboard.
Connecting a video camera to the computer
The type of capture card or interface port that you will need to connect your video camera to your computer depends on the type of video camera you have.
DV or Digital 8 camcorder
If you are using a DV (Digital Video) or Digital 8 camcorder, you will need an IEEE1394 interface on your computer. Some newer computers already have built-in IEEE-1394 ports. If you do not have them on your computer, install an IEEE-1394 card.
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

1. Specify a Volume name and Recording format for your movie.
Note: If you have more than one burner installed in your computer or the default
drive is not a burner, specify the burner you want to use in the Advanced Settings dialog box. 2. Select a theme template from one of the available presets to apply to your movie then select its output video quality. 3. Click to burn your movie file to disc.
Tip: If you see at the bottom of the dialog box that the movie is too big to fit
onto a DVD, click Fit & Burn.

Movie Wizard

If you are new to video editing or you want to quickly make a movie, you can use the VideoStudio Movie Wizard to assemble video clips and images, add background music and titles, then output the final movie as a video file, burn it onto a disc, or further edit the movie in VideoStudio Editor.
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.) Click Insert DVD/DVD-VR to add video from a DVD-Video/DVD-VR formatted disc or from your hard drive. Click Import from Mobile Devices to add video from MS Windowsrecognized devices.
Tip: Click Library to open the media library that contains media clips that come with VideoStudio. To import your own video or image files to the Library, click.
2. If you selected multiple clips, the Change Clip Sequence dialog box will appear where you can arrange the order of the clips. Drag the clips to the desired sequence then click OK. 3. The video and image clips that you selected for your movie will be added to the Media Clip List. Right-click a clip to open a menu with more options.

Jog Slider

Library
Mark-in/ Mark-out handles

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. to choose desired segments from a video file and extract them to the

Media Clip List.

Click to automatically split video clips into smaller clips based on their shooting date and time.
You can also click Name or Date.
to sort clips in the Media Clip List according to their
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. Select the video file format to use for saving captured video files from the Format list. Specify the Capture folder in which to save the files. 5. Choose Split by Scene to separate scenes in your DV video clip into several clips based on frame content or shooting date and time.
Note: Click Options to customize capture settings specific to your video device.
6. Play the videotape in your camcorder, and position the tape on the part of the video where to start capturing.
Tip: If you are capturing video from a DV or HDV camcorder, use the Navigation Panel to play your videotape.
7. Click Capture Video to start capturing. Click Stop Capture or press [Esc] to stop capturing. 8. To capture a still image from the video footage, pause the video on the desired image then click Capture Image. 9. Click Enable/Disable Audio Preview to play or stop DV audio preview while capturing.
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.
To apply a Theme template: 1. Select a theme template from the Theme template list. Home Movies templates allow you to create movies that include both video and images while Slideshow templates are used exclusively for creating image slideshows. 2. To set the overall length of your movie, click.
For Home Movies, specify the following options in the Duration dialog box: Fit to video duration: Keeps the current movie duration. Fit to background music: Adjusts the movie duration to fit into the length of the background music. (The background music is added to your movie in the second step of the Movie Wizard.) Specify duration: Lets you define a custom duration for the whole movie.
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.

Split by scene

It often happens that a single DV tape contains several footage that were shot at different times. VideoStudio saves you the hassle of having to capture the segments one by one then save them as separate files. The Split by scene feature will do that job for you. To use Split by scene option in Capture Step: 1. Select the Split by scene option in the Options Panel. 2. Click Capture Video. VideoStudio will automatically look for the scenes according to their shooting date and time and capture them as separate files.
Controlling the DV camcorder with the Navigation Panel
When capturing from a DV camcorder, use the Navigation Panel to scan your footage and locate the scenes you want to capture.
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 Sonys HDR-HC1 HDV camcorder: 1. Connect your Sony HDV camcorder to your computers IEEE-1394 port using the IEEE-1394 cable. 2. Turn on your camcorder and switch it to Play/Edit mode and make sure that your Sony HDV camcorder is switched to HDV mode.
Note: To check that your Sony HDV camcorder is set to HDV mode, flip open the LCD screen and see if HDVout I-Link is on the LCD screen. If you see DVout I-Link, press P-MENU at the lower right of the screen. In the menu, press MENU> STANDARD SET> VCR HDV/DV and press HDV.
3. Click Capture on the Step Panel. In the Options Panel, click
Note: VideoStudio automatically detects your Sony HDV camcorder. The Source should show Sony -- HDV.

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.
Note: DVB-T channels are not automatically scanned. Make sure to manually scan the channels first before capturing.
5. Click Capture Video. 6. Click Yes when prompted if you want to start capturing and autorecover DVB-T video.
7. Follow the remaining steps as described in the procedure for capturing videos. To recover captured DVB videos 1. Click Tools in the Edit Step and select Recover DVB-T Video. 2. In the Recover DVB-T Video dialog box, click Add and browse for the videos to recover. 3. Click Recover.

Analog video

When footage is captured from analog sources such as VHS, S-VHS, Video-8, or Hi8 camcorders/VCRs, it is converted to a digital format that can be read and stored by the computer. Before capturing, choose the desired file format to use for saving the captured video in the Options Panels Format list.
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). In the Color tab, you can fine tune the video source to ensure good quality captures. In the Capture tab, set the frame size and compression method to use for saving the captured video.

Adjusting source volume

VideoStudio has a Source Volume Panel that allows you to adjust the sound volume of the analog source during capture. To use this panel, click Options, select Capture Options, then select Display Source Volume Panel while capturing.
Note: The Source Volume Panel is not available when you are capturing from an analog device that has no audio source or a DV device.
To ensure that the sound volume of captured videos is clear, test capturing a short video first and use the Source Volume Panel to adjust the volume level of the analog source while capturing.

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. Click.
3. Drag the Jog Slider until you locate the point in the video or audio clip that you want to set as the end of the clip. Click 4. Click.
to listen to your trimmed clip. When finished, click OK.
Direct video capturing to MPEG format
VideoStudio supports real-time capturing from DV, analog, or any video source to MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 formats. Capturing straight to MPEG saves hard drive space as its file size is smaller compared with DV AVI. To capture video in MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 format: In the Options Panel, select MPEG from the Format list to capture MPEG files that are intended for playback on the computer or for sharing on the Web. You can also capture VCD, SVCD or DVD-ready MPEG files that can be burnt onto disc by selecting one of these formats from the Format list.
Note: The Ulead DSW MPEG Capture Plug-in will be automatically detected. If your capture device does not support this plug-in, you need to manually select this plug-in the Change Capture Plug-in dialog box.
Click Options and select Video and Audio Capture Property Settings. In the dialog box that opens, click the Capture tab then click Advanced. The
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.

Selecting a profile

The quality of a WMV file depends on the profile it is using. A Profile covers various attributes for a Windows Media Format file such as bit rate, number and type of streams, compression quality, frame size and so on. When capturing a video directly to WMV format, VideoStudio uses the default profile to complete the capturing process. You also have the option to select other profiles to attain preferred captured file quality. To select a profile: 1. Click Options: Video and Audio Capture Property Settings. In the dialog box, click Select to open Select Profile. 2. Select the profile you want to use for capturing. Click OK.
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. This will launch a task wizard that will guide you in creating your profile. To edit and customize a profile: 1. Click Options: Video and Audio Capture Property Settings. In the dialog box, click Select to open Select Profile. 2. Under Select Profile, click Customize. 3. Manage Profiles lists all the available profiles installed in your computer. The profiles are categorized into two types: System-defined profiles and Custom profiles. Simply click Edit to modify attributes of a Custom profile.

Pause: Applies a break in between the start and end direction of the animation. Select No Pause to make the animation run seamlessly. Direction: Specify where the text will originate when the effect is triggered.

Swing dialog box

Pause: Applies a break in between the start and end direction of the animation. Select No Pause to make the animation run seamlessly. Swing degree: Select the level of curve applied to the text. Enter/Exit: Denotes the trail from where the motion of the title will start and end. Clockwise: Select to animate the curve in a clockwise direction.

Turn dialog box

Enter/Exit: Denotes the trail from where the motion of the title will start and end.
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. Line: A line of text appears in the scene one at a time.
Zoom start/Zoom end: Enter the title zoom ratio at the start and end of the animation.
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. The Music & Voice tab allows you to copy music from your audio CD, record your voice and apply audio filters to your audio tracks. The Auto Music tab allows you to use third-party music tracks for your project.

Music & Voice tab

Duration: Displays the duration of the audio track in hours:minutes:seconds:frames. You can also pre-set the length of the recording by entering the desired duration. Clip volume: Adjusts the volume level of the recorded clip. Fade-in: Gradually increases the volume of the clip. Fade-out: Gradually decreases the volume of the clip. Record Voice: Opens the Adjust Volume dialog box where you can first test the volume of your microphone. Click Start to start recording. VideoStudio creates a new clip to the right of the existing audio in the Voice Track on the Timeline. This changes into Stop during the recording process. Import from Audio CD: Opens a dialog box where you can import music tracks from an audio CD. Click to update your CD information either from the CD-text in the audio CD or from the Internet. Playback Speed: Opens a dialog box where you can change the speed and duration of an audio clip. Audio Filter: Opens the Audio Filter dialog box where you can apply audio filters to the selected audio clip. Audio View: Changes your timeline into audio waveform. When clicked, the Surround Sound Mixer tab is displayed.

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. When you insert an audio clip between two existing clips in the Timeline, it will automatically be trimmed to fit the available space.
Stretching audio duration
The time stretch feature allows you to stretch an audio clip without distorting its pitch. Normally, stretching audio clips to fit the project results in a distorted sound. The time stretch feature will make the audio clip sound like it is just played in a slower tempo.
Note: When you stretch an audio clip by 50-150%, the sound will not be distorted. However, if stretched below or above that range, the sound may be distorted.
To stretch the duration of an audio clip: 1. Click the Music & Voice tab in the Options Panel. 2. Click Playback Speed to open the Playback Speed dialog box. 3. Enter a value in Speed or drag the slider to change the speed of the audio clip. A slower speed makes the clips duration longer while a faster speed makes it shorter.
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. For each of your music clips, you can click in and fade-out the volume at the start and end of the clip. and to fade-

Mixing audio tracks

The key to making narrations, background music, and existing audio of your video clips blend well together is to control the volume of your clips. Blend the different audio tracks in your project by using the Audio Step Options Panel, Surround Sound Mixer or Audio View.
Using the Clip Volume Control

You will find the volume control in the Options Panel. Clip volume represents the percentage of the original recorded volume. Values range from 0 to 500%, where 0% completely silences the clip and 100% retains the original recorded volume.
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.

Using Stereo Mode

Stereo files (two channels) have two waveforms representing the left and right channels accordingly. To use stereo mode: 1. Click Enable/Disable 5.1 Surround in the Toolbar. Select Music Track in the Options Panel.
Tip: To check if the 5.1 Surround is disabled, click Audio View in the Toolbar.
2. Click Play in the Options Panel. 3. Click the music note symbol in the center of the Surround Sound Mixer. Drag it to either right or left, depending on your preferred sound position.
Note: Moving the note symbol will amplify the sound coming from your preferred direction.
4. Drag Volume to adjust the volume level of the audio.

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.
Tip: Sub-woofer sound is less directional than sound output from the satellite speakers. Therefore, you can put it anywhere in the room after some experimenting. Each living space has its own acoustics so there are no fixed rules.
To use Surround Sound mode: 1. Click Enable/Disable 5.1 Surround in the Toolbar. Repeat steps 1 and 2 in using stereo mode. 2. Click the music note symbol in the center of the Surround Sound Mixer. This time, drag it to any of the six channels depending on your sound position preference. 3. Drag the Volume, Center and Sub-woofer to adjust sound controls of your audio.

Tip: As you move between controls, a Tool Tip pops up and tells you its specific function.
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. Click Next after you preview your project. 2. Click Show more output options to show other output options. Select Create DVD folders to create folders for your project and specify their location. Select Create disc image file to make an ISO image file of the DVD for later use. Select Normalize audio to make sure that irregular audio levels during playback are prevented. 3. Click Burning Options to define additional burner and output settings. 4. Click Burn to start the burning process. 5. After successfully burning your disc, a dialog box appears from which you can select the next step.
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. Recording format Select DVD-Video format to use the DVD industry standard. To quickly re-edit your disc without copying the file to the hard disk, select DVD-Video (fast re-editable) which still complies with the industry standard, and has very high compatibility when working with set-top home DVD players and computer DVD-ROM. Select DVD+VR for DVD players supporting this format. Create DVD folders This option is only enabled when the video file being created is a DVD-Video. The files created are in preparation for burning the video file to a DVD. This also allows the user to view the finished DVD file on the computer using a DVD-Video player software. Create disc image Select this option if you plan to burn the video file several times. By selecting this option, you don't have to generate the file again when you want to burn the same video file. Normalize audio Select to prevent irregular audio levels during playback of your movie. Different video clips may have different audio recording levels when created. When these video clips are put together, the volume could vary greatly from one to another. To make volume levels consistent between clips, Normalize audio function evaluates and adjusts the audio waveform of the whole project to assure a balance audio level throughout the video. Erase Deletes all the data in the rewritable disc. Burning Options Click to adjust the advanced output settings for burning your project. Delete temp files Removes all unnecessary files in your working folder. Burn Begins the recording process.

Entire project: Select to save all the frames of the entire file. Preview range: Select to save a video file consisting only of clips in the preview area. (Only available if a preview area exists.) Play after creating it: Select to watch the video immediately after VideoStudio finishes saving. Perform SmartRender: Select to use pre-created file that VideoStudio recognizes if contents are still available for faster rendering process.
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. Create video file with specified duration: Select to specify the duration of the video file that will be created. This is useful when the movie project is very long and will exceed the disc capacity. VideoStudio will output the project as multiple video files.
Data track: Specify whether to create the video file or the video track only or include the audio track. Frame rate: Specify the frame rate to use for the resulting video file. Frame type: Select between saving your work as field-based or frame-based video files. Field-based video stores video data as two distinct fields of information for each frame. If your video is only for computer playback, you should save your work as frame-based. Frame size: Select the size of the frame or define your own for the video file. Display aspect ratio: Select from a list of supported pixel aspect ratios. By applying the correct aspect ratio, images appear properly when previewed thus avoiding distorted motion and transparency on images.

AVI tab

Compression: Shows the available compression schemes. A no compression option is also available. Quality: Drag the slider to control the compression of a file. Configure: Click for additional compression options. Key frame for every _ Frames: Specify the distance between "key" frames used by the compression scheme. Data type: Select from the list of available data types of the currently selected video compression scheme. Use common palette: Select the color palette to use for saving the video.
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. Check data rate: Select to compare the data rate of the compressed file to the selected Target Playback Drive. Change this rate to more closely match the data rate of the target storage device. Tolerance: Specify the acceptable percentage of difference on the specified data rate and the data rate of the compressed file. Recompress: Select this option to force the program to re-render (recompress) the project. In most cases, you should leave this option unchecked. Interleave audio and video: Select to be able to specify the interleave ratio between the audio and video data. Pack audio data for every _ Frames: Specify when the next portion of audio data follows the video data. Pad frames for CD-ROM: Select to help make your CD-ROM more efficient in playback by standardizing the video data structure when saving.

Animation tab 99 Anti-shake 72 Applying 72 audio filters 113 text animation 100 video filters 72 Audio filters 113 Audio Step 104 Audio View 37 Auto-trim 108 Batch Convert 66, 136 Border 89 overlay clip 89 transitions 80 Burning 118

Turn 102 Zoom 103

Capture Step 45 Capturing 46 analog video 50 Digital Video (DV) 47 MPEG files 54 still images 58 still images (Edit Step) 68 TV footage 52 VCD, SVCD or DVD-ready MPEG files 54 WMV files 55 Change Capture Plug-in 136 Change Image/Color Duration 135 Chapter Point Bar 36, 65, 137 Checking the hardware setup 11
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 Audio File 132 Create Disc 29 adding/editing chapters 120 burning onto a disc 124 creating selection menus 121 previewing 123 Create Video File 29 Create video file with specified duration 151 Creating 44 movie project 44 movie templates 115 video - entire project 116 video - preview range 117 video file 116 Customize Filter 74
analog capture or tuner card 18 USB camera 18
Customizing 94 frame 94 object 94 Cut Clip 33, 135
Dialog boxes 138 Audio Filter 113 Audio Save Options 138 Audio Save Options - Compression 139 Audio Save Options - Ulead VideoStudio 138 Batch Convert 139 Border/Shadow/Transparency 139 Border/Shadow/Transparency Border 139 Border/Shadow/Transparency Shadow 140 Capture Options 140 Change Capture Plug-in 140 Customize Filter 74 Duration 26 Flip-Album 81 Multi-trim Video 71 Overlay Track Manager 87 Pan & Zoom 76 Preferences 141 Capture 144 Edit 143 Preview 145 Preferences (Create Disc) 145 Preferences (File menu) 141 Preview Files Manager 148 Preview Playback Options 146 Project Options 147 Project Properties 147 Project Settings (Create Disc) 147 Scanning Sensitivity 69
Select Device Control 148 Video and Audio Capture Property Settings
Edit in Ulead VideoStudio Editor 29 Editing 56 chapters (Create Disc) 120 Edit Step 59 profile (WMV) 56 text 96 Effect Step 79 Enable Audio Preview 46 Enable/Disable 5.1 Surround 34 Enhance Lighting 73 Export 128 DV Recording 133 E-mail 130 Greeting Card 131 Movie Screen Saver 132 video file 40 Web page 129
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 overlay clips 90 DMA 161 Do not convert compliant MPEG files 147 Duplicating an audio channel 111 DV 47 DV AVI Type-1 and Type-DV camcorder 9 DV or Digital 8 camcorder 9 DV Quick Scan 52 DV SmartPlay 159 DV Type-DV type-DVD 159 DVD/DVD-VR 52 DV-to-DVD Wizard 20