Pinnacle Studio 25 User Guide
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Pinnacle Studio™ 25 User Guide Including Pinnacle Studio™ Plus and Pinnacle Studio™ Ultimate Contents Before you start . 1 Abbreviations and conventions . 1 Buttons, menus, dialog boxes and windows . 2 Help and Tooltips . 2 Finding your version information. 3 Upgrading . 3 Using Pinnacle Studio . 5 The Welcome tab . 5 The Import tab. 5 The Export tab . 6 The Edit tab . 7 Creating your first movie in Edit. 8 Editing media and assets . 9 Overlays . 10 Pinnacle Studio Projects. 11 The Library. 13 What can you find in the Library? . 14 Instant gratification: SmartMovie . 15 Understanding the Library. 15 The Navigator . 17 Project Bins. 18 Projects . 18 Collections . 18 Favorites . 20 Managing Library assets . 21 The Library Browser . 22 Thumbnails and details . 23 Optional indicators and controls . 25 The Library preview. 27 Choosing what to display in the Library . 29 Contents i Tags . 31 Video scene detection . 34 Correcting media. 35 SmartMovie . 35 Edit . 39 Edit tab components . 40 The Editor panel . 41 Using keyframes . 42 Previewing edits in the Player . 44 The Project Timeline . 47 The Timeline toolbar. 51 Markers . 58 3-point and 4-point editing . 59 The timeline track header . 62 Editing Movies . 64 Title Editors, ScoreFitter, voice-over . 68 Deleting clips . 69 Clip operations . 69 Rotating video . 71 Camera properties . 71 Trimming video . 72 Using Slip, Slide, Roll, or Stretch tools on the Timeline . 80 Using the Clipboard . 82 Controlling speed with Time Remapping . 83 Using Time Freeze to freeze frames. 86 Movies within movies (nested projects) . 87 Picture-in-Picture (PIP) . 88 Track Transparency . 89 Blend Modes . 90 Transitions . 95 Morph Transitions. 99 Seamless Transitions (Ultimate) . ..