Pinnacle Studio 19 User Guide PDF, and Other Community and Support Links
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Pinnacle Studio™ 19 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 . 3 Finding your version information . 4 Upgrading . 4 Chapter 1: Using Pinnacle Studio . 5 The Importer. 5 The Exporter . 6 The central tabs . 7 The Library . 8 The next step . 10 The Movie Editor and the Disc Editor. 11 The media editors . 12 The Player . 14 Pinnacle Studio Projects. 14 Chapter 2: The Library . 17 Adding assets to a project . 18 Correcting media files . 19 Instant gratification: SmartMovie. 19 Understanding the Library . 20 The Navigator . 23 Project Bins . 24 Collections . 25 Contents i Favorites . 27 Managing Library assets . 28 The Browser . 31 Thumbnails and details . 32 Optional indicators and controls . 36 The Library preview . 40 Choosing what to display in the Library . 45 Tags . 48 Correcting media . 52 Video scene detection . 53 SmartMovie . 55 Chapter 3: The Movie Editor. 59 The compact Library . 59 Previewing in the project editors . 61 The Project Timeline . 64 The timeline toolbar . 71 The timeline track header . 80 Editing Movies . 83 Title Editor, ScoreFitter, voice-over. 90 Deleting clips . 91 Clip operations . 91 Using the Clipboard . 106 Speed . 108 Movies within movies . 110 Transitions . 111 Clip effects . 118 Clip context menus . 119 Chapter 4: Corrections . 123 Media editing overview . 126 ii Pinnacle Studio Photo editing tools . 132 Correcting photos . 134 Red-eye. 140 Correcting video . 141 Video tools . 142 Video corrections . 145 Stabilize . 148 Correcting audio . 148 Chapter 5: Effects . 149 Effects in the media editors . 151 Effects on the timeline. 155 The Settings panel. 157 Working with keyframes . 160 Video and photo effects . 163 Working with transitions . 168 Pan-and-zoom . 170 Chapter 6: Montage . 175 The Montage section of the Library . 177 Using montage templates . 178 Montage clips on the timeline . 180 Anatomy of a template . 183 Montage editing . 186 Using the Montage Editor . 186 Chapter 7: The Title Editor. 191 Launching (and leaving) the Title Editor . 193 The Library . 195 The Presets Selector. 197 Preset Looks . 198 Contents iii Preset Motions . 199 Creating and editing titles . 202 Background settings . 204 Look settings . 205 The Edit window. 210 Text and text settings . 213 Titles and stereoscopic 3D . 219 The Layer List . 221 Working with the Layer List . 222 Working with layer groups . 227 Chapter 8: Sound and music . 233 The Audio Editor. 235 Audio corrections . 241 Audio effects . 246 Audio on the timeline . 249 Timeline audio functions . ..