Pinnacle Studio™ 23 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 Pinnacle Studio Projects. 10 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 Browser . 22 Thumbnails and details . 23 Optional indicators and controls . 25 The Library preview. 27 Choosing what to display in the Library . 29 Tags . 31 Contents i Video scene detection . 33 Correcting media. 35 SmartMovie . 35 Edit . 39 Edit tab components . 40 The Editor panel . 41 Previewing edits in the Player . 43 The Project Timeline . 46 The Timeline toolbar. 50 3-point and 4-point editing . 57 The timeline track header . 60 Editing Movies . 62 Title Editors, ScoreFitter, voice-over . 66 Deleting clips . 67 Clip operations . 67 Rotating video . 68 Trimming . 69 Using Slip, Slide, Roll, or Stretch tools on the Timeline . 77 Using the Clipboard . 79 Controlling speed with Time Remapping . 80 Using Time Freeze to freeze frames. 83 Movies within movies (nested projects) . 84 Picture-in-Picture (PIP) . 85 Track Transparency . 86 Transitions . 87 Morph Transitions. 92 Seamless Transitions (Ultimate) . 92 Clip effects . 94 Clip context menus . 95 Corrections . 97 Correcting Library media . 98 ii Pinnacle Studio Correcting timeline media . ..