Ulead VIDEOGRAPHICS LAB Manual page 12

8 VIDEOGRAPHICS LAB USER GUIDE
Packaging a Video Paint project
While you can save your work as a UVP file, you may also want to occa-
sionally package it with the File: Package command. This backs up the
original files, making them easier to transport as well as archive. Packaging
a file saves a project as a UVP file as well as the original video or image file
it references, moving or copying that file to a new location. This is
especially helpful if you plan on editing the project on another machine,
such as a laptop.
Note: To transfer a Video Paint project file and its source files to another PC, use
the same directory structure as the original to ensure the clips are correctly loaded.
Opening files into Video Paint
To get started in Video Paint, you need to open a file into the workspace.
You can open existing Video Paint, video or image files. When you open a
file, Video Paint allows you to select which frames in the file to open. This
ability to "partially edit" your work speeds up processing time, particularly
for larger files, as you don't have to load the many hundreds of frames
that make up a video sequence. (The maximum duration for any file you
open is 30 seconds.)
Note: Video Paint automatically converts any file you open into its workspace to
True Color. If you want to constrain your editing to an indexed-color palette, then load
the palette into the Custom tab of the Color panel, see page 38.