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Ulead Systems, Inc.
October 1999

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  • Page 1 User Guide Ulead Systems, Inc. October 1999...
  • Page 2 Seocnd English edition for Ulead VideoStudio version 4.0, October 1999. © 1992-1999 Ulead Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or storing in a retrieval system, or translated into any language in any form without the express written permission of Ulead Systems, Inc.
  • Page 3 C o n t e n t s Licenses, trademarks, and title page. An overview of the world of digital video and Ulead VideoStudio. Check out What’s New? on p. 7. Getting the software onto your computer. An introduction to the Video Wizard and how it can make your life easier.

  • Page 4: The Big Picture

    Tens of millions of camcorders have been sold around the world and computers have become standard fare in the home. It hasn’t taken long for video capture cards to make the connection between the two. So what’s the big deal with digital video? Besides being really fun, digital video on a PC is also quite revolutionary.
  • Page 5 A short section of video captured to your computer is known as a video clip. You can scroll through your movie as easily as you do a Web page in a browser. With little effort, you can edit frame by frame, as well as change the order of scenes using the drag and drop method.
  • Page 6 Ulead VideoStudio breaks your movie up into separate tracks, which gives you broad creative freedom. While your video probably already has a sound track, adding a voiceover narration brings clarity to your personal videos. Better still, add background music off of your favorite music CDs to set the mood in your movie.

  • Page 7: What's New

    What’s New? New! Improved! Ulead VideoStudio 4.0 is a revolution in video. Smashing the 2GB file limit, automatic music recording from your CDs, support for MP3 audio files, a flexible titling engine, and automatic configuration are only a few of the many improvements. Computer video technology has changed faster than anyone could have predicted.

  • Page 8: Installation

    Installation Installation To install Ulead VideoStudio: 1. Place the Ulead VideoStudio CD into your CD-ROM drive. 2. When the Setup screen appears, follow the instructions to install Ulead VideoStudio onto your computer. Note: If the Setup screen doesn’t appear after loading the CD, then you can manually start it by double-clicking the My Computer...
  • Page 9 Setting up DV support With the advent of Digital Video (DV), it has never been easier to capture, edit, and record video on your PC. Follow the installation instructions of your IEEE-1394 (AKA: FireWire, iLink) capture card, and consult your camcorder’s manual for the proper hardware installation procedures.

  • Page 10: Getting Started

    The Video Wizard The Video Wizard The Video Wizard is the fastest and easiest way to get video onto your PC, arrange the various scenes, and create a finished movie. It is a great tool for setting up projects for editing in Ulead VideoStudio.

  • Page 11: Capturing Video

    Ulead Video Wizard ready to capture video. In the Get Video step, you will be able to capture, or record, all the scenes that you want to use in your movie. When capturing, watch the capture information below the Preview window. Capturing video 1.
  • Page 12 Arranging your movie 1. Click on the clip that you want to move from the sequence of clips. Selected clips are highlighted in blue. 2. Drag the clip to a new location. This will auto- matically change the order of the other clips. 3.

  • Page 13: Trimming A Clip

    Capturing video to your computer with frame by frame accuracy is not easy. Fortunately, precise editing is really not a problem with Video Wizard. Trimming a clip 1. Select a clip and click the Trim button. 2. In the Trim Video dialog box, slide the Handle to the right until you see the exact point that you want to use as the starting point of the clip.
  • Page 14 to quickly spice up your production. The most useful tool for your home movies is the Transition effect. A transition is what occurs when one scene ends and another starts. By adding effects, you can take separate clips and smoothly blend them into a complete movie. Just below the Transition effect item is the Audio file entry box.
  • Page 15 Selecting a transition effect. Adding an audio file In the Audio file entry box, specify the path and name of the audio file (*.WAV) that you want to use in your movie. You can click the Browse button to find the file yourself. Adding an opening credit.
  • Page 16 So far, you have only been collecting the parts of your movie. The information about these parts has been stored in a Project file (*.VSP). The project file contains all of the information necessary to make your movie, but it is not the movie itself. Creating a movie file Click the Create Video File button.

  • Page 17: Playing Back A Video File

    Playing a movie file with Video Wizard. Now that you have a finished movie, the Play step is where you can watch the entire picture. The movie you have created is now a video file and is a completely finished product. So, sit back and relax while you play back your movie.
  • Page 18 Map of Ulead VideoStudio Map of Ulead VideoStudio The Ulead VideoStudio interface has been designed to make the sometimes complicated task of editing movies on your PC intuitive and enjoyable. The illustration on this page shows an overview of the entire program, while the next few pages detail more specific features. Note especially the Options panel, which is highly context sensitive (meaning that it changes depending on the program’s mode) and contains a ton of information.
  • Page 19 The Workspace Switch mode Changes the view from Storyboard to Timeline view. (see page 28) Add media Displays a menu allowing you to place video, audio or image clips directly on the Timeline. Tool Tips By holding your mouse cursor over a button or object, a balloon pops up with the name of the item.
  • Page 20 Context sensitive help This button activates the Context sensitive help feature. After you click on it, your cursor changes to look like the cursor pictured at left. Move your cursor over an object in the program and click it. Undo and Redo Any changes you make that you don’t like can be instantly fixed or undone...
  • Page 21 The Library The library is a storage depot for everything you need to create a movie: video clips, audio clips, still images, transition effects, music files, titles and color clips. These are collectively known as media clips. You can think of the Library as a general manager for all of the pieces of your project.
  • Page 22 Step by step Step by step The Video Wizard quickly creates finished movies and is an excellent way to start any project. Ulead VideoStudio itself is similarly laid out in a step-by-step format, following the items in the menu bar at the top of the program, from left to right. It’s not necessary to work through every step every time, but the steps can serve as a guide to creating a complete movie.
  • Page 23 Title No movie would be complete without opening and closing titles. Ulead VideoStudio lets you use any Windows True Type font on your computer, of any color and size, and gives you the power to animate them just like the pros. See page 40. Voice &...

  • Page 24: Creating A New Project

    Start & Capture Start & Capture Start The Start step is where you create a new project file (*.VSP) or open an existing project. A project file is a small file used by Ulead VideoStudio to store all of the information about your movie: clips used, trimming information, duration of movie, size of frames, and type of movie to make.
  • Page 25 Switch mode Switches between Capture mode and Playback mode for instant previews. Note: If the Capture menu item is grayed out or unavailable, your video capture hardware may not be correctly installed. Please follow your hardware manual’s instructions carefully. Capture video...

  • Page 26: Capturing Digital Video (Dv)

    The keys to a successful capture Capturing video is one of the hardest things you will ever ask of your computer. Video takes up a huge amount of disk space and, because of the high data rate, is difficult for your hard disk to handle.
  • Page 27 7. Capture your video as you normally would. The Video Menu. * Note: This feature is only available if your video capture card supports RGB or YUV capture (please see the manual for your capture card). Once you have configured your hardware and software (as detailed above), you can capture video using the standard procedures described on the preceding pages.
  • Page 28 Storyboard Storyboard A storyboard is an outline for a movie. It contains sketches and drawings, in chronological order, of the events that occur in your story. The bottom half of the Ulead VideoStudio interface is simply an electronic storyboard. Storyboard mode presents an overview of the entire project’s video track.

  • Page 29: Storyboard Mode

    Storyboard mode You may find that starting out in Storyboard mode is the easiest way to get your project rolling. After starting a new project, switch to the Storyboard step and take a look at your project. Each picture represents an event in your movie, an event being a video clip or a transition.

  • Page 30: The Options Panel

    The Tracks The Timeline is divided horizontally into four different tracks. The Video and Transition Effects, Title, Voice, and Music tracks all correspond to the Ulead VideoStudio steps of the same name. Switching to different tracks There are three ways to do this: •...
  • Page 31 Any changes that you have made in the Options panel are applied to the clip when you click the Apply button. All of the settings can be restored to their original values by clicking the Reset button. As with any changes you make in Ulead VideoStudio, you can always undo them by clicking the Undo button or by pressing Ctrl+Z.

  • Page 32: Working With Clips

    Working with clips The best part of editing your movie on your computer is the ease with which you can snip and trim with frame by frame accuracy. Trimming a clip using the Trim bar 1. Select a clip by clicking on it in the Library. 2.
  • Page 33 The key to making highly accurate cuts and edits is controlling the ruler scale in the Timeline. When each unit represents one second, you can get pretty close in estimating your edits. Zoom buttons Trimming a video clip that has been inserted onto the Timeline. Trimming a clip from the Timeline 1.
  • Page 34 Duration Sets the length of time of the clip. Apply button Click to apply changes made in the Options panel to the selected clip. The Library can store multiple versions or copies of a single video clip. This means that you can break large clips up into a number of smaller clips using the trim tools and save these clips to the Library as separate entries.
  • Page 35 The method of trimming illustrated here allows you to use your original video file as the source for a number of different clips in the Library. This type of editing does not affect the source file anyway. This clip is a trimmed version of the original video file saved on the hard disk.
  • Page 36 Using image clips While Ulead VideoStudio by definition is primarily used to put together motion pictures, you shouldn’t underestimate the value of still pictures in your video productions. You can use images or pictures from any source, and even use individual frames from a video file. Inserting an image clip 1.

  • Page 37: Using Color Clips

    Using color clips Color clips are simply solid colored backgrounds that are useful for titles and transitions. For example, black clips can be used for an effective fade to black transition. They are added to a project by selecting the Color Library, inserting a specific color clip into the Library and dragging and dropping the clip into your project.

  • Page 38: Adding A Transition

    Effects Effects Transitions give your home movies a truly professional touch. Fortunately, they are also the easiest part of Ulead VideoStudio. For your first few videos, feel free to go a little crazy and try out every transition in the Library. Once you’ve gotten used to using transition, you can express your artistic side by modifying the preset transitions to your own liking.
  • Page 39 Your clips appear adjacent to each other on the Storyboard. You’ll recall that the Storyboard has two different modes, Storyboard and Timeline, but transitions work the same way in both modes. The illustrations on the previous page shows VideoStudio in Storyboard mode. The mode can be switched by clicking the Switch mode button.

  • Page 40: Adding Text

    Title Title While a picture may be worth a thousand words, there is no doubt that clarifying text here and there throughout your movie adds to its comprehensibility. And what movie would be com- plete without opening and closing credits? If you can type, even with just two fingers, you can create professional credits in minutes.
  • Page 41 The Options panel, as with the other features, allows you to modify the settings of the tool that you are currently using. Use this to design the look and feel of your text with just about any style that is available in a standard word processing program. Font Select any True Type font installed on your computer.
  • Page 42 Rolling & scrolling One of the most common and effective techniques for presenting closing credits is the rolling or scrolling credits. With Ulead VideoStudio, this is simply a matter of specifying a direction and a duration for your text. After you have entered some text and inserted it onto the Timeline, click the title clip you have created and look at the Options panel.

  • Page 43: Fading In & Out

    Fading in & out Another incredibly useful, easy, and effective method of displaying your titles is to fade your text in from invisible to crisp and clear and then back to invisible again. This works especially well for opening credits with a slow fade, or as captions with a quicker fade. Cross fade title animation options.
  • Page 44 Voice & Music Voice & Music The importance of music in a video production cannot be overstated, and a running narration can be just as critical. Ulead VideoStudio has the tools to make sure your audio is top notch. Like the other parts of VideoStudio, the audio tracks are activated by clicking on their respec- tive Step on the menu at the top of the program interface, by clicking on the icons to the left of the track, or by double-clicking on the track itself.
  • Page 45 Voiceover narration Explaining exactly what is going on in your movie can really help your viewers understand and enjoy it better. This technique is often used in television documentaries and news stories. Narrating a movie 1. Use the Preview bar to move to the section of the video you want to narrate.

  • Page 46: Background Music

    Background music The mood of your movie is determined as much by your video as it is by the background music you use. Whether you choose Classical, Country, or Chinese folk music, the decision is entirely up to you. The source of this music can be any CD in your collection. To use the audio from a CD in your movie, you first have to record the music you want with your computer.
  • Page 47 Working with background music You can drag and drop audio clips to move them or add them to the Library. From the Timeline, a selected audio clip has two yellow handles that can be used for trimming. Again, just grab a handle and drag it to shorten a clip, either from the beginning or end.
  • Page 48 Mixing it up VideoStudio has two explicit sound tracks, one for voice and one for music. If you captured your video with sound, then in reality, you also have a third sound track that is included with the video file. This really gives you a lot of creative freedom. Vacation shots, scenery and nature videos, and movies of parties all lend themselves very well to music video style produc- tions.
  • Page 49 Moving audio clips between tracks 1. To move an audio clip from the Music track to the Voice track, you first need to drag the clip to the Library. 2. Delete the clip you have just copied from the Music track. 3.

  • Page 50: Rendering A Movie

    Finish Finish Currently, there is no single standard format for video on a PC. This is not an uncommon issue in the early days of any new technology. There are dozens of choices you need to make about the format of your final movie. Fortunately, in the case of digital video, choosing the wrong format costs you nothing.
  • Page 51 If you’ve gone through the process of creating a movie already, you know that rendering may take quite a while. Sometimes, it is hard to know how your project is going to work until it is actually rendered. Fortunately, Ulead VideoStudio lets you select a portion or range of your project to render as a preview video for just this reason.

  • Page 52: Creating A Web Page

    Putting a movie on the Web After you have created a movie that is suitable for posting to the Internet, Ulead VideoStudio can assist you with the actual task of coding an HTML document. Creating a Web page 1. Select a video clip. Make sure you have already rendered your movie file if you want to use a project.

  • Page 53: Electronic Greeting Cards

    Electronic greeting cards Multimedia greeting cards are an attractive way of sharing your video to friends. Instead of sending your video as a simple attachment in an e-mail, Ulead VideoStudio automatically packages the movie into an executable (*.exe) file that automatically plays the video when the user runs it.
  • Page 54 Video Save Options and recommendations If you click the Options button in a Save As dialog box, you’ll find a whole host of choices. Ulead VideoStudio uses default values based on your Project template. These settings may have been perfect for you, but it is still important to understand these variables. Ulead VideoStudio If you only want to render a small portion of your movie, go back to the Storyboard step and create a...
  • Page 55 This information can be found by clicking the Storyboard step, selecting a captured clip, and clicking the Info button. Some video capture cards record “uncompressed” video, in which case you should select None as the compression type (this, Video Save Options: Compression.
  • Page 56 by default, and again, should match your captured clips. Audio compression can also be set, independent of the video compression. Data rates are listed, so you can easily see the impact on your completed movie. There is no point in choosing a higher quality audio setting than your original source audio files.
  • Page 57 MPEG-2 on a PC The most exciting recent development is MPEG-2, which is used on DVDs and digital satellite television. MPEG-2 yields highly compressed files of extremely high quality. There are a couple things you should consider about this format. First of all, MPEG-2 files can only be played back on your PC and only with the proper software player.
  • Page 58 DV - Digital Video All movies on a computer are composed of ones and zeros and are therefore digital, but Digital Video with a capital “D” and a capital “V” stands for a very specific format of video, just like VHS or High-8. This format can be understood (played back, recorded) by your camcorder.
  • Page 59 The Internet The Internet is becoming an exciting new place to share your movies, but there are a few things you need to watch out for. A short three minute vacation video can easily run 60MB and take many, many hours to down- load.
  • Page 60 Glossary Glossary Analog A signal that is not digital. Most VCRs, televisions and stereos are analog. Computers are digital, dealing in ones and zeros. Information from an analog source must be digitized to be used on a computer. Capture The recording of video or images to a computer hard disk.
  • Page 61 Render Rendering is the process of making a finished movie from the source files in a project. Source The source or origin of your media, usually a camcorder or VCR. Audio CDs are great sources for music clips. Storyboard A storyboard is a visual representation of your movie.
  • Page 62 Index Index...

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