Pinnacle Studio 18 User Guide

1 Pinnacle Studio 18 user GuideIncluding Pinnacle Studio Plus and Pinnacle Studio UltimateContentsiContentsBefore 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.

2 14 Pinnacle Studio Projects.. 14 Chapter 2: The Library .. 17 Adding assets to a project .. 18 Correcting media files .. 19 Instant gratification: SmartMovie.. 20 Understanding the Library .. 20 The Navigator .. 24 Collections .. 28 Managing Library assets .. 30 The Browser .. 32iiPinnacle StudioThumbnails and details .. 34 Optional indicators and controls .. 38 The Library preview .. 41 Choosing what to display in the Library .. 46 Tags .. 50 Correcting media .. 54 Video scene detection.

3 54 SmartMovie .. 57 SmartMovie .. 60 Chapter 3: The Movie Editor.. 65 The compact Library .. 65 Previewing in the project editors .. 67 The Project Timeline .. 70 The timeline toolbar .. 77 The timeline track header .. 86 Editing Movies .. 88 Title Editor, ScoreFitter, voice-over.. 95 Deleting clips .. 96 Clip operations .. 97 Using the Clipboard .. 111 Speed .. 113 Movies within movies .. 115 Transitions .. 116 Clip effects .. 123 Clip context menus .. 124 Chapter 4: Corrections .. 127 Media editing overview.

4 130 Photo editing tools .. 136 Correcting photos .. 138 Red-eye.. 144 ContentsiiiCorrecting video .. 145 Video tools .. 146 Video corrections .. 149 Stabilize .. 152 Correcting audio .. 152 Chapter 5: Effects .. 153 Effects in the media editors .. 155 Effects on the timeline.. 159 The Settings panel.. 161 Working with keyframes .. 164 Video and photo effects .. 167 Working with transitions .. 172 Pan-and-zoom .. 174 Chapter 6: Montage .. 179 The Montage section of the Library .. 181 Using montage templates.

5 182 Montage clips on the timeline .. 184 Anatomy of a template .. 187 Montage editing .. 190 Using the Montage Editor .. 191 Chapter 7: The Title Editor.. 195 Launching (and leaving) the Title Editor .. 197 The Library .. 199 The Presets Selector.. 200 Preset Looks .. 201 Preset Motions .. 202 Creating and editing titles .. 205 Background settings .. 207 Look settings.. 209ivPinnacle StudioThe Edit window .. 213 Text and text settings .. 216 Titles and stereoscopic 3D .. 222 The Layer List.

6 224 Working with the Layer List .. 225 Working with layer groups .. 230 Chapter 8: Sound and music .. 235 The Audio Editor .. 237 Audio corrections .. 243 Audio effects .. 248 Audio on the timeline .. 251 Timeline audio functions .. 251 Audio creation tools .. 260 ScoreFitter .. 261 The Voice-over tool .. 263 Chapter 9: Disc projects .. 267 Disc menus .. 269 Adding disc menus .. 273 Previewing disc menus .. 275 Menu editing on the timeline .. 277 Timeline menu markers .. 277 Authoring tools.

7 278 The Chapter Wizard .. 281 The Menu Editor .. 285 Menu buttons.. 285 The Disc Simulator .. 288 Chapter 10: The Importer .. 291 Using the Importer .. 292 Importer panels .. 294 ContentsvThe Import To panel .. 299 The Mode panel .. 303 The Compression Options window .. 307 The Scene Detection Options window .. 308 The Metadata panel .. 309 The Filename panel .. 310 Selecting assets for import .. 312 Selecting files for Import .. 313 Customizing the browser .. 318 Adjusting the import file date and time.

8 320 Scan for assets .. 320 Import from DV or HDV camera .. 321 Import from analog sources .. 327 Import from DVD or Blu-ray Disc .. 328 Import from digital cameras .. 330 Stop motion .. 330 Snapshot .. 333 Chapter 11: The Exporter.. 337 Output to disc or memory card .. 341 Output to file .. 345 Output to cloud .. 357 Output to a device .. 362 Chapter 12: Setup .. 365 Watchfolders .. 366 Audio device .. 366 Event logging .. 366 Export and Preview .. 366 Import .. 370 Keyboard .. 372 Project settings.

9 374viPinnacle StudioStorage locations .. 375 Chapter 13: Screen capture .. 377 Starting a screen capture project .. 377 Recording your screen .. 378 Appendix A: Troublehooting .. 381 Contacting support .. 382 Forums .. 382 Top support issues .. 382 Capture hardware compatibility .. 387 Serial number information .. 388 Error or crash while installing .. 389 Hangs or crashes while launching .. 390 Troubleshooting software crashes .. 392 Case 1: Studio crashes randomly .. 393 Case 2: Studio crashes after a user action.

10 397 Case 3: Studio crashes repeatably .. 397 Export problems .. 398 Disc playback problems .. 398 Appendix B: Videography .. 401 Creating a shooting plan .. 401 Editing .. 402 Rules of thumb for video editing .. 406 Soundtrack production .. 408 Title .. 409 Appendix C: Glossary .. 411 Appendix D: Keyboard shortcuts .. 427 General shortcuts .. 427 Library .. 428 ContentsviiPlaying and transport .. 429 Importer .. 430 Movie interface .. 430 Media editors .. 432 Title Editor .. 432 Appendix E: The installation manager.