Table of Contents
The big picture ....................................................................................................................................... 4
An introduction to Digital Video ................................................................................................................. 4
An introduction to MPEG ........................................................................................................................... 5
How VideoStudio works ............................................................................................................................ 6
Whats New? .......................................................................................................................................... 8
Hardware checkup before using VideoStudio ..................................................................................... 10
Installation and DV configuration ....................................................................................................... 12
Getting around Ulead VideoStudio ...................................................................................................... 14
The Library ............................................................................................................................................ 18
Library Manager ......................................................................................................................... 19
Steps to create your movie .................................................................................................................. 20
Start ...................................................................................................................................................... 22
Capture ................................................................................................................................................. 24
Checklist for successful video capture .......................................................................................... 24
Capturing MPEG video ................................................................................................................ 26
Split by scene ............................................................................................................................ 27
Capturing still images ................................................................................................................. 27
Video file size in Windows ........................................................................................................... 27
Batch capture ............................................................................................................................ 28
Storyboard ............................................................................................................................................. 30
Storyboard mode ....................................................................................................................... 30
Timeline mode ........................................................................................................................... 31
The Tracks ................................................................................................................................. 31
The Options panel ...................................................................................................................... 32
The Play project button .............................................................................................................. 32
Working with clips ...................................................................................................................... 34
Using image clips ....................................................................................................................... 38
Capturing still images in the Storyboard step ............................................................................... 39
Using color clips ......................................................................................................................... 39
Using video filters ....................................................................................................................... 40
Effects ................................................................................................................................................... 42
Transition magic ......................................................................................................................... 43
Title ...................................................................................................................................................... 44
Rolling & scrolling ....................................................................................................................... 46
Fading in & out .......................................................................................................................... 47
Putting it all together .................................................................................................................. 48
Using video or image clips as titles .............................................................................................. 48
Voice & Music ........................................................................................................................................ 50
Voiceover narration .................................................................................................................... 51
Background music ...................................................................................................................... 52
Working with background music .................................................................................................. 53
Mixing it up ................................................................................................................................ 54
Fade away ................................................................................................................................. 55
Finish .................................................................................................................................................... 56
Sending a movie by E-mail .......................................................................................................... 58
Putting a movie on the Web ........................................................................................................ 58
Electronic greeting cards ............................................................................................................. 59
Make Movie Manager .................................................................................................................. 60
Projects, templates & video save options ..................................................................................... 61
MPEG-1 file for VCD ................................................................................................................... 63
MPEG-2 file for DVD ................................................................................................................... 64
Recording back to DV camcorder ................................................................................................. 65
The Internet .............................................................................................................................. 66
Glossary ............................................................................................................................................... 68
Index .................................................................................................................................................... 70
