Pinnacle Studio

Pinnacle Studio > Tips and tricks

• Using Studio
  • Undo, Redo, Help, Support and Premium
  • Setting options
  • Edit mode
    • The Player
    • Playback controls
    • Further editing topics
    • Expanding Studio
• Capturing and importing media
  • The Studio Import Wizard
  • Import Wizard panels
    • The Import From panel
    • The Import To panel
    • The Mode panel
    • The Compression Options window
    • The Scene Detection Options window
    • The Filename panel
  • Selecting media for import
    • Import from file-based media
    • Import from DV or HDV camera
    • Import from analog sources
    • Import from DVD or Blu-ray Disc
    • Import from digital cameras
    • Stop motion
    • Snapshot
• The Album
  • The Videos section
    • Opening a video file
    • Viewing video
    • Selecting scenes and files
    • Displaying scene and file information
    • Comment view
    • Combining and subdividing scenes
    • Redetecting scenes
  • The Transitions section
  • The Montage® Themes section
  • The Titles section
  • The Still Images section
  • The Disc Menus section
  • The Sound Effects section
  • The Music section
  • The Project Bin
• The Movie Window
  • Movie Window views
    • Storyboard view
    • Timeline view
    • Text view
  • The toolboxes
    • The Video toolbox
    • The Audio toolbox
• Video clips
  • Video clip basics
    • Adding video clips to your movie
    • Working with multiple capture files
    • The project video format
    • Interface features
  • Trimming video clips
    • Trimming on the Timeline using handles
    • Clip-trimming tips
    • Trimming with the Clip properties tool
    • Resetting trimmed clips
  • Splitting and combining clips
  • Advanced Timeline editing
    • Insert editing
    • Split editing
  • The SmartMovie music video tool
• Montage® themes and theme editing
  • Using themes
    • The Themes section of the Album
    • Creating theme clips
    • Working with theme clips on the Timeline
    • Anatomy of a theme
    • Opening the Theme Editor tool
    • Using the Theme Editor tool
• Video effects
  • Working with the effects list
  • Changing effect parameters
  • Keyframing
  • Using keyframing
  • Previewing and rendering
  • Video effects library
  • Standard effects
    • Auto color correction
    • Dream glow
    • Noise reduction
    • Rotate
    • Stabilize
    • Speed
  • Ultimate effects
    • Blur
    • Emboss
    • Old film
    • Soften
    • Stained glass
    • Luma key
    • 2D Editor
    • Earthquake
    • Lens flare
    • Magnify
    • Motion blur
    • Water drop
    • Water wave
    • Black and white
    • Color correction
    • Color map
    • Invert
    • Lighting
    • Posterize
    • RGB color balance
    • Sepia
    • White balance
• Two-track editing
  • Introducing the overlay track
  • A/B editing
  • The Picture-in-picture tool
  • The Chroma key tool
  • Selecting colors
• Transitions
  • Transition types and their uses
  • Previewing transitions in your movie
  • Audio transitions
  • The Ripple Transition command
  • Trimming transitions
    • Trimming with the Clip properties tool
• Still images
  • Editing still images
    • Editing image clip properties
  • The Frame Grabber
    • The Frame grabber tool
• Disc menus
  • Disc authoring in Studio
  • Using menus from the Album
  • The DVD Player Control
  • Editing menus on the Timeline
  • Editing with the Clip properties tool
  • The Disc menu tool
• The Classic Title Editor
  • Launching the Classic Title Editor
  • The Classic Title Editor controls
    • Title-type buttons
    • Object toolbox
    • Editing-mode selection buttons
    • Object layout buttons
    • Clipboard and delete buttons
    • Text-styling controls
  • The Classic Title Editor Album
    • The Looks Browser
    • The Backgrounds section
    • The Pictures section
    • The Buttons section
• The Motion Titler
  • Launching (and leaving) the titler
  • File operations
  • The Motion Titler Album
    • The Videos section
    • The Photos section
    • The Objects section
    • The Looks section
    • The Motions section
  • Creating and editing Motion Titles
    • The Background Panel
    • The Edit window
    • Working with text
    • Working with the Layer List
    • Working with layer groups
• Sound effects and music
  • The Timeline audio tracks
  • The CD audio tool
  • The Background music tool
  • The Voice-over tool
  • Trimming audio clips
    • Trimming with the Clip properties tool
  • Audio volume and mixing
    • Anatomy of an audio clip
    • Adjusting audio on the Timeline
    • Transitions on the audio tracks
    • The Volume and balance tool
• Audio effects
  • Noise reduction
  • Ultimate effects
    • ChannelTool
    • Chorus
    • DeEsser
    • Equalizer
    • Grungelizer
    • Leveler
    • Reverb
    • Stereo Echo
    • Stereo Spread
• Making your movie
  • Output to disc media
  • Output to file
  • Output to tape
    • Configuring the camera or video recorder...
    • Output your movie to videotape
  • Output to the web
• Setup options
  • Project preferences
  • Video and audio preferences
  • Make Disc settings
  • Make File settings
  • Make Real Media file settings
  • Make Windows Media file settings
  • Make tape settings
• Tips and tricks
  • Hardware
  • Graphics card settings
  • Studio and computer animation
• Troubleshooting
  • Technical help on-line
  • Top support issues
    • Errors or crashes during installation
    • Studio crashes in Edit mode
    • Studio hangs when rendering
    • Studio hangs on launch or does not launch
    • “Burning failed” error appears in Make Movie
    • DVDs created by Studio do not play back, or appear blank.
• Videography tips
  • Creating a shooting plan
  • Editing
  • Rules of thumb for video editing
  • Soundtrack production
  • Title
• Glossary
• Keyboard shortcuts