Ulead VIDEO STUDIO 4.0 User Manual

ATG 2022 Introduction to Digital Video Editing May 2002 Wake Forest University

3 Introduction This is not really a class about Video Studio, you can do the same thing in other video editors. 3.1 5 steps of video Acquire/Create

3.2 Gotchas • One of the most demanding tasks – along with video composition, visual effects, CGI, 3D modeling, rendering, scientific computation,

o Things harder to change  Get secondary hard drive, can be external Firewire or internal Thinkpad Ultrabay. More expensive ones can be faster al

3.2.3 Interlace video DV uses the more common known as “lower field first” Computer display and some camcorder, and HDTV transmission is progressive.

3.2.4 Video Noise Noise at top and bottom (if source is from VHS) – can be crop over safely Page 12 of 28

4 User experience Double click the icon to launch (*no choice not to add it to your desktop during install, bad bad design) (* in version 5.0

4.1 8 Tabs unconventional user interface • no “standard” (Windows) menu bar • cannot resize • Start • Capture • Storyboard • Effect • Over

4.1.1 Start click New Project button or use drop down arrow for menu or switch to NTSC DV AVI template It is unclear whether Video Studio Fi

4.1.2 Capture Most likely you will get this message unless you have a IEEE1394 card in your laptop and connected to a camcorder. Simply click OK. W

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Table of Contents 1 TASKS ...

4.1.2.2 Additional Settings 4.1.2.3 Batch mode Page 18 of 28

4.1.3 Storyboard • layout • trimming (F3 for mark-in and F4 for mark-out are your friends like in batch capture) • library manager for images,

Use Shift-Play for just the selection (red bar on time ruler) Use SE arrow (enlarge) to get bigger preview Use speaker icon for volume Use zoom to bu

4.1.3.3 Filter tab Maximum 5 filters per clip Options (apply to first or last frame only) Page 21 of 28

4.1.3.4 Export Options DVD Wizard – topics of next class Page 22 of 28

4.1.4 Effect How many effects in one video is too much? Few don’t use any but one of the fades (under F/X group), Crossfade probably is most

4.1.5 Overlay 4.1.6 Title with 2nd animation option tab and library of presets Page 24 of 28

4.1.6.1 Safe Zones inner 90% action-safe inner 80% title-safe for TV overscan 4.1.7 Audio with 2nd Music tab Page 25 of 28

(* A30 does not have a built-in microphone as the A21 and A20 [and all the previous one we had before), you need to add an external one if you w

4.1.8 Finish Uncheck the play after creation, we will view the files in external viewer instead. (* Export doesn’t work in finish for some

1 Tasks • You have 4 video clips (1:00,0:30, 0:30, 0:15). Make a one minutes video out of them. • You will need to trim some of them • Adjust the

Page 28 of 28 5 References Ulead Video Studio http://www.ulead.com/vs/ Misc. IEEE1394/Firewire gear (card, hard drives) http://www.adstech.com/

2.3 Video Studio Install ULead Video Studio 6.0 if you do not have one installed already. (* It is OK if you have version 4.0/5.0 (various SE, VE,

2.3.1 Full version Page 3 of 28

(* Culpeper participants – Your SN is in a text file called vs6sn-culpeper.txt on the CD) * Choose Both NTSC and PAL standards if you will b

* uncheck all the options, not all the options are on the class CD. (they don’t fit. Ask your instructor after workshop if you need them)

2.3.2 Video Studio Trial Page 6 of 28

2.4 Class material If you have enough disk space, it is best if you copy all the 4 files in the video folder onto your hard drive. The mater