The Edit tab lets you access Pinnacle Studio’s main editing features for digital movie creation. It brings together four main components: the Library panel, the Editor panel, the Timeline panel, and the Player panel. For more information, see “Edit” on page 39.

The Library is a cataloging and management tool for all the file-based resources – or assets – that you can draw on when authoring. Almost all of the materials of your movie – video footage, music and audio files, and many specialized resources such as transitions and effects – originate as assets in the Library. Many Library assets are supplied with Pinnacle Studio, and are available for royalty-free use. These include professionally-designed titles, DVD menus, sound effects and more. For more information about the Library, see “The Library” on page 13

When you click Library, the Library panel displays assets that can be brought into a movie or disc project by drag-and-drop.

Accessible from the Edit tab, the Editor panel lets you access and edit properties for the currently selected media or content. The Editor panel shares a space with the Library panel.

For more information about the editing, see Edit.

The Player is a viewer that works for all media types handled by the application. The Player can be used to view Source media from the Library, or your Timeline content. For more information, see “Previewing edits in the Player” on page 42.

In each window or context in which it is used, the Player exhibits somewhat different controls. For an introduction to the Player and its basic controls, please see “The Library preview” on page 27. For the use of the Player in trim mode on the timeline, see “Clip operations” on page 58. For information on using the Player with Montage, see “Using the Montage Editor” on page 151. For the use of the Player in editing disc menus, see “Previewing disc menus (legacy Author tab)” on page 207.