If you do need to change these basic image properties of your project, click the Gear button to open the timeline settings panel and configure the four settings provided.

You can prepare a project that you want to export to MyDVD by enabling the Open Author toolbar button in the timeline toolbar.

This button opens the enhanced audio control area with volume adjustment tools and access to the Panner, a surround panning control.

ScoreFitter is the integrated music generator of Pinnacle Studio, providing you with custom-composed, royalty-free music exactly adjusted to the duration required for your movie. See “ScoreFitter background music” on page 197.

The Title button opens the Title Editor. If none of the many supplied titles answers your need, why not author one of your own? See “The Title Editor” on page 159.

The 3D Title Editor lets you edit preset 3D titles and create your own 3D titles. You can also create 3D objects.

The voice-over tool lets you record commentary or other audio content live while viewing your movie. See “The Voice-over tool” on page 198.

The Multi-Camera Editor is a workspace that lets you create professional-looking video compilations from footage of events that have been captured on different cameras, from different angles. For more information, see “Multi-Camera Editing” on page 267.

You can easily create a split screen video in Pinnacle Studio to play multiple videos in a preset or customized template. For more information, see “Split screen video templates” on page 153.

To split one or more clips at the playhead position, click the razor blade button. No material is deleted by this operation, but each affected clip becomes two clips that can be handled separately with respect to trimming, moving, adding effects and so on.

Click the trashcan button to delete all selected items from the timeline. See “Deleting clips” on page 57 for details on how other timeline clips may be affected by the deletion.

If, while previewing video on the timeline, you see a frame that you would like to capture as a still image, click the Snapshot button. This creates a photo of the image currently being previewed, and puts it in the Snapshot folder under Photos in the Library.

Magnet mode simplifies the insertion of clips during dragging. While the mode is active, clips are ‘magnetically’ drawn to other items on the timeline when they approach within a critical distance. This makes it easy to avoid the unnecessary – though often indiscernibly small – gaps between items that are otherwise apt to arise during editing. If you want to deliberately create such a gap, however, simply turn off the mode to allow the preferred placement.

By default, the audio portion of a project can be heard only during playback in the preview. The audio scrubbing button on the timeline toolbar provides an audio preview even while just ‘scrubbing’ through your movie by dragging the timeline scrubber control.