• Before you start
  • Abbreviations and conventions
  • Buttons, menus, dialog boxes and windows
  • Help and Tooltips
    • Help
    • Video tutorials
    • Tool tips
  • Finding your version information
  • Upgrading
• Using Pinnacle Studio
  • The Welcome tab
  • The Import tab
  • The Export tab
  • The Edit tab
  • Creating your first movie in Edit
  • Editing media and assets
  • Pinnacle Studio Projects
• The Library
  • What can you find in the Library?
    • To open the Library
  • Instant gratification: SmartMovie
  • Understanding the Library
    • Storage of Library assets
    • The database
    • Missing media
    • Library Media
    • Location tabs
  • The Navigator
  • Project Bins
    • To create a project bin
    • To rename a project bin
    • To remove a bin
  • Projects
  • Collections
    • To create a new collection
    • To manage collections
    • To organize a collection
    • Displaying collected assets
    • Operations on collected assets
    • To add to a collection
    • To remove items from a collection
  • Favorites
    • To mark content as Favorite
  • Managing Library assets
  • The Browser
  • Thumbnails and details
  • Optional indicators and controls
  • The Library preview
    • 3D viewing mode switcher
  • Choosing what to display in the Library
    • Location tabs
    • Filter by rating
    • Filter by stereoscopic 3D
    • Filter by tags
    • Search
    • Inadvertent filtering
  • Tags
    • Tag management and filtering
    • Creating, renaming and deleting tags
    • Sorting tags
    • Filtering with tags
    • Turning off tag filtering
  • Video scene detection
    • Removing scenes
  • Correcting media
  • SmartMovie
    • Adding media
    • Preview, edit and export
    • The storage area
    • SmartMovie Settings
• Edit
  • Edit tab components
  • The Editor panel
  • Previewing edits in the Player
    • Disc editing
    • Slideshow productions
  • The Project Timeline
    • Timeline fundamentals
    • The toolbar
    • The Navigator
    • The Storyboard
    • Navigating in the Storyboard
    • Editing with the Storyboard
    • Zoom level of the timeline
    • Resizing panels
    • Resizing tracks
  • The Timeline toolbar
    • Customizing the toolbar
    • Timeline settings
    • Disc Editor
    • Audio mixer
    • ScoreFitter
    • Title
    • 3D Title Editor
    • Voice-over
    • Audio Ducking
    • Multi-Camera Editor
    • Track Transparency
    • Motion Tracking
    • Split Screen
    • Mark In, Mark Out, Clear
    • Razor blade (Split Clips)
    • Trashcan
    • Snapshot
    • Markers
    • Selection tool
    • Slip tool
    • Slide tool
    • Roll tool
    • Stretch tool
    • Trim mode
    • Dynamic length transitions
    • Magnetic snapping
    • Audio scrubbing
    • Editing mode
    • Using the Alt key to override the editing mode
  • 3-point and 4-point editing
    • To add clips by using 3-point editing
    • To add clips by using 4-point editing
  • The timeline track header
    • Default track
    • Locking
    • Storyboard link
    • Track name
    • Video and audio monitoring
    • Additional track functions
  • Editing Movies
    • Project settings
    • Establishing tracks
    • Adding clips to the timeline
    • Live editing preview
    • Advanced drag-and-drop
    • Filling a gap
    • Inserting clips
    • Inserting with split
    • Replacing a clip
    • Sending to the timeline
    • Sending from the Player
  • Title Editors, ScoreFitter, voice-over
  • Deleting clips
  • Clip operations
    • Selecting
    • Multiple selection with keyboard and mouse
    • Grouping and ungrouping clips
    • Adjusting
  • Rotating video
    • To rotate a video clip by 90 degree increments
    • To rotate a video clip by any degree
  • Trimming
    • A rule for staying in sync
    • Opening trim points
    • The Trim Editor
    • Editing modes for trimming
    • Trimming the beginning of a clip
    • Trimming the end of the clip
    • Trimming gaps
    • Trim both
    • Over-trimming
    • Slip trim
    • Slide trim
    • Monitoring trim points
    • Moving and copying
  • Using Slip, Slide, Roll, or Stretch tools on the Timeline
    • To use the Slip tool to adjust clips in the Timeline
    • To use the Slide tool to adjust clips in the Timeline
    • To use the Roll tool to adjust clips in the Timeline
    • To use the Stretch tool to adjust clips in the Timeline
  • Using the Clipboard
    • From the Library
    • From the timeline
    • Effects on the Clipboard
    • Transitions on the Clipboard
  • Controlling speed with Time Remapping
    • To vary the speed of a video by using Time Remapping
    • To change the speed of an entire clip by using Time Remapping
    • To reverse a clip by using Time Remapping
  • Using Time Freeze to freeze frames
    • To create a freeze frame effect by using Time Freeze
    • To delete a freeze frame
  • Movies within movies (nested projects)
    • To create a nested project from clips in the Timeline
    • To edit a nested project in the Timeline
    • To add a project from the Library to the current project
  • Picture-in-Picture (PIP)
    • To scale or crop a video clip for a picture-in-picture (PIP) effect
  • Track Transparency
    • To use Track Transparency mode
  • Transitions
    • Creating a transition
    • Transitions in the Editor panel
    • Rippling transitions
    • Removing multiple transitions
    • Replacing a transition
    • Adjusting transitions
    • Transition context menu
  • Morph Transitions
    • To edit a Morph Transition
  • Seamless Transitions (Ultimate)
    • To apply a Seamless Transition
  • Clip effects
  • Clip context menus
• Corrections
  • Correcting Library media
    • To apply corrections to Library media
    • To remove corrections from Library media
  • Correcting timeline media
    • The Navigator
    • View options
    • Moving the preview in the window
    • Info and captions
    • The settings
  • Photo editing tools
    • Image rotation
    • Before-and-after
  • Correcting photos
    • Enhance (photos)
    • Automatics
    • Fundamentals
    • White balance
    • Selective brightness
    • Selective saturation
    • Adjustments
    • Crop
    • Straighten
  • Red-eye
  • Correcting video
    • Video / audio switch
    • Waveform display
  • Video tools
    • Markers
  • Video corrections
    • Enhance (videos)
    • Adjustments
    • Snapshot
  • Stabilize
  • Wide-angle Lens Correction
    • To correct wide-angle lens distortion
  • Correcting audio
• Color correction and color grading
  • Using the Color controls
    • To access color correction and color grading controls
    • To apply a LUT Profile
  • Tone Curve
    • To adjust color and tone with Tone Curve
  • HSL Tuning
    • To adjust color with HSL Tuning
  • Color Wheel
    • To adjust the tone or color of a clip with the Color Wheel
  • Video scopes
    • To display a video scope
    • To use Selective Vectorscope to display and correct skin tone
• Effects
  • Corrections vs. effects
  • About effects
    • To choose and apply an effect
    • To remove effects
  • Effect compositions
    • To save a combination of effects as an FX Composition
  • Real-time vs. rendered effects
  • The Settings
    • Modifying parameters
    • Working with keyframes for effect settings
  • Video and photo effects
    • Effects and stereoscopic 3D
  • Green screen chroma key effects
    • To create a chroma key effect
  • Selective Color
    • To apply the Selective Color effect
  • Transition In and Transition Out
  • Pan-and-zoom
    • Adding pan-and-zoom
    • Static mode
    • Animated mode
    • Keyframing Pan-and-Zoom
    • The Settings
  • 360 Video
    • To edit and export a 360 video
    • To edit a 360 video and convert it to a standard video
    • To apply a tiny planet or rabbit hole effect to a 360 video
• Masks and Motion Tracking
  • Understanding masks in Pinnacle Studio
  • Shape masks
  • Using a Shape mask to edit specific areas
    • To create a Shape mask
  • Using a mask panel to create a 3D effect
    • To create a Panel mask
  • Motion Tracking
    • To track and mask an element in a video
    • To track an element in a video with a title or object
• Montages and Templates
  • Template basics
    • To use a template
  • Montage templates
    • Montage in your project
    • Montage backgrounds
  • Montage clips on the timeline
    • Trimming Montage clips
    • Transitions and effects
  • Anatomy of a montage template
  • Montage editing
  • Using the Montage Editor
    • Interior trimming of Montage clips
    • Working with drop zones
  • Split screen video templates
    • To choose and fill a split screen template
    • To create a split screen template
  • My Templates: Saving a movie as a template
    • To convert a movie project to a template
    • To choose and fill a movie template from My Templates
• The Title Editor
  • Title Editor components
  • Accessing the Title Editor
    • Keywords in title names
    • Saving the title
    • Closing the Title Editor
  • The Library in the Title Editor
    • Adding Library media to a title
  • The Presets Selector
  • Preset Looks
    • Previewing Looks
    • Applying a Look
  • Preset Motions
    • The Motions collection
    • Matching the enter and exit Motions
    • Previewing Motions
    • Adding Motions
  • Creating and editing titles
    • Creating text and shape layers
    • Editing layers
  • Background settings
  • Look settings
    • Working with detail layers
    • Saving a custom Look
  • The Edit window
    • Layer operations in the Edit Window
  • Text and text settings
    • Text-edit mode
    • The Text Settings
    • Copying and pasting text styles
    • Text alignment
    • Text flow
    • Styling with Looks
  • Titles and stereoscopic 3D
  • The Layer List
  • Working with the Layer List
    • Layer operations
    • Hiding and locking layers
    • The toolbar
    • Editing layers and Motions
  • Working with layer groups
    • Multiple selection of layers
    • Edit Window operations on the group
    • Applying properties to a group
    • Aligning layers in temporary groups
• Sound and music
  • Audio features of Pinnacle Studio
    • The Library
    • Audio corrections
    • Audio effects
  • Editing audio
  • Channel mixer
    • Waveform graph and frequency spectrum
  • Audio Corrections
    • Equalize
    • Adjustments
    • Compressor
    • Expander
    • De-esser
    • Noise reduction
  • Audio effects
  • Audio on the timeline
  • Timeline audio functions
    • Master playback level
    • Audio mixer mode
    • The Panner
  • ScoreFitter background music
  • The Voice-over tool
    • Additional controls
  • Using Audio Ducking to automatically adjust volume
    • To apply Audio Ducking
    • To remove Audio Ducking
• Disc projects
  • MyDVD disc projects
    • To create a disc project
    • To add chapter markers to a disc project
  • Author tab (legacy)
  • Menu templates (legacy Author tab)
  • Disc menus (legacy Author tab)
    • The Menu List
    • Designing menu interactivity
    • Automatic page creation
    • Multipage menus in the Menu List
  • Adding disc menus (legacy Author tab)
    • Menu types
    • Menu buttons
    • Unlinked menus and buttons
  • Previewing disc menus (legacy Author tab)
    • Link indicators
  • Menu editing on the timeline
  • Timeline menu markers (legacy Author tab)
  • Authoring tools (legacy Author tab)
    • Timeline editing of chapter and return markers
  • The Chapter Wizard (legacy Author tab)
    • Why use the Chapter Wizard?
    • Using the Chapter Wizard
  • The Menu Editor (legacy Author tab)
    • Starting the editor
    • The button cycle
  • Menu buttons (legacy Author tab)
    • Button types
    • Buttons for multipage menus
    • Button presets
    • Button settings
  • The Disc Simulator (legacy Author tab)
• The Importer
  • Using the Importer
    • Importing stereoscopic 3D content
  • Import sources
    • Single-frame import
    • Adjusting audio and video levels
    • Working with import folders and subfolders
    • To select an import folder and subfolder
  • The Mode area
    • DV / HDV import options
    • Import options for analog media
    • Import options for file-based assets
    • Import options for stop-motion capture
  • Compression settings for Capture Video
    • To choose Capture Video compression settings
  • Scene detection settings for Capture Video
    • To choose scene detection settings
  • File name for imported files
  • Selecting assets for import
    • Import from file
  • Selecting files for Import
    • The folder and file browser
    • Previewing media and project files
    • Marking files for import
  • Customizing the browser
  • Scan for assets
  • Import from DV or HDV camera (Capture Video)
    • Previewing video
    • Recording video and audio
    • To capture manually with the Start Capture and Stop Capture buttons:
    • To capture automatically by setting mark-in and mark-out points:
  • Import from analog sources
    • To capture from an analog source:
    • To capture for a specified duration:
  • Import from DVD or Blu-ray Disc
    • To import from a disc
  • Import from digital cameras
  • Stop motion
    • To create a stop motion project
  • Snapshot
    • Using the Image Tray
    • Importing the frames
  • MultiCam Capture
    • To use MultiCam Capture in Pinnacle Studio
• The Exporter
  • Exporting your project
    • To export from the Export tab
  • Export options and settings
    • Preparing your movie for output
    • Create between markers
  • Output to disc or memory card
    • SD card, Memory Stick and Built-In Media
  • Output to file (Format or Extension)
    • 3GP
    • Audio only
    • Transport Stream (MTS)
    • AVI
    • DivX
    • DivX Plus HD
    • Flash Video
    • Image
    • Image sequence
    • QuickTime Movie (MOV)
    • MPEG
    • Real Media
    • Windows Media
  • Output to Web
    • Facebook
    • Vimeo
    • YouTube
    • After uploading
  • Output to a device
    • Apple
    • Microsoft Xbox and Xbox One
    • Nintendo Wii
    • Sony PS3 and PS4
    • Sony PSP
  • Output to MyDVD
    • To export to a MyDVD file
  • Export to animated GIF
    • To export to an animated GIF
  • Exporting movies with transparency to alpha channel video
    • To export to an alpha channel video
• Setup
  • Legacy Options
    • Watchfolders
    • Legacy Authoring Mode
  • Audio device
  • Event logging
  • Export and Preview
    • Playback Optimization
    • Hardware Acceleration
    • To choose Hardware Acceleration type
    • Stereoscopic
  • Import settings in the Control Panel
  • Keyboard settings in the Control Panel
    • To add a keyboard shortcut:
    • To delete a shortcut:
    • Restoring defaults
  • Project settings
  • Startup Page
  • Storage locations
  • Resetting Pinnacle Studio
    • To reset Pinnacle Studio to the default state
  • Restore purchase
    • To restore purchases made in Pinnacle Studio
• MultiCam Capture Lite
  • Starting a screen capture project
    • To open the Screen Capture window
    • Workspace
  • Recording your screen
    • To configure your video
    • To record your screen capture
• Multi-Camera Editing
  • The Multi-Camera Editor workspace
    • Toolbar, playback, and other controls
  • Basic steps in multi-camera editing
  • Importing video and audio clips into the Multi-Camera Editor
    • To import video clips into the Multi-Camera Editor
  • Synchronizing video and audio clips in multi-camera projects
    • To synchronize video and audio clips in the Multi-Camera Editor
  • Choosing an audio source for your multi-camera project
    • To choose an audio source for your multi-camera project
  • Editing multiple clips to create a multi-camera compilation
    • To create a multi-camera compilation
    • To add a transition between multi-camera segments
    • To split a clip in the Multi-Camera Editor
  • Adding picture-in-picture (PIP) in the Multi-Camera Editor
    • To add a picture-in-picture (PIP) effect to your multi-camera project
  • Managing multi-camera source files
    • To add, remove or manage clips with the Source Manager
  • Saving and exporting your multi-camera project
    • To save your multi-camera project
  • Using Smart Proxy for a faster, smoother editing experience
    • To enable or disable Smart Proxy
    • To set the resolution threshold and location for Smart Proxy files
    • To manage proxy files
• 3D Title Editor
  • 3D Title Editor workspace
  • Creating and editing 3D titles
    • To create a 3D title
  • 3D objects
    • To add a 3D object
• Appendix A: Troubleshooting
  • Contacting support
  • Forums
  • Compatibility with past content
  • Capture hardware compatibility
    • Supported hardware
    • Unsupported hardware
  • Serial number information
    • General troubleshooting
• Appendix B: Videography
  • Creating a shooting plan
  • Editing a video project
    • Using varying perspectives
    • Close-ups
    • Long shots / Semi-long shots
    • Complete actions
    • Transitions
    • Logical sequence of action
    • Bridging the gaps
    • Maintain continuity
    • Tempo of cuts
    • Avoid visual disjunctions
    • Do not string together pan shots
  • Rules of thumb for video editing
    • Associative cuts
    • Parallel cuts
    • Contrast cuts
    • Substitutionary cut
    • Cause and effect cuts
    • Formal cuts
  • Soundtrack production
    • Keep comments brief
    • Preserve original sounds
    • Select appropriate music
  • Giving your project a title
    • Title colors
    • Time on screen
    • ‘Found’ titles
• Appendix C: Glossary
• Appendix D: Keyboard shortcuts
  • General shortcuts
  • Library shortcuts
  • Playing and transport shortcuts
  • Importer shortcuts
  • Edit tab shortcuts
  • Editor shortcuts
  • Title Editor shortcuts
• Appendix E: The installation manager
  • Before you begin installing
  • Upgrade Installation
  • Launching the Installation Manager
  • Registration
  • Supporting installations
  • The installation Welcome Screen
  • Common controls
  • Installing plugs-ins and bonus content
  • System requirements
    • Operating system
    • RAM
    • Motherboard
    • Graphics card
    • The hard drive
    • Video capture hardware

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