Pinnacle Studio 11 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide

Description

Pinnacle Studio 11 is the latest version of the industry leading home video editing tool aimed at the Windows consumer market. In Pinnacle Studio 11 for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide, veteran journalist and teacher Jan Ozer tackles Pinnacle Studio version 11 in classic and popular QuickStart style--with step-by-step instructions, plenty of illustrations, and straightforward language. Jan provides the skinny on all popular Studio 11 features like HD capture, editing and disc burning: Pinnacle Studio Plus edits native HDV or AVCHD footage and then authors HD DVD format discs that will play on the latest HD players; the new Scorefitter music generator which automatically generates soundtracks with 40 source tracks; new simplified web publishing features where users can now automatically post movies publicly on Yahoo! Videos and more.

CONTENTS:

Introduction

Part I: Getting Started

Creating Watchable Video

Introduction to Studio 11

Part II: Gathering Your Assets

Capturing Digital Content Capturing Analog Video

Working with Still Images

Collecting Assets in the Album

Part III: Editing

Producing Videos in the Movie Window

Using Transitions

Applying Special Effects

Designing Titles and Menus

Working with Audio

DVD Authoring

Part IV: Other Output

Writing to Tape

Creating Digital Output

Uploading Videos

Converting Tapes to DVD