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 Pinnacle Studio 9 - Ancillary Content

Here are the materials referenced in my Visual QuickStart for Pinnacle Studio 9.  Please click here to e-mail me with any comments, errors or omissions (other than those noted).

First, I should point out there there is a significant misprint in the book on page 227. The chart showing which filters are included in Studio is incorrect; click here to see the correct chart as provided by Peachpit press. I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

Enjoy, and thanks for buying the book.

Jan Ozer

Hollywood FX Exposed - Transitions

Creating Overlays in PhotoShop (preliminary procedures completed)

Hollywood FX Exposed - Picture-in-Picture Effect

Hollywood FX Exposed

I have a confession. The dog ate my homework.  Actually, it's worse than that.  After I finish a book, I reinstall Windows for the next major project, reformatting the drive and all. In doing so, I accidentally deleted all the Windows Media files I prepared to post to this site.

No worries, I spent an afternoon redoing them. However, while I tried to duplicate the original files as closely as possible, some videos definitely won't match the screen shots in the book.

Figure 8.35 - Balloons

Figure 8.36 - Box of Chocolates

Figure 8.37 - Wild World of Sports

Figure 8.38 - Bubbly

Figure 8.39 - Dual windows

Figure 8.40 - Flower pot

Figure 8.41 - Wanted poster

Figure 8.42 - Triangle

Figure 8.43 - Golf tee

Figure 8.44 - Sharks

Figure 8.45 - Ghost transition

Figure 8.46 - Snow falling
 

Figure 8.47 - Picture in Picture

 

  

Creating Overlays in Photoshop

This procedure was graciously provided to me by Pinnacle, but I have NOT reviewed it.

To create a TIFF Overlay:

1. Create a new Photoshop doc

2. Add a new layer

3. Create a red square in the new layer

4. Add a drop shadow to the square. (I made it 50% transparent and moved it out some distance from the square so I could see it better)

5. Delete the background layer so the square is over the transparent "checkerboard" pattern

6. File->Save As and choose file type TIFF

7. Uncheck "Layers" and click Save

8. Check "Save transparency" and click OK

To create a TARGA Overlay:

6. File->Save As and choose file type Targa

7. Uncheck "Layers" and click Save

8. Check "32 bits per pixel" and click OK

To add the image as a transparent background:

1. To add the graphic as a transparent background, go to Deko's background album

2. In the background album, browse to where you saved the TIFF or Targa file

3. Click on the file. It becomes the (transparent) background of the title

To add the graphic as a layer:

1. To add the graphic as a layer, go to Deko's button album

2. In the button album, browse to where you saved the TIFF or Targa file

3. Drag the graphic from the album into your title. It will get 4x smaller, so you may have to size it up

4. Select the "button" and set it to "not a button" if you just want it to be a graphic element

Creating Picture In Picture Effects in Hollywood FX

Note:  This procedure was supplied by Pinnacle Systems and verified by me. It is for advanced users, and requires either HFX Plus or Mega.

1.  Drag the clip that will be the full-screen background onto the Studio 9 timeline.

2.  Drag a simple Hollywood FX transition (I used Dive Off) to the end of the clip on the timeline.


3.  Drag the left-side of the transition until the transition is the full size of the video clip:

4.  Double-click on the transition in the timeline, then select Edit from the Transition toolbox.  The Hollywood FX editing window will appear.  The first thing you need to do here is reverse the transition so that the video from Studio properly appears as the background.  Click on the Reverse transition tool:

5.  Now, select the video source that is going to be the PiP video source.  To do this, you will need to:
- Expand the parameter window on the left.
- Highlight the first ‘Video Source 1’ media item in the tree view (bottom left).
- Click on the folder icon in the Video Source 1 parameters
- Select your video clip.
(Note that an alternate way to do this is to load video clips into the album, then drag and drop them from the album onto objects in the preview).

6.  Now you can create a nice PiP path for your video.  The easiest way to do this is to use a preset path from the album:
- In the folder-side of the album, scroll down to ‘Paths’, and highlight the ‘PiP’ paths group.
- In the items side of the album, drag-and-drop one of the PiP preset paths from the album onto the flying object in the Preview window.

7.  You will now have a PiP effect.  You can then edit the path by moving the time slider and then using the move/rotate tools to create/edit key frames.


 

 

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