Working with the Album s Views and Tools

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Working with the Album's Views and Tools

The first time you load Studio, the Album opens in Scene view, where each scene is represented by an icon: essentially a thumbnail of the initial frame in the scene. However, Studio lets you customize this view to make your videos more accessible. Here's how.

To change from Scene view to Comment view

  • Do one of the following:

    • Hold the pointer over any gray area in the Album; then right-click and choose Comment view (Figure 6.23).

      Figure 6.23. To switch to Comment view, hold the pointer over any gray area in the Album, right-click, and choose Comment view.


    • Hold the pointer over any thumbnail in the Album; then right-click and choose Comment view.

    • From the Studio menu, choose Album > Comment view.

    The Album switches to Comment view (Figure 6.24).

    Figure 6.24. The Album switches to Comment view.


    The scene comments to the right of each video list the scene number, duration, and date and time the scene was shot. As you'll see in the next section, you can customize these comments so that you can more easily find relevant scenes during production.

    (Note that while working with the beta program, we noticed the scene information seemed to change randomly. So if you see different information from what is shown in Figure 6.24, don't be surprised.)

To switch between 4:3 and 16:9 views

  • Right-click on a picture in the Album and choose Aspect Ratio 16:9 (Figure 6.25).

    Figure 6.25. Here's how you switch back and forth between 16:9 and 4:3 modes.


    The Album and Player switch to 16:9 view (Figure 6.26). To switch back to 4:3, right-click and choose Aspect Ratio 4:3 view.

    Figure 6.26. Here's the Album in 16:9 mode.


Tip

  • Note that changing views does nothing to the captured file; it just changes how Studio displays the file.


To change the video thumbnail

1.

Click the target video.

Studio highlights the scene in the Album and displays the initial frame in the Player (Figure 6.27).

Figure 6.27. Here's the original thumbnail of this scene, which is not descriptive enough.


2.

Use the Player controls to move to the frame you want to use as the new thumbnail image (Figure 6.28).

Figure 6.28. Looks equally nondescript, but now we see the coil that holds the wire that catches the plane when it lands on the deck of the aircraft carrier. Miss this one (the third of three) and you're in trouble.


3.

Do one of the following:

  • From the Studio menu, choose Album > Set Thumbnail (Figure 6.28).

  • Place the pointer over the video you want to adjust; then right-click and choose Set Thumbnail.

Studio changes the thumbnail image to the new frame (Figure 6.29).

Figure 6.29. It's much easier to tell what this is when I'm scanning for thumbnails in Scene view.


To locate a clip from the Album in a production

1.

Click any scene with a green check mark in the upper-right corner (Figure 6.30).

Figure 6.30. The green check mark tells you that you've used the scene somewhere in the production. To find it, select the scene, right-click, and choose Find Scene in Project.


The check mark identifies scenes that are included in the production.

2.

Do one of the following:

  • From the Studio menu, choose Album > Find Scene in Project (Figure 6.30).

  • Place the pointer over the scene you want to find; then right-click and choose Find Scene in Project.

Studio highlights the selected scene in the Movie window (Figure 6.31).

Figure 6.31. Studio shifts the Timeline to make the scene visible in the Movie window (if necessary) and highlights the scene.


Tip

  • If you hold the pointer over any scene for a moment, Studio displays the start time and duration of the scene (Figure 6.32). Keep in mind that this and other helpful information found by hovering over a scene or other icon works only with the Tool Tips feature enabled be sure the Display Tool Tips option is checked in the Help pull-down menu.

    Figure 6.32. The pop-up box that appears when you hold the pointer over a scene's thumbnail identifies the scene's starting time and duration in the captured video.



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    Pinnacle Studio 10 for Windows. Visual QuickStart Guide
    Pinnacle Studio 10 for Windows Visual Quickstart Guide
    ISBN: B001E08S6S
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    Year: 2005
    Pages: 189

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