ADDING TRANSPARENCY TO A CLIP Move to the beginning of the movie and click on the clip in the Canvas window. A marquee appears around the clip. Select the VIDEO TRANSPARENCY command from the Canvas window. The Video Transparency dialog appears. Select Oval from the Transparency Shapes, set the Edge Softness to approximately 30%, and click OK. Select Oval Set the Edge Softness to approximately 30% The clip appears in the Canvas window with transparency applied.
COLLAPSING TRACKS When you add tracks to your project, the Project window must be made larger to view all the tracks. You can view more tracks in the Project window by collapsing them. Click on the upper right section of the track icon to the left of the track. The frames of the track are replaced with shorter colored bars to allow more tracks to be viewed. You can collapse the tracks you are not currently working with.
CREATING CLIPS WITH TUNEBUILDER TuneBuilder uses TuneBuilder-enabled music. This means the songs have been analyzed by professional music editors and instruction files have been created which TuneBuilder uses to build new clips. The VideoShop Resources CD con-tains16 TuneBuilder-enabled songs for you to use in your movies. The instruction files for these songs are automatically loaded onto your computer when you install VideoShop. To start TuneBuilder: Insert the VideoShop Resources CD into your computer's CD drive. NOTE Make sure you have the internal CD selected as the source for sound in your Control panels. Select TUNEBUILDER from the Filemenu. The TuneBuilder application starts and the CD Remote and TuneBuilder Library windows are displayed. The CD Remote window is used to play songs from TuneBuilder-enabled CDs in your CD drive. It will play the song that is highlighted in the Library window. The Library window is used to select a song that your new clip will be created from. Your new clip will sound similarto the original song, but will have a different duration. Click the Browse button at the top of the window. This displays all the songs that have corresponding editing instruction files on your hard drive. In this case, it shows the 16 songs that come on the VideoShop Resources CD. Scroll through the songs in the Library List and preview them by clicking on the song and pressing the Preview but-ton. A preview of the song will play for 30 seconds. Click the Stop button in the CD Remote window to stop the song at any time. Click the Edit button to create a new clip from the "Southern Hospitality" song. The song file is downloaded from the CD to your hard drive (this takes a few minutes) and the TuneBuilder window is displayed, as shown above. A wave-form representing the song is shown at the top of the window. Click inside the Specified box to activate the field. The field flashes to show it's active. We need a clip that's about 35 seconds long for our movie so enter 35 in the field and press Enter. TuneBuilder will come as close as possible to this length. Click the Generate button to create the new clip. The new clip, which is 33.8 seconds long, is displayed at the bottom of thewindow. The musical blocks used to create the clip from the original song are shown in the top waveform as horizontal bars. To adjust the volume of a new clip: Click the Dynamic Volume Adjustment button at the top right of the new clip. The DVA window appears. Click at the beginning of the waveform at the 0 level. Move the cursor to the +100 level and click a short distance from the beginning. Move the cursor to the right and click a short distance from the right. Move the cursor back to the 0 level and click at the end of the waveform. Press the Enter key to save the volume adjustment. This will cause the volume to fade up at the beginning and fade back down at the end. To use a TuneBuilder file in a movie: Select the IMPORT command from the Bin menu. Locate the Country Song file and click Add. In the Project window, collapse all the tracks. Click the Add Track button. From the pop-up menu, select TuneBuilder. A Tunebuilder track is added to the Project window above the other tracks. Click and drag the Country SongTuneBuilder file from the Bin window onto the TuneBuilder track in the Project window. Position it above the clips. Use the Trim handle at the end of the clip to trim a few frames from the clip until the clips are even.
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