Ulead MEDIASTUDIO PRO 6, User Manual

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MEDIASTUDIO PRO USER GUIDE 106
Working with video projects
In Video Editor, the Timeline and its associated clips are referred to as a
video project, which is saved as a DVP file (digital video project). When
you save a video project, Video Editor only saves the positions and at-
tributes of the clips in the Timeline, not the actual source files themselves.
The advantage to this is that the DVP file has a relatively small file size and
that any editing done is nondestructive – that is, the editing doesn’t affect
the original source files on disk. The next time you open a DVP file, Video
Editor verifies that your hard disk still contains the source files for the
clips in the project and then recreates the clips accordingly.
Creating a new video project
To get started in Video Editor you first need to create a video project. The
video project not only holds the clips that you place into the Timeline, but
also defines the properties for the resulting video, such as the television
standard and the size of the frames used. Any clips that you place into the
project subsequently adopt those properties, regardless of their original
attributes.
To create a new video project:
1. Click the New button on the Standard toolbar or File: New [
CTRL
+
N
].
The New dialog box opens displaying a list of project templates.
2. Click on the template you want to use. Its properties, as well as an
annotated description, are displayed on the right side of the dialog box.
3. Click OK. The dialog box closes and a new project is created.
Note: When you run Video Editor for the first time, the New dialog box opens auto-
matically. If you regularly use the same properties for a video project, you can hide
the New dialog box each time you click New by clearing the Always show this
dialog box option (Another way is to clear the Display New dialog box option in the
File: Preferences: General tab.). Any subsequent projects take their properties
from the current project.