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ULEAD VIDEOSTUDIO USER GUIDE
Storyboard
A storyboard is an outline for a movie. It contains a chronological order of the events that
occur in your story. The bottom half of the Ulead VideoStudio interface is simply an electronic
storyboard.
The Storyboard can be viewed in two distinct modes by clicking the Switch mode button.
Which mode you use depends entirely on personal preference, but most people find both
modes to be useful at different times. For example, the Storyboard mode is the fastest and
simplest way to add clips to your movie. Clips can be moved around by simply dragging them.
After arranging your scenes in the Storyboard mode, some people prefer to switch to the
Timeline mode to fine tune their effects and perform frame accurate trimming and editing of
individual clips.
Switching to the Timeline mode, Ulead VideoStudio show exactly when and where events in
your story occur (based on frame and timecode relationship) and you can see at a glance the
contents of various media clips. A clip can be a video file, an audio file, a transition, a colored
background or a title. If you’re starting from scratch, you can drag clips from the Library and
simply drop them on the Timeline.
Storyboard mode
You may find that starting out in the Storyboard mode is the easiest way to get your project
rolling. After starting a new project, switch to the Storyboard step and take a look at your
project. Each picture represents an event in your movie, an event being a video clip or a
transition. The thumbnails reveal at a glance the chronological order of events in your project,
but do not tell you much about the clips themselves.
Timeline mode allows frame accurate editing of
individual clips.
Storyboard mode presents an overview of the
entire project’s video track.
Click the Switch mode button to change
between the two display modes.