Video Editing Software User Guide for The Teachers of the ESM School District

Ulead Video Studio 9 is an easy to use video editing software that allows even the novice of movie makers to produce a professional project complete with sound, titles, text, still images, overlays, and transitions. For assisted editing, Video Studio 9 includes a Movie Wizard for automated movie making, a DV-to-DVD Wizard for transferring tapes to disc, and automatic music analysis and soundtrack generation.

STEP 1:
Starting a New Movie Project (creating a “Working Folder”)
Before you start, create a new folder in your network account that will hold all your video files, audio files, and images. This will be known as your “working folder”. Move any files (video, audio, stills) into this folder so everything you are going to use within your slide show/movie are being pulled from the same location.
STEP 2 – Open the Program
Welcome Screen
Open the program by double clicking on the desktop icon. The program starts up with a simple Welcome screen, offering the three main applications:

Select one of the video editing modes below that best meets your needs from quick and easy to a masterpiece production:
DV (digital video)-to-DVD Wizard: allows you to capture video, add a theme template to it, then burn it into a disc.
Video Studio Movie Wizard: ideal for users who are new to video editing. It guides you through the movie production process in three quick, easy steps.
VideoStudio Editor: gives you the full editing features of VideoStudio. It provides you total control over the movie production process, from adding clips, titles, effects, overlays, and music to making the final movie on disc or other medium.

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Computer Tips and Tricks

Navigating Through Your Files
Files are usually save in the My Documents folder. To look for a file you can follow the steps below:
Step 1: Click on Start (lower left corner)
Step 2: Find the My Documents Folder (upper right on menu). The start menu is also the menu to access all the programs installed on your machine.
Step 3: A new window will open showing the contents of My Documents, you can scroll up and down to find the file or folder you are looking for.

To open/ see what is in a folder you can double click on the folder or highlight and select File > Open

My Documents Side Bar:
The side bar gives you various options to select, the most used options are:
Make a new folder: And the Other Places options to navigate to your Desktop, My Computer, or My Network Places.
My Documents Menu Bar:
Besides having the standard menu options File, Edit, View, Favorites, Tools and Help there are also icons that will help you navigate through My Documents. Using the folder with the green up arrow will take you up a directory (folder). A good time to use this is when you open a folder and then decide you need to go back to where you were.

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