Ulead VideoStudio Editing

February 19, 2008 8:17 PM

Trying to make a video in Ulead VideoStudio, but am stymied on a few things. Help?

I was using Windows Movie Maker but found it too limited, so I'm using Ulead VideoStudio instead. It's good so far, but I'm stuck on a couple of things:

1. Most of my scenes involve text scrolling on screen. Problem is, as soon as the text stop scrolling, it goes into the next scene too quickly. How do I make the scene with the full text stay on screen for at least a second, instead of quickly transitioning away?

2. I've got a scene which has a list. I want each item on the list to show up one by one, building the list eventually (pretty much what Powerpoint does with bulleted lists). How do I do this in VideoStudio?

I realize that my project may be easier made in Powerpoint, since it seems more like a pseudo-slideshow, but for various reasons this has to be a video. I haven't had much success in looking for tutorials. What should I do?

posted by divabat to computers & internet (6 comments total)

Have you read the manual?
posted by unSane at 8:37 PM on February 19, 2008

I got a free 30-day trial, which doesn't have a manual. Can't seem to find a Help option either, unless I'm blind...
posted by divabat at 8:40 PM on February 19, 2008

If you want to go the cop-out way for option 1 (it's been a while since I read ULead) you can take a screencap of the final frame of that scene, and insert it as an image. For number 2 I've always created the animation in flash and then exported it as mpg, but that may not be an option for you.
posted by Phire at 8:47 PM on February 19, 2008

Here are manuals.
posted by sageleaf at 9:36 PM on February 19, 2008

With this kind of thing I've always found it easier to author it in Keynote or Powerpoint and then export as a movie. And I'm a pretty good movie editor.
posted by unSane at 5:44 AM on February 20, 2008

It's been awhile since I've used VideoStudio, but let me see.

1) I would split the clip at the last frame, then expand that last frame to take up a second or two.

2) I would make up an image file in something like Photoshop or GIMP. Add text in layers and save each one. You can then import them into VideoStudio and specify a length for each bullet point.
posted by sanka at 6:30 AM on February 20, 2008