Hello there, welcome to this video! Let's see in a short time everything
you need to know to apply advanced adjustments and corrections with the
newest Editor panel!
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In our beginner tutorial we have seen how to apply very basic
modifications on your clips through the timeline. Indeed, the newest
Editor panel, placed next to the Library, collects several enhancements and
advanced adjustments on your visual and audio clips.
This is divided into several sections, depending on the kind of clip
selected, collecting both Adjustments and Effects for your clips.
In this video, we will see how to enhance clips with adjustments and
corrections. For more information about effects and transitions, check out
our video guide link in the video description below!
Now let's see how to apply corrections on your pictures and photos.
The Properties section collects the basic properties of your visual clip,
such as placement with Position, its Size, its angle with Rotation and its
transparency level with Opacity. You can also curve the clip corners with
Corner Curve, and apply some colored contour with Border. Under Cropping,
you can crop the clip to show just what you want most. You can check the effect
of your changes through the Preview in Timeline mode.
Remember that you can also use either the Scale or the Crop Mode below
the Preview to size and crop the clip directly on it.
Each of these properties can be edited by either dragging the marker on the
bar or typing the precise value by clicking once on the square. To reset
any modification on a property, just double-click on the square or use the
undo button.
Whereas the lock symbol under Size is used to lock or unlock the aspect
ratio of the clip as you size it.
The Corrections section is used to enhance the clip colors and appearance.
Use Enhance to adjust the clip colors. This is divided into Automatics,
Fundamentals, White Balance and Selective corrections.
Use Automatics to apply automated corrections on the clip colors and
brightness with White Balance and Levels.
Use Fundamentals and White Balance to fix each of the main clip color
properties. Use Brightness and Contrast to adjust brightness and contrast;
use Temperature and Saturation to set the general color and its intensity;
and use Clarity and Haze to fix the blurriness of the clip details and
color. White Balance is used to adjust the general color on the clip as
you like.
Below, you can apply advanced corrections with Selective Brightness and
Saturation. The first one allows you to correct the brightness of the clip
on each of its parts, such as the dark, the mid-light and the light sides.
Selective Saturation is used to correct the intensity of each of the main
colors, from Red to Yellow.
At the very top, you can enable or disable the orange square to check the
overall effect of all your modifications applied through Enhance.
You also have Adjustments and Wide-angle Lens Correction, used to apply
quick and advanced corrections based on templates and standards, such as
Aspect Ratio, Interlacing, and lens distortion, including focal length and
center.
The Pan And Zoom section is used to set zoom, placement and rotation on
your picture. Use Zoom to set a zoom in (positive value) or a zoom out
(negative value); use Horizontal and Vertical to adjust the zoom position;
and use Rotation to apply any angle. In particular, this section is used to
make the Picture-In-Picture (PiP) effect, where a picture is zoomed out
and placed on top of other visual clips.
When using Pan & Zoom, you have two additional views on your Preview,
besides the Source and the Timeline ones. The Pan & Zoom Source view shows
the kind of zoom and pan you are applying on the clip through a rectangle
that you can edit as you like. So you can either use the Editor panel or
directly edit the rectangle to set the pan and zoom.
The Pan & Zoom View shows the result of the pan and zoom, which is indeed
the part of the clip that is within the rectangle under Pan & Zoom Source.
When a clip gets adjusted, colored lines appear on it, such as green ones
if Corrections are applied, or pink lines if clip Properties have been
changed, or any Pan & Zoom is applied.
Text clips can be edited through the Editor panel just like image clips.
But in case you need to edit the text content and style, you still have to
use the Title Editor. Check out our dedicated video to know how to work
with text and titles with Pinnacle Studio 21!
In case you select any audio clip, the Editor panel changes. This is now
divided in two: on the left, you set the audio properties and corrections,
and on the right you can take a look at the audio waveform of the clip,
and at the frequency spectrum, from 20Hz on the left, to 20kHz on the right,
which is referred to the output volume from your entire Timeline.
The Channel Mixer section is used to adjust the clip volume, measured in
deciBels (dB), by checking the deciBel meter on top. This should never
reach red levels, or signal may be distorted.
The Corrections section has everything to improve the audio quality of the
clip you're interested in. Equalize is used to apply audio filters, such as
high frequency pass filters with High, and low-pass filters with Low. Use
the Gain knob to amplify (positive deciBels) or attenuate (negative value)
the filter gains, and the Freq Knob to set the filter bandwidth.
You can also apply any ready preset on top.
Use Compressor and Expander to adjust the audio waveform depending on
the Threshold level set for its volume, and the Ratio knob, which sets
the correction hardness. If you use Compressor, every signal that overcomes
the threshold level is reduced by means of the Ratio fixed. Whereas, if you
use Expander, every signal that stays below the threshold level is
amplified by means of the Ratio set.
You can fine the Compressor or Expander adjustments through the Attack
time, the Release time, and other options below.
De-Esser is used to remove any sibilant noise from the audio clip,
especially from speech; Noise Reduction to reduce general audio noise from
the audio clip, including any Wind.
There is also the Time Remapping feature, which applies any Slow or Fast
Motion to your audio and visual clips. To learn more about this effect,
check out the dedicated video in our free guide!
When selecting a video clip, the Editor shows all the adjustments for both
video frames and audio, depending on what you choose on the extreme left.
You can find all the corrections seen for pictures to adjust video frames,
including the Stabilize section, used to stabilize the center of the video;
and all the adjustments seen for sound clips for the audio part of the
video.
With Pinnacle Studio, you can also apply dynamic corrections on visual
clips, whose settings change in time by using markers called keyframes.
Keyframes are special markers that save, for each property, a particular
set-up in the instant of time they are placed. In this way, if you get two
keyframes in time with different settings saved, you will create a dynamic
transition where the adjustment properties change in time between the first
keyframe to the second one. Let's see how to use these in detail.
When the Editor shows the corrections of a visual clip, it is divided in
two parts: the properties on the left, and the timeline on the right. This
timeline is identical to the one you have at the bottom, and is used to
show all the keyframes applied on the clip for each single property.
To add a keyframe to a property, just click on the rhombus button. This
will add a first keyframe that saves the current value of such property.
Then, if you move the playhead to another instant of time, and change the
property value, a new keyframe is created, saving its new settings. At this
point, you can check the Preview to see the effect of the transition. You
can add further keyframes on the same or on other properties for more
complex transitions if you need.
Keep in mind that the time distance between two keyframes on the same
property sets the transition duration as well.
To change the properties of each keyframe, just click on it to select it
and change its settings on the left. To remove a keyframe, just right-click
on one and go to Delete. To disable all keyframes and come back to a static
correction, just click on the rhombus button. Consider that all your
keyframes will be lost.
Keyframes are also used to create dynamic Pan & Zoom effects. Within the
Pan & Zoom section, the Editor shows the timeline between the left panel
and the Preview views. Here you can add keyframes as seen for the other
sections, and check the transition effect through the player below the
Pan & Zoom views. The rectangle position and size saved by the keyframes
are represented in red color, whereas the white color represents the
placement and size of the current frame you are watching on the Preview.
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