Chapter 4: assets – Ulead 1.0 User Manual

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SpruceUp User’s Guide

Select the Opening Menu Background..................................................3—20

Add a Button to the Menu ..................................................................3—20

Add a Target to the Button.................................................................3—21

Add Some Text .................................................................................3—21

Saving the Project.............................................................................3—21

Something to Simulate! .....................................................................3—21

Something to Export! ........................................................................3—22

Working with Movie Assets....................................................................3—22

Keyboard Shortcuts ..................................................................... 3—23

File Functions ......................................................................................3—23

General Functions ................................................................................3—23

Edit Commands ...................................................................................3—23

To Open Dialogs ..................................................................................3—23

Main Control Modes..............................................................................3—23

Work Area Display ...............................................................................3—24

Text Properties ....................................................................................3—24

Button Resizing ...................................................................................3—24

Media Gallery Shortcuts........................................................................3—24

Alignment Tools...................................................................................3—24

Clip Properties .....................................................................................3—25

Pull Down Menus ......................................................................... 3—26

File Pull Down ........................................................................................3—26

Edit Pull Down........................................................................................3—27

View Pull Down.......................................................................................3—30

Help Pull Down .......................................................................................3—31

Chapter 4: Assets

Assets.......................................................................................... 4—2

Assets in SpruceUp Projects ..................................................................4—2

Asset Properties...................................................................................4—2

Important Differences Between Asset Types...............................................4—2

Understanding the Style Gallery ............................................................4—2

Importing Differences...........................................................................4—3

Deleting Within SpruceUp .....................................................................4—3

General Asset Information .......................................................................4—4

Parsed File ..........................................................................................4—4

Using the Style Gallery ................................................................ 4—5

Usage Hints ...........................................................................................4—6

The "Add Media Asset" Dialog ..................................................... 4—7

Video Assets................................................................................ 4—9

Introduction...........................................................................................4—9

General Quality Issues ............................................................................4—9

Start at the Source ..............................................................................4—9

Noisy Video.........................................................................................4—9

Transcoding Artifacts............................................................................4—9

What is MPEG? .......................................................................................4—9

Elementary and Multiplexed MPEG Files ..................................................4—9

MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 ............................................................................4—10