Mediastudio Pro 8 Video tutorial

tomthum · Post by **tomthum** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 10:02 pm

Hi all Im a new member

I have just purchased mediastudio 8 to-day
its is very good program,

are their any video tutorials on this program Please any info would be helpful.

Ihave been using Adobe Prem Pro.for past 18 months which is ok.
But i Liked the look of MSP8 and I tried out the trial version
and liked it so much i have now purchased it

Captured a 10 min video file and so far so good,but
I could realy do with a video tutorial so any help appreciated
Trying to find my way round the interface etc etc
gets me frustrated

but Im getting their,
I printed all the help files out to-day at work ( over a 100 Pages )
I also Purchased the video lab graphics program in the same deal

Im now sourrounded with bits of paper LOL.

any advice welcome regarding video tutorials

cheers

Terry Stetler · Post by **Terry Stetler** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 10:48 pm

If you have stacks of paper and downloaded the full version there is also a full manual on Ulead's website;

http://ftp.ulead.com/pub/Manual/msp8/me ... _guide.zip

Charlie Hills is the author of the excellent "Getting Results" series of tutorials for Ulead products. He's working on a full tutorial on MSPro 8, but that's quite a job so it isn't ready yet.

That said Charlie has posted a freebie "Getting reoriented" tutorial for MSPro 7 users here;

http://www.getting-results.com/news/msp8.php

Though it's for users of previous MSPro builds there is info to be gleened for new MSPro users as well.

Other info resources are here, the Ulead User to User forum and.....

Digital Media Net MSPro forum;

http://www.dmnforums.com/cgi-bin/displa ... =30&dire=4

Creative Cow MSPro forum;

http://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/n ... forumid=10

MURC Desktop Video forum;

http://forums.murc.ws/forumdisplay.php?f=7

all of which are hangouts for the MSPro betatesters. In these forums you'll see many questions asked and answered as well as tutorials posted on a per-topic basis.

DON'T BE SHY!! The only stupid question is the one that goes un-asked.

tomthum · Post by **tomthum** » Thu Sep 22, 2005 11:39 pm

Thank you very much Terry for the quick response
you have given me enough sites to brows and learn a bit more
about msp8

Their is one think i would like to no and that is,

in the smart proxy files, since i edit in pal land my files are
720 x 576
should i set this in the smart proxy so it will create smaller files etc or set it higher
maby u can enlighten me on this
Thanks again

Terry Stetler · Post by **Terry Stetler** » Fri Sep 23, 2005 3:02 am

I'd only use Proxy mode for HDV or other such high resolution sources. If this is the case then there are both 16:9 (widescreen) and 4:3 (standard screen) DVD Proxy templates.

If you're editing non-HDV video then there are already DV and MPEG/DVD presets for PAL resolutions and they won't require the creation of proxies.

Using these presets with sources of the same properties will also allow for Smart Rendering; meaning when you export to the project settings (ex: PAL DV) only the parts of the project with added effects (overlays, titles etc.) will be recompressed. The rest will just be copied unchanged. This speeds up things quite a bit.