VideoStudio makes the most of your Webcam for business. Use your Webcam to make powerful video messages optimized for e-mail. Your customers will be impressed with the personal touch of e-mail messages that come alive with video attachments. VideoStudio makes it easy to produce short video clips under a minute with only minutes of your own time, and you can do it all by yourself without outsourcing anything to a professional video editor.
Capture Video from Webcam
Plug your Webcam into your USB port or IEEE 1394 port (also FireWire or iLINK port) on your computer. Make sure you have a microphone attached to your computer's sound card.
Launch VideoStuido 8. Click on the Capture button to activate Capture Setup.
Click on the Capture Video button to capture video. When finished capturing video, click on the Stop Capture button to end capture. Notice that your captured video clip appears to the right as a thumbnail in the Video Gallery.
TIP: To optimize your video for e-mail, keep your capture to approximately 40 seconds. Keeping your video capture between 30- 40 seconds will keep the size of your final video file to around 500Kb using the settings of this tutorial.
Capture Video
Stop Capture
Rename the video thumbnail to something meaningful to you, such as "videoemail".
Capture video and rename video thumbnai
Edit Video via Storyboard
Click on the Edit button to activate Edit Setup. Notice that the video clip you just captured is already placed in the Storyboard View. If you use an existing video clip, drag the thumbnail from the Video Gallery to the Storyboard View.
Use the Mark-in and Mark-out buttons to trim the beginning and end of the video clip from the Trim Bar.
Click on the video thumbnail in the Storyboard View. In the Video tab of the upper-left corner, click on both the Fade-in and Fade-out buttons. This lets the audio of your video clip gradually fade in and fade out.
Fade-in/out button
Select the Color Gallery from the upper-right corner. Drag the black color to the Storyboard, once before the video clip and once after the video clip. This puts black "leaders" on either end of your video.
Use the Gallery in the upper-right corner to select from various kinds of media used in your video project
Click on the Effect button to activate the Effect Setup.
Insert black leaders to begin and end your video clip
Select the Transition Gallery from the upper-right corner. From the sub-menu, select F/X. Drag the Crossfade F/X transition to just before and just after the video clip in the Storyboard. This lets your video gradually dissolve from black in the beginning and dissolve to black at the end.
Select the Crossfade F/X transition to begin and end your video clip
Insert the Crossfade F/X transition before and after your video clip
