34 Pinnacle Studio for iPad
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Transitions and Titles
The Library in Pinnacle Studio for iPad includes collections of Titles and
Transitions. Both can be used to add polish to your movies and imprint them with
your personal style.
Transitions have special traits that set them apart from other Library resources.
For example, although you introduce Transitions into your production in the usual
way – by double-tapping in the Library or by dragging from the Library into the
Movie Editor – they do not then follow the standard pattern and become
independent clips. Instead, a Transition is represented in the Storyboard as a
smaller thumbnail sandwiched between any two clips of other types.
Titles in Pinnacle Studio for iPad aren’t just static title cards. The Library contains
a set of pre-designed Titles, some of which (“motion titles”) also provide built-in
animation. You can use any of these as the basis for the Titles in your production,
then customize them in a variety of ways. For instance, the pop-up Title
Properties editor provides text style, coloring, and other tools that you can apply
to any Title, regardless of its original design.
Transitions
Transitions are animated effects that ease – or emphasize – the passage from one
clip to another.
By default, clips on the Pinnacle Studio for iPad video track cut without ceremony
from one to the next: the first frame of the incoming clip immediately follows the
final frame of the outgoing one. A dramatic cut may make a bold statement of its
own, but Transitions offer the variety and nuance you need to maintain audience
interest.
The set of Transitions supplied in the Pinnacle Studio for iPad Library gives you
access to many of the stock moves from the visual language of film. Whether we
are aware of it or not, most of us already understand this language enough that a
long dissolve seems natural to express the passage of time, and that a fast
horizontal wipe can help convey to us a jump to a new location.
