To navigate from one menu to another, you need only use an ''ordinary button'' that you then link to the next, or another, menu.  You can use an icon or lettering, if you wish, to indicate that it its to move to another menu. A root button should be one that returns the viewer to the M1 or base menu.  Unfortunately, it did not work with ...

There is a tool for automatic scene recognition, which I never use.  When you set up chapter points in a video, there can be two kinds: 1) Primary ones you can select by menu buttons that lead the viewer to important game junctures, whether in terms of quarters or plays. 2) Jump points that give the viewer the means to move forward or ...

This is something that SmartSound might have an interest in, or arbitrate, if it affected many SmartSound users.   But this might be difficult, if it turns out that: Dr. Psychology Management licensed SmartSound to use certain pieces under a contract that has expired, or does not encompass on-line streaming, which would ...

I hope an informed AS user gives you a useful reply, as I'd be curious to know too.   As a PS user with DD 5.1 cameras, all I can say is that PS is no good to import 5.1 sound, but one can use the ''fade'' control in a project and ''move'' the sound from front to rear, when exporting to a standard definition DVD with DD 5.1 sound, ...

To bump up the fixed bitrate of a video stream may yield nothing if the average variable rate is low and never tops X. Grass, tree foliage, and clothing with lots of design features can be just as hard to resolve as water surfaces, if there is much motion.  You see ''mud'' or zebra moire effects.  These tend to worsen with each recoding ...

Pinnacle Studio 14 and 15 are both supposed to include the same digital stabilzer offered in AMC.  How does it perform relative to Deshaker or Mercalli Pro V2?  The on-board stabilizer of Pinnacle Studio versions 10 to 12 was non-functional or made shake worse.  Mercalli was (and remains) an ...

The ''stx'' files are nothing more than tiny pointers.  The underlying project files consist of: The source video, photo, or audio files, The (invisible, but can be made visible) folders with the instructions for file order, edits, and effects, The AUX files with all the SIB thumnails, extracted audio files, background render files, and ...

Let's assume you know your existing PC specs.  A fair starting point?  Pinnacle Studio won't make proper use of your 5.1 channel sound system.  It downconverts DD 5.1 to two-channel stereo.  But that may not matter if your camera is stereo or mono, or if your canine ears have lost most tonal or directional ...

Eugene1: But the BDMV MPEG-2 is re-encoded, is there a way for BD to use the original MPEG-2 conversion?. I tried it and the Samsung BR player will not recognize it. I don't think there is any way to get edited HD-MPEG onto BD disc without recoding.  Products with ''smart rendering'' I suspect can do this only with raw video that has not ...

Several people worked hard to write the various Pinnacle user manuals, or on-line references.  However, none of these sources can tell you how all the plug-ins work, nor would anyone ever sit, read, and remember such details.  More often than not, you learn about the various tools by browsing through the menus and experimenting.  It ...