User Guide

Chapter 6: Still Images 89
Chapter 6:
Still Images
Video usually means images in motion, but most
productions also include stationary titles or graphics,
and may include other types of still image as well.
The still images you can use in your movies include:
• All types of text captions and graphics, including
scrolling credits and “crawled” messages.
• Photos or drawings stored in disk-based image files.
• Individual video frames obtained with the Frame
grabber tool.
• Menus for DVD and VCD authoring. These
specialised images are covered in Chapter 9: Disc
Menus.
Any of these still image types can be treated in either of
two ways, depending on which track you drop them
onto in the Movie Window Timeline:
• To add a full-screen image with a solid background,
add the image to the Video track.
• To add an overlay image with a transparent
background, so that the image appears superimposed
over the clips on the Video track, add the image to
the Title Overlay track.
The Album has separate sections for titles, bitmapped
images and disc menus. You can also create your own
titles and disc menus in Studio’s Title Editor and add
them directly to your movie without saving them as
separate files (see Chapter 7: The Title Editor).