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The Album
The Video Scenes section of the Album. Click the tabs down the left side of the Album to access the materials in the other sections.
The source materials you need for making a movie are stored in the various sections of the Album, each of which is accessed by its own tab as follows:
Video Scenes: This section contains your video footage. You can access and preview the files directly, or you can load one into the Album, where its scenes are represented by thumbnail icons. To use some of the scenes in your movie, just drag their icons into the Movie Window. See The Video Scenes section.
Transitions: This Album section contains fades, dissolves, slides, and other transition types. To use a transition, position it next to or between video clips and graphics in the Movie Window. See The Transitions section.
Titles: This section contains editable titles, which you can use as overlays or as full-screen graphics. You can create your own titles from scratch, or use or adapt the supplied ones. Pinnacle VideoSpin supports rolls, crawls, and many typographical effects. See The Titles section.
Photos: This is a section of photographs and bitmaps. You can use these images full-screen or as overlays on the main video. Most standard image file formats are supported. See The Photos and Frame Grabs section.
Sound Effects: Pinnacle VideoSpin comes ready with some high-quality sound effects. You can also use files that you have recorded yourself or obtained from other sources. The formats supported are: wav, mp3, avi, mpa and wma. See The Sound Effects section.
Music: In this Album section you can locate and use music files stored on your hard drive. The formats supported are: wav, mp3, avi, mpa and wma. See The Music section.
Each section of the Album contains as many pages as are necessary to hold the icons representing the items in that section. At the bottom right of each Album page, Pinnacle VideoSpin shows the current page number and the total page count for the section. Click the arrows to move forward or back through the pages.
All types of Album content can be previewed simply by clicking on the icons.
Source folders for Album content
The scene icons in the Scenes mode of the Video Scenes section come from a video file, while the Transitions section is filled from resource files associated with the Pinnacle VideoSpin program.
The icons in each of the other five Album sections, like the Files mode of the Video Scenes section, are different: they represent the files contained in a particular disk folder. Each of these sections – Titles, Images, Sound Effects and Music – has a default folder assigned to it, but you can select a different folder if desired.
The icons in the Titles section represent files stored in a selected source folder on your hard drive.
The source folder for the section’s content is listed at the top of the Album page, next to a small Folder button 
. To change the source of the current section, either select a folder from the dropdown list, or click the button, browse to another folder on your system, and select any file. The file you select will be highlighted in the repopulated Album section.
Some Album sections also provide a Parent folder button 
to facilitate moving around within a group of folders containing appropriate media.
In the Video Scenes and Still Images section of the Album you will find one further button 
, which links to the Import Media dialog.
