Video Editor

You can edit video and audio quickly and easily with Blaze Media Pro. To edit a video, in the main window, click File > Video Editor. The Video Editor dialog box appears with the following menus, buttons, and options.

File Menu

• Open
• Close
• Add File(s)
• Save As
• Save Selection As
• Save Audio
• Save Audio Selection
• Save Picture
• Shell Open Main File
• Exit

Edit Menu

• Undo
• Redo
• Mark Selection Start
• Mark Selection End
• Decrease Selection Start
• Decrease Selection End
• Increase Selection Start
• Increase Selection End
• Crop Selection
• Delete Selection
• Clear Selection
• Copy Frame to Clipboard
• Delete Frame
• Trim Before Position
• Trim After Position
• Edit Mode > Video and Audio
• Edit Mode > Video Only
• Edit Mode > Audio Only

Transform Menu

• Resize
• Flip
• Mirror
• Rotate
• Color > Color Settings
• Color > Color Replace
• Color > Grayscale
• Color > Invert
• Effects > Aging
• Effects > Deblocking
• Effects > Dizzy
• Effects > Edge Enhance
• Effects > Emboss
• Effects > Fire
• Effects > Ghost
• Effects > Glass
• Effects > Hologram
• Effects > Lens
• Effects > Lightning
• Effects > Maze
• Effects > Mosaic
• Effects > Motion Blur
• Effects > Night Vision
• Effects > Particles
• Effects > Rain
• Effects > Sharpen
• Effects > Streak
• Effects > Wave
• Text Overlay

Examples

• Volume Level

Video Menu

• Play
• Play Selection
• Stop
• Seek First
• Seek Previous 10 Seconds
• Seek Previous Second
• Seek Previous Frame
• Seek Next Frame
• Seek Next Second
• Seek Next 10 Seconds
• Seek Last
• Seek To Selection Start
• Seek To Selection End
• View Size > Original
• View Size > Size to Window
• View Size > Keep at 320 x 240
• View Size > Keep at 352 x 240
• View Size > Keep at 640 x 480

Options Menu

• Effects Toolbar
• Maintain Recently Used File List
• Remember Volume Level Setting
• Save Window Positions
• Clear Recent Files List

Pass the mouse cursor over different parts of the following picture to display information about each item.

Text Overlay Examples

About XML for Text Overlay Filter

The XML file must contain a signature comment before using any of the text tags, and the signature comment must be: <!--LEAD TextOverlay XML File-->. While the Text Overlay XML file follows regular XML specifications, Blaze Media Pro has defined a specific set of tags for the Text Overlay filter. All other tags are ignored. Tag names are case sensitive; for example, use TOverlay and not Toverlay or toverlay. The tags are as follows:

• TOverlay - The root, or main, tag. All other tags must be children to this tag.
• Text_Scrolling - This TOverlay attribute takes either "Yes" or "No." The Text_Scrolling tag can appear only once in a single file because text is either scrolling or nonscrolling in a single file.
• Text - A child tag of the TOverlay tag. This is the major tag that introduces the overlay text. This tag hosts the following child tags:
• Text_Line - Use it to set one or more of your overlay text strings. To enter a new line in the text, you can use the 'n' sequence.
• Start_Frame- Use this to specify the frame in the stream at which the overlay text in the Text_Line tag first appears.
• End_Frame - Use this to specify the frame in the stream at which the overlay text in the Text_Line tag disappears.
• Scrolling_Speed - Use this to specify the speed at which the overlay text in the Text_Line tag scrolls. This tag can be used only if the text is specified as scrolling in the TOverlay root tag.

Example 1 - NonScrolling Text

<Text_Line> Sample Text Line… </Text_Line> <Start_Frame>1000</Start_Frame> <End_Frame>2000</End_Frame> </Text> </TOverlay>

Example 2 - Scrolling Text

</TOverlay>