Adobe 38040165 - Visual Communicator - PC Bedienungsanleitung

Using Adobe® Visual Communicator 3 for Windows®

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Contents

Chapter 1: Installing Visual Communicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Install Visual Communicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Chapter 2: Feature and control overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

Visual Communicator windows, Action window, and Media libraries . .11

The Output Monitor window and buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11

The Teleprompter and Action window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

The Media libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

The Coach area. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

The tabbed control panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

The Project tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

The Director tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

The Actions tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

The V-Screen tab. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

The Setup tab for audio and video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

The Audio setup button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

The Video setup button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

The Menu bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

The File menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

The Edit menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

The Director menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

The Teleprompter menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

The Hosting menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

The Settings menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

The Tools menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Dialog boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

The Application Settings dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

The Performance Settings dialog box. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Chapter 3: Making your first show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

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Save the show file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Rehearse and record a show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Publish a show. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Chapter 4: Setting up a studio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Chapter 5: Creating a show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45

Creating a show using the wizard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Use the wizard to create a show based on a style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Use the wizard to create a blank show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Creating a One-Click Video template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Chapter 6: Managing projects and media files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49

Best practices for organizing projects and media files . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Locate and store projects and files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Edit project files on a single computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Change the default path for project files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Save a project to a different path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Save, package, open, and delete projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Save a project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Package a project with Pack and Go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Delete a project and cleaning up your hard disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Planning shows and writing scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .53

Planning your show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Planning checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Making a show outline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

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Writing a script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Chapter 8: Using the Teleprompter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57

Chapter 9: Adding closed captions to a video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Chapter 10: Media inputs, video effects, and external events . . .67

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Trim video and audio clips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Review a trimmed clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Save a trimmed clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Adjust the color of a video clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Adjust the volume of an audio or video clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Save a DV clip from tape. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Add an audio clip. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

About title graphics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Edit the text in a title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Customize effects in a title graphic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Save a custom title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Adding PowerPoint files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Video effects: transitions and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

About types of effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

About effect icons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Selecting effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Customize an effect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Updating an effect with a newer version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Triggering events outside the video. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

About events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Add a web link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Trigger a web page or image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Display a caption. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Set up a Chapter Marker or hyperlink. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Set advanced web scripting options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Digitally replacing the background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99

Chapter 12: Rehearsing and recording a show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Recording a show. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108

About flex recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108

Use freestyle flex recording . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .109

Use existing action trays to flex record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Manually controlling the script and effects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Altering timing in a recorded show. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Edit dynamically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

Calculating disk space for a recorded show. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Clear recorded content for a show. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Review a show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Use the Review feature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Using real-time scrubbing to review a show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Save an image of the current frame. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Chapter 13: Presenting live shows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Set up for a live presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Set up a projector or second monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Set your microphone to be live . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Set up an audio or video loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Set up live video from a DV camera. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Giving a live presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Manually triggering events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Use the Mini-Switcher to switch from one camera to another. . . .120

Dynamic editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Chapter 14: Publishing a video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Select the publishing method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123

Publish a video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .123

Publishing to an FTP server on the Internet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124

Publish to a vlog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124

Publishing to web pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124

Publish to DV tape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126

Setting file and account information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Selecting the file type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

Setting the output path and file name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .128

Send an e-mail regarding a new web-hosted video. . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Manage account information for web-hosted videos and vlogs . .129

Getting through the firewall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Set the destination path for output files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Setting video publishing options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Set the video size and quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

FLV video encoding settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133

Real video encoding settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .135

AVI video encoding settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .136

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Summary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

Live streaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Chapter 16: Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Chapter 17: Glossary. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

CHAPTER 1

Installing Visual

Communicator

Check that your computer meets the system requirements, then install and start Adobe®

Visual Communicator® 3.

Installation

If you haven’t installed your new software, begin by reading some information on installation

and other preliminaries. Before you begin working with your software, take a few moments to

read an overview of Adobe Help and of the many resources available to users.

“System requirements” on page 9

“Install Visual Communicator” on page 9

System requirements

To review complete system requirements and recommendations for your Adobe software, see

the ReadMe file on the installation disc.

Install Visual Communicator

1. Insert the Visual Communicator installation disc into your computer’s DVD drive.

If the installation program does not start automatically, use Microsoft® Windows®

Explorer to view the contents of the disc and double-click the setup.exe file.

2. Follow the on-screen instructions.

10 Installing Visual Communicator

3. When the installation is finished, click Finish.

NOTE

The devices attached to your computer, such as a mouse or web cam, are controlled by

software called drivers. Most device manufacturers release new drivers periodically that

can increase performance or fix compatibility issues. If your devices work with Visual

Communicator, you do not need to update their drivers. New drivers can sometimes

cause performance or behavior issues. However, if you are having problems, try

updating your drivers.

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