Video Editing (with Magix Video Deluxe 2014)

... to be continued ...

Prerequisites

Computer

render.informatik.uni-freiburg.de (hereinafter referred to as render).

Login

• Locally in room 051-03-??
• Per Windows Remote Desktop Connection (RDC).

  • wake-up render: wakeonlan render.informatik.uni-freiburg.de.

  • shutdown render: shutdown -s -t 0 (in the command-line of render).

Account

Login: adpult
Password: (the common one).

Files

Typically, there is a camtasia file (avi) and a video file (mts) for a single lecture.
Copy avi and mts from the raid (\\atlantis\teaching) to render (for example, to E:\data\<course>\<lecture-X>\).

Magix Video Deluxe 2014

Handling of Magix Video Deluxe 2014

There are 3 windows: The monitor (1), the pool (2), and the timeline (3).

Basic controls

Arrows left/right: 1 frame back/forward
Space: Start/Stop the film in the monitor.
Ctrl+Mousewheel in the timeline: Zoom in/out the tracks.
Shift+Mousewheel in the timeline: Change the height of the tracks.

Create new Project

• Start Magix Video Deluxe 2014 (not Magix Video Deluxe 17).

• Choose "Neues Projekt erstellen" and type in a project name.
• Click "Optionen".
• Check "Neuen Projektordner anlegen" and choose the project folder (that is typically the same folder where you have saved the video files).

• Choose "Filmeinstellungen -> Benutzerdefiniert (Filmeinstellungen öffnen)" and "Audio-Samplerate -> 48000". Click OK.

• In the next window, choose "Anzahl der Spuren -> 16 Spuren" and "Audio-Samplerate -> 22 050 Hz". Click Ok.

Video Editing

• Click the "Import" tab in the pool, browse to the movie files and drag&drop the avi into the first row (track) of the timeline.

• Similar, drag&drop the mts into the track below the avi in the timeline. Select "Nicht anpassen" in the popping window.

• If you now see a stretched image of the video in the monitor, select the mts track in the timeline, go to the "Effekte" tab in the pool and choose "Stereo 3D -> Eigenschaften -> Stereo3D erzeugen -> Standard (2D)".

Both, the avi and the mts have two tracks: a video track and an audio track, hereinafter referred to as avi video track (see track 1 in the screenshot below), avi audio track (track 2), mts video track (track 3) and mts audio track (track 4).

• Disable the mts audio track.

  • click the mute-button ("M") in front of the mts audio track, OR

  • select the mts audio track (the mts video track will be also highlighted because they are still grouped), choose "Bearbeiten -> Gruppe auflösen (Shift+G)", right-click the mts audio track and choose "Objekte löschen".

• Search for the clapperboard ("Filmklappe") in both, the avi audio track and the mts video track.

• Synchronize both tracks by dragging either the avi audio track or the mts video track to the left or to the right.

• Search for the beginning of the lecture (where the speaker starts to welcome the audience) and move the orange line to it. Make sure, that no track is selected and make a cut by clicking the razor blade symbol (Rasierklingensymbol): . Remove the left part of the mts video track, the mts audio track and the avi audio track. Go back in the timeline (ca. 4 seconds) and make another cut. Remove the left part of the avi video track. Now, your timeline should be look similar to the timeline screenshot above. The avi video track starts ca. 4 seconds before all other tracks.

Select the mts track and click the "Effekte" tab in the pool. Choose "Bewegungseffekte -> Position/Größe". To change the size/position of the mts video, define a transition ("Bewegungseffekt") as follows: Click the diamond symbol ("Rautensymbol") to add a keyframe at the current position. This is the start point of the transition. Go to the position where the transition should end (ca. 1 second later), define the desired final position/size of the mts video and add another keyframe by clicking the diamond symbol.

To make the mts video transparent, go to "Videoeffekte -> Chroma Key". Again, add the start key frame, go to the position where the transition should end, set the "Video-Level" to the desired value and add the end key frame.

Go to the end of the lecture (usually where the applause ends) and make a cut. Remove all tracks to the right of this cut.

TODO: Fade in /Fade out. TODO: Rendern. TODO: Where to put the files.

Further reading

Old description for Magix Deluxe 17: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M8LxxStR-CWZ-2V7PgP6xXKwd4ZZhIdrtqVbwm3VQl8/edit

Editing standards for lecture videos: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wD1Xg7zD8v7TvXrFp7CdjCV3NJ2twsZZuzS_ntNFTTc/edit#heading=h.wvzpekaxc4i6