menu bar

material area

Effect area

Transition/Filter area

time track

video track

 

 

menu bar

When aurora starts,you can see menu bar as follow:

"Project" contains some operations about project,you can check "Import" menu to import some clips,etc.Check "Help" if you need some online help."None" show that there's none to operate.If you select a video or a image,it turns to "Clip".The picture at right shows the change:As you select a transition it turns to "Transition",like this:

 

Project menu: some operations about project

"New Project": create a new project,initialize all global value.
Height & Width is the height & width of the output video.Fps means Frame per second,Bfts is the bit rate of a video,Image Duration shows frames of a clip in a track.

 

Project Property: change the property of a project

 

Render: rend and get the output video. It will rend clips between "begin frame" and "end frame".

Output format: We support mpg,avi,swf and so on.

 

    

Import: import video/image to a project.

 

Clip menu :

Clip: you can get property of an image (or a frame of a video) by checking "Information" in this menu.You can also find many useful operation like "set Motion","set Transparency","set Merge","set Duration" and "delete".

 

 

Transition menu :

In this menu, you can set duration of a transition or delete a transition.

 

 

Some areas in main gui:

 

material area:

After you import a video or an image,you can preview it at the top of this area and the name of material listed below the preview.
Click the "+Video" button to import a video.If you want to import an image,click the "+Image" please.
You can drag the material to video track.

 

Preview area:

 

If you move the green nonius in time track to a given position(use your mouse,button-1),and then release your mouse,you can see an effected image in the preview area.We put our logo in this area as our aurora starts.Hum,it's cool,do you think so? :)

 

Effect area:

You can see three button :"motion","transpaency","merge". They are usable when you selcet a video or an image in the video track.If not,they are gray as you see.
There's a filter list below.It's shows all added filter of a material.When you first add a filter to a material,you can set parameters of this filter.If you want to modify the parameters,click button "set" .Button "del" provide delete operation for you to delete a selected filter.

 

A dialog box will be poped when you click button "motion"

The detailed settings in this dialog is refered to "motion dialog box"

 

Click button "transparency",you can see a dialog box as follow:

The detailed settings in this dialog is refered to "transparency dialog box".

 

 If you need a merge operation,click button "merge".

The detailed settings in this dialog is refered to "merge dialog box".

 

Transiton/Filer area

       

 

This area list all transitons/filters provided for you.You can see a summary of a transiton/filter when you click it.
You can drag a transition to the transition track,the length of a transition can be adjusted by splicing of clip in track VA and clip in track VB.
You can drag a filter to a material in the video track.When you release your mouse,you see a dialog box pop and you can set it.

 

time track:

There are three noniuses:the black one shows the begin frame,the red one shows the end frame.They denote the begin time and end time for rending.The green one is for preview.

 

 

video track:

 

You can add effect operation to materials on track V2,V3,V4,like motion,transparency,merge,but not transition.
Press right button of your mouse then you will find some operations about clips.
You can not only add effect operation reffered above to materials on track VA VB but also transition operation.
No materials can be putted on the track VT. There are only transitons on the track.
Press right button of your mouse then you will find some operations about transition.Double click a transition then a dialog box appeared.

There you can do some setting as follow:
1. direction of transition: from A to B,or from B to A.
2. begin rate of A ,end rate of B.
Video track can be automatically lengthened if you need.
The detailed operation refered to transition