MEDIASTUDIO PRO USER GUIDE118Working with video projectsIn Video Editor, the Timeline and its associated clips are referred to as avideo project, which is saved as a DVP file (digital video project). Whenyou save a video project, Video Editor only saves the positions andattributes of the clips in the Timeline, not the actual source filesthemselves. The advantage to this is that the DVP file has a relatively smallfile size and that any editing done is nondestructive – that is, the editingdoesn’t affect the original source files on disk. The next time you open aDVP file, Video Editor verifies that your hard disk still contains the sourcefiles for the clips in the project and then recreates the clips accordingly.Creating a new video projectTo get started in Video Editor you first need to create a video project. Thevideo project not only holds the clips that you place into the Timeline, butalso defines the properties for the resulting video, such as the televisionstandard and the size of the frames used. Any clips that you place into theproject subsequently adopt those properties, regardless of their originalattributes.To create a new video project:1. Click the New button on the Standard toolbar or File: New [ CTRL + N ].The New dialog box opens displaying a list of project templates.2. Click on the template you want to use. Its properties, as well as anannotated description, are displayed on the right side of the dialog box.3. Click OK. The dialog box closes and a new project is created.Note:When you run Video Editor for the first time, the New dialog box opensautomatically. If you regularly use the same properties for a video project, you canhide the New dialog box each time you click New by clearing the Always show thisdialog box option (Another way is to clear the Display New dialog box option in theFile: Preferences: General tab.). Any subsequent projects take their propertiesfrom the current project.
