Beginner Tutorials

These ones include extra steps for people who are still unfamiliar with ZS4.


Text String Tutorial (how to make titles)

This tutorial describes how to make titles or credits which fade in and out in the center of the screen. 
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Temporary Speed Change Tutorial

This tutorial shows how to use the Media Time Offset variable to speed up a 10 second segment in the middle of a 30 second video clip.
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Change Color Hue Tutorial

I made this simple tutorial using wink so its a flash animation (3.2 mb). 
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Fly on Bread Compositing Tutorial

Here's a video tutorial on compositing with ZS4. It has 2 png images, a piece of bread and a house fly. The fly walks (moves) around on the piece of bread. ...read more
 

Zoom and Pan Tutorial

This html tutorial will explain how to make a video by zooming and panning a very large image.  You can use this one if you want.
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Simple Chroma Key Tutorial

Here's a short introduction to the chroma key effect.
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Scrolling Flower Tutorial

This tutorial is an example of a simple pattern, created using one of the pattern effects.  Here we will take a picture (feel free to use this one) and make it scroll by repeatedly. ...read more
 

Chroma Key Tutorial

Because ZS4 can export video in Motion PNG format, a lossless format which stores transparency, it is a good idea to save your footage with key to import into larger ZS4 projects.

In this tutorial we shall do that using a person in front of a greenscreen and a chroma key. You can download the video clip here (4mb). This was saved (with ZS4) in mjpeg format, so you may not be able to play the file back with wmp, but you should be able to import it into ZS4 to use in this tutorial. ...read more
 
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