VENDAX Studio video tutorial

Welcome to VENDAX Studio. In this practical tutorial, we will build a photo and video archive, organize memories, edit pictures, assemble a video, and protect the collection with a backup. The sample pictures in this lesson are AI-generated demonstration images.

The left sidebar separates photos and videos. All memories brings the collection together, while Favorites shows the items you have marked. The language buttons switch the interface. We will use English throughout this lesson.

Archive location shows the folder used by this collection. Imported media is copied into the archive; the source files stay where they were. Keep the catalog database together with its managed media folders, and avoid renaming the internal files by hand.

Use the plus button beside Albums in the photo section. Give the album a clear name, such as Travel and Landscapes. An album groups related media; the year view provides a separate way to browse the collection. Confirm with Create album.

The new album is selected. Click Add photos and videos to choose files from your computer. You can import a batch in one operation. VENDAX copies the selected files into this archive instead of moving your originals.

The imported pictures now appear under their years and months. These sample filenames contain dates, so the archive can place them correctly. The portrait without a recognized date appears under Undated. A missing date does not prevent you from storing or editing a picture.

Add folder scans a selected folder and its subfolders. VENDAX created an album named Travel folder and imported both the lake picture and the harbor picture from the nested folder. Folder import is useful when a shoot already has a clear structure on disk.

Choose Undated in the Event year filter to find files that need a date or an archive year. This is useful for scans, downloaded pictures, and files with missing capture metadata. You can correct their information in the item card.

Search matches titles and descriptions. Type a distinctive word, such as Harbor, to reduce the list. The active album, file type, and year filter still apply, so clear a filter if an expected item is missing.

The Sort order control changes how year groups are arranged. Oldest years first is useful for a chronological story; Newest years first brings recent work to the top. By date added follows import order rather than the event date.

Click a picture once to open its card. The preview stays beside the information fields. Title, archive year, optional event date, and description describe the same memory. A useful title and a short story make later searching much easier.

Replace the filename-based title with a readable name and add a description. Mark Add to favorites when a picture deserves quick access. Press Save to store these changes in the catalog. This does not rewrite the image itself.

Favorites is a shortcut to marked photos and videos, not a second copy of the files. The harbor picture appears here because we enabled its favorite checkbox. You can remove the mark later without deleting the memory.

Double-click a photo to inspect it without the catalog grid. This is useful for checking the picture before editing or sharing it. Edit photo here is also available from this view. Escape or another double-click returns to the previous view.

Download original saves a copy of the source file. When an edited version is selected, the download control refers to that version instead. Print opens the system print workflow in the desktop app. Review the selected version and printer settings before sending anything to a printer.

An archive year can be entered even when you do not know the exact date. Here we assign this undated portrait to 2022 and leave the event date empty. Save the card, and the portrait will move from Undated to its new year group.

Right-click a card to see its available actions. You can open the picture, copy its full-resolution image, edit it, move it to another year, reveal the file, print, save a copy, mark it as a favorite, or remove it from the catalog.

Move to year changes the archive grouping for the selected memory and its related versions. Choose the destination year and confirm with Move. The exact event date is a separate field, so you can reorganize a year group without inventing a precise date.

The portrait now belongs to 2021. Use the sidebar year buttons to browse one year, or return to All memories to see the whole collection. The same type of operation is available for a selected group of cards.

A year can have its own description, separate from the description of each photo. Use it to summarize the events and themes of that year. Save the text to make the year view a more useful overview of your collection.

Select more than one card when a group needs the same archive year. The selection count shows how many memories are included. Move selected to year opens the destination choice for the group, and Clear selection returns to normal browsing.

Edit photo here opens the built-in editor. The image preview, histogram, and adjustment panels belong to the selected picture. Changes remain a preview until you save a new version. The original can always be compared using Show original.

Temperature shifts the picture between cooler and warmer tones. Tint adjusts the green-to-magenta balance. Make small changes while watching neutral areas and skin tones. Double-click an individual adjustment to return that control to its default.

Exposure changes overall brightness. Highlights and Shadows target the brighter and darker areas more selectively. Here we lift the shadows and reduce the highlights to keep the lake scene balanced. Watch the histogram while judging the actual picture.

Contrast changes the separation between light and dark. Whites and Blacks refine the ends of the tonal range. Brightness is another overall adjustment. Avoid pushing every slider at once: make one change, compare it, then continue only if the image improves.

Saturation controls color intensity. A small increase can help a landscape, while a lower value gives a more restrained result. Keep an eye on the sky and foliage so that colors do not become harsh.

Black and white creates a monochrome interpretation. Judge the shapes and contrast rather than the original hues. This is still an editable preview, so you can reset the look before saving or keep it as a separate version.

Show original temporarily displays the unprocessed picture. Compare the same scene before and after your changes. This button is for checking the result; it does not delete the adjustments you have just made.

Reset returns the editor to the original appearance. Use it when you want to start the correction again. To reset only one parameter, double-click its slider. We will now demonstrate geometry separately from the earlier color experiment.

The rotation buttons turn the image in ninety-degree steps. Rotating changes which dimension is the width and which is the height. Use the opposite direction to return to the original orientation.

Flip mirrors the photograph horizontally. Check the preview carefully, especially when a real picture contains signs, writing, or a familiar landmark. Click Flip again to return to the previous orientation.

Choose a crop ratio, then Select crop area. The white frame shows the portion that will remain. Drag its edges or corners to resize it, and drag inside to reposition it. Sixteen by nine is useful for a landscape video frame.

Apply crop keeps the selected area. Cropping removes edges rather than stretching the picture to a new shape. Reset crop lets you discard a crop while preparing the edit. Review important foreground details before saving the result.

Choose the output format for the edited picture. PNG is lossless; JPEG usually produces a smaller photograph file. Save new version stores the processed result beside the original in the same memory card. The original file stays unchanged.

The edited result is now attached to the original memory. Use Original and edited versions to switch between the source and the processed copy. Title, story, and voice notes belong to the memory, so you do not need to rebuild its description for every edit.

Select Original to verify that the full source photograph is still available. The cropped JPEG is a separate version, not a replacement. You can download or reopen the version that suits the next task.

A voice note can preserve the story behind a picture. Record voice starts a microphone recording; Stop ends it, and the save control stores the result. If microphone access is unavailable, use Add audio file to attach an existing recording instead.

The attached note appears as an audio player in the card. Play it to check that the correct story was added. Voice notes remain associated with the memory and are included in an archive backup. This sample note uses a generated demonstration voice.

For editing in another application, first choose the original or an existing edited version. Then choose a registered editor. Add editor connects another installed application. Open for editing creates a separate working copy rather than passing the protected original to the editor.

After saving in the external editor, Collect saved copy can bring the registered working file back. If you exported to a different file, use Import edited file instead. Export a finished picture or video; an editor project file is not the same as a rendered result.

Editor import and export folders shows the working-copy exchange location. Save a completed edit there with its recognizable original filename stem. While the archive is running, it waits for saving to settle and then attaches a recognized result. Unmatched files require you to choose the correct original.

Travel Videos is the album we created from the Albums plus button in the VIDEOS section. It keeps the video sources together while All memories can still show the combined collection. Our sample clips were made from the generated landscape photographs.

The imported clips are grouped by their event years, just like photographs. File type can show only videos, only photos, or both. Supported extensions and playable codecs are different things: if a video needs a preview conversion, allow that preparation to finish.

Open a video card to play the clip and edit its title, year, date, and description. Check the preview before starting an edit. If a particular format cannot play here, download the original and inspect it in a compatible desktop player.

The video editor has a source library, a preview, clip settings, and a timeline. V1 and V2 hold video; A1 and A2 hold audio. Save project preserves an editable project. Build preview renders a check of the current edit, and Export MP4 creates the finished movie.

Select a timeline clip to work on it. In this build, you trim visually with the handles on its left and right edges. Trimming the beginning changes which part of the source is used; trimming the end changes the length. The original media stays intact.

Drag the right trim handle left to shorten the harbor shot. It now lasts six seconds. The duration readout and the clip width update together. Use the timeline zoom when the handle is too small for a precise adjustment.

Import adds source files to this project library. These sources do not automatically replace the current edit. Click a video thumbnail to append it to V1, or drag a source to the required track. An audio source is added to an audio track.

The lake shot follows the harbor shot on V1. This makes a simple sequence: harbor first, then lake. Moving a clip changes its timeline position; trimming its edges changes the source range. Keep clips adjacent when you want a cut without a gap.

A video fragment can be moved from V1 to V2. When the upper track overlaps the lower track in time, its picture is shown above the lower one. Here the lake clip overlaps the harbor shot. Build preview is still needed for the complete rendered result.

The demonstration voice note is now on A1. Audio has its own clip position and duration. Use A1 and A2 to keep separate sound elements organized. A track volume control changes the whole track, while selecting an audio clip gives you its clip-specific controls.

Drag an audio fragment vertically to move it between A1 and A2. Keeping voice on one track and another sound on the other makes track-level muting and volume easier to manage. Moving between tracks does not rewrite the original audio file.

Select the audio clip to reveal Clip volume, Fade in, and Fade out. Here the clip is reduced to eighty percent with short fades at both ends. Listen to the rendered preview to judge levels; the waveform helps locate speech but does not replace listening.

The volume slider beside A1 changes the whole track. The speaker button mutes or unmutes that track. A2 has its own independent controls, which is useful when voice and background sound need different levels.

The 0.1 sec button magnifies the ruler so each division represents one tenth of a second. Scroll horizontally to inspect a cut closely. This helps with precise trimming, but it does not change the playback speed or the length of the project.

Reduce Zoom to see the sequence as a whole again. Zoom changes the scale of the editing view. Use a wider view to check clip order and gaps, then zoom in when you need to place a trim or a cut accurately.

Scissors changes a click on a timeline clip into a cut at that position. Place the cut where you want the fragment to divide, then return to Select for moving clips. We will split the lake shot and check the resulting pieces.

The lake shot is now divided into two fragments. A cut does not create another source file; it changes how the project uses the existing media. Select lets you move the fragments or choose one for further work.

Undo reverses the most recent editing operation. Here it removes our split and restores the single lake fragment. Use Undo when an experimental edit does not work, and check the timeline after every reversal.

Right-click a timeline clip for its actions. Duplicate clip creates another timeline use of that fragment. Delete clip removes it from the edit; it does not delete the source from the catalog. Escape closes the menu when you only wanted to inspect it.

Duplicate clip appends a copy of this fragment in the edit. Both fragments refer to the same source media, so duplication here does not copy the original video file on disk. This is useful when repeating a shot or testing another edit.

Delete clip removes the extra duplicate from our edit and returns the sequence to eighteen seconds. Notice that the lake source thumbnail remains in the library. Timeline deletion and removing a memory from the catalog are separate operations.

Select the lake fragment and adjust its color controls. Temperature and Tint balance the color cast; Exposure changes brightness; Highlights, Shadows, Whites, and Blacks refine the tonal range. Corrections apply to this selected video fragment, not every clip in the project.

Before and After temporarily compares the selected clip with its uncorrected appearance. Toggle it while looking at the same part of the picture. Use this comparison to keep the correction useful rather than simply making the image more dramatic.

RGB Parade separates the color-channel levels, and Channel view lets you inspect RGB or an individual channel. Here we inspect red. Use the scope to support your judgment of the image, especially when a color cast is difficult to see by eye.

The Red, Green, and Blue controls adjust the color channels individually. Make small changes, compare the image, and check the parade. These controls are separate from the Curves channel selector below them.

Curves changes the relationship between input and output brightness. Raising the middle point lifts midtones. You can drag the points on the graph or expand Point values for the five controls. The RGB curve affects all channels together.

Choose an individual channel when you need a channel-specific curve. Here we adjust the blue midtone point. Separate channel curves can affect color balance, so compare the picture and the RGB parade after the change.

White balance picker lets you sample a white or neutral grey patch in the image. Choose a surface that should be neutral, rather than a colored object or a clipped highlight. Escape cancels the picker without sampling. We will keep our manual balance for this scene.

Save project stores the editable timeline on this computer. This preserves source references, cuts, audio settings, and color corrections so the edit can be reopened. Saving the project is different from exporting a movie that other players can watch.

In the desktop app, Save opens the system save dialog for a VENDAX project file. Choose a clear filename and a folder you can find again. The project describes the edit; it is not an MP4 movie and still depends on its source media.

Build preview renders the current timeline for an accurate check. The instant source view is useful while arranging clips, but a rendered preview is the place to verify the sequence, audio, and applied effects together. Wait until processing has finished.

The preview is ready. Play from the beginning and check the harbor-to-lake cut, the voice note, the audio fades, and the corrected lake shot. Review the complete sequence before exporting, rather than checking only a single still frame.

The transport includes timeline start, backwards playback without audio, Stop, Play, Pause, and timeline end. The red playhead and time display show the current position. Use these controls to inspect the beginning, a cut, and the end of your edit.

Export MP4 opens a save dialog in the desktop app. Choose the destination folder and an MP4 filename, then confirm Save. This renders a playable video from the timeline. Keep the editable project as well if you may want to revise the movie later.

The desktop editor confirms that the MP4 has been saved. Open the exported file in a video player and check its picture, sound, beginning, cut points, and ending. An export is only ready to share after that review.

This is the exported demonstration. The six-second harbor shot is followed by the lake scene, with the sample voice note on its audio track. Review the finished output as well as the editable timeline.

Create new project clears the working viewer and timeline for a fresh edit. The catalog media remains available on disk. Save the current edit first if you want to keep it, then use Import to bring sources into the new project.

Reopening the editor for this memory loads the saved timeline. Verify the expected clips and audio before continuing. The cleared unsaved workspace did not replace our saved project. Save intentional changes when the new state is the one you want to keep.

Remove from catalog hides the memory and its versions in Trash. The files are retained so that you can recover from an accidental removal. Open Trash and choose Restore beside the item you want to bring back.

The sample has been restored. Empty trash is different: it permanently deletes the items currently in the trash. Only use that action after checking the list and keeping an appropriate backup. We do not need to empty it for this lesson.

Back up archive creates a ZIP containing the catalog information and registered media. Include edited versions and voice notes in your protection plan. Keep the completed backup on another physical drive, and allow enough free space for the archive operation.

After the ZIP download completes, verify that the file exists before relying on it. Do not add or edit memories while a backup is being created. Restoration is a separate operation: close VENDAX first and preserve the existing archive before replacing it from a backup.

This lesson demonstrates the local macOS build. Cloud sharing is disabled in this build. Do not assume that every camera RAW format or video codec is supported. Keep finished exports and editor project files distinct, and preserve the source archive when moving to another computer.

We have imported files and a folder, organized years and albums, added descriptions and a voice note, saved an edited photo, and built a short video with sound and color correction. Finish a session by saving the project, reviewing exports, and keeping a verified archive backup.