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this week 09/09/2009 With those summer
vacation pictures, you need to make some good movies ... Part 4 There
are lots of cool effects you can add to your movie with Windows Movie Maker. This transcript with pictures of everything
I’m doing is on my Raw Bytes website http://www.mtamicro.com/kpbx.html We
created a very simple movie with a title last week and today we’ll add
some effects to spiff it up Movie
Maker lets you do fancy fades and transitions between scenes, there’s a
mind boggling collection of various fades and things you can use:
Some
might fit perfectly with the transition you’re looking for, but some
might actually detract from your overall video, so you have to be careful
about overdoing the transition effects. I
like the basic fades myself. I’ll add a basic fade to the movie we did
last week, just after the title screen so there’s a smoother transition
into the movie. I click on View Video Transitions, and I’ll just drag
the fade transition with my mouse after the Title and before the start of the
movie. Movie
Maker also has some cool video effects you can add to scenes of your movie.
Some
can make your movie look quite different. For example to create an older look
you can add Black& white effects to your movie, so it looks like it’s
from the 50’s. To make it look even older you can change the color to
sepia, that old time brown tone that you see so many old photos shot in. But
to make it look really old. Movie Maker has some Film Age effects that you
can add to make your film look well over a half century old. As
this is a movie about a Mississippi Blues Singer, I’ll add that Sepia
effect by dragging it down to the movie frame, and I’ll also add the Film
Age Oldest effect. There
are other arty effects you can add, like pixelization, where the picture will
break up into computer graphic pixels, or watercolor, where the picture takes
on a watercolor look, Eases – where the picture will seem to move forward
or away from the viewer, and rotation and speed up effects. But
there are some effects which can save you after you’ve shot important
video in poor light, or in too much light. I’ve actually used the
Brightness increase effects on video I thought was fine, but it turned out to
be too dark. In the old days
you’d have to re-shoot. But today you just brighten your mistakes. And
now I want to put a closing screen on my video, but I’ll just copy the
opening screen I did before, and then I’ll add a spiffier transition
before the movie ends – a transition effect called Shatter in where it
looks like the screen’s exploding. And
Voila ! I have made a movie that has opening and ending screens, fadeouts and
cool transitions, and I used effects which make it look really old. All
this and more is right there in your computer, waiting for you to use it,
with that fancy new digital camera you’re had for some time now. Next
week – a hidden Microsoft gem also for making movies – Photostory
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