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In computer news this week 12/05/2007 With those family holidays coming
up, you need to make some good movies ... Part 4 We’ve
been listening to tips from a Pro – PapaJohn, whose
book Microsoft
Windows Movie Maker 2 – Do Amazing Things – is published by
Microsoft press and is available on Amazon and other bookseller websites. Today
we’re going to go through using Moviemaker, which is a standard part of
Windows XP and Vista. We’ll assume that you’ve shot a little
video with your camera, uploaded it to your computer, and know which folder
it’s in. This transcript
with pictures of everything I’m doing is on my Raw Bytes website http://www.mtamicro.com/kpbx.html Click on Start –All Programs
– Accessories – and you should see Windows
Moviemaker on that menu – click on it and it will open into the
moviemaker screen:
The left
side of the screen has various commands and functions you can do, the middle
Collections area is a place for videos or
pictures you import, the right side is a display screen for you to see your
movie, and the bottom part is both a storyboard and a timeline for your
project. The first
thing we want to do is bring in the video I want to edit, so I’ll click
on the left side of the screen on Import Video –
and then import a video I shot named lostjim.avi. *.avi is the raw video format my
digital camera shoots in. So when I click on the filename of the movie I shot,
it’s imported into moviemaker, and will look like this:
You can
see my movie is now in the middle Collections section of the moviemaker
screen, and also on the display screen on the right side. To make a movie
now, I have to drag my movie from the collections section down to the
Storyboard section like this:
I’d
like to put a Title screen at the beginning of this movie, so I’ll
click on Make Titles or Credits – and the screen changes to a titling
screen of choices:
and I’ll click on Add title
at the beginning of the movie –
And
I’ll type the title – Blues Singer in Mississippi – and
then I’ll click Done – add title to movie – and my moviemaker
screen will show the new title and the movie on the storyboard –
If this
is all I want to do, I will click on File – Save Project – and
give it a name “bluessinger”
and the last thing I’ll do is save this as a windows moviemaker
movie in .wmv format to my computer.
And my
new movie will be saved to my computer as bluessinger.wmv and I’ll go
with the default best movie quality –
and when this finishes in about a minute I’ll have my titled movie
named bluessinger.wmv which I can burn to a cd or upload to my website for
viewing. Now this
has been a very simple overview, and there are lots of cool effects you can
add to your movie, including fancy fades and transitions between scenes,
video effects like shooting in black and white or old fashioned sepia or
making your film look very old, adding your own music to your movie, and
other correctional functions like brightening your movie if you shot it in
low light which
I’ll talk about next week. |
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