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In computer news this week 12/12/2007 With those family holidays coming
up, you need to make some good movies ... Part 5 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. Fox 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 lookwell 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
in the final show on our series of using Windows Movie Maker, some more tips
from our expert PapaJohn . |
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