How Do You Make a Collage when using Movie Maker?

[Dale Walker]

I know how to use the program very well, but what I a trying to do is make a
collage using the program or another program that is capable of being played
in the movie maker program itself. Eg: Family tree where 1 picture appears,
another picture appears so on and so fourth but on one frame. Is this
possible?

Thanks Dale

 

[John Inzer]

I know how to use the program very well, but what I a trying to do is
make a collage using the program or another program that is capable
of being played in the movie maker program itself. Eg: Family tree
where 1 picture appears, another picture appears so on and so fourth
but on one frame. Is this possible?

Thanks Dale

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I don't have a specific answer for you but
maybe the following links will offer some ideas:

Creating a Brady Bunch Effect 9-in-1
http://tinyurl.com/2spkka

Split Video Transitions
http://www.rehanfx.org/split_video.htm

PIP Plus
http://www.rehanfx.org/pipplus.htm

Go to...Editing Movies / XML Persian
Section.....you'll find several links...
http://www.papajohn.org/

Custom Effects, Transitions and
Title Overlays for Movie Maker 2
http://tinyurl.com/kgmqk

Creating Custom Effects and
Transitions in Windows Movie Maker
http://tinyurl.com/3a2vwq

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[MyVeryOwnSelf]

I know how to use the program very well, but what I a trying to do is

make a collage using the program or another program that is capable of
being played in the movie maker program itself. Eg: Family tree where
1 picture appears, another picture appears so on and so fourth but on
one frame. Is this possible?

I use Photoshop Elements 4 to create a collage and then use its "slide
show" feature to pan/zoom all around the collage. PSE can output a wmv file
of a slide show that can be read into WMM.

Works for me.

Caution: PSE uses a different aspect ratio than WMM; leave extra margins in
the slide show to avoid losing stuff at the edges.

 

[PapaJohn]

here's a 30 second snippet showing the 'Brady Bunch' process... for my
latest newsletter...

http://www.papajohn.org/Newsletters/179-Sample.wmv

If that's the kind of thing you mean, I use Avisynth with a script, then
VirtualDub, and Movie Maker....

 

[Sweeper]

=?Utf-8?B?RGFsZSBXYWxrZXI=?= <Dale (e-mail address removed)>
wrote in
I did a project similar to what your trying to create. I Find PhotoShop
with Movie Maker to be a perfect match. What I wanted was to have a photo
appear in a haphazard fashion, as if you had a Polaroid photo and you
tossed it on a table, then another would appear, then another, then
another and so on. This example will have four photos appear.

NOTE: I would create my photos the same size as my produced video. If
video is to be 640x480, so would be my photos, this prevents movie maker
from resizing and thus losing photo quality. I'll assume you know
Photoshop’s basic features and procedures and will not go into too much
detail.

The steps for a 640 x 480 video
1. Create new photo with background color of choice at 640x480.
2. Create new layer named PHOTO1, then paste you first photo into this
layer.
3. Resize your pasted photo to your choice, rotate it to choice, and
position it to choice, and add a drop shadow for effect.
4. Create a another layer named PHOTO2 and repeat step 3 with your second
photo.
5. Repeat above steps until you have four layers with four different
photos.

Saving the layers as .jpg
1. Deselect all layers and save the background as P1.JPG (or with name of
your choice) All you will be saving is the background color.
2. Reselect PHOTO1 layer and save as P2.JPG
P2.JPG shows background + First photo.
3. Reselect PHOTO2 layer, keeping previous layers selected as well, and
save as P2.JPG
4. Repeat procedure for remaining layers.

Now to Movie maker
1. Import your 5 new photos and drag them to the story board in order by
filename.
2. Switch to timeline view to drag each photo into the other a tad for a
nice fade effect.

THAT’S IT

First you see the background, then photo1 appears, then another photo on
top, then another on top
and so on.

AFTER THOUGHTS:
The use of Photoshop with Moviemaker for still images is endless and is
limited only by your imagination. Though Movie maker can create titles
which overlay a photo, at times I prefer to load a copy of that photo in
photoshop and create my own title layer where text effects are endless.
Simply drag the original photo into timeline, followed by the new version
with text, add some fade and Volla!!

Have Fun & Happy Holidays
-Sweeper

 

[queyuhong333]

I know how to use the program very well, but what I a trying to do is makea
collage using the program or another program that is capable of being played
in themoviemakerprogram itself. Eg: Family tree where 1 picture appears,
another picture appears so on and so fourth but on one frame. Is this
possible?

Thanks Dale

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I know two ways to realize it!

The first way: Make use of Photo Story Platinum, a professional photo
movie maker. Unlike other movie maker programs, it offers 160 amazing
move styles. You can have a glace of partial styles from:
http://www.photo2vcd.com/theme.html

In the webpage, you will find a style named "Life Template", click to
watch its cool effect. I think it is what you are finding. First four
photos will show together in one frame, then they will be displayed
one by one.

The second way: Use Photoshop to create a photo collage first. If you
are not familiar with Photoshop, I recommend you try Photo Collage
Studio. Because it is not only powful but also you can have 30 days
trial. If you are not satisfied with it , you needn't pay for it.
http://www.photo-collage-software.com
When you finish a photo collage, save as jpg, gif or other graphic
format and import to your Movie Maker programs. If you want to burn to
DVD, DVD Slideshow Bulider will help you!

Hope they are helpful for you. Have fun!