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[Guest]

does anyone know how to add a still image (.jpg, .gif, etc.) to a movie

Example: film at a park, then take a picture of a boat and make it the background

if you need to use a program other than movie maker plz tell.

Thanks

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

It would depend on what you want to overlay over the background picture....
a smaller rectangular picture-in-picture is relatively easy in MM2. Seeing
through a bluescreen or greenscreen background of the overlying video is
more difficult and might need other software.
--
PapaJohn

Movie Maker 2 - www.papajohn.org
Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org

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[John Kelly]

Hi there,

Movie Maker is unsuitable for that kind of thing. I use a program called
MovieDV from www.aist.do, but if you search around you can still get the
earlier version (free) called MovieXone. Not onlw will it do what you want,
it will let you rescale the video's so that the one used as an overlay will
both be positioned in the right place and look realistic at the same time.
Movie Maker is a long long way from anything nearly as good as that.

If you have trouble getting the free version of MovieXone, I have a copy
here somewhere.

--
Best Wishes.....John Kelly
www.the-kellys.org
www.the-kellys.co.uk
All material gained from other sources is duly acknowledged. No Value is
obtained by publishing in any format other peoples work

 

[Guest]

thank you for your help...i will try to get the program. If i am not able to, i'll let you know.

 

[John Kelly]

Hi there,

I am about to upload it to my website. As upload speeds are slower than
downloads and in order to give it time to permeat through to being "Live"
give it about an hour and it should be availabl in the UTILS section.

--
Best Wishes.....John Kelly
www.the-kellys.org
www.the-kellys.co.uk
All material gained from other sources is duly acknowledged. No Value is
obtained by publishing in any format other peoples work

 

[John Kelly]

Hi Again,

God....having a senior moment here, it will be in the DOWNLOADS section Tsk
Tsk

--
Best Wishes.....John Kelly
www.the-kellys.org
www.the-kellys.co.uk
All material gained from other sources is duly acknowledged. No Value is
obtained by publishing in any format other peoples work

 

[Guest]

ok i got to program. What do I do now? sorry..i am very new at this.

 

[John Kelly]

Hi there,

Did you read/view the tutorial on my website, or perhaps the text along
side the download option on my website?

Please don't take this personally. I undertstand that it is not a very good
idea to write loads and loads of waffle so, I have written the tutorial in
pictures and words...the pictures are interactive, click one of the
buttons/tabs in the picture and you will see what happens.

It will take you around one minute to fully inderstand how the program
works.

--
Best Wishes.....John Kelly
www.the-kellys.org
www.the-kellys.co.uk
All material gained from other sources is duly acknowledged. No Value is
obtained by publishing in any format other peoples work

 

[John Kelly]

Hello again,

Sorry, my last reply was made in error, I thought we were talking about the
Rename Codecs program on my site...as I said a Senior Moment here that is
lasting too long!!

Well, I suppose read the help file that comes with the program is the next
step. There is little point in repeating here what is already laid out in
the helpfile...but to get you started...you have got two film clips. Click
on FILE > Import Footage and select the files. When you have them both
click on the compose window tab (top right)

The default behavior for importing is to put it straight onto the main time
line so you will find the second file is tagged onto the end of the first.
Drag the second clip up to the additional time line identified as "Video 1"
and slide it towards the beggining of the first clip which should still be
on the main time line. Now drag the time line slider bar to any position of
your choice and so that it lies across both video clips.

You should now see two video clips in the Compose window, one lying
directly over the other. You will also see a bounding box which is yellow
in colour.....by dragging that bounding box you can alter the size,
location and orientation in 3D space of the topmost clip. You should take
not that the position and orientation only applies to that time period...if
you move the time slider bar you will see that the topmost image
moves....so you can edit it again and again etc for every time period. You
should also take note that in MovieXone you can edit on a per frame basis,
wheras in Movie Maker you can only edit 8 (I think) frames at a time....You
can also edit by moving the nodes that you create by moving the bounding
box or you can delete intermediary nodes...the possibilites are HUGE

Hope that gets you moving....

--
Best Wishes.....John Kelly
www.the-kellys.org
www.the-kellys.co.uk
All material gained from other sources is duly acknowledged. No Value is
obtained by publishing in any format other peoples work

 

[John Kelly]

Hi yet again,

So that you can see the results of what I have explained above I will be
uploading a short video to the Video's section of my website...its two video
clips selected at random and put together very roughly...it will give you
some ideas I am sure.

Best Wishes.....John Kelly
www.the-kellys.org
www.the-kellys.co.uk

 

[John Kelly]

Hi again,

The files are uploading now...look for it in about 30minutes or so its
called movieXone and will be at the bottom of the list of videos.

--
Best Wishes.....John Kelly
www.the-kellys.org
www.the-kellys.co.uk
All material gained from other sources is duly acknowledged. No Value is
obtained by publishing in any format other peoples work

 

[Guest]

ok thank you for your help. Hopefully I'll be able to get this program moving

nice movie by the way

 

[John Kelly]

Hi there,

ok thank you for your help. Hopefully I'll be able to get this program moving.

nice movie by the way

Thank you...you will find that as you explore the possibilities of that
program that more and more ideas start coming to mind. Their top of the
range program at US $69 is absolutely marvellous...I would hated spending
money on say Adobe products and then finding this range of products at such
a cheap price!!

Best Wishes.....John Kelly
www.the-kellys.org
www.the-kellys.co.uk

 

[John Kelly]

Hi there,

sorry to bother you again. is it possible to take the movie file from

MovieXOne and place it into Windows Movie Maker? I have two clips, one in
WMM and one in MXO. I like the WMM because it has the countdown title. Is it
possible to do this in MXO too? Or do i need to make the original movie in
one of the two programs?

OK, firstly all of those rather nice countdown videos can be used in
MXO.

The output from MXO can be imported into MM2 and Vice versa. I switch
between these programs (actually i use MovieDV 6 the big brother of MXO) on
a regular basis....its very much a case of using the right tools for the
job. For all of the features that are missing in MM2, you nearly always find
it in MXO

Best Wishes.....John Kelly
www.the-kellys.org
www.the-kellys.co.uk

 

[John Kelly]

Hello there,

There is no such thing as one last question not in here at any rate.

ok hopefully last question...i tried to upload the movie i made in WMM to

MXO, and MXO just froze. Is the file too big? if it will not work out, are
there any other programs?

I assume that the file is a DV-AVI output from movie maker. I have just
imported an 11GB DV-AVI file I captured using Movie Maker. Its in the DV-AVI
format. MXO does not physically import anything, it simply uses a buffer so
that it can display the current "bit" so memory is not really a problem. The
only time it could be a problem is if the computer has the bare minimum to
get XP working with a little bit for programs......if you have less than
256MB you would come into that category, if you have 512MB you are leaving
that problem behind and anything higher than that should leave you in a
comfortable state.

I have just tried an imported of a WMV file and it seems to be doing
something but its not going too well. I have now tried the same thing with
MovieDV and it refuses the version 9 codec. Which is a real bummer. So it
looks as though the WMV format it is looking for is out of date...that's
disappointing. But not that much, WMV is a highly compressed format whereas
DV-AVI is either not compressed at all or only lightly compressed (AVI is
actually a container format for several other type...such as MPEG ([I
think]) So, its not too bad.

So I guess that if you want the features you must use the DV-AVI output
from Movie Maker and any other program or MPEG as the input to MXO

By the way, check out the website the video called Weather...I uploaded
it a short while back...its a demonstration of one of the special plug-in
effects...It takes a while to do it right...all I did was set the start and
endpoints of the effect...but take a look you will see what I mean.

Best Wishes.....John Kelly
www.the-kellys.org
www.the-kellys.co.uk

 

[Guest]

ok so if it isn't going to work, is their another program you suggest? i have 512 MB. i did import it as a .mwv file. How do i import it as a DV-AVI file?

 

[Guest]

sorry not a .mwv file, a .wmv file. Bad spelling.

 

[John Kelly]

Hi there,

I think things are getting confused here...the below answer is my answer
based on the assumption we are still talking about MOvieXone.

On the right hand pane at the top you will see a tab marked "Capture" In
that tab there is a button for selecting Capture Hardware. Choose IEEE 1394
and then click the other button "Capture Video"

Best Wishes.....John Kelly
www.the-kellys.org
www.the-kellys.co.uk

 

[Guest]

ok I will try that. Thanks.