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Creating Movies with Windows Live Movie Maker (part 2) - Creating a Live AutoMovie & Adding Animations and Visual Effects to Your Live Video

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3. Creating a Live AutoMovie

After you finish creating and editing your storyboard, you are ready to move on to the next phase of video production, which involves adding effects, transitions, titles, credits, and a soundtrack. Though you can perform each of these tasks manually, you can also have Windows Live Movie Maker perform them for you automatically using the AutoMovie feature. Not only is this a great timesaver, but it also allows you to see firsthand how various approaches to video production work.

To create an AutoMovie, complete the following steps:

  1. In Windows Live Movie Maker, click the AutoMovie button on the Home pane.

  2. If you are prompted to confirm, select the “Don’t show this message again” checkbox and then click OK.

  3. As you haven’t added any sound to the video yet, you’ll be able to add music now. When prompted, click Yes and then use the dialog box provided to select a song to add to the movie.

  4. Windows Live Movie Maker will then attempt to fit the video to the song you’ve selected. If this process fails, you’ll see a warning prompt. Click OK. Later, you can choose a longer song, add more songs, or remove some photos or videos from the movie to make the soundtrack fit.

  5. Windows Live Movie Maker will then create the AutoMovie by inserting a title frame at the start of the movie, setting each picture or video to use a cross-fade transition with automatic effects, and then adding a credits frame to the end of the movie.

  6. As shown in Figure 6, if you click the title frame on the storyboard and then click in the Preview pane, you’ll be able to edit the movie title and frame formatting. By default, the title frame doesn’t use a transition or effects. You can add a text effect by clicking any of the available effects on the Format pane.

  7. If you click the credits frame on the storyboard and then drag the Timeline slider to the right, you’ll see the end credits. Click in the Preview pane and then click the credits to edit them.

  8. Click the Save Project button (or press Ctrl-S) to have Windows Live Movie Maker create the movie for you. If you don’t like the results, you can always fine-tune the movie before finalizing it.

Figure 6. Setting the movie title


4. Adding Animations and Visual Effects to Your Live Video

Your videos can have animations that are used when moving between media items. Each item can have one transition, one pan and zoom effect, or both a transition and a pan and zoom effect. For example, you can transition by cross-fading and then pan right.

Your videos also can have visual effects. Visual effects act as filters and include a black-and-white filter as well as black-and-white filters with various color tones.

You work with transitions and pan and zoom effects on the Animations pane. You work with visual effects on the Visual Effects pane. Any transition or effect that you can apply to a single item can be added to multiple items simultaneously as well. Just select all of the items that should have be modified before applying the transition or effect.

An item with a transition has transition marker, as shown in Figure 7.

Figure 7. An item with a transition


An item with an effect has an effects icon as shown in Figure 8.

Figure 8. An item with an effect


An item with both a transition and a pan and zoom effect has an effects icon as shown in Figure 9.

Figure 9. An item with a transition and an effect


You can add transitions and pan and zoom effects to media items by completing the following steps:

  1. In Windows Live Movie Maker, click Animations on the toolbar to display the available transitions and pan and zoom effects, as shown in Figure 10.

  2. Select the item or items to which you want to apply a particular transition or effect.

  3. Click a transition to apply it to the selected item or items. So you can see how a transition works, the Preview pane shows how the transition is applied. To remove a transition, use the up button to scroll all the way up through the list and then select the No Transition option.

Figure 10. Selecting transitions and effects


There are about 70 transitions and not all of them can be viewed at the same time in the Transitions pane. Use the up and down buttons provided on the right side of the Transitions pane to navigate through the list of available transitions. Alternatively, click the More button in the lower-right corner of the pane to expand the Transitions pane for easy navigation.

  1. Click an effect to apply it to the selected item or items. The Preview pane shows how the effect is applied. To remove an effect, use the up button to scroll all the way up through the list and then select the No Effect option.

There are about 20 effects and not all of them can be viewed at the same time in the Pan and Zoom pane. Use the up and down buttons provided on the right side of the Pan and Zoom pane to navigate through the list of available effects. Alternatively, click the More button in the lower-right corner of the pane to expand the Pan and Zoom pane for easy navigation.

  1. Transitions and effects have separate duration values. To set the transition duration, click the transition and then choose or enter the desired duration. To set the pan and zoom effect duration, click the effect and then choose or enter the desired duration. The default duration of a transition or effect is one second. The combined duration for transitions and effects cannot exceed the display duration of the item.

You can add visual effects to media items by completing the following steps:

  1. In Windows Live Movie Maker, click Visual Effects on the toolbar and then select the item or items to which you want to apply a particular visual effect.

  2. Click a visual effect to apply it to the selected item or items. So you can see how a transition works, the Preview pane shows how the transition is applied. There are about 20 visual effects and not all of them can be viewed at the same time in the Effects pane. Use the up and down buttons provided on the right side of the Effects pane to navigate through the list of available transitions. To remove a transition, use the up button to scroll up through the list and then select the No Effect option.

  3. Use the Brightness option to adjust the brightness of an item. Click the Brightness button and then slide the slider to the left to darken or slide to the right to brighten.

Other -----------------
- Creating Movies with Windows Movie Maker (part 5)
- Creating Movies with Windows Movie Maker (part 4) - Adding Narration, Music, and Other Audio & Adding Titles, Credits, and Overlays
- Creating Movies with Windows Movie Maker (part 3) - Adding Effects to Your Video & Adding Transitions to Your Video
- Creating Movies with Windows Movie Maker (part 2) - Editing Your Storyboard & Creating an AutoMovie
- Creating Movies with Windows Movie Maker (part 1) - Creating Your Storyboard
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