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Editing Digital Video with Windows Live Movie Maker (part 4) - Editing Your Video - Adding Transitions

1/27/2014 3:23:44 AM

5. Editing Your Video

The simplest way to make a movie is just to grab some pictures and/or a video, and possibly an audio file for a soundtrack, and drag them into Windows Live Movie Maker. (A soundtrack obviously makes more sense for photo slide shows as sound in a video file would compete with the sound from an audio file.) Then, you can press Play in the Preview pane and watch your simple, unedited creation play through to completion. For the very simplest of videos, this is straightforward; but what if you want to take it to the next level, adding transitions, video effects, and titles? This section examines the editing capabilities, such as they are, of Windows Live Movie Maker.

Two things to remember before we get started: you can have only one soundtrack per project (and that's optional), and you can drag and drop the clips in the Storyboard pane to determine the running order of the video. Okay, it's time to get started.

5.1. Adding Transitions

Windows Live Movie Maker supports a small set of transitions that can be applied to both photos and video clips. These transitions are inspired by the transitions you see every day in TV shows and movies, and include such favorites as Crossfade, Slide, and Roll.

NOTE

In keeping with the theme of Windows Live Movie Maker, we're oversimplifying. This application doesn't include "such favorites" as the three transitions mentioned above among others. It includes, literally, only those three transition types. To understand why this is an issue, note that the previous version of this application, Windows Movie Maker 6, supported dozens of transitions. So while Windows Live Movie Maker is simpler than its predecessor, it's also less powerful and useful as a result.

We're told, by the way, that Microsoft will be steadily improving Windows Live Movie Maker over time. So it's possible that by the time you read this, the application will have been updated with new transitions and other features. As always, stayed tuned to the book's Web site at www.winsupersite.com/book for the latest changes.

To access these transitions, click the Visual Effects tab in the ribbon. As shown in Figure 10, the available transitions can be found, logically enough, in the Transitions group.

Figure 10. Windows Live Movie Maker includes just a limited set of video transitions.

You apply transitions on a clip-by-clip basis, and can apply only one transition to any photo or video clip. Also, transitions apply to the beginning of the selected clip and do not repeat. To add a transition, select the appropriate clip in the Storyboard and then click the transition you want to apply. To test the transition, click Play in the Preview pane. The video will begin playing at the selected clip with the transition in place, as shown in Figure 11. Repeat with other clips as needed.

NOTE

You can also preview a transition by double-clicking the appropriate clip in the Storyboard.

Figure 11. Each transition can be tested in the Preview pane.

You can also choose the "No transition" option in order to remove a previously applied transition.

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