Making Transitions and Titles
Making Transitions and Titles

Movie-Making at Home: How-to's in Making Transitions and
Titles
Those precious family videos that you took years ago need not go
to waste. Now, with the advent of computers, making your very own
movies out of digital pictures and videos is now possible. Making
titles and the right way to do transitions has never been so
easy.
Programs such as Windows Movie Maker is such an easy-to-use
tool in creating home-made movies. They really come in
handy when you want to create a professional-looking movie out of
old video clips and pictures. So as you read along you will find
how easy it is to make titles and transitions while making your
personalized movie.
Let's begin with titles. How do you create titles with graphics
that catch attentions and create interest in the viewer? First, you
have to decide the locations where you want to add titles and
credits. Titles may come before or after a digital picture or a
video clip or it can even be added as an overlay.
Of course, you want to put a title at the beginning of your
movie. You can now enter the title and if you want, even a
subtitle. Just look at the menu and click on make titles or
credits. Once you have done that, you will be asked where you want
to put the title. If you want it at the beginning of the movie,
click on add title at the beginning of the movie.
This time you are asked to type the text you want to add as your
title and subtitle. Now you may add animation to your title by
choosing from a wide variety of animation graphics. Changing
the text font and the color can also be done by clicking on the
different options available at the bottom of the menu.
To see if you like what you have done, just click on title
preview. A preview window will appear on the right that will
show the effects you have done. You may change the animation, text
color and font by just clicking on the different options. Once you
are satisfied, click on done.
You may also insert more titles in any part of the movie, in
between video excerpts and pictures by clicking any option on the
menu. To end your movie, add credits by doing the same thing you
have done with the titles. Then you may now save the movie.
Now that the titles, subtitles and credits have been added,
let's find out how transitions can be done so that moving from
title to video clip to pictures can become smoother. There is a
wide selection of transitions that you may choose from, a total of
60 different interesting transitions. Examples would be to fade or
you may shift with different geometric shapes appearing on your
screen.
The first thing to do is go to the Movie Tasks pane that is
under Edit Movie. Click on the view video transitions. Preview the
different transitions by doing a double click on the transition of
choice. Simply drag the one that you like to the box where you want
your transition to be between your clips. Now add a special effects
by clicking on view video effects. Preview the effects and choose
one. As always, drag your choice to any box in your video clips.
View what you have done by looking at the star found at the
lower-left corner of your clip. Do the same thing with the other
transitions that you want to do.
You may watch the movie by clicking on play at any time during
the movie. After you are content with all that you have done,
viola! You have now successfully made your very own movie!! Wasn't
that cool? Experimenting with the different effects, transitions
and titles will be fascinating. You will really enjoy this! So good
luck!
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