This software is great for making slide shows for YouTube or your website and its quite easy to use, i will take a few photos from my computer or from google and i will show you how to put a video together.
You can download photo story 3 download from http://www.microsoft.com and its free to use.
The photos i am using are from my home town Eden NSW Australia, its a lovely spot to live and fishing here is fantastic.
Here is a basic video that i did showing you how to use photo story 3, i have left everything default apart from adding some music, if your worried about copyright and stuff with music you can search on google for free mp3s that are not copyright and are safe to use with your movies.
Now lets add some different effects to each photo.
I will choice Black and white for the first picture.
The second piture i choice negative.
The last photo i choise the effect sepia.
Now i will add some text to each photo.
This time i will customize the motion and effect on each photo i will show you how in the video below as it is much easy to understand in a video, but this time i wont be adding any music or sound it will be just a silent video clip.
In this post i will show you a video that i have done, but this video is unedited so i will need to cut out the parts that are no good and reduce the size of the video.
Thus making it smaller and much more quickly upload to YouTube or your favorite video sharing website.
Take a look at the video you will see many errors and even some Aussie Slang, then i will show you how i edit it.
Now as you can see there is a few things in that video that need to be cut out.
Below shows you how i have done that in a step by step easy guide using windows movie maker 2.
First thing you will need to do is boot up Movie Maker 2, then you need to select import video.
Then click on the down arrow in the Look in: folder (up the top) this will open up a directory tree of your Hard Drives, find your video, mine is saved in the c:/Videos folder as i had created this folder earlyier before.
Now click on the import button, then you should see the clip on the time line area.
Now drag that clip or clips onto the video time line like this see pic, you can select multiple clips by holding down the Ctrl button.
You can start the edit process.
play the video to see what it looks like then you will be able to choice what you like and not.
Click on the Zoom button to stretch the video time line this helps as it will be easy to select a clip zone and cut it.
When you find the part you want to split (cut) you will need to have the video in the sample viewer, to be able to do this and have the video time line selected, once you find the spot click on the Clip then Split
after doing that play the video to see if you like it, and do the same thing again (split it) just b4 you want the video to resume onto a good part, then you should see a separate tiny clip that you can just delete from the time line, right mouse click on the part you don’t want and delete.
After you have cut out all the parts you don’t want its time to save your video,
click on File, then Save as movie, i choice My computer
as i will upload it later and keep the video on my hard drive if i ever need it again some day, give the file a name for your video so you will know where it is and where to find it, i also leave it as Best quality for playback
on my computer (recommended) i will talk about other formats and that in future posts, it may take a little while to save the video depending on your system, mine is slow.
Now let take a look at the final video and see what it looks like, I’m not the best at this lol i am a complete novice hehe.
