A movie is a collection of media files such as images, video clips or audio those are composed one after the other with/ without effects. To create a movie from the components, we need a video editor. You can go to my post here to know more about this software.
Before you start, we have to prepare the components using the appropriate software, as I have elaborated much in earlier sessions. What to prepare?
Size.
In the very beginning, you have to decide what is your choice of size, 4:3 or 16:9 (~ NTFS or PAL)? If you would upload in the net – google prefer 640×480. So, you have adjust your components to have the same size, especially the same ratio – except you make it intentionally.
Format.
You should know what formats are supported by your video editing software, included for image, video clip and audio. It is interesting that Windows Movie Player supports animation of .gif image. I haven’t found that feature in any other video editing software yet.
Special tip!
Many video editing software get stuck in processing a movie with too many components, moreover with the limitation of your PC specification. If I have many images as components, I prefer to create a video clip first from a group of the images. I can the video editing software to create that clip, or I can do it in MS Power Point and use another program to convert it to video clip. There are many software to do it. I use Acoolsoft PPT to Video, since I got a free one from “Giveaway” website, and it is a good program for that purpose.
Steps in the video editing software.
Almost all video editing software has the same basic principle procedure:
- Import the components to the library
- Put the image/ clips components in the timeline store
- Put transition effect between each image and/ or clip, if you want
- Put image/ clip effect, if you want
- Put the audio. In some video editing software, you can edit the video – i.e. fade in-fade out.
- Put the overlay, usually text, but some video editing software have feature of image/ video overlay.
- Save as … usually you have to choose the specification of your video, such as format, size, fpm (frame persecond), audio format as well as kbs (kilobytes persecond).
