Help with ULEAD

[Oli]

Hi,

Ive had ULEAD 9.0 for only a day or so and ive been looking for tutorials on something but i dont now what its called some the only way i can get help for it is to explain what i want to be able to do,

Pretty simple all i want to be able to do, is to be able to copy a frame so that it can played more than once, for example copy some frames of someone tlking and play them repeatadly to make it look like there talking for a while, then continue with the film.

If anyone could help or let me now what editing tool is called so i can search for a tutorial on it i would be most gratefull

Thanks
Oli

[Ron P.]

Hi Oli, welcome to the forums..

Do you mean copying "frame" of the video? or A frame like a picture frame?

To copy frame(s) or a clip of people talking do this.

1. Trim your clip to the desired length/duration. This can be done by using the trim handles located beneath the preview window, above the blue bar. Dragging each towards the inside will trim it. There are other methods of trimming a video clip, which you should be able to find easily.

2. With your video clip trimmed, now drag the clip to the library. This produces a copy. The copy will include all the attributes that you may have assigned to it. So if you have added a filter, that would also be copied.

3. Now that you have a copy in your library, drag that back to the timeline, as many times as you want. This would create a loop. It is best to try to trim the clip at point where the "looping" will be least noticable. You can use a cross-fade transition between the clips to help hide the looping.

Hope that helps...

Ron P.

[Ken Berry]

Edit: Whoops!!! Beat me to the punch again, Vidoman!!! But I'll leave my post anyway, as it also contains a suggestion about taking still images... though I realise now he really was talking about copying a sequence of frames.

I can think of two ways you can achieve the effect you are after. The first is to simply cut out the relevant frame and then copy it several times until you have the number you want, then insert them all in the timeline. But this will risk looking a bit silly and potentially a bit jerky as the frozen action on that frame is repeated. To do it, though, you need to expand the video clip from which you would be extracting the frame, to its full extent on the timeline. This is achieved using the little slider to the top left of the timeline (in Timeline view). Slide the slider all the way to the right (little magnifying icon with positive sign in it). This will then show every frame of the clip in the timeline. Then move the bigger slider just under the preview window a little to the right until a red line appears only above the first frame in the timeline. Then click on the right hand-pointing arrow (mark-out) under the preview screen and this will then move the right hand trim handle hard left to the end of the first frame. Then click on the scissors icon and you have the single frame cut. If you right click on that frame, you will get a drop down menu with 'Copy' at the top.

The easier way, though, would be to simply take a still photo of the frame you want: highlight the frame in the timeline, and if you are in Edit mode, then you will see 'Save as still image' about a third of the way down the left hand side of screen. The still image will appear in the images Library pane. Then insert that still image where you want it in the timeline, and drag the right hand edge of it out to the length you need. You could then apply pan and zoom to it to give the illusion of some movement.

And of course you will probably need to have a separate voice-over audio track if you want to give the illusion of continuing speech while the image is being played....

[Oli]

Thank you both very much for your help i will try these methods, as they seem quite simple,

thanks again

Oli

[Screwball]

To create an illusion of someone talking forever, apply a 'fade to black' transition between two or three clips (create a time span of 3-4 secs) - this will create the effect of falling asleeep, then waking and he's still going on.