Effects & music between clips

Scott_Mullen · Post by **Scott_Mullen** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 12:21 am

Excuse my ignorance in advance... I am new to using MF.

I have created a movie with a number of movie clips in the story board. Can I have a transtion effect between each clip? (I can get them to work within the clip but not between the different clips)

Also, can I apply music to run across the whole lot rather than just one specific clip? (The clips are fairly short so I want one or two songs to run in the background of the entire project)

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 12:55 am

(I can't answer all of your questions because I don't use Movie Factory for editing.)

A DVD contains titles and chapters.

A DVD can contain up to 99 titles. A title is a single continuous clip, program, movie, etc.

A typical Comercial DVD might have two titles - One main movie and one extra "Making of the Movie", etc. (In reality, there are probably a couple more short titles for the intro & copyright warning, etc.)

You can splice clips together to make one big title. These clips can be hard-spliced, or joined with a transition.

Each title can have up to 99 chapters. A chapter is really just a hidden "marker" in the file. It can be at a transition, or somewhere in the middle of a scene. I often use the term "chapter-point" to refer to the beginning of a chapter. (i.e. "I put a chapter-point at the beginning of the chase scene".) I think this what you want to do - Make one continuous program with chapter-points at the transitions between scenes, where each scene was once an individual clip.

You can make a smooth transition between chapters in a title, because it's all one big movie.

You cannot make make a smooth transition between titles.

Scott_Mullen · Post by **Scott_Mullen** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 5:06 am

Thanks Doug... that makes it all clearer to me now...

Scott_Mullen · Post by **Scott_Mullen** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 5:21 am

OK... so that solved that problem...

One more for you that I'm not sure whether it can be done or not.

Is it possible to create a slideshow of still images and make them a chapter within the title?

What I am trying to do is create a DVD of the kids made up of some home video and also still images and have them all run together as one show with some background music over the top.

I have worked out how to join 2 video files together to make up the one title but is it possible to join a video and a slideshow together in the one title?

Post by **Ron P.** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 5:48 am

The only way I could find to do this, is first to render your slideshow to a video file, preferably DVD compatible MPEG-2. Then open your project with your video and insert the video file created from your slideshow. Now you can join them into one title.

Now with DVDMF6+, you can use the Edit Room, to split your video, then insert images and transitions. I could not find where to apply any pan/zoom effect to images inserted in this fashion.

Scott_Mullen · Post by **Scott_Mullen** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 6:01 am

Can I create an Mpeg 2 compliant video from DMF 6?

To date that is the first piece of software I have found where I am happy with the quality of the slideshows

Post by **Ron P.** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 12:03 pm

Sure can..

Select your slideshow, then hit the Export Selected Clips. You will be presented with a menu. Choose one of the format options. However keep in mind that you want to mix this with a video file, so instead of having a field order of Frame Based, it would be better to use the same field order of the video clips you're going to join this with. For example if your video clip has a field order of Lower Field First, then you would want your slideshow to be the same.

To export your slideshow, and be able to change the field order, you need to select Customize (bottom option). Then once the Customize Dialog opens, choose a name, then hit the Options button. In the Options Dialog, on the General Tab, change the Frame Type to match the video clip it is going to be joined with. Click OK, Click Save.

Scott_Mullen · Post by **Scott_Mullen** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 1:11 pm

Tried that but I couldn't then join the 2 clips together.

I checked the options of the video clip first and it was frame based so I set the slideshow to frame based as well... is that where I went wrong? Should I have done something differently there?

BTW, what is the field order all about? As I said at the start... I am new to this

Scott_Mullen · Post by **Scott_Mullen** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 1:14 pm

It's ok... I worked out how to join them now. I had to delete the show from the title and then re-add the saved Mpeg version... duh

Can you still explain to me what the field order is all about though.

Thanks again for your help

Post by **Ron P.** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 10:53 pm

We have a lot of information located in our Tutorials Sections which are located about 3/4 of the way down on the Main Index page of the Web Board.

Here's a link to an article found on Ulead's Website, about Frames and Fields. That one and a few more are found in the General Information Forum, in the Tutorials Section.

When you have some spare time, start browsing through the Tutorials sections, and reading some of the articles that Steve has put together.

Scott_Mullen · Post by **Scott_Mullen** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 4:09 am

Thanks