John
Tue Aug 03 02:56:59 CDT 2004
Hi there,
OK, well adding sound would normally be the last thing you do before
compiling the final video. So doing it in Movie Maker would be preferable.
As far as using Photo Story goes, well I personally think its a waste of
space.
You could have purchased the full set of professional transitions from
Pixelan and with both video and stills got a superior transition set plus
loads of effects too and done the whole job in Movie Maker.
The Pixelan set of transitions and effects was one of the first add ons
I purchased for Movie Maker. They are very good and well worth the small
amount of money. In fact having just looked at their site
(
http://pixelan.com/) its time for an upgrade I think.
Best Wishes.....John Kelly
www.the-kellys.org
www.the-kellys.co.uk
On the subject of fancy transitions, the next time you are sat in front
of the TV, try and take note of how many transitions you see that are
something other than a straight switch or very short fade. Fancy transitions
are great, if used in moderation.
"Scott Micale" <hrm_admin@news.postalalias> wrote in message
news:uO55XaNeEHA.2440@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> I am adding the transitions in MM, since Photo Story can't do that. They
> are being caused in MM when I import the video into MM and add a
Transition
> somewhere.
>
>
> "John Kelly" <not.released@dot.com> wrote in message
> news:66wPc.29039$a8.24104@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> > Hello there,
> >
> > Which program are you adding transition in?
> >
> > Are the skips in the music being caused in Photo Story or Movie Maker?
> >
> > You should take note that feeding the video through twice will mean that
> it
> > gets rendered twice even though the only edit is with the audio track.
> Because
> > of that you will suffer from generational loss
> >
> > There are two possibilities.
> >
> > 1) You have a serious system bottleneck (Not likely)
> >
> > 2) According to information posted here a few days back you are mixing
> file
> > types that are radically different. Photo story creates very small files
> which
> > means a very small amount of data being put into movie maker where its
> mixed
> > with a regular format file during the transitions, if you like, you are
> > introducing a slow moving stream with a fast moving stream. Gives pause
> for
> > thought!!
> >
> > I would try doing the whole project, or at least a big enough project in
> Movie
> > Maker to see whether you get the same problem (Do not use anything
created
> in
> > Photo Story) Someone is bound to jump in and say it makes no
difference.
> > Maybe, but I would want to see for myself.
> >
> > In addition, Its known that MPeg, MP3 and JPeg files in descending order
> of
> > probability can cause anything from trivial to major problems...if you
> have any
> > of these you would be best advised to convert them to AVI, WAV or WMA
and
> BMP
> > files.
> >
> > Best Wishes.....John Kelly
> > www.the-kellys.org
> > www.the-kellys.co.uk
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