Scene Transitions that Make Your Home Made Movie More Effective
People who have the complete windows package for their PC, get the Windows movie maker along with other windows programs. The movie maker is a nifty software package that allows owners to edit their own home movies, and then post them online. Using a special digital detection method, the movie maker automatically slices raw video footage into small clips, wherever it detects an abrupt scene changes. The movie maker features a story line editing board, with clip holding boxes and transitional areas. When a user is ready to edit, he simply drags his video clips into one of the boxes. Special effects can then be added to one or more of the clips, and special transitions can be added to the space between the boxes.
Once a video has been downloaded and divided into clips, the next step is to open up the transitions list. Simply click on the transitions editor link and a drop down menu will open up displaying a list of transitions provided by Windows. You can click on a transition and view it in the movie maker monitor. When you find a transition you like, drag it to the transition area on the time line.
Some transitions are of the fade out and fade in type, and some transitions are made with sections of the new clip replacing the old clip in a geometrical pattern. Fade in and fade out transitions generally connote a passage of time or a change in place. Geometrical transitions are interesting in that they remind us that we are seeing life through the lens of a camera, though at times some people find them distracting.
Windows also presents transitions which represent varieties and combinations of the fade in fade out or geometric transitions. Some of the transitions present varieties in timing. Sometimes the old scene disappears before the new scene begins to appear, and sometimes the two briefly appear together, with one superimposed on the other. Likewise with the geometric transitions, sometimes the geometric shapes consists of parts of the new scene, whereas sometimes they consist of abstract colors or design, which are replaced by the new scene after the old scene dissapears.
A third type of transition, removes the old scene in a variety of ways that do not fall into a fade-in fade-out or geometrical category. In one transition the scene peels away like a page being turned over. This transition might be used if the video is being compiled like a story from a book. In some cases, the old scene shrinks to a line, flips around on an axis and then fades into the distance, or shrinks to a small square. These scene transitions are more psychological and metaphorical, as they visually imply a certain finality about the content of the old scene.
The set up of the windows transition editor is made for the beginning video or movie editor and is easy and fun to use. The transitions which come with the software represent an important cross-section of the transitions that we are all used to seeing in Hollywood films.
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