Adding Captions Credits And Subtitles To Your Home Movie With Windows Movie Maker

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Adding Captions Credits And Subtitles To Your Home Movie With Windows Movie Maker

Captions, titles and credits can greatly spruce up a home made video, and with so many effective free video editors on the Internet, there is no reason why any amateur videographer should not add captions to his video. Windows, Movie Maker is one of the most widely known video editors. It is free to download and easy to use.

Windows Movie Maker snips raw footage into manageable clips, even as it is being downloaded onto the editor. Once the footage is downloaded from a camera or email attachment, for example, it can be imported onto the Windows editing desk. Clips on the desk can be arranged in one of two simple ways. In the story board setup, clips are dragged into sequential boxes, each of which is separated from the next by a transition area. This setup allows beginning editors to easily add special effects to the clips and or add special transitions between boxes. Caption can likewise be added before the video, before or after any clip or during a clip. In each instance, except the last, Windows will add a new box that contains the caption. The box will fit into the story line or timeline sequence.Should a user add a caption to the wrong box, or in the wrong place in the story line, he can always right click on the caption and paste it where he wants it to appear in the story line or time sequence.

Actually adding a caption is simple. The user clicks the add caption tab. A menu appears allowing him to choose whether he wants to add the caption at the beginning or end of the clips or before during or after the selected clip. A box opens and the user types the text into the box. Next, he has two additional options. He can choose to add special movement effects, which determine how the caption will appear, stay or go, and he can choose the font size and color he wishes to use.

There are a variety of special caption effects. These effects allows the user to determine how the caption will appear, how long it will stay and how it will disappear. The caption can appear all at once, gradually fade in, come in from the left right, top or bottom, scroll in like the captions on Star Wars, swirl in, come in like a newspaper headline, etc. Once the caption has appeared, the editor can choose to have it remain in place, fade out or move off the screen to the left, right top or bottom. The desired effect can be selected for each caption separately.

Once a user has selected an effect, or decided not to use any effect at all, he has the option to select the text font’s, color, size and style. Windows has a number of fonts colors available for movie captions, and an adequate size scale.

To create a subtitle, the user clicks on the link, which places the caption directly on a clip. He clicks on special effects and then clicks on the subtitle effect. The default location is towards the bottom of the frame.The user can choose a different setting, and also can adjust the color. Obviously darker colors are seen well against a lighter screen and lighter colors against a darker screen.

Finally, Windows has a credits screen option. This screen allows the user to close his movie with a scrolling list of credits. When the editor chooses to add credits, Window opens up a box, which is automatically formatted to arrange the text typed into the box into an appropriate credit sequence, such as you might see at the end of any movie.

Captions can be used in anyway in any way the editor chooses. For example, a series of captions on a blank screen with appropriate background music can effectively introduce a movie. Viewers will enjoy reading the captions, while they listen to the music

This report has been brought to you by Winmax Video of California. Winmax is a professional video company that makes restaurant videos , corporate video and other types of commercial videos.

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