Laboratory work № 11- PART 2

Objectives:

Ø Adding text (Titles, Credits, content)

Ø Text Animations and Effects

Ø Timelines and Overlays

Ø Exporting to wp4 format

1. Let us add some text to our promotional movie.

a. Click on the first image (the blue water and blue sky) on top ribbon tab area and then click on the Home tab.

b. Click on the Title button:

c. The word Hawaii will be the title right now, as it is the name of your file. Replace the text Hawaii with:
Have you ever noticed how…

Mother Nature makes such a perfect playmate?

d. Change the font size to 36

e. You will now be on the Format Tab. Notice to the right the Effects (Blue squares with lines in the middle), click on the “Cinematic - burst 1” effect (circled below, you might have to scroll down to see it):

1. Click on the image of the pool, then click on the Caption button (right underneath the Title button on the Home tab) and add the caption: All-inclusive Resorts (change the colour of the text so that you can read it if it is too light or too dark, you could also bold it). Use the Effects buttons to put some special effects on your captions as you go (your choice of effect)

1. Click on the image of the parachute and add the caption: Daily outdoor Activities  and add an effect.

1. Click on the image of the food and add the caption: Exclusive Restaurants and add an effect.

1. Click on the image of the skyline and add the caption: Nightclubs and Nightlife and add an effect.

1. Click on the last image (the sunset image) and then click on the Credits button (under the Caption button on the Home tab). Add the text:

HAWAII
The Island of Aloha

It should look similar to this:

1. Move the play head back to the beginning of the slideshow (or click on the first image) and play your movie once more to check that everything is working.
   
   
2. Save your project again.

1. Compressing and creating a video file that can be inserted into a webpage:

a. Firstly, let’s make the movie so that it is a 4:3 ratio (Standard size) rather than 16:9 ratio (Widescreen, more of a High Definition Screen Size). Click on the tab called Project along the top ribbon bar and then click on the Standard (4:3) button.

b. Click on the dropdown arrow in the top left corner:       

 to get the File menu to appear and then select the Save Movie option.

c. Click on the small arrow at the bottom of theSave Movie options to see the very last option, it will be called: Create custom setting…

d. Give your new setting the following values:

I. Name: CS1033movie

II. Width: 640 pixels

III. Height: 480 pixels

IV. Bit Rate: 1000 kps

V. Frame Rate: 12 fps

It should look like this, then hit the Save button twice and then the Close button.

e. Click on the Save movieoption again (from the top left Dropdown arrow to get the File menu) and now one of the options should be the one you just created called CS1033movie, select that option.

NOTE: the nice thing about creating this setting is that it will stop the movie file to be too large as we have reduced the size in pixels and the reduced the frame rate and reduced the bitrate. When creating your final movie for your major assignment, it is a good idea to use the settings above so that your file isn’t too large.

f. Save the file as Hawaii_Final.mp4 in your lab11 folder. mp4 is now the standard preferred format for movie files on any operating system (Windows or Mac). Click on the Open folder button, make sure the new movie is in your lab11 folder and double click on the Hawaii_Final.mp4 file to play it and make sure it works.

g. Now, just as an experiment, select File>Save movie> Recommended for this project and this time, use the file name Hawaii_TEST.mp4. Then open the folder and compare the 2 files: Hawaii_Final.mp4 to Hawaii_TEST.mp4. Notice the difference in the file sizes. Double click on the Hawaii_TEST.mp4 to play that file and notice it is bigger when it plays.

1. Notes on File Types:

a. A file with the extension .wlmp is your native file. This is where you do your editing. REMEMBER: IF you move the images, audio and/or video (original source files) used to build the .wlmp file to different folders AFTER you built the .wlmp file, then your .wlmp file will get confused and no longer work.

b. The file with the extension .mp4 is your final movie file, the one that you will insert into your webpage. .mp4 is a more “universal” file type and can be opened by a number of programs (QuickTime, Windows Media Player, etc). After you have created your .mp4, you can move any images/sound/videos that were used to create it without ruining your .mp4 file, it will be intact.