How to create you own movies (Guide)
This guide is meant to give you a general and as a guide if you are new to making movie. Making professional looking videos take a lot of effort and knowledge. This guide should help you make a basic game video or a personal video you copied from a digital camera.
Capturing Video
First of all we need the video that we want to make a movie from. If you have the video from a digital camera, you may skip this section. If you are trying to capture video from a game, download FRAPS. It is a very easy to use program that allows you to record movies in games.
Once you download and install FRAPS, go to the MOVIES tab and choose the folder for saving the videos. You will also need a video capture hotkey to start FRAPS, set this to a key that is not used by the game. Then choose the fps and half/full size. This setting depends on your computer, try messing with the settings till you get a good video.
Now start the game and when you are ready to record, press the video capture hotkey.
Organizing the video
Now that you have some videos for making the movie, its time to organize the clips. For windows users you might have Windows Movie Maker. It is good enough for starters to make movies, if you do not have it, please get VIDEOMACH.
In this guide we will look at the basic functions in windows movie maker. First you will need to import the video into the program so that it can be used. Use the Import Media Items option from the file menu and import the videos you recorded earlier. Now you can drag the videos into the storyboard. The storyboard can be used to arrange different clips to make a movie. The split option can also be used to split any long videos.
Now that you have arranged the videos you need some titles and maybe transition effect for the clips. You can add Titles and Credits to the movie from the Tools menu. Its very simple and shouldn’t be a worry for someone like you. Once you are done save the video.
Compressing the video
Ok so now we have a movie that is organized with titles credits and effects. There is one thing that you may have missed out ! Chances are that the movie you made is 2-20 GB in size !!! Now that aint good, so lets compress the video so that it can be shared over the internet or on DVD’s.
There is one last program that we need to download. VIRTUALDUB is a program that is free and pretty easy to use.
Open the movie that you saved, choose Video > Compression and play with the settings till you find a good balance between quality and size. Once you are done click OK and save the movie.
Congratulation on your first movie. Hope this helps.
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