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Posted by Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] on 07/02/06 10:48
On 1 Jul 2006 16:24:55 -0700, "RP" <RobertPerezLaw@gmail.com> wrote:
>I have in mind a kind of still image photo montage, peppered with
>occasional video clips for variety, but the primary asset will be still
>images with a soundtrack. I've seen the kind of photo montage that I
>have in mind (it's certainly not a very original idea) and one effect
>I've noticed in professional productions is a kind of panning across
>still images separated by cross dissolves. The panning provides a real
>sense of motion and brings a professional look that I never enjoyed in
>my Dad's video, and I'd like to try that out in this next project.
It's just generically labelled as "Ken Burns" style video. MS
Photostory can do a good job of creating this content style without
needing any fussy NLE tricks or expensive hardware :
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx
I'm sure you could re-import the video into your NLE. In this program
it creates the file as WMV using the windows media v9 image 2 codec,
I'm not clear if the cross dissolves are actually embedded in the
video as "instructions" for directshow.WMP, or created as video data -
the NLE would need to be able to read WMV content and apply the
filters using Directshow.
So it's worth checking to see if that's the case (i.e. the dissolves
could be lost in the NLE import).
I tried it in ULead videostudio and it appeared to work for most
transitions, but some motion transitions seemed to be "lost" or much
faster than the specified values or when viewed in WMP.
Scene motion across the images was correctly interpreted by the
program though.
Cheers - Neil
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