Everybody keeps asking, "How do I put music and sounds to a pivot?" Look no further. You're questions will be answered here.
In this tut I will show you.
- Making a Pivot file to a gif
- Puttuing on Windows Movie Maker and Using Movie Maker
- Tips: Using WMM Better
- Putting it on YouTube
- I don't have Windows Movie Maker
- Faq
Making a Pivot file to a gif
First, save you're pivot file to a gif file. A gif file is a moving picture file. Doing this will enable you to put it on Movie Maker. To do this, when you save you're animation click the dropdown box and select gif. The tutorial to saving as a gif is located here.
The following below is for Windows Users. Don't go down if you have windows, Instead, go to An Alternative Way Section.
Putting on Windows Movie Make and Using Movie Maker
Movie Maker is very simple to use. Here's a screen shot of it to familerize yourself. Open up Windows Movie Maker (we'll call it WMM for short) and start looking around the screen to familerize yourself again. To begin, find your gif by clicking on the left hand on what's called "Movie Tasks" and click "Import Pictures". Remember were you saved your gif, find it and import it. It will be added to the "Collections" and highlighted.
Drag your gif to the bottom where it says Drag Media to the storyboard/Timeline to begin Making your movie. I would leave it at the timeling setting because you have more control and professionalism added to your movie, click the button near the timeline/storyboard to do it.
You can add music, sounds, titles, transitions, and effects to your movie. Click on the any of the buttons on "Edit Movie" in the task bar to add titles, transitions, and effects. AutoMovie makes a random stupid thing, ignore it unless you want something random. To add music/sound do just like you did to import the gif except click "Import Audio or Music". Drag it to the timeline where you put your sounds/music, you can't put two at the same time, you can only "merge" two clips by moving one clip onto another (sliding it on the other clip). To put two clips you have to make to save it as a movie, then Import the movie and add more sounds (you'll learn latter).
4. With more practice and curiosity, you will get better and better with WMM.
To save it as a movie, go to the task area where it says "Finish Movie" and click "Save to My Computer". Follow the instructions, and it will save as a WMA so it can be added to YouTube. Just clicking save on the top will save it as WMMP so you can save the project and edit it latter. If you wanted to add a song and all you have are sound effects, save it as a WMA (following Finsih Movie insrtuctions), open up a new prject, import the video you saved and BAM, you can add more sounds to it.
Tips: Using WMM Better
Alot of people take advantage of WMM and mess up their movie. Here are a few examples of poor WMMing.
Sorry Leo
No HyperCam
Crappy Titling
If you're doing titles, don't use the default blue screen and font. To change font, click below the typing box where it says "More Options" and has two highlighted buttons. Click "Change the Text Font and Color". Be Imaginative
Title animations also count. Alot of noobs/newbs use the "Moving Titles, Layered" option. This gets the viewer really bored. Try using something that will match the movie. Ex.
Incase you think I'm perfect heres my first and crappiest, most boring, stupid movie I've ever made.
Transitions are you're friend, don't be afraid to use them. The best and most simple of all is the Fade. Simple yet dynamic and pro. If all else fails, use Fade. Don't start using so many different transitions or else they don't work. Make sure transitions fit what you're doing,
Ex. Action Sequences don't need fades unless a completly different scene follows
Ex. The Shatter transition can be used for lets say explosions. You can figure out how to use it properly. That's what editing's all about.
Never use HyperCam unless you're filming a computer sequence. The Unregistered HyperCam thing at the top makes anyone look stupid.
Go with the music if you're using it. Sounds simple huh. Some people don't know like here
If you're doing narration please don't do this s*** . If you have a crappy voice use Voice Changer 6.0 Diamond.
