Screwing around with Windows Movie Maker (Part 2)

We got into a bit of a discussion about setting up equipment over on some DJ board. I was having difficulty verbally explaining "First: get it effective, then: make it tidy."

For giggles, I had been collecting a bunch of images since I bought my little 2 mega-pixle camera. So, after sifting thru images of various set-ups I've done, I came up with this:

20 meg montage of gear placements was born.

I guess, the point of you all seeing it is: If I'm gonna spend 9+ hours cropping, brightening, timelining, fading, and other various editing efforts just to create some 20 meg video to save a bahzillion words typed...

You all gotta endure it as well.

There's only one "uncomfortable beat/transition" area affecting (I think) 3 slides at the most. Shortening up a few durations, and really desiring the "Face-to-face, out in the heat" to work, meant I needed a new vid clip. Since I was in there I did some brightening on the motion stuff.

I do know about transitions, but "artistically" chose to avoid using them. The music "hits" and the slides, I chose, needed to "hit" as well. The fades, however, where used to tie like-series together.

carni..get adobe premiere pro.. Movie maker is teh sux!

or hell, get creative and do it in flash 8

Lemme ask this:

Why?

If I know my raw clips are of poor quality, why spend $$ on a software bundle?

WMM bundles with the OS. WMM as effects I elected not to use in this piece. The only drawback I have encountered is pulling a portion of a clip I want out, at will.

Rothander's wedding montage fell together nicely, even with low grade footage. WMM had features that I didn't use in Roth vid also.

I guess if I had decent footage, acutually knew what I was doing, and needed to make money off a turned out product, I could justify shelling money out for a packaged software bundle.