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Video Instructions Dell Movie Studio - VideoWave Movie CreatorStarting the VideoWave Movie Creator Program 1. Go to Start > Programs > Dell Movie Studio> Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator > Roxio VideoWave Movie Creator 2. When the program starts up, go to Edit Movie > Story Line Editor. Click on Story Line Editor. 3. The program asks you to give your production a name or else to click on “Open an existing production” to continue working on one from before. The first time you work on a project, you will have to give it a name. Make the name short and useful so that you’ll know what the movie is about. Click OK after giving the file a name. Adding Video Clips to the Library 4. Your first job will be to add video clips to the Library on the right side of the screen. The library will show thumbnails of the various video clips that are available. If you see question marks instead of thumbnails that means it doesn’t know where the clips went. If they came off a cd and weren’t saved to the hard drive, that will likely be the result. 5. To edit a previously saved video clip, you must add the file to the library. To do that: a. click on the little icon that looks like a movie strip with a + sign in the corner. b. The Add Files to Library dialog box will appear. Navigate/browse to where the files are located. You can bring in one file at a time OR you can click on the first file and then hold down the Shift key and click on the last file and then click on OK and that will bring in several at one time. Trimming or Editing the Video File If your video clips are already trimmed to perfection, then you are ready to add them to the story line at the top of the screen. To do that, click, hold, and drag from the Library to the Story Line and then let go once the clip is over a rectangular space. Most often, you will need to edit a video clip. Most often, you will have a particular challenge because you'll usually have one long clip that you are going to separate into smaller pieces. This is not unlike what happens when you are filming an event somewhere. 6. Locate the video clip you want to edit in the Library on the right. Click, hold, and drag it from the Library to the story line at the top of the screen. Double-click on the movie clip to open it up in the editing window in the center of the screen. To edit a video clip, click on the button to the LEFT that says TRIM. 7. Your screen changes a bit and a light, blue bar appears below the video clip. On the light blue bar there is a dark blue rectangle with a red line. Click, hold, and drag the dark blue rectangle and move it along the line. This is how you will choose the starting and ending points for your video clip. Look at the screen capture below. This gives you a close-up of the Mark Start/Mark End tools. Note: Until you move the dark blue rectangle from the beginning of the light blue bar, the Mark Start option will be grayed out. This only makes sense because if you aren't going to change where a clip starts then you don't need to mark it!  8. Play the movie clip to familiarize yourself with the content. To play the movie, click on the green arrow button. 9. After reviewing the clip, move the dark blue rectangle on the light blue bar to where you want to start your movie clip. Now, click on MARK START. The dark blue rectangle will jump back to the beginning of your clip and that will be the new starting point. Now, slide the blue bar to where you want your video clip to END. When you find that point, click on MARK END. Your clip is now edited. You can click on the green arrow button to see if this is what you wanted. 10. If you’re satisfied with your editing, click the DONE button on the LEFT. That will automatically set up a preview of the movie, as well. 11. Notice that the starting point in the thumbnail in the Story Line now looks the same as the clip you just edited. Your changes have been reflected in the Story Line automatically. This is a change over previous versions of the software. Producing your video clip Once you’ve gone to the work of editing a clip, you want to produce it so that it will be saved and you won’t have to do it twice. 12. Click on MAKE MOVIE at the top on the left. 13. Most of the time, we’re going to want to make a Video File. Click on the last icon in the row that appears and then click on NEXT.  14. On the next screen that appears, you will see Purpose. Under it is a line and at the end of the line is an arrow indicating more choices. Click on the arrow and choose “Playback on another computer.” 15. For our purposes, leave Quality as Normal and then click on NEXT. 16. You are next asked to choose a name for this movie clip. This will be the file name that will show up when you go to use it. 17. Beside the line for the name is the word BROWSE. Click on that to select which folder on your computer will store the completed movie clip. This is important if you ever want to be able to find it again. In Windows XP, My Documents already has a folder called My Videos. You might want to store your completed productions there. When you have finished selecting your location, click NEXT. 17. You get a gray screen with a single button that says “Render File.” Click on it to begin the process. As it renders the movie (makes it), you will see it providing you with all sorts of information about the movie clip. Pay close attention to the file size. Video clips can result in huge file sizes. On older computers, the rendering process can result in a very noticeable wait. Do something else to distract yourself until it is done. 18. When the movie has been rendered, it gives you a button to View the Movie. You can do that or just click Finish and you’ll be returned to the Story Line Editor screen. Repeat the editing process until each section is in its own movie clip. After you've produced your smaller clips, you can add them to the story line, bring in transitions between the clips, add a title and an ending, and produce your final piece. |