Title poistion in Movie Maker -- need help

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:19:42 -0400, "John Inzer" <oobie.DeleteThis@doobie.xyz>
wrote:

>noneof@yourbusiness.com wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> I'm new to Movie Maker 2.x. I'm making a slide show type movie out of
>> a bunch of still shots taken on vacation. I'm putting titles right on
>> the pictures but sometimes they're hard to read. Say, for example, I
>> have a picture of a dark house against a bright sky. Movie Maker
>> centres the title vertically so part is against the roof of the house
>> and part is against the sky. If I make the text white, the part on
>> the sky is hard to read, but if I make the text black or someother
>> dark colour, the part against the roof can't be read.
>>
>> What I'd like to do is have control of the vertical position so I
>> could use black text and place it at the top where all of it is
>> against the sky.
>>
>> Can this be done? How?
>=======================================
>Would placing the title at the bottom be acceptable?
>
>Click...'Change the title animation'...choose: Subtitle.
>
>FWIW...for still images it may be worth your time to
>try PhotoStory 3...it makes adding text a little easier.
>And it was actually developed for still images.
>
>PhotoStory 3 For Windows
>http://tinyurl.com/4f869

Re: Subtitle -- the actual title I'm using on one frame, for example,
is "Happy to be on terra firma: across from King's Cross station in
London.

A title that long, displayed as a subtitle still starts near the
middle of the frame (but is, I agree, an improvement; so thanks for
that idea).

Actually the "ticker tape" worked better.

Re: PhotoStory -- I downloaded PhotoStory yesterday, based on
something I read on PapaJohn's site. I haven'y had a chance to check
it out yet.

Am I correct that the idea would be to use PS to edit a sequence of
pictures that required titling, then save the group in some format
that I can then import into the timeline of Movie Maker? If so, what
format does PS save files in that I could use in MM?
 >> Stay informed about: Title poistion in Movie Maker -- need help 

yes... Photo Story only saves to one file type... WMV (with a different
codec than movies).... it works as a source file in Movie Maker

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PapaJohn


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> On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:19:42 -0400, "John Inzer" <oobie.DeleteThis@doobie.xyz>
> wrote:
>
>>noneof@yourbusiness.com wrote:
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> I'm new to Movie Maker 2.x. I'm making a slide show type movie out of
>>> a bunch of still shots taken on vacation. I'm putting titles right on
>>> the pictures but sometimes they're hard to read. Say, for example, I
>>> have a picture of a dark house against a bright sky. Movie Maker
>>> centres the title vertically so part is against the roof of the house
>>> and part is against the sky. If I make the text white, the part on
>>> the sky is hard to read, but if I make the text black or someother
>>> dark colour, the part against the roof can't be read.
>>>
>>> What I'd like to do is have control of the vertical position so I
>>> could use black text and place it at the top where all of it is
>>> against the sky.
>>>
>>> Can this be done? How?
>>=======================================
>>Would placing the title at the bottom be acceptable?
>>
>>Click...'Change the title animation'...choose: Subtitle.
>>
>>FWIW...for still images it may be worth your time to
>>try PhotoStory 3...it makes adding text a little easier.
>>And it was actually developed for still images.
>>
>>PhotoStory 3 For Windows
>>http://tinyurl.com/4f869
>
> Re: Subtitle -- the actual title I'm using on one frame, for example,
> is "Happy to be on terra firma: across from King's Cross station in
> London.
>
> A title that long, displayed as a subtitle still starts near the
> middle of the frame (but is, I agree, an improvement; so thanks for
> that idea).
>
> Actually the "ticker tape" worked better.
>
> Re: PhotoStory -- I downloaded PhotoStory yesterday, based on
> something I read on PapaJohn's site. I haven'y had a chance to check
> it out yet.
>
> Am I correct that the idea would be to use PS to edit a sequence of
> pictures that required titling, then save the group in some format
> that I can then import into the timeline of Movie Maker? If so, what
> format does PS save files in that I could use in MM?
 >> Stay informed about: Title poistion in Movie Maker -- need help 

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:35:16 -0400, "PapaJohn"
<papajohn DeleteThis @chartermi.net> wrote:

>yes... Photo Story only saves to one file type... WMV (with a different
>codec than movies).... it works as a source file in Movie Maker

Great. Thanks for the advice (both of you). I'll give it a try.
 >> Stay informed about: Title poistion in Movie Maker -- need help 

noneof RemoveThis @yourbusiness.com wrote:

<snip>

> What I'd like to do is have control of the vertical position so I
> could use black text and place it at the top where all of it is
> against the sky.
>
> Can this be done? How?

I don't think so!

Here is a suggestion.

Make titles or credits>Add title to selected clip>More options - Change
title animation>Sports scoreboard.

Doing the above will at least give you clear readable text per image.
You may like this idea, or not.
--
MikeW
 >> Stay informed about: Title poistion in Movie Maker -- need help 

On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:57:06 +0100, "MikeW" <MikeW.RemoveThis@spammenot.con>
wrote:

>noneof@yourbusiness.com wrote:
>
>> What I'd like to do is have control of the vertical position so I
>> could use black text and place it at the top where all of it is
>> against the sky.
>>
>> Can this be done? How?
>
>I don't think so!
>
>Here is a suggestion.
>
>Make titles or credits>Add title to selected clip>More options - Change
>title animation>Sports scoreboard.
>
>Doing the above will at least give you clear readable text per image.
>You may like this idea, or not.

Actually, Mike, I took the suggestion of others and used Photo Story 3
do the titling on difficult pictures. Worked a charm.

Thanks for answering.
 >> Stay informed about: Title poistion in Movie Maker -- need help 

noneof.TakeThisOut@yourbusiness.com wrote:

> Actually, Mike, I took the suggestion of others and used Photo Story 3
> do the titling on difficult pictures. Worked a charm.
>
> Thanks for answering.

Glad you got it sorted satisfactory.
--
MikeW
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