Edit

If you have already made the movie, and you want to edit later, double-click the movie in the workspace and click the button “Edit Movie” at the top of the movie.

Through the tabs Film, Slide and film clips, we can change settings, add text to slides, and insert new images respectively.

Let me show these tabs and their functions through here.

The “Movie” tab.

We use this tab to edit the sound, appearance and the flow of our film.

In the top section, use “Soundtrack” if you want to add music to your clip.
Picasa supports WMA and MP3 audio formats. Click the “Load” button if you want to add some music.
If you have added some music to your movie then you have three options for synchronizing your music with your photos.

The second part “Transitional Style” lets you determine the transition time between two pictures.
Set the slider “Display Time” for duration of each photo or rather slide, to be displayed.
Set the slider “Overlap” to adjust the amount of overlap between two slides.

In the third section, “Dimensions” you determine the size of your movie. If it is a film that you just want to play on your computer, you can choose a large format. However, if it is the one for placing on the Internet, for example, You Tube, then the 640X840 size is large enough. Size in KB may not exceed a certain standard anyway. How true this is, that I do not know, but when you begin to publish your movies on YouTube, this would show.

The first checkbox option “Show Captions”, you choose whether or not display photo captions in the movie.
The second checkbox option “Full frame photo crop”, all images are cropped so that the entire space on the slide is filled.

The tab “Slide”.

We use this tab to add text to slides in the film.
You can add text on top of an image or make a a text slide for the title leaf or between the leaves in the movie.
To add text to a slide select the first slide at the bottom of the thumbnail and select the tab “Slide”, and type your text in the textbox. We can use the options above the text box to format the text. But I think you know that already.

Each film is equipped with a cover slide for the title, and the date of your album will appear as I had already told you in the previous lesson.
If you want to change this text, select the slide in the thumbnail view, select the “Slide” tab and change the text.

However, if you want to insert new text, first select the photo in the thumbnail behind which you want to insert the text slide, and click the “Add new text” button.

And finally we have the tab “Clips”.

We use this tab to add photos. Or remove them when they are already added.

Click the button “Get More”.
Select the photographs from the library, and click the button “Back to Movie Maker” at the bottom, when you’re done.

The additional images are now displayed in the library of the ‘Clips’ tab.

With the “Add” button, you can add the photo at the end of your Picasa movie, and it gets deleted immediately from the library of the “Clips” tab.

If you remove a photo from the thumbnail, it will be placed back in the library of the “Clips” tab.

To move a photo in your Picasa movie click and drag it in the thumbnail view to the desired location.

With the “Delete” button, remove the photos from the library of the “Clips” tab.

If you want to assess to save the movie in full screen, then click the button “Play fullscreen”.
If you are satisfied with the results, click the button “Make Movie”.
If you want to publish the film on You Tube, then click the button “You Tube”.

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