Today I tried to collate all my images into my very first stop motion video. As a Windows user, I already have
windows live movie maker on my laptop, so I
decided to use it to make my video. However, after uploading all my images onto the programme, I realised that I can only speed up the duration that each image will be shown on screen, from 7 seconds to 1 second. Playing each frame at 1 second each was not fast enough to achieve a stop motion effect. At this point I got rather confused
and didn't know what to do.
In the end, I went back to Youtube to see if I could find a solution online. None of the tutorials fit into my description of "how to speed up movie on Windows Live Movie Maker", but after about an hour or two I finally figured out that it was simply because my movie was a slideshow, and not a video yet, and that the option of fast-forwarding was only applicable to videos on Movie Maker. To test my theory I split up sections of the slideshow and saved each section as individual movie clips. To my amazement, it worked and I could speed up each section at a desired speed, some slightly faster at 2X, some slower at 1.25X.
This temporary setback made me feel more like a "digital immigrant" than a "digital native". Thankfully the programme is not as difficult to use as I thought, and I could add transitions, split and trim clips, and add music without any further problems.
and didn't know what to do.
In the end, I went back to Youtube to see if I could find a solution online. None of the tutorials fit into my description of "how to speed up movie on Windows Live Movie Maker", but after about an hour or two I finally figured out that it was simply because my movie was a slideshow, and not a video yet, and that the option of fast-forwarding was only applicable to videos on Movie Maker. To test my theory I split up sections of the slideshow and saved each section as individual movie clips. To my amazement, it worked and I could speed up each section at a desired speed, some slightly faster at 2X, some slower at 1.25X.
At this point I can only adjust the duration of each image
I have to save the slideshow as a movie first
Now I can adjust the speed of the video clip up to 64X
This temporary setback made me feel more like a "digital immigrant" than a "digital native". Thankfully the programme is not as difficult to use as I thought, and I could add transitions, split and trim clips, and add music without any further problems.
