Second, set. Only before running the "audio-visual meeting", set various parameters according to personal needs, can we achieve the expected effect, get twice the result with half the effort, otherwise it will not work.
1. Project properties. After starting the software, click "Project Properties" in the file menu, and select "MPEG" in the "Edit File Format" drop-down menu. 720X576, 4: 3 ... will be displayed in the box below.
Then click the "Edit" button in the lower right corner to open a new dialog box with three submenus:
(1) "Sound will be reflected". Check the Perform non-square rendering box. "Non-square" can avoid image distortion and maintain the actual resolution of DV and MPEG2 files.
2 "ordinary". Select 720X576 as the page size and 4: 3 as the display aspect ratio.
(3) "compression". Select PAR DVD for media type, 70 for quality and 8000 KBPS for image data.
2. "Parameter Settings". Click "Parameter Settings" in the file menu (or press the shortcut key F6) to pop up the "Parameter Selection" dialog box. There are four tabs:
(1) General tab. A * * * has 14 items. The main projects are:
1) revoked. Tick in the blank box to start the undo/redo function. By default, the number of times allowed to undo is 99, but if you use it more, it will take up more computer memory and reduce performance, so choose less.
2) background color. The default is "black", which is not suitable for electronic photo albums. When the photo is cropped or placed vertically, the borders on both sides (or around) of the photo are black. To change the background color, just click the small box of colors, and there will be 32 kinds of background colors to choose from. If you double-click the word "Youli Color Selector" above the color selector, you can "customize" the color selection at will in addition to the basic color. I often choose "white" to match the edge of the photo.
3) Transition effect. Using the "default" and "random" transition effect is convenient, fast and changeable. Otherwise you need to choose one by one. Too many photos is enough trouble.
4) Working folder. The default is the "sound and shadow" folder on disk C. Making video will consume a lot of computer resources, and it is not suitable for using the same disk with the operating system. If the file is too large and the memory and disk capacity are not enough, it is best to create a separate folder for "Video" and put it on the disk with the largest disk space.
5) Other items are not discussed in detail. If there are no special requirements, you can basically press "Default".
(2) "edit". There are six options. I choose "Apply color filter" and "PAL" (suitable for TV projection), "Best sampling quality" and "Maintain aspect ratio" for image sampling. For example, if I choose "resize to project size", the screen will be covered, but sometimes it will be distorted. The default interval for inserting pictures is 3 seconds, that is, each picture only stays for 3 seconds. Apart from the transition effect, I think the time for enjoying photos is too short, so I increased it to 6 seconds. Transition 1 sec, not too long.
3. "Preview". It is best to choose a dedicated video disk for folders and hard disks, and the space should be as large as possible.
4. "Intelligent Agent".
(1) Select Start Smart Agent. It is beneficial to speed up the synthesis of video files.
(2) "Video size" ranges from 352X240 to 1920x 1080 * *, and can be selected between 1440x 1080 as required.
(3) The "proxy folder" is the same as the working folder.
(4) Check the "automatic proxy module".
Third, edit the video.
1. Enter the image. Click Edit in the menu to enter an image in two ways. One is to select "Image" from the video drop-down menu under the menu of "Overlay" and "Effect", and the other is a yellow button in the shape of a book above the center of the timeline (the words "Insert material into the timeline" will appear when hovering over it). Because there are many photos in editing electronic albums, I think the easiest way is to insert the photos (classification and order) you have prepared directly into the timeline one at a time. If your computer has good performance, it is easy to insert dozens or hundreds of photos at a time. If you select "Random" in "Parameter Settings" and "3", various transition effects will appear. All this is just a few minutes.
2. According to your hobbies, add titles, music, titles and endings at will, and the editing work can be completed.
3. Synthesize the video file, that is, "render".
Fourth, results sharing.
You and your friends can enjoy the video files made by "Sound Shadow" in many ways. The main way is to make MPEG2-2 video files, save them in the computer hard disk, open them at any time, burn them into a CD, save and play them at any time, and make them into network files and publish them on the web page for everyone to enjoy.
If you want to carve the produced video into a CD, it is very convenient for you to listen to the audio and video. You just need to click "Make CD" in the "Share" menu and follow the instructions step by step.
Finally, I want to emphasize that there are many softwares for making electronic photo albums, but the central topic of our discussion is "making high-fidelity electronic photo albums", that is, ensuring the quality of photos is the first priority. When writing this blog post, I made several electronic photo albums with different file formats. The title is "Beautiful Shanghai Night". The material is 36 photos selected on the Internet and made into video files according to different file formats. The duration of the movie is 3 minutes 19 seconds, and the generated file sizes vary greatly.